Rainy Day Dreaming

It's a rainy day here in the South and we just got home from a yummy cookout with my parents, so I am spending a little time dreaming on Pinterest this afternoon.

The Handyman and I have talked about going somewhere off-the-chain for our 20th Anniversary next year and here is my suggestion. :)

Or maybe I should be honest and say that I just want to go relax at an Island...anytime!!

I hope you are having a great Labor Day!!

Wednesday Wisdom ~ Postive

I hope your having a wonderful day!!

Perk it Up! Vanity Redo

Project E.M.M.A.: Round 2

1 Free Vanity

1 Teen Age Daughter who detested the beige and gold finish. 

2 Cans of Purple Paint

1 Bottle of Lime Paint

= 1 Fabulous Purple Vanity!!

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In my on going mission to make Emma's room more colorful this vanity was our latest change.

I received it for free awhile back and the beige & gold finish was just not doing it for her. 

She took her own sweet time deciding on what colors she wanted to use but finally settled on Purple and Lime. We grabbed the paint, lightly sanded the piece, and started spraying.

Em seems to be happy with the results so far! 

We still have the chair to paint in Lime and we are going to pick out the material for the seat.

After that we are on to picking out fabric for her new quilt!! 

Before/After

What have you painted to "make new" lately? Did you make it colorful or did you tone down the color?

I would love to see your projects!!

Project E. M. M. A.

I am a MOM on a mission! If I do not accomplish my mission then I will fail as a Mom!!

Yea Right who am I kidding?!? Seriously though, I am on a mission to redo Ms. Em's room. The last major update we had on it was her new bed back in August of last year! Hmm I have been totally slacking!!

If you happen to follow me on Pinterest then you know that I am always on the lookout for colorful pieces to add to Ms. Em's room. We have a few larger projects that we will be working on soon but I stumbled across something this weekend that I knew I had to go ahead and do.

I have always loved seeing my kids names on things. I am sure it stems from the fact that my own name is never on anything unless it is a custom made piece due to it's crazy spelling(love you Mom!) I also have a major love of letters, any kind of letters will do as I am not picky at all! This time I did find all the same style letters in Ms. Em's name so I knew I had to get them. I also knew that I wanted to make some sort of hanging sign and this is what I came up with.

 Plain ole street sign letters(no I did not steal them!!)

 Pick out some pretty papers.

 Trim to fit and ink the edges.

 Stack of letters and finished paper before the mod-podge was pulled out.

 Add some ribbon and WaaaLaaa you have a Name Sign!!

I tied a knot in the ribbon and just hung it over the top of her bed. 

It may not stay here but for now she likes it :) and I LOVE it!!

Is it crazy that I like seeing her name so much? I happen to think that it is cool to see your name on things.
Is your name easy to find on items at the gift shop? Do you have lots of pens, mugs, license plates for your 10-speed bike or are you all sad and nameless too? (laughing -- kinda)

Friday we are starting on one of the bigger projects for her room and I couldn't be more excited about it! Can't wait to share it!

Full Steam Ahead!

The 4th of July in our family always involves the Steam Engine Parade in our hometown. 

It is dirty, loud and ohhh so much FUN!!

Top Left: Tim Hubbard leading the way!

Top Right: The girls are all smiles before the start of the parade: Melissa, Whitney, Colette, Emma, and Autumn!

Bottom Left: My fave parade watcher of the day! Her cheeks were the cutest!!

Bottom Right: The Case Engine and Thrasher that has been a tradition for my family since the 60's!

What are some traditions that you and your family celebrate on the 4th?

Adventures in Sewing: Episode 1 ~ Inital Taggie

So if you recall I was recently given a Singer Sewing Machine so that I could practice one of my new hobbies :)
I wanted to make something special for my new Nephew but couldn't decide what to do until I was looking through some of the 2E's baby photos and noticed their taggie blankets. Both kiddos always loved their taggies so I knew this would be the perfect thing for my first project. However, Me being Me, I wanted to put another spin on things so I decided to do an initial instead of a plain old square.

Since this was my first project of this type there was lots of trial and error to say the least haha but hopefully this little tutorial makes sense.

Initial Taggie 

Materials:

• Colorful Fabric
• Ribbon is various colors, widths, textures.

Step 1: Decide how large you want the letter to be. 

Step 2: Choose your font in a Word program, print it, and cut it out.

(I free handed mine because I was too impatient to wait for my new ink to arrive so please ignore the pencil marks)

Step 3: Place two pieces of fabric face to face and pin the cut out letter where you want it on the fabric.
Step 4: Cut out the letter leaving a 1/4 inch or so extra fabric around the letter.

Step 5: Cut ribbon into 4-5 inch lengths. *Sorry I forgot to snap a pic when the ribbons were piled up :-/
Step 6: Fold ribbons in half and pin around the edge of the face of one of the cutout letters.

Step 7: Place letters face to face again and pin in place.
Note: I removed my ribbon pins at this point simply because I only had long ones and was running out of room haha

Step 8: Sew around the outside of the letter and leave a 1.5 inch wide space for turning.

Step 9: Unpin and turn inside out.
Step 10: Top Stitch place you use to turn inside out to finish the letter.

Final Step: Ohh & Ahhhh and be very impatient until you can give to Little Mr.Adorable for whom you made it. :) :)

It may not be perfect, I won't point out the mistakes, but I am happy with it and as soon as I get a pic with Zach and his taggie I will share it.

I do believe I am going to LOVE this new sewing hobby plus I feel pretty good at already working on one of my resolutions with it only being 8 days into the New Year :) :)

How are you going on your resolutions or changes so far?

Be All You Can Be

If your like me you want your blog to be all it can be. Well since we can't send our blog to the Army I love that Inspire Me Heather is having a blog hop so we can check out each others blogs and give some tips & hints on making our blogs the best they can be!

Check it out

If your like me you enjoy writing your own blog but you also love reading other blogs and seeing what sorts of ideas others have. I know certain things bother me(like music that auto plays and weird fonts) but other things make me smile(great photos and funny writing). It is always cool to see what others like or dislike when reading blogs so feel free to comment below and let me know what you think about my blog as I would love to make it better and reader friendly.

   Hope your having a great weekend!