As Promised...

... the dinky car track that I created for my cousin's 2nd birthday! Turkey Butt purchased a 4-pack of foam mats for his man cave/workout room/the shed at Wal-mart for $9.99. I swiped one to use as the base for the track. I also picked up a 4-pack of electrical tape (in 4 lovely colours) from the Dollarama and found the wooden trees in a random box at the local Used Bookstore. Sadly, this photo was taken before I stumbled across a pack of Transportation scrapbook paper in my craft area. Picture if you will little red, glittery, paper stop signs taped onto all the important traffic stopping intersections!

Let's tally up the cost of this project:

Foam Mat ------- $2.87
Electrical Tape --- $1.73
Wooden Trees ---$1.15 (I could've had 20+ trees for $2 but only wanted 4 and offered to pay $1 for them)
Stop Signs ------- Free (since the paper was bought years ago for a different craft project)

= $5.75 for a birthday gift for a 2 year old!

This is my life!

Nursery Art

Lately I have been creating random things in my spare time. How do I find spare time you might ask? Well, I have a wonderfully supportive hubby who helps out with baby duty (when he's not at work) and I have mastered the art of accomplishing tasks with one hand. Anyway, back to afore mentionned nursery art. I created the following graphic print this evening using Picnik, a design found here, and a quote found at this site:

I think it will be absolutely perfect framed on the wall of Little Miss Elle's nursery! This is my life.

P.S. Tune in tomorrow (-ish) for photos of the foam mat that I turned into a miniature town for my 2 year old cousin's "D cars" (a.k.a. dinky cars).

It's All In The Details.

It may or may not be apparent to those reading this blog, but I am a details person. To me, everything has to be planned down to the most minor detail and everything has to go perfectly according to plan. Now this doesn't mean that I'm a neat and tidy person, just ask my hubby. In fact, I live quite happily in a minor degree of clutter and chaos - but everything is exactly where I need it to be. Therefore, when the afore mentionned hubby goes on a cleaning spree (a.k.a. out of sight, out of mind) it drives me crazy til I can get things happily messy again. Now take all this into account and then add to it the fact that I just planned my wedding, while quite pregnant. As you can imagine, I had a minor bridezilla moment before we went to the Hall to decorate the night before my wedding. Something along the lines of, "If you're coming to the Hall then you have to know that I'm the boss so you have to do as I say and if you don't I'll cry!"

Luckily everything turned out just exactly as I'd planned and we got so many compliments on all of it. Now I wanted to share some of those minor details with you!

We bought a couple old doors and hinged them together as a backdrop. The wedding was supposed to be outside but the doors worked well inside too.

This was my sister's perfect idea! Two old crates that had washed up on the beach, piled on top of each other as a signing table.



We spray painted pumpkins and ghords black and white and used washi tape to put monogram on it.



Might be hard to see, but the pumpkins in front of the fence to the left say "THANKS"

Sticking with the black and white theme.

This was a last minute detail I found on Pinterest.

We used Mason jars with candles or photos in them. As well as other random items (like this snow globe) as our centrepieces.

Mason jars filled with markers on our Guestbook table.

Our dessert table/candy bar. The groom's cake stand & cupcake stand are white with black polka dots. All the plates are black & white and were found at a used cloting store. We had black & white treat bags by the candy so guests could take some home with them!

I found this black and white frame on the side of the road during town clean up week. Nothing better than FREE.

To the left we had photos of my Grampie and Turkey Butt's Nanny - both of whom passed away almost three years to the day before our wedding day. The sign says, wish you were here. The dresser drawer was another free roadside find and made a great place to put cards and gifts. The right side of the table is Guestbook stuff.

Found this photo in a mason jar idea on Pinterest. The Mr. and Mrs. were Etsy finds.

My amazing best friend Aye wrapped all these lights around the beams and my sister's boyfriend hung all the lanterns.

Our beverage area. More paper lanterns. "Candy" names for each of the drinks (i.e. peach juice and sparkling water was called Fuzzy Peaches).

Well folks, thanks for bearing with me through more wedding photos. I'm sure this won't be the end of them either. After planning for something for over a year, it's nice to drag it out as long as I can :) This is my life.

Organization

While I've got some free time before the baby arrives, I've decided to do a little organizing/redecorating around the house. I started with my craft area. Here is the before:

As you can see it is completely impossible for me to even work on crafts in this area. I've been working away at it for a few hours, over a few days, and will hopefully soon have an after photo to share with you! This is my life!

Pinterest Inspired Crafts

Okay, I love Pinterest. There, I said it. I've found so many wonderful holiday, craft and food ideas. Here are a few crafts that I've created for Little Miss Elle's room:



Idea found here!



Idea found here!

And the two of them together above the changing table:

Luckily I already had two canvases around the house (they were red). I plan to eventually buy a third canvas so it will say: Live, Laugh, Love. As for the frame, we'll put photos of Little Miss Elle into the top and bottom openings once we actually have photos of her! This is my life!