Hair Bow Holder

I'm really hoping that I can get through this post without falling asleep or my arms falling off.

I recently decided that I really need to get my butt back and shape and today was day one.

I forgot how good it feels to work up a good burn.

I didn't forget how horrible it feels when you can't more the next day or in my case an hour after your done!

I think we'll be doing Subway for dinner tonight.

Well if my arms will hold Mason long enough for me to order! Ha!

Any words of encouragement would be greatly appreciated.

Especially since day 2 is always the worst.

Anyway on to the real post.

I've been wanting to make Ava a hair bow holder for forever but what I really want to do requires taking on some things I've never done before.

So this weekend I finally broke down and made one that's a little more simple then what I want to do.

Maybe this summer I'll try the other one.

This is really simple and I'm sure you've seen them around but it really is perfect for all those cutie patootie hair bows.

First you need a picture frame.

Take out the glass and do whatever with it.

I really need to come up with something to do with all the glass from picture frames I don't use.

You can buy it the color you want or if you're using a old one break out the spray paint.

After you have it the color you want screw in some cup hooks along the bottom of the frame.

Sorry I didn't take pictures of this part.

Ava doesn't wear a lot of headbands because she's like me and can't keep them in so we only put 4 hooks along the bottom.

Just make sure you measure so they are the same distance apart.

After that's done this is what it should look like.

Now flip it over and decide how many strips of ribbon you want to do.

Measure it out and mark it.

Take a staple gun and staple down the ribbon.

Once you get them all stapled down on both sides you can be done.

Or you can add a little something.

Ava helped me decide what to decorate it with and this is what we came up with.

Just a little something.

You don't really need to do a lot because the hair bows do quite a bit of decorating.

So stinkin cute and super useful.

Now to find the rest of her bows...humm

Don't mind the crazy nakey that jumped in the picture.



Teamwork!

Every once in awhile I come across a project that I want to do and Reed jumps in is forced to help me out.

This was one of those projects.

I've been wanting a shelf for my living room for awhile but I didn't want to spend the money to buy one and if I was going to make it, it had to be super easy or it wouldn't get finished.

Confession: I sometimes think I'm more awesome than I really am and take on projects I can't figure out.

But I found this shelf here.

It has awesome instructions and it really wasn't hard at all.
We did tweek it a little.
We didn't put the trim on the bottom and I think we used smaller crown molding then they used.

Reed and I are seriously beginners at this type of stuff so I'm sure you can do it too.

We hung it up and I LOVE IT!!!!

The pictures of my cute kids don't hurt either.

I don't have all of my pictures yet and I'm going to paint some of the frames but I'm pretty impressed with me and my hubby.
Now I need to come up with a saying to put across the bottom in vinyl.
I've got some ideas but I'm not sure yet.
Feel free to give me some imput!
Now excuse me I have to get back to looking at my shelf :)

Wowza...

The last few days have been craziness.

I've been trying to recoup from Reed and I being sick

and now the kids are 

sick and

cranky and

whiny and

the list goes on.

But I'm sure you know all too well how it is.

On a good note

Reed and I celebrated our 6th anniversary yesterday.

I'm so glad my naive, crazy 18 year old self was smart enough to know we were meant to be together.

It has been a wonderful 6 years full of 

happiness and forgiveness

hard work and lots of play

excitement and trial

but mostly 

FULL OF LOVE

I'm so lucky he's my man.

Now for a quick little project.

I asked my mother in law to get me this vinyl for Christmas.

And of course she came through.

(Sorry I didn't take the time to rotate it)

So I found some scrap wood in the barn and cut it down to size.

Then I painted it a beige I had left from Braeden's room.

I let that dry then watered down some blue paint I had.

I brushed that on in a few spots then wiped it off with a rag.

Sorry I forgot to take pictures of all this.

After that dried I sanded it to death with 220 grit sandpaper.

This is what it looked like after all that.

Can you kinda see???

Then I put on the vinyl.

Can I just say I LOVE it!

The only thing I would do differently would be to water down the beige paint so more of the natural wood was showing through.  Or you could sand it before you add the blue paint.

It feels so good when you finally finish a project.

Just a lil somethin somethin...

Well first of all I want to say 

Thank You

for all the birthday wishes.

It was an amazing day.

It started out with my cake.

My CHEESECAKE

The best part about this cake is Reed got it for $3.50!

I know seriously amazing.

It's funny how happy I was that he was being so cheap lol

Then we went to Fort Wayne

Look how cute we are all blurry.

I think my hand was jittery from eating to much cheesecake!

We went out to dinner at Olive Garden.

I have a strong connection with their salad.

It's a love love kinda thing.

And dinner was amazing!!!

It's the Herb Cheese Soffatelli

and your mouth with thank you for eating it.

Umm Heavenly!

And if that wasn't enough of an amazing day

the next thing we did was the best part of the day.

After our tummies were full and happy we made our way over to Best Buy

and picked up this little beauty.

It's a Nikon D5000 and I'm so excited to get started in Photography!

Doesn't it look good on me!

Ok now I'm going to show you a little something not related to me.

Well kind of, it's my kitchen.

I've been living in my house for about 4 years now 

and I still haven't decorated my kitchen.

I guess I just wasn't sure about what I wanted to do

and I had thought about repainting it.

Anyway, this is what my wall looked like before.

It is what it is, right.

So to spruce it up a bit I got a few Dollar Tree frames

Spray painted them white and put some pictures of my adorable kids in them.

And here is the after.

Just a little something but it makes me So Happy.

BTW the adorable pictures of my kids were taken my friend Sierra Hoffman.

She's an awesome photographer in the Indy area.

You should check her out

http://www.wsierrahoffman.com
http://www.flickr.com/sierrahoffman
http://twitter.com/wsierrahoffman