liam's kitchen

he is our good friend liam who loves to come over and play with lucy's kitchen.

so i came across that little kitchen at goodwill and knew he had to have it for christmas.

i sanded the kitchen because it had a shiny finish.

removed all the knobs.

primed it.

taped off around the burners and sprayed them metallic silver.

sprayed the rest of the kitchen a white gloss.

then sprayed the knobs a fire engine red.

i wanted it to be gender neutral, and i think it turned our pretty darn good!

i hated the bowl that was used as the sink originally.

so i found this plastic bowl at target.

 i wanted to get him some dishes that weren't girlie and found these at target as well!




i heard that he loves it!

i have to give a huge thanks to my sister chelsea for helping with the kids while i worked away at this kitchen while she was visiting!

if you haven't given spray painting a try...start with something small...in no time you will be a pro!
your husband will hate it...ah but who cares!

A Christmas to remember...

My parents moved to Central Oregon a few months ago.
There are 6 kids in my family,
and we all headed down there for a big Family Christmas Celebration!



This my friends, is my sweet niece little Miss Ruby.

"Ruby Sue" or "Smooby Sue" as I like to call her.

Isn't she amazing!?

She spent the entire holiday wondering around, getting into mischief, and stealing every one's hearts.Travis and I picked out this little outfit for her with a matching one for Lucy for Christmas.

They looked adorable at Church the next day.

Trey had "the best Christmas ever!"

We gave him a Red Ryder BB gun.

He hit the target every single time!

His Grandpa Jess and Uncle Spencer gave him a Leopard Gecko.

He is completely in love with both gifts.

(the picture left middle is of trey giving spencer a hug for the gecko...love it!)

Lucy loved every single gift that she was given, and has been playing nonstop for the past 5 days!

It has been wonderful :o)

My mom and dad got all the kids slippery polar fleece socks and blankets so they could slide around on their wood floors.

They could have never known how much fun the kids would have with these gifts!

(While running up the table for Chrismas dinner...my nephew Isaac slid into the table taking half the dishes down with him...luckily it was the kid table so the damage was minimal :o)

My dad pulling the grankids around 

and loving every single second of it!

Ruby Sue likes it too!

 

My parents have made some new friends in their new town.

One of these friends lives in a cabin type house with Christmas decorations galor!

It takes them 40 storage bins of decorations and  a whole week to put their decorations up.

My parents took us over there so we could experience this Christmas Wonderland.

My dad told me about how cool he thought this old stove was before we arrived.

It was more amazing than I imagined.

They had Christmas treats waiting for us.

I love this picture...my sister (far left) and her friend Casy (middle) are trying to get lucy to smile.

Their faces are crackin' me up!

Trey thought he'd be sneaky and tried to ruin this picture by popping his head up in the back...nice try trey boy i love it even more!
(my 17 year old sister far left, lucy and trey middle, my sisters friend casey far right)

Last but not least, I made this Christmas Video!

Enjoy some of our Christmas madness!

tie-on dish towels

these are the greatest!

i came up with this idea awhile ago but it has taken me forever to bring them to life!

need an easy last minute gift idea that everyone will love?

here it is!

you can make all kinds of variations, different sizes, and shapes.

i kept these simple though.

the dish towels i got at target and the fabric is amy butler.

here is what they look like un-tied.  just a long rectangular piece of fabric sewn into a dish towel.

so easy!

           here's how:

these are fun and easy!

they make great little handmade gifts!

i don't know about you guys but i have about a million projects i am working on and house guests, so i am out of here!

merry christmas!

pom pom headbands and clips tutorial...

if you lived in oregon you may have seen this little girl prancing around with her new pom pom headbands and hair clips.

she is just loving that i whipped these up for her!

(shhhhhh...i seal them and love to wear them too!)

my sisters and i are spending christmas together, and you better believe i will be bringing the supplies to make these this year.

want to make some?

here's how to make the pom poms:

  i just traced around a lid i found in my kitchen drawer, make sure the fabric is folded so you are cutting out at least two at a time.

keep gluing till you are happy with the size.

when you are done you make need to give it a little tweeking or more gluing to make the pom pom look nice and uniform.

when you are done you can attach it to a clip or a headband.

here's how to attach it to a clip:

first cover a clip with ribbon.

 here's how: 

then just hot glue it to the to of the fabric covered clip.

 here is how i made the 3 pom pom headband:

first i covered a headband with ribbon  like this:

then i attached three pom poms to the side of a headband with hot glue.

 

then glued 3 felt circles, the same size as the ones i used to make the pom poms, and glued them over the headband to the pom poms.

 

it gives makes the pom poms nice and secure.

 

get together this holiday season with your sister's or friends and make some of these while the guys watch football!

merry christmas!

flora pillow number 2...

i am alive!

and well!

i usually blog after the kids have gone to bed, but we have been out of town or have had company in our guest room/computer room  for the last few weeks.

but i am back...and you can bet your boots that i haven't been slacking around here one bit!

i fell in love with the "flora pillow" that i made a few weeks ago..

but then i envisioned making another one...but this time a solid flower and a printed background!

it is a gift for one of my really good friends and i think turned out pretty darn awesome!

i changed it up a bit as well by doing a geometric printed canvas on the back.

what a great gift idea!

to make the flower you can follow the:

photo instructions here

or the

video instructions here!

on another note...

for those of you who have been wondering...this is what it looks like to turn 30!

i can hardly believe that 30 years have gone by!

whahooo!