- cover Cole's roller shade with fabric
- Paint out the valance
- re-cover umbrella stroller
- print out Cole's birthday photo's for birthday banner
- remove nasty brass hardware (including ceiling lights) spray with oil rubbed bronze krylon
- sew up freezer cover
- paint dresser
- make dresser pulls with label cards with pictures for Cole
- button wire heart wreath
- button wire jar jewels
Friday, January 21, 2011
valentines...
is right around the corner
thinking:
- salt dough hearts
- Heart doilies with white lights garland
- red fabric heart wreath
- sugar cookies in the shape of hearts
- fill up pickle jars with hearts! Spray paint lids with chalk board paint - labels
- heart shaped meringues
- tissue paper rosette hearts
- valentine tag love cards
thinking:
- salt dough hearts
- Heart doilies with white lights garland
- red fabric heart wreath
- sugar cookies in the shape of hearts
- fill up pickle jars with hearts! Spray paint lids with chalk board paint - labels
- heart shaped meringues
- tissue paper rosette hearts
- valentine tag love cards
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
I love you Peter Walsh
some nights as i lie in bed with my sweet baby girl ( yes we are in co-sleeping heaven) I talk my journal entries out loud - well out quiet. It's so weird, but i am the gal that also cannot set her alarm for 5:45 or 6am or 7:30 it must be for 7:37 or 6:24 or 5:42. Strange but true. I digress. It's like I want to breathe what I'm thinking or feeling and emote into the universe, and sadly i don't have the time to actually get out a pen and write. At least not when I think of the stuff. So i sat down to try to recreate my out loud middle of the night journal entry and um ya well no dice. So instead you get my latelies....
I am having a love affair with Peter Walsh. You know the aussie (ithink) that de-clutters and is the organizer extrodinaire. I fliiping took out three of his books from the library and a book on cd, and can i pulease tell you that if you are a mother and have no time to read - there are these things called books on cd and they will change your life! I pop in the cd and listen all the while cleaning up the breakfast tornado and get dinner going all at the same time. I HEART BOOKS ON CD.
Okay so now you know what to get me for my birthday. Anyhoo, i love peter walsh. I think he may have changed my life.
You see more than a few years ago, Jer and I had a lovley flat in white rock. And by lovely it was LOVLEY. Our entire dinning living room was windows and those windows looked out onto the ocean. Just ocean. The kitchen window framed mount baker. Paradise. Except that is was old and cold, and you could hear the neighbors, but damn if the rent was unbelievable the landlords loved us and hello did i mention the beach two streets down. So in this wee flat we started out romantic life together. And we slowly accumalated stuff. And of course decorating styles change with time, so back then (also because we were living on the beach) our theme was beachy. So along our mantle above the fireplace i had mason jars filled with beach rocks and candles. Long story short - when we moved 4 years later to the house, I COULD NOT PART WITH THE MASON JARS AND ROCKS. My jessica kate oconnor made imense fun of me, but i seriously could not part with it. I was chained to my stuff. I felt my stuff defined me. Fast forward 5 more years. We have moved once more. This time from a three bedroom home with a garage to a 2 bedroom apt. No garage. And i was forced to downsize. I did but not much. I still wanted to keep everything. But hello - add another kid to the mix or something and i am on this de-clutter you life kick. And i can not stop. We have gotten rid of a hallway bench, a huge mirrored shelf thing, OODLES of toys (because seriously no kid needs THAT many toys) clothes, fabric (yes that one was hard) three diaper boxes of kitchen stuff (what was i doing with all that???) and this past new years a big huge armoire that used to hold our 20 year old sony that FINALLY bit the dust. And okay finally coming to the point of my story, I HAVE A WHOLE NEW LIVING ROOM. A HUGE new living room. A living room you can dance in, roll on the floor in, play horsey in, have more than 4 people in. It's paradise. So anyways i am finding massive amounts of freedom by getting rid of my possesions. If it doesn't serve a function or is so breathtakingly beautiful then it goes. And my gosh i feel like i've gone from 950sf to 2000. All by getting rid of stuff. Peter Walsh you are my hero.
