made anything cute lately?

Once in a great while I get a burst of creativity and once in a greater while something kind of cool comes out of it. These are my two latest that I think turned out ok.


What to do with all those adorable drawings and priceless art work from my 3-4 year old? I'd been trying to think of something, then I found this Einstein quote, and it all came together. I scanned in Teah's artwork with the quote and had them printed on 12 x 12 canvas squares. My favorite is the one on the right, when Teah saw it, she said, "That's you, mommy, when you were mad. You look like a boy, huh?"

I can't take 100% credit for this idea, I found some really cute pillows online that I didn't want to pay for, and thought I could make them. So this is my attempt. (No, I'm not that great on the sewing machine- for the lettering, I used "Unique Stitch, Sewing with a tube"- so easy!) and I put a cute fabric on the back of the pillows, making them, in my opinion, cuter than the internet ones!



This house is bringing out my "decorator" side, and I have some fun purchasing and creating ideas that I'm sure I'll be posting about. So consider yourself warned- if you're not into home design, avoid my blog for the next several... months? years? who knows. It could take a while to clear all these bottled up HGTV, design blogging, design magazine ideas.

still under construction

Well here it is, my... okay, okay, OUR house. Though it seems like the house has looked like this FOREVER, it is coming along. Want a tour?

This is the floorplan. As you can see, we flipped the house so everything mirrors what it shows in the plans.

Once in the front door, this room is to the left. At first it will be an office and once we get a piano and living room furniture, they'll take over this room.

This is the laundry room. I'm standing in the mudroom to take a picture of it. The garage entrance is to my right.

Below we have the family room and kitchen (yes, we are getting the white cabinets with the dark island!!!!)

Here are the stairs going up to the bonus room and the entrance to the master bedroom. And there's LeRoy walking out of the master bathroom into the master bedroom. This is before he got sick and started throwing up out the window. That was a bad weekend for the poor guy.

Here's the bonus room over the garage- a.k.a. Teah and Havi's room.

This is the deck. LeRoy's plumbing a misting system around it. :)

The garage floor is suspended concrete, and this is what it looks like underneath.

Eventually this will probably be two rooms- a theatre and a workout room.

Under the third car garage we're making that into a sort of built in shed to store lawn mowers, etc., as shown below. This will have double doors on it.

The best part of this post (for me) is that these pictures are already outdated! The roof is almost complete and we have our windows in. Electrical on the interior and rock on the exterior are what's in the near future here. I don't know if anyone will even read past the floorplan on this post, but it's really exciting for me, LeRoy and the girls. We can't wait to live here!!!!