quote of the day

E: (after his sister has been bugging him ALL the way to school and complaining about it .) "It is better to have an annoying little sister then not to have a little sister"

And the mommy said "Ahhhhhhh."

Have a nice day

Brown paper packages

These are a few of my favorite (little) things* these days:

I just got this salt and pepper shaker in the mail today (it has been on back order since November) I have not filled them yet, but I LOVE THEM!!!!!

We had a ugly cheap nasty plastic soap container for hand soap and a dish soap container that was just as bad.  Found these at Target and LOVE THEM. (I now own 3 of them 2 here and one in bathroom)  I used rub on letters to make the H and D so that others would know what they where.

I hated that every time one of us got sick all our tooth brushes where touching and there for it seemed that we all got sick, so I love this one that does not let the brushes touch.  (Note to self, we may need to get some new toothbrushes out)

I love that this quilt is to the point that I can take a photo and you can not see any pins (they are still there and it is not done, but it is moving:)))))

A has a friend over (this is a rare thing as A is not the most social thing in the world (not sure where she got that from (cough dad cough) but she pick this little boy at school to have a play date with so I said yes.  Now I should tell you that this little boy does not speak much English and I do not speak any Spanish.  I am kinda sure that this is why A picked him so that she would not have to worry about talking and could just play:)  (that said they are talking just not sure if they understand what they are saying to each other. Kinda reminds me of this scene in  Love Actually.  

So what are your favorite things these days?

*Sorry if I got that song stuck in your head click here to hear the whole thing maybe that will get it out of your head:)

Spring cleaning

Jimmy said that it was Spring so I went at my linen closet.  This is what it looked like before I started:

It was kinda hard to find anything that you wanted it there (it was easy to find a ton of things that you did not want, but stuff you wanted not so much.) So yesterday I went with my friend to pick out some baskets (I would love to tell you that I was very organized and that I had it all planned out what I wanted to do, but Kari reads this blog and she is sure to tell you otherwise so I will just say that I knew how many shelves I had, how deep they where and how wide they where.)

I then found a cute little assistant (those are hard to find you know)

and went to work.  It was my intention to just work on one shelve at a time and that I would let myself have tons of time to work on it, but once I got started I could not stop:) (and it only took about an hour)

Here is what it looks like now:

 Note pretend that the bottom shelf is full of towels (I have to do a ton I mean some laundry and that space is for all the towel in wishing they where in the wash.

And here are some close ups of the top shelf

I love that all of the same stuff is one place.  (we might or might not have enough razors to shave a small army... just saying)

OK so in full discloser I will let you know that I spent about 80$ on this make over (all in baskets).  I know that I could have done it for less, but I had 2 things that I wanted and was not sure that I could get those 2 things unless I just spent a bit.  One I wanted the baskets to look good together and two I wanted to get them YESTERDAY (ie I did not want to go looking around, I was in the mood to clean and since that comes around once in a blue moon I thought I had better just do it.)

Any how that is how I spent my day so far.  Any organizing going on in your world?

Heart welcome sign

I have been working on this for the last couple of days. It took a lot of roses and a lot of hot glue (side note my fingers are still a little burnt from all the hot glue which as you know is HOT).  OK so the roses part was the hardest part and took most of the time, but I love the way it come out.

I even got it to have that cool crackled look.  Cool right?

And just because I thought you should have a close up (not the best coloring, but I did so much work making all those stinking roses that I had to show you up close.)

I got the idea from Then She Made.  Go check out hers, it is super cute also (even if she does not like it:).

how come?

The 2 minutes that it takes my kids to brush their teeth takes FOREVER (in their minds), but the 3 hours Ada is at school is so fast?  Just saying.

I have been working on a couple of crafts.  Hand quilting a quilt (can not wait for it to be done I love it!).  Sewing a Halloween quilt (I am SOOO ahead of the game right;). And working on a Valentines welcome sign for my door.  I will show photos as they get done.

Anywho I have to go get Ada soon (as I just dropped her off 2.5 mins ago hahaha).

Do not let your time fly by to fast.

This is a little scary for some of us

FOOD ALLERGIES CAUSE AN ER VISIT EVERY THREE MINUTES, STUDY FINDS

I had no idea that it was that often.  Makes me glad that we have only been there one time.  You can read the rest of the story here.

Stay safe.

Visitor

We  came home yesterday only to find this in our tree:

So nice that we have a little "woodlot" that invites friends to visit.

See you later.