I am having a love affair with Peter Walsh. You know the aussie (ithink) that de-clutters and is the organizer extrodinaire. I fliiping took out three of his books from the library and a book on cd, and can i pulease tell you that if you are a mother and have no time to read - there are these things called books on cd and they will change your life! I pop in the cd and listen all the while cleaning up the breakfast tornado and get dinner going all at the same time. I HEART BOOKS ON CD.
Okay so now you know what to get me for my birthday. Anyhoo, i love peter walsh. I think he may have changed my life.
You see more than a few years ago, Jer and I had a lovley flat in white rock. And by lovely it was LOVLEY. Our entire dinning living room was windows and those windows looked out onto the ocean. Just ocean. The kitchen window framed mount baker. Paradise. Except that is was old and cold, and you could hear the neighbors, but damn if the rent was unbelievable the landlords loved us and hello did i mention the beach two streets down. So in this wee flat we started out romantic life together. And we slowly accumalated stuff. And of course decorating styles change with time, so back then (also because we were living on the beach) our theme was beachy. So along our mantle above the fireplace i had mason jars filled with beach rocks and candles. Long story short - when we moved 4 years later to the house, I COULD NOT PART WITH THE MASON JARS AND ROCKS. My jessica kate oconnor made imense fun of me, but i seriously could not part with it. I was chained to my stuff. I felt my stuff defined me. Fast forward 5 more years. We have moved once more. This time from a three bedroom home with a garage to a 2 bedroom apt. No garage. And i was forced to downsize. I did but not much. I still wanted to keep everything. But hello - add another kid to the mix or something and i am on this de-clutter you life kick. And i can not stop. We have gotten rid of a hallway bench, a huge mirrored shelf thing, OODLES of toys (because seriously no kid needs THAT many toys) clothes, fabric (yes that one was hard) three diaper boxes of kitchen stuff (what was i doing with all that???) and this past new years a big huge armoire that used to hold our 20 year old sony that FINALLY bit the dust. And okay finally coming to the point of my story, I HAVE A WHOLE NEW LIVING ROOM. A HUGE new living room. A living room you can dance in, roll on the floor in, play horsey in, have more than 4 people in. It's paradise. So anyways i am finding massive amounts of freedom by getting rid of my possesions. If it doesn't serve a function or is so breathtakingly beautiful then it goes. And my gosh i feel like i've gone from 950sf to 2000. All by getting rid of stuff. Peter Walsh you are my hero.
Monday, January 10, 2011
is having a lazy day
You know when you are having one of those (long overdue and long deserved but still you feel guilty about them) lazy days. Well I'm having one today and probably will have to have another one tommorow. You see I am still sick, and I truly don't like to use this outlet to complain and mope and be-atch, because truly I am using this outlet to documment mostly the beauty that is in my life, no need to focus on the negative. So yes what was i saying oh yes am still sick. Been sick on and off but mostly fully on since november. Last i checked it was january, and truth be told i am slightly ever so sick of being sick, however (and here comes the silver lining) being sick has it's perks.
- i am forced to go to bed early (both by not being able to hold my head up and the hubs)
-I don't have to drive to my bootcamp (this can also be seen as a negative but...)
-I can stay in my pj's and glasses and nasty hair and purple housecoat that my husband calls "the grimace"
-I can keep my kids in their pj's
-I can let the older kid watch t.v all day (okay not all day - we normally do NOT allow more than 30 minutes a day so this is truly a treat) i said NORMALLY
-Meaning I don't feel guilty at all about surfing my favorite blogs and jotting down all the projects i will create once i can breathe out of both nostrils
-sit on the couch and rest my eyes while baby is sleeping and eldest is being babysat by the telly
-not feel compelled to scrub the toilets, or wash all the dishes, swiffer the floors, vacumn, make the beds, put the laundry away, wash the laundry, clean the windows and so on and so on and so on
So there you have it, the positive side of being sick and making it bearable...now excuse me but it is advil and tea time and a round of memory for me and my boy while the baby is asleep....
