From the category archives:
with this one …
[and her stained upper lip]
and this one …
[and her always full mouf]
and this one …
[and her growing number of gray hairs]
and this one …
[and her infected ears and nose that just cost us a boatload of money]
and this one …
[and his recently-acquired beard]
and these new floors and painted walls …
[in our master bedroom]
happy Friday, everyone!! I hope you all have a fabulous weekend. xxo
ps – GO DAWGS!!
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I would like to paint the wall of our kitchen / living room divider with chalkboard paint.
The wall wraps around a little more, but you can’t really see it at this angle – but then it stops so you can go into the kitchen. It’s about 4 feet tall and has a counter all around the top of it.
I think it would be totally adorable and the perfect height for our girls to color on.
Ken does not agree with me, because it’s a shared wall and it’s in a high-traffic area of our house.
So … help us decide.
Loading ...By the way, I asked Ken if I could do this poll, and his exact words were, “I don’t care.” So … don’t think that he’s strongly against it or that we’re fighting about this or anything. I wouldn’t blog-poll about something serious. ;)
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I’m going to go ahead and tell you that I’m only photographing half of this room. Because the other half is my office, and it still needs some work. Whoo boy does it need work.
I’m also going to tell you that the walls are actually a yellow’ish green, but I am pretty awful at white balancing. And I didn’t feel like fixing it in Lightroom.
I want to hang one or maybe two more hoops of fabric on the wall – I let Emma choose where to hang them, and I didn’t realize we were going uphill.
I also want to put their names on the wall somehow. Wooden letters? Vinyls? I’m not sure, yet.
I just noticed that I forgot to clean/straighten the shelf above the square bookshelf. Meh, later.
Basically, everything has it’s place, now. Before, there were a lot of things that didn’t have a home, so they would just get tossed willy nilly. But I’m already having a hard enough time getting her to pick up … if she has to ask where everything goes, it will never stay clean.
(from top left going r-l: books, basket of small princess dolls & changeable clothes, set of beatrix potter books, 2 shelves of strawberry shortcake stuff, interactive Dora, melissa & doug magnetic dressup dolls)
I am just really really happy with how it all looks, now. And I’m hoping that giving Emma a more organized system will keep her from getting overwhelmed, as well.
(from top left going l-r: tools, plastic farm and zoo animals and trees and fences etc, cupcake makers for the sand, basket of my little pony & accessories, basket of dora and diego figurines and accessories, green box of blocks [these could be put away b/c she never plays with them], canvas tote of stuffed animals and babies)
Granted, I know for a fact that it won’t stay this way 24/7, but at least it should be easier to clean up at the end of the day.
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I know most of you have seen these pictures, but here is what I did this weekend.
before:
after:
So super cute, right?
Ken’s had this bed ever since I’ve known him, and I was never a big fan of it. But since Emma’s been sleeping on a mattress on the floor for a few months, we felt it was time to finally give her a bed.
We have been shopping around for months, but neither of us could justify spending money on a new bed when we had this one stashed in a back bedroom. Ken didn’t care what it looked like, but I really didn’t want to put it into Emma’s room the way that it was originally. So when I came across this blog, I fell in love with that color and decided to do the same.
Three cans of Rust-Oleum Painter’s Touch Ultra Cover 2x in Apple Red Gloss later, we had a bed everyone loved.
Well, Emma originally wanted purple, but I talked her into red.
And then she didn’t want it painted at all. And then she wanted a new bed. And then she wanted to sleep in Lucy’s crib. And then … well, she’s three. This went on for a while.
But I painted it and she loves it, so there.
I love winning.
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Spent almost all day organizing the home office / playroom.
Including an hour devoted solely to figuring out how to print unprintable labels, but Excel came through for me.
Stacks of paper all over the floor (and a peek at my current desk chair … yoga ball)
Totally worth it …
Then, I tackled Emma’s toys, but since she can’t read, I had to come up with a better way to let her know what goes in each box.
She has given away BAGS of toys lately, so we’re left with mostly little collections, which makes organization pretty easy.
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