Friday, April 8, 2011

The bedding!!

It's finally done!

After about 2 weeks of working on it,
almost stabbing my eye out, 
(if you don't know what i'm talking about read here)
And hundreds and hundreds of pins




IT IS FINALLY FINISHED!

And it was ssoo worth it!
I love it!
It's beautiful, and timeless, crispy, light airy 
everything I was going for with this bedroom make over!
It looks so nice against my black bed!
Did I mention I love it!
I'm glad I took the time to do this.
I proved to myself (and a few na sayers) that 
I can make a quilt!
I'm proud of my self!

Ok ok I know you're not here to listen to me ramble you want to see it already!






I'm working on pillows now!
Don't look at anything else!
It's all still a work in progress!
But I love love love the bedspread!

On a side note we painted the room this morning!
And I can't not wait for it to dry so we can rearrange
and put the few things I have so far on the walls!


Thursday, April 7, 2011

Chuggin Along

The master bedroom is awaiting the prefect grey paint to coat its walls.
Which we picked up last night and will be painting tomorrow!

I've created this flower

And my mother in law just picked up these at a thrift store for $6 for my bare walls!

Since teal and coral are my accent colors I painted them the same teal as the flower!




Things are coming together!
(does anyone know why my pictures do that sometimes?)

Bedding TOMORROW!!

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Pictures Pictures Pictutres!

I love pictures.
Let's just put that out there right off the bat!
I mean my kids grow and change daily
I don't want to forget anything so
I take lots of pictures.
We have lots of framed photos
And this is the arrangement we used to make it not seemed too cluttered on our walls!




It was inspirited by Martha Steward!
But now I can't find the link to it.

Good thing Alex loves me because
every single on of those 22 frames are exactly one inch apart.
Look at him working hard to make it look great!



I love how it came out!

And in case you were wondering 90% of the photos on this wall were taken by Patrick of
He is AMAZING!
He goes above and beyond to befriend your kids before taking their picture so they give you those REAL smiles in the photos!
He is creative with poses and totally open to what you want to do.
He has captured my family 4 times in the past 2 years!
Yeah we like him that much!
Here is some of his work















If your in San Diego, Riverside or Orange County I highly recommend him!
He does Weddings, Engagments, Newborn and Families!
Tell I sent ya!

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Ouch...

So I've been spending most of my free (which in all reality is pretty non exsitant)
so I guess I should say I've been sleeping less to
work on my anthro bedding that I posted about here,
using this tutorial at Kojo Designs.

So yeah... I've been working like a little honey bee on this baby.
It's been going great,
Realtivley easy even.
I was sewing the last peice of the "puzzle" toghether on Sunday night when
S.N.A.P.
 the needle on my machine breaks.
Wierd, but no big deal right.
Just replace it and contuine.
So I get going again and
S.N.A.P.
 but this time the needle piece flew directly into
MY RIGHT EYE
yeah my
EYE
I was freaking out!
It hurt like the dickens
(unmedicated child birth was less painful)
I was picturing a needle stick straight out of my eye,
like you would see in a horror movie!

I made my way to my bedroon where I woke Al from a dead sleep.
I explained it broke and was in my eye and I NEEDED him to
G.E.T. I.T. O.U.T. N.O.W.
we go into the bathroom where he takes a look.
"he says yup there it is"
I lost it at the point full blown tears!
I'm not sure why but it just totally freaked me out to have it confirmed,
 that was in fact a NEEDLE  in my EYE.
I'm a mother I NEED to be able to see!

He took a Q-tip and tweezers and removed the needle from my eye!
Luckily it was just floating around in there,
not stuck on my actually eye ball!
I was so revealed! But it was still so painful!
Today it feels much better and I can see just the same as Sunday morning!

The piece of needle after being removed from my eye!

Thank you Alex for saving the day!
Pictures of the bedding soon!
It looks great! Can't wait to show you!

Don't forget to check out
Simply Sadie Jane
if you haven't already!
She did a guest post about me and that makes her pretty AWESOME!

Monday, April 4, 2011

I WAS FEATURED!!!

Can you hear me screaming??
Can you see me jumping?
Yup it's all for JOY!!
I WAS FEATURED!
Yup today I was FEATURED for the first time!
And you better bet I'm as excited as a girl could be!

Everyone and I mean EVERYONE
go check out Miss Sadie Jane of

She is AWESOME!
Her post on the anthro knock off bedding
was the inspiration behind my bedding adventure
And....
She is hosting a giveaway of the
Keychain Wristlet and a camera strap,
both Sew Ronimo creations!

Yup I'm still smiling from ear to ear!
I'm so flattered!
Thanks again Sadie you ROCK!
Now go check her out!
Be sure to follow her because she is A.W.E.S.O.M.E


Saturday, April 2, 2011

Q&A

Ok y'all I'm doing and you should too!
I'd love to read your!
Let's do this thing

Making : my anthro bedding (which is sssooo close to being done)
Cooking : up a vision of the mobile I plan to make for Sydney next week.
Drinking : O.J. My fav!
Reading: Who has time for that?
Wanting: a new sewing machine.
Looking: at my baby girl asleep in my arms
Playing: mommy as always!
Wasting: time wishing I had more of it
Sewing: my anthro bedding!
Wishing: time would slow down
Enjoying: the weekend with my wonderful family
Waiting: for Alex to finish building his garage!
Liking: the fact that i got a lot of sewing in today, my kid a are both sleeping, and how great this weekend has been
Wondering: when if I'll ever get a new sewing machine.
Loving: my babies
Hoping: that i can finally decide which sewing machine i want to buy
Marvelling: at how quickly my boys can mess up my just cleaned house
Needing: to get up and finish me bedding
Smell: baby lotion on Sydney sleeping next to me.
Wearing: a tank top and pj pants
Following: Hollys World
Noticing: that my baby are growing too fast
Knowing: i really should be folding laundry
Thinking: I'm kinda sleep at 8:50.
Bookmarking: all of your fab crafty tutorials!
Opening: my sew cabinet
Giggling: at Duke snoring!

Friday, April 1, 2011

Construction

The blog is under construction,
Hang in the lovers!
It's going to be awesome once is done!
Alex is the best, working hard to beautify it for us all!
Thanks for the love and patience!

Ronimo