You know when you are having one of those (long overdue and long deserved but still you feel guilty about them) lazy days. Well I'm having one today and probably will have to have another one tommorow. You see I am still sick, and I truly don't like to use this outlet to complain and mope and be-atch, because truly I am using this outlet to documment mostly the beauty that is in my life, no need to focus on the negative. So yes what was i saying oh yes am still sick. Been sick on and off but mostly fully on since november. Last i checked it was january, and truth be told i am slightly ever so sick of being sick, however (and here comes the silver lining) being sick has it's perks.
- i am forced to go to bed early (both by not being able to hold my head up and the hubs)
-I don't have to drive to my bootcamp (this can also be seen as a negative but...)
-I can stay in my pj's and glasses and nasty hair and purple housecoat that my husband calls "the grimace"
-I can keep my kids in their pj's
-I can let the older kid watch t.v all day (okay not all day - we normally do NOT allow more than 30 minutes a day so this is truly a treat) i said NORMALLY
-Meaning I don't feel guilty at all about surfing my favorite blogs and jotting down all the projects i will create once i can breathe out of both nostrils
-sit on the couch and rest my eyes while baby is sleeping and eldest is being babysat by the telly
-not feel compelled to scrub the toilets, or wash all the dishes, swiffer the floors, vacumn, make the beds, put the laundry away, wash the laundry, clean the windows and so on and so on and so on
So there you have it, the positive side of being sick and making it bearable...now excuse me but it is advil and tea time and a round of memory for me and my boy while the baby is asleep....
Saturday, January 08, 2011
Tuesday, January 04, 2011
New Year - List Part one
So 2011 is it....well you know i love me some lists, so what better way to start of the new year, than with some lists of things i would like to accomplish this year.
I am just going to *fly* with this so bear with me in the lack of categorical organization. Here goes:
~~Re-organize my Kitchen, top to bottom. I have a junk drawer and two completley unused drawers that are filled with crapola.
~~Tin the Kitchen Ceiling. I found some sweet martha stewart 3 dimensional wallpaper in the pattern of old tin and I think it would look fantabulous on the ceiling in the kitchen!
~~Decide wether I want to re-paint my royal purple kitchen or not.
~~Paint my master bedroom. I have some swatches picked out am thinking a lovley light and airey mauvey/purply with hints of grey OR a light and airey turqouisey bluey green
~~Either give up and toss all my plants, or start fresh and actually water the darn things
~~ Sew up curtains for Coles' Bunk Cave (fabric is ordered and on it's way!~ i love me fabric.com)
~~Finally finish knitting my half finished scarf (possibly before winter ends...)
~~Sew up a wee curtain for our old new entertainment unit we put together for our new plasma (merry christmas to us love you mom and dad!)
~~Side car the crib we finally got to our bed (possibly tonight) and yes our wee babe who is almost 9 months has been happily co-sleeping with us her whole life, am NOT ready for her to be out of the bed fully so am hoping that this side car thing will work out for us! fingers crossed
~~Make homemade granola more than once every 3 months, mabye once every month?
~~Get accepted for a nexus pass and make monthly trips down for grocery stock ups (it is SO much cheaper and a great outing for the family)
~~Purge even more than i already have - I am happily dropping some dress sizes due to a great excersize regime and eating a bit more healthy (both of which i have NOT done all december) so i have clothes are no longer fitting me but i keep holding onto, it's time to say goodbye!
~~Stick hard to my excersize regime and really make time for me to work at this the results are wonderful
~~Read. I love reading and I do make a valiant effort to make time for it, but not as much as i used to. If i concentrate hard at not being so lazy and getting dinner going and all the other house stuff i would have OODLES of time for it and crafting later in the evening.
~~ Read more to the kids. As of right now we read three books every night before bedtime, but i would like to fit in at least 2 or 3 more during the day. Cole LOVES being read to and he is getting so good and re telling the story back to me. I just have to make more time for it.
