Adventures in Dressmaking has a new sponsor, Zipit, and she’s giving away free zippers. Check out the giveaway here or go to Zipit’s etsy page for great deals on zippers. I will definitely buy some when I have a need for zippers. Or maybe I’ll just buy an assorted pack and let myself be inspired. :)
As you may have noticed, I’ve been linking to a lot of other craft blog’s link parties. So I’ve been thinking that I should come up with some nicknames for the family. I created this blog separate from the family blog to help protect our privacy (and identities) and using nicknames would also help that (rather than having to say my youngest son, my little girl, yada, yada, yada). A lot of bloggers do this for those reasons. One of my favorite bloggers refers to her sons as “Sawyer and Finn” (i.e. Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn). I totally thought those were her sons’ real names, until she slipped with her daughter’s real name and I put two and two together. Now that’s a good cover… So here are our new nicknames for reference purposes on this blog.
This is me…
This guy…
will be known as “My hubbie” or “the hubs” because, well, he’s my husband. I think that one would be kind of obvious. :)
This little guy…
We will now refer to as “Monkey.” He is my crazy one. He likes to climb, make mischief, and just keep me busy in general. Yes, he even loves bananas. I mean L-O-V-E, LOVES bananas. No banana is safe in our home. And of course, he’s a goofball. This picture was totally posed, just like almost every picture I try to take.
This little girl…
We’ll call her “Bee.” I went back and forth on this one for a while but she seems to like “Bee” so we’ll go with that. She is a cute bubbly little girl. She is always busy doing something and doing it quickly. You have to be quick if you want to take her picture. But watch out, if you make her angry, she will attack you. Seriously…
And last but not least we have this guy…
The jury is still out on his nickname. He is the oldest and a great big brother to his siblings. He loves Legos and drawing, and he’s good at both. I’m talking REALLY good. Plus, he’s smart. I was thinking we could call him “Art,” or maybe “Bud,” that’s his nickname at home. But neither of those really go well with “Monkey” and “Bee.” So, I think we’ll go with “Bean.” Bean? you ask…well, he’s growing like a bean pole. (Seriously, this kid never stops eating). Plus, he reminds me a little of Mr.. Bean. You know that goofy oddball kind of humor. (Plus, Bean, Monkey, and Bee sounds cool together.) I don’t know what do you think? Any ideas?
So that’s it. Our crazy, funny, crafty family. Man, I love ‘em. :)
Have you seen these floating around blogland lately? Basically everyone documents what they wear all week and then share in a link party. As of lately, I have had a hard time motivating myself to do anything productive. It’s nice when all the moms just wear their PJ’s and work out clothes to the bus stop in the morning. :) So, I thought I’d try this and see if it motivated me to get stuff done (and actually dressed before lunchtime)! Sure enough it worked. I got twice as much done this week as I did the week before. Unfortunately, I got pink eye (or some variation of an eye infection), so I only have pictures for four days. I’ll save you the horribleness that is my eye right now.
Thursday (9/2)
Top: Cato
Tank: Old Navy
Necklace: Bought at a stand at Four Corners (Colorado side I think) 8 years ago
Earrings: Made by me
Shorts: Thrifted and hemmed into shorts by me
Shoes: Walmart (with white fabric rosette added by me)
Friday (9/3)
Shirt: Aeropostale
Tank: Target
Skirt: Old Navy (thrifted)
Earrings: Charming Charlie
Bracelet: Bought at a craft fair in Brazil (3 years ago)
Sandals: Target
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Saturday (9/4) I forgot to take a picture, so this is one the hubs took of me while we were at a jazz concert in the park. (BTW, soooo much fun!)
Shirt: Old Navy
Tank: Target
Shorts: Thrifted
Earrings: Charming Charlie
Sunglasses: Wal-mart
I wore the same sandals as the outfit before.
Sunday (9/5) See my left squinty eye? Yeah, that’s me in denial that something is wrong with my eye. But when hubbie sees you in the hallway after church and blurts out, “What’s wrong with your eye?!” It’s time to face facts….
Wrap Dress: Bought in Brazil (3 years ago)
Tank: Old Navy
Cardigan: Thrifted
Earrings: Charming Charlie
Shoes: Target
So that’s it for this week. I’ve pretty much just stayed in my glasses, a T-shirt, shorts, and flip-flops the last few days. Hopefully, my eye will be better soon, so that I can try this again.
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I saw these old pictures and figured it was past time to post about this….So, I had this ugly bulletin board that I wanted to hang (for function purposes) in our main living area. I wanted to use it to post notes and the kids’ artwork. Unfortunately, it was very plain and uninspiring.
{Before}
So when our Wal-mart was clearing out their fabric section (still sad about that), I grabbed some cute home decor fabric at 1/2 off.
1) I painted the frame with some brown latex paint that I had for another project.
2) I’ve seen many of these redo's using some kind of picture frame and then you add the cork. If I had done it that way I would have wrapped the fabric around the back of the cork before putting it in the frame, BUT my cork was already eternally bonded to the frame. So…I cut my fabric to fit the size of the corkboard. Then I sprayed the cork with spray adhesive (side note: make sure you tape off the frame and cover ALL of your surrounding area or it will be messy). Then I laid the fabric on the cork, smoothing it out as I went.
3)My edges were pretty rough looking, so I hot glued ribbon along the inside edge of the frame to cover the edge of the fabric. It also helped give it some contrast since my frame and my fabric were both brown.
4) I let it sit overnight to make sure the spray adhesive was set. Then, I hung it on my wall. It sits right below my “family” wall hanging (which you can kind of see in the picture).
{After}
It was so cute, I almost couldn’t bring my self to start tacking stuff up on it. But alas, it’s function was needed. Now it holds drawings and reminders, lunch calendars and appointment cards, and you can barely see how beautiful it is (I’ll save you from the pity of that picture). Every now and then I clear away some of the clutter on it to see the cuteness again. I made this almost a year ago and it’s still in great shape so I think it’s safe to say that the redo worked. :)
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