Lucy Celebrates Her Birthday with a Frozen Birthday Party!!!

Of course Lucy is in love with the movie Frozen and all the characters, 

especially Elsa, so its no surprise that she chose to have a Frozen 3rd birthday party. The best part was that I got to help create her perfect party. 

I was assigned to make the centerpieces...

Vases from the thrift store and dollar store.

Fill for vases from the dollar store.

Branches and snowflake stems from JoAnn's Fabric, Michaels Craft Store and the dollar store. 

(message me if you want more detail)

...the Olaf game; "Pin the nose on Olaf"

...the cake...

...and the dresses.

My daughter did everything else and it was all Amazing...

Treat Bags

Build a Snowman Game

Snacks & Drinks

Clearly a good time was had by all....

....especially Lucy!

Can you believe Lucy is 3? 

I am sooooo blessed!

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Halloween 2014

Happy Halloween (about a month late LOL). Just had to share some photos....

Lucy & Adalie

of course Nana made the costumes :)

Trick or Treating

The grown-up's celebrate...

As you can see, a good time was had by all!

Checking In

This past year has been full of happiness. I have put blogging on the back burner for awhile but wanted to check in and share a few things...

First I found out that my daughter was 

going to bless me with another grandchild in the spring...

In January my hubby and I went to a play in NYC 

and for the first time I visited and stayed in Brooklyn. 

I now love Brooklyn and plan on returning for further investigation.

In February we went to the beach for a 

conference and came across this.....

Have you ever seen snow on the beach? Too cool!

Later that month we went to Western Maryland 

and while hiking came across this....

Frozen Falls are absolutely beautiful!!!

We had a lot of snow this winter. 
Here's is our little house during one of those snow days....

We survived the winter and started the summer off by picking strawberries and teaching my daughter and granddaughter how to make strawberry jam.

Summer started with our annual Memorial Day Cook-out followed by a trip to Jamestown and Williamsburg Virginia. 

We got back just in time for the birth of granddaughter #2...
Adalie Kate

 Isn't she beautiful!!!

In October we went to the mountains to appreciate the colors of Fall.

And now we are preparing for a wonderful Thanksgiving and Christmas. 

Enjoy your holidays too!

My Living Room Makeover Designed on Polyvore

I Love Polyvore because I can design using photographs of what I have and of anything else out on the web that can be seen and clipped to Polyvore. If you're not familiar with this very cool site check it our HERE. 

This was my inspiration pic....

In this design I clipped my end tables and found everything else either already uploaded to Polyvore of online. 

Not all of the items I use to create the picture are ones that I am going to buy. The great thing about Polyvore is that I can design my collage using anything I can find on the site or online, regardless of the price. Once I get the collage just the way I want it I begin the search to find a similar item that is less costly. Sometimes I find the exact same item for a better price too. That's always great. 

I used fabric swatches to make the curtains in the collage and later found the curtains in the fabric I chose at Pier 1 imports online. 

The lamps in the collage I fudged by using two different photos I found under the Home-Lighting Category on Polyvore. I purchased my actual lamps at Goodwill and took the photo of one of the two with my phone and posted to Instagram. Unfortunately you can't clip photos from Instagram onto Polyvore. Below is the photo. I love their mid-century look. I am in the process of finding the perfect lamp shade so stay tuned. I actually changed the collage with a different shade than the one in the original photo above. 

The chair I fell in love with but it's on back order until September. I emailed the furniture company and requested a fabric sample. My husband thinks it's too bright so maybe I will find something else in the mean time. 

For my coffee table I want something like this table from Crate & Barrel. It's a little pricey though so still thinking it through. 

The canvas art I got for Christmas several years ago but it's still available. My husband rides a motorcycle so it was a great gift that works well with our decor. 

The sunburst mirror is great but out of my price range so will probably do a DIY project to recreate. 

Oh yea...the white sofa is what I would like to buy when it's time. For now the red sofa we have is fine but I wanted to make sure a white one will work with all the other elements. You can buy that couch here. 




Soon I will post the final results. See you then!

How many bulbs will I need?

Wow...it's been a while. I guess after the Blog Challenge I was blogged out. That and the fact that the kitchen renovation took all of my extra spare time (more to be revealed). As I sit here figuring out how many tulip and daffodil bulbs I will need to buy and plant in the fall (this will make sense in a minute) it came to mind that others might be interested in my method (the reason for this post). So here goes; how I know how many bulbs to buy and where to plant them.

Every fall I find myself in the garden center gazing at tulip and daffodil bulbs and thinking "Do I need any more" and every spring I look at what has grown and think "I should have planted more". So...this Spring I have come up with a way to solve this problem once and for all. 

First (and a little late). I took photos of my beds as they look today (May 4th).

Here's a close up....

the bricks are there as markers

Its a little difficult to see the tulips because the Black-Eyed Susan is coming in in front of them.

I know....its really hard to see the flowers as they have dropped off but in the next picture you will see were they are AND where I think it would be nice to see more.....

I drew over those that are existing to make it easier to visualize and so that the other drawings of my future flowers would look similar making the design a bit easier. 

Note: I used Adobe Photoshop CS4 

 

Now I know that in the Fall I will need to purchase enough daffodils bulbs to make 4 clusters and enough tulip bulbs to make 3 clusters. 

If only I could remember what color the tulips were...LOL

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