~~ Say no to more playdates. In the beginning of the school year, we started out with 2 - 3 playdates a week, a day a week of pre-school, and a day at the good shepard drop in. It's too much. And i have realized this past year, it's okay to not be doing something every single day of the week. I deserve (and the kids too) at least a day (or mabye two) a week where we *gasp* just stay home. We stay home and do crafts, or stay home and vacumm, or we stay home and listen to good music and dance around the living room, or we lay in our pj's and eat yogurt on the carpet, whatever we do we just stay home. and it doesn't make me any less cool, and it doesn't mean we have no life, it actually makes life a bit easier, less stressed and definatley run more smoother.
~Create a crafting corner somewhere in this just under 1000 square feet lovliness we call home. I'm thinking on the other side of our china hutch in the dinning room. Just a wee shelf or little little little desk against the wall, with a pull back curtain mabye, just a little space where i can possibly attempt to keep all my stamps, and punches and papers and stuff. (this may not happen for at least 9 months or so with the wee one beginning walking soon)
~ Make the rag rug i have been working on (ever so painfully slowly) I have oodles of old clothes i just have to cut them all into strips (mabye while watching all 7 seasons of oz that we are so obssessed with) and then sew them all together, roll into a ball, braid and then rug. I can't wait for this one. I want to make one for the kitchen, and mabye one for our room, and possibly one gigantic one in the living room!
~ Make sillouhette prints! I have been wanting to do this for a year or more, but i need to do this, this year. I have our lovley family photo in the hallway framed in a beautiful lime green frame (thrifted from the south-arm united church fall fair for the grand total of 1 dollar!) and think our sillouhettes would look lovely surrounding it.
~ Cover the deepfreeze in the playroom/enclosure with a funky fabric
~ Purge more toys - we don't need a quarter of what we have
~ Purge my bookcase that is bursting at the seams
~ Cook more meals from scratch. I am making at least one meal a week right now, and would realistically like to make at least 3 - 4 a week. That means with leftovers and weekends out we will always have a homecooked meal every night. I find it is so comforting for Jer to come home to a warm home, a home cooked healthy meal seems to make our evenings so much smoother, jer has leftovers for lunch and we usually do too, meaning no one has to make their lunches for the next day, and altogether if i take the time out of my day to do this our family life is better for it.
~ Use what I have in the cupboards and work meals around it. I was really good at this when we first moved here, but now I am getting lazy. Or am sleep deprived or something.But our cupboards are jam packed and I am always wasting money buying more stuff before using what we have!
~ Get back into walks. Before K Cole and I would walk into Steveston at least 4 times a week. We haven't done this in a while. I would like to make it part of our morning routine. Get up have breakfast, go for a walk. Walks are so wonderful, we get fresh air, and they are a fabulous way to teach young children. I find Cole and I have some of our best converstions while walking the dyke into steveston. He has questions and i have the time to answer him and teach him.
~ Stop buying stuff. Jer and I were in the car jus the other day and were both amazed that after weeks of holiday shopping (and we didn't spend much at all this year) we got into the habit that if we were driving somewhere it was to either eat out, or go buy something. We need to break the cycle of spending. We truly NEED so very little, and with all the crafty diy blogs i follow i can generally make most things myself, or find things at the thrift shop or craigslist if i really do NEED it. But I really don't need to BUY half the stuff i buy. It's just cluttering up our wee home and cluttering up my mind.
~ Which leads me to de-cluttering. We worked hard this past weekend and said goodbye to our beautiful wood television armoire and a bunch of vhs tapes we don't use and it felts so good! We have more light in our apartment, and more floor space for the kids to play. The less we have the more space we have to spend time together! Less stuff means less time cleaning said stuff, and putting said stuff away!
~ Blog more. I really do like having an outlet for life. I have a lovley orange leather journal jer got me for my 30th for the more personal stuff. But this blog really is my kids' baby books, and my record for life.
