Lets sit at the desk...

So when I was pregnant with Sydney we gave up our guest room/office/craft room

 to give her an adorable nursery.

Which you will be getting a tower of soon.

Remember that desk I mentioned painting here.

Well we picked up this beast off the side of the road for free.

Ugly but free, with potential!

We got home tossed the computer on it and left it ugly.

Until now! It's spring spruce up yo!

I busted out some white oil based paint

(read about Nathans painting mommas car adventure here)

rolled up my selves and painted it white.

Then I spray painted the brass hardware powder blue.

Vioala! So much prettier now!

Best part was it was free!

It came with a matching chair that I plan to paint this week.

Momma Lesson #482

Spring spruce up is in full motion around here!
And I'm lovin it!
Today I painted a desk that houses our computer.
It was a stained wood
and well... ugly!
So I painted it white!
It looks great now, and tomorrow I'll show you!
I used an oil based paint for this project.
I painted while Sydney napped and Nathan happily played outside with Duke and his tractors.
When Sydney woke up
I set the roller down in the pan (filled with white oil based paint)
checked on Nathan, he was still playing in the grass a crossed the driveway.
So I ran inside to grab Sydney.
I changed her, grabbed the bouncer and headed back out.
Let me just add that Alex was in the grass working on his golf cart.
I rounded the concer headed outside and there was
Nathan roll painting my black car with oil based white paint.
The car Alex just bought me for Christmas!
I screamed, ran outside and Nathan said "mamas car pretty now"
Al came running over and stopped dead in his tracks when he saw!
In those few short minutes in took me to change Sydney
he hit both sides and the back plus all four tires.
I didn't grab a picture before we frantically starting scrubbing it off with gasoline.
But now I wish I had!
The beauty (and bummer) in oil based is it doesn't wash off with water!
Thankfully we were able to get in all off with gasoline.
Except the treads of the tires,
which is fine by me all things considered!
Momma lesson of the day: Never ever ever leave a toddler alone with paint near you car. Ever!

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!

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!!

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

Anibaldi Studios

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!

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!

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

Simply Sadie Jane

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