Big Ol Chalkboard

Katie and I were thrilled to find this at the Good Will for 10 bucks! At the time I was pregnant with my son Patton and I just thought that someday he would love this. It will still be a while I think but for now I love it! I painted the border an off white and used chalkboard paint for the center. We use it to hang all the current favorite pictures of our adorable baby and I use it for parties all the time.

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Book Case redo

Because we are starving students most of our furniture comes from Target or Walmart. It works but it's pretty plain and cheap. This book case just had that black card board back, so I covered it with some fun sunny fabric. It was easy to pull the back off and use spray adhesive to attach the fabric. The project took about 20 minutes and I have more color for my house. Sorry these pictures are so lame but you get the idea.

  

 

Oh my sons remember remember...

I am giving a first shot at making my own printables so I don't always have to hope someone already did them, and hope they are free, and hope they are awesome. I love this scripture and it is just what I want my son to remember. Even though he can't read yet I still want to remind my husband and I to constantly be striving to teach him these things. If you want it I can email it to you, just leave a comment. :)

I know its been a while, but I'm back in business!

I recently redecorated Parker's office and here are the pics

Janice's Pickles and Ice Cream Baby Shower

Welcome to the Pickles and Ice cream baby shower. My good friend Janice was having a surprise baby so we had to keep it gender neutral... although she was pretty sure it would be a boy. Anyway, here's what we did...

This is the living room. I put pompoms up through out the house.



We had a little area for signing a mommy advice book



The book was called " Advice for when mommy gets in a pickle"


I just love pictures of babies so I had them in frames all over the house.

The whoppers were prizes for the games we played


Since this is their first baby I decided to make a daddy survival kit for Jeff. It had everything for changing a baby and other fun tasks. It had gloves, goggles, wippies, diaper rash cream etc.


These were the party favors. I can't take total credit because Julie gave me the ice cream cone idea and I tweaked it a little. So it's an ice cream cone with Starburts at the top to look like ice cream.

When they first walked in they put on name tags that said what they crave... Either pregnant or not.


This is the food table. Jeff's family brought the savory dishes which were delicious. In case you can't tell those are baby socks hanging above the window.


What's a baby shower without a diaper cake. I think that getting diapers at a shower is essential so we hooked for up in style!






Here is the lucky mom to be who just today delivered a healthy baby girl named Patricia!

Exciting new venture

Sorry I haven't posted in a while... Since I found out that I'm pregnant I have been going crazy making baby stuff for my new addition but I have also been getting ready to open my Etsy store! It's so exciting! For those of you who don't know what Etsy is... It's an online store where you can buy and sell homemade goods.

I will be featuring Baby stuff ( headbands, tutus, onsies, blankets etc.) and grown up headbands and rings.

But I'm really excited about my party packs. They will have everything you need to throw an awesome themed party ( birthday, bridal shower, baby shower etc. ). I will be starting with just a few packs but I'll get more soon. I will also have dinner party packs that will be fun too! Let's see, I'm also going to have cards and invitations. I am working on Christmas cards now so that we can have them good and ready for the holidays. It's been a fun adventure and I'll let you know when I'll have it up and running. I will features pictures of all my products here as well so ya'll can see:)

Wish me luck!

A party to "Eclipse" all others! hehe

I have to start my giving mad love to this book. It is my favorite in the series so naturally I have been waiting for this movie since I found out they were making the series into movies. It didn't disappoint but more on that later! :) So we had a party at my mom's house in Auburn the night of the midnight release. The theme of the party was "Fire and Ice" Because this is the book where she makes her final decision about whether to be with Jacob the werewolf (fire) or Edward the Vampire(ice). We also wanted to make little displays of our favorite things from the book so here is what we did!



Of course we had to drink blood at dinner.
I want "Smore" Twilight!

Actually outside my mom has a patio area that has sand around it so we put up some tiki torches and played beach sounds out side and made it "La Push beach" ( the werewolves reservation). We had a pit fire and chairs around so they could make smores.


These balls hanging from the ceiling are my new favorite thing. they only cost one dollar each to make and they are so easy. I'm gonna post a tutorial later this week cuz they are awesome!
But anyway... here is what the whole room looked like the night before the party.
Okay so here are the "vignettes" we made from different parts of the book

In this corner we did a little graduation party, because in the book Alice throws a huge graduation party where important things happen.



This was our Fire and Ice candy bar. The bags in the middle had quotes and "Twilight" buttons in them. They got to gather up some candy for the show!





I love jeopardy trivia games before the movie because it helps people remember details they might have forgotten and can look for in the movie. I never forget because I re-read them all the time:) The prise for the winner was the new Stephanie Meyer book " The short second life of Bree Tanner".


I thought it was important that everyone have a ribbon since the cover of the book has a red ribbon on it. And of course bookmarks for when they go home and read the last book cuz they can't wait for the movie.


Here is another vignette. My favorite chapter in the book is called Fire and Ice... hmm I didn't even make the connection that that is also the name of the party. ha. Anyway, it is the "tent scene" where in the book Jacob, Edward and Bella are waiting for the fight to start and Jacob and Edward have a little heart to heart. It's great so in the little conversation bubbles I had blips of the conversation that went on inside. It was a very last minute Idea but my favorite!


This wasn't in the movie so Boo to that but in the book Edward has to go hunt and leaves a note on Bella's pillow that says, "I'll be back so soon you won't have time to miss me. Look after my heart - I left it with you." I know, love it!



On hostessblog.com (which is on my blog list on the right hand side of this page) I found these downloads of quotes from the books. They were really nice so I put those around and about.




Another vignette. Ode to Charlie ( Bella's cop dad). In the book there are all these mysterious disappearance in Seattle near their town so the book tells about the newspaper headlines. I took the headlines and made a newspaper and made up my own stories... Good times...but the headlines are straight from the book. And we borrowed my dad's police belt and police mug.


And we had a t- shirt decorating contest. Because you have to have a cool shirt for the premiere.
This was my shirt. I really wish that I had taken pictures of all of the because they were awesome! The prize was a ring that looked just like Bella's engagement ring. It was beautiful and I secretly wanted to win it but I alas I did not.:)

The only thing I didn't get a picture was of the outside in front. as you walked up the pathway to the house there were human footprints that we drew on with charcoal that came up to a pile of torn up clothes and them you saw wolf prints leading into the house! Love it!

Okay now to gush about the awesomeness of this movie! It was the best one so far and they did it so closely to the book that I really thought it was perfect. Yeah for Twilight!