~ Spend waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay less time on the facebook. When I do have time for computer time, i would much rather use it following blogs i like and being on apartment therapy (most favorite website EVER)
~ Find more good music and listen to it
~ Run - i said i would start doing this more, but really i have done it so little and am really looking forward to making it part of my life. Even if it's just a 20 minute run a week it's something I would like to do
~ Write more snail mail letters. Doesn't really matter who they are to but i love to receive mail and i think it would make someones day, it's also very cathartic for the writer!
~ Take more baths
~ Paint my nails more
~ Fix my bangs. I was so frustrated with how the hairdresser mucked up my bangs I took matters into my own hands (as well as a pair of scissors) and um well, let's just say I didn't go to hairdressing school and can't cut straight to save my life...
~ Take time to put makeup on. I feel so much better when i have a touch of eyeliner on and would really like to take the time to do it!
Well I will call this part one because the babe is up and crying and I gotta go~!
I am just going to *fly* with this so bear with me in the lack of categorical organization. Here goes:
~~Re-organize my Kitchen, top to bottom. I have a junk drawer and two completley unused drawers that are filled with crapola.
~~Tin the Kitchen Ceiling. I found some sweet martha stewart 3 dimensional wallpaper in the pattern of old tin and I think it would look fantabulous on the ceiling in the kitchen!
~~Decide wether I want to re-paint my royal purple kitchen or not.
~~Paint my master bedroom. I have some swatches picked out am thinking a lovley light and airey mauvey/purply with hints of grey OR a light and airey turqouisey bluey green
~~Either give up and toss all my plants, or start fresh and actually water the darn things
~~ Sew up curtains for Coles' Bunk Cave (fabric is ordered and on it's way!~ i love me fabric.com)
~~Finally finish knitting my half finished scarf (possibly before winter ends...)
~~Sew up a wee curtain for our old new entertainment unit we put together for our new plasma (merry christmas to us love you mom and dad!)
~~Side car the crib we finally got to our bed (possibly tonight) and yes our wee babe who is almost 9 months has been happily co-sleeping with us her whole life, am NOT ready for her to be out of the bed fully so am hoping that this side car thing will work out for us! fingers crossed
~~Make homemade granola more than once every 3 months, mabye once every month?
~~Get accepted for a nexus pass and make monthly trips down for grocery stock ups (it is SO much cheaper and a great outing for the family)
~~Purge even more than i already have - I am happily dropping some dress sizes due to a great excersize regime and eating a bit more healthy (both of which i have NOT done all december) so i have clothes are no longer fitting me but i keep holding onto, it's time to say goodbye!
~~Stick hard to my excersize regime and really make time for me to work at this the results are wonderful
~~Read. I love reading and I do make a valiant effort to make time for it, but not as much as i used to. If i concentrate hard at not being so lazy and getting dinner going and all the other house stuff i would have OODLES of time for it and crafting later in the evening.
~~ Read more to the kids. As of right now we read three books every night before bedtime, but i would like to fit in at least 2 or 3 more during the day. Cole LOVES being read to and he is getting so good and re telling the story back to me. I just have to make more time for it.
~~ Say no to more playdates. In the beginning of the school year, we started out with 2 - 3 playdates a week, a day a week of pre-school, and a day at the good shepard drop in. It's too much. And i have realized this past year, it's okay to not be doing something every single day of the week. I deserve (and the kids too) at least a day (or mabye two) a week where we *gasp* just stay home. We stay home and do crafts, or stay home and vacumm, or we stay home and listen to good music and dance around the living room, or we lay in our pj's and eat yogurt on the carpet, whatever we do we just stay home. and it doesn't make me any less cool, and it doesn't mean we have no life, it actually makes life a bit easier, less stressed and definatley run more smoother.
~Create a crafting corner somewhere in this just under 1000 square feet lovliness we call home. I'm thinking on the other side of our china hutch in the dinning room. Just a wee shelf or little little little desk against the wall, with a pull back curtain mabye, just a little space where i can possibly attempt to keep all my stamps, and punches and papers and stuff. (this may not happen for at least 9 months or so with the wee one beginning walking soon)
~ Make the rag rug i have been working on (ever so painfully slowly) I have oodles of old clothes i just have to cut them all into strips (mabye while watching all 7 seasons of oz that we are so obssessed with) and then sew them all together, roll into a ball, braid and then rug. I can't wait for this one. I want to make one for the kitchen, and mabye one for our room, and possibly one gigantic one in the living room!
~ Make sillouhette prints! I have been wanting to do this for a year or more, but i need to do this, this year. I have our lovley family photo in the hallway framed in a beautiful lime green frame (thrifted from the south-arm united church fall fair for the grand total of 1 dollar!) and think our sillouhettes would look lovely surrounding it.
~ Cover the deepfreeze in the playroom/enclosure with a funky fabric
~ Purge more toys - we don't need a quarter of what we have
~ Purge my bookcase that is bursting at the seams
~ Cook more meals from scratch. I am making at least one meal a week right now, and would realistically like to make at least 3 - 4 a week. That means with leftovers and weekends out we will always have a homecooked meal every night. I find it is so comforting for Jer to come home to a warm home, a home cooked healthy meal seems to make our evenings so much smoother, jer has leftovers for lunch and we usually do too, meaning no one has to make their lunches for the next day, and altogether if i take the time out of my day to do this our family life is better for it.
~ Use what I have in the cupboards and work meals around it. I was really good at this when we first moved here, but now I am getting lazy. Or am sleep deprived or something.But our cupboards are jam packed and I am always wasting money buying more stuff before using what we have!
~ Get back into walks. Before K Cole and I would walk into Steveston at least 4 times a week. We haven't done this in a while. I would like to make it part of our morning routine. Get up have breakfast, go for a walk. Walks are so wonderful, we get fresh air, and they are a fabulous way to teach young children. I find Cole and I have some of our best converstions while walking the dyke into steveston. He has questions and i have the time to answer him and teach him.
~ Stop buying stuff. Jer and I were in the car jus the other day and were both amazed that after weeks of holiday shopping (and we didn't spend much at all this year) we got into the habit that if we were driving somewhere it was to either eat out, or go buy something. We need to break the cycle of spending. We truly NEED so very little, and with all the crafty diy blogs i follow i can generally make most things myself, or find things at the thrift shop or craigslist if i really do NEED it. But I really don't need to BUY half the stuff i buy. It's just cluttering up our wee home and cluttering up my mind.
~ Which leads me to de-cluttering. We worked hard this past weekend and said goodbye to our beautiful wood television armoire and a bunch of vhs tapes we don't use and it felts so good! We have more light in our apartment, and more floor space for the kids to play. The less we have the more space we have to spend time together! Less stuff means less time cleaning said stuff, and putting said stuff away!
~ Blog more. I really do like having an outlet for life. I have a lovley orange leather journal jer got me for my 30th for the more personal stuff. But this blog really is my kids' baby books, and my record for life.
~ Spend waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay less time on the facebook. When I do have time for computer time, i would much rather use it following blogs i like and being on apartment therapy (most favorite website EVER)
~ Find more good music and listen to it
~ Run - i said i would start doing this more, but really i have done it so little and am really looking forward to making it part of my life. Even if it's just a 20 minute run a week it's something I would like to do
~ Write more snail mail letters. Doesn't really matter who they are to but i love to receive mail and i think it would make someones day, it's also very cathartic for the writer!
~ Take more baths
~ Paint my nails more
~ Fix my bangs. I was so frustrated with how the hairdresser mucked up my bangs I took matters into my own hands (as well as a pair of scissors) and um well, let's just say I didn't go to hairdressing school and can't cut straight to save my life...
~ Take time to put makeup on. I feel so much better when i have a touch of eyeliner on and would really like to take the time to do it!
Well I will call this part one because the babe is up and crying and I gotta go~!
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