Wishful Toiling

I have an addiction to toile and only one piece of it in my house! SHOCK! I have a boppy pillow with a toile cover that I just adore, but it isn't cutting it, friends.

Welcome to my post for the Toile Party, you can find the party over on the The Pretty Organized Palace.

So... I NEED new drapes for our living room, I NEED toile!!! I need affordable toile in neutral colors... I need a lot of fabric.
I went "window" shopping online and found a few to share... I like them either for their color combo or for their design... or when I get lucky, both!



I also need new bedding and if I could get the hubby to agree, I would absolutely be getting toile bedding! I used to have a pink and green toile duvet but that was when I was single and living on my own. DH (dear husband) wanted nothing to do with that. *sigh*

I found this on the target website.

Oh... and let's not forget kitchen toile. I would love to get a little mistreatment up on my window made out of this:
For now I dream...............

Promises... I promise not to make them empty...

I promise that I will blog more :)
I promise that I will have interesting posts :)
I promise that I will get all of my pictures cleaned up and "post worthy", and
I promise to try and do that with out a heavy hand :)
I promise to post all the great crafts I have been working on :)
I promise to try my hardest not to make empty promises :)

Unfortunate Picture Announcement

Prior to this post I have been getting comfortable with photoshop elements/cs3. (I really still am, but feeling a little better about things) Because of this, some - well most - of the pictures are over edited and harsh etc. While I will be going back into my personal files to adjust this and make them album worth, I may not ever get to changing them here.
Please don't hate me for it!

Easter Banner Preview

I hope I am posting this correctly! I have digiscrapped an Easter banner. All that is left to do is print them out, cut them out, paste onto the cardstock I have here and string. I will be back to post the final product... here is the preview...
I have never done this before but I am going to try and post all of the pieces so that they can be saved and printed on your home printer.




















The papers used in this project are from the kit "Apple of my Eye" by Jennifer Barrette.
Sorry I don't have the link to where I found this kit.
And the inspiration for this banner came from The Crafting Chicks where they posted a Birthday Banner and a Valentine's Day Banner.

I am going banner crazy!! Can't wait to try a Pennant Banner. I also saw a scrapped pennant banner but am having a hard time finding the link.

UPDATE: sorry everyone. I just realized that I saved the files as JPGs so they have the white background...

Making up for lost time

I have so much to say today because it has been so long since I have written anything! First and foremost, I have a TON of pictures that I am editing and hope to have up in the next few days... HOPE being the key word here. Please don't hate me if it takes a week :)

I've missed my dad's birthday post which should also have been shared with one of my bestest friends, Suzanne, I missed one of my other bestest's birthdays, Jess, and one other, Lisa. I also missed my brother's and my two sister's birthdays. Is this an excuse for hardly blogging at all in almost 1.5 -2 months?! Am I forgiven? I have been really busy!!!

Yesterday the Little Lady had her 6 month well baby visit. She is now up to 16.4 lbs and 26 inches!! WOW! She is about 65% for weight and 75% for height. I find all of this amusing because Alex was up around 50% either at 6 or 9 months and now, at 2, he is 25%!! LOL. Big babies, little toddlers? I guess only time will tell.

I also don't think I have ever posted here how much I LOOOOVE matching babies, but seriously, it is an obsession. There is not much I love more than siblings who "match". "Match" as in look identical, not dress identical, although that is pretty cute too. I swore all my life to never dress my kids alike but something happens when you have your second, your mind goes a little loopy!
So... because I want you all to see what I see, here are my matching babies!
Here they are both about 4.5 months old, give or take a week.


Alex in April of 2007


Ellie in January of 2009


So, how about you? Do you love matching babies as much as I do?

Happy Belated Valentine's Day

I totally missed the boat on this whole blog thing this past month or so... ooops :) Here we are on Valentine's day, all dressed up in our holiday colors!! It is too bad you can't see the Big Guy's shirt, it was cute!


In the spirit of love, here is something that I love. Her beautiful face!! Look at her fabulous eyes and soft features - aahhhhh *swoon*.



Here she is, loving being a little sister just about as much as I love her silly little grin. Seriously, there isn't much better than your babies smiling at you.




**disclaimer** I am sooooo sorry that the color on these pictures are off.... ooops

A Cracker on a Train

My boy loves trains...



...and crackers...



...and crackers on trains.



They are the stars of his show, the highlight of his day.



And he is mine.

Just Another Temper Tantrum

It took Alex less than 15 seconds to push his car into the kitchen, climb up onto it, scale up onto the counter and get into the spices. I like to catch him red handed rather then before he acts, so I waited to see what he would do... and this was how I found him.
Unfortunately for him, when you get caught doing things like this, you also get caught like this...




...in all his snotty, blubbery glory.






Poor guy.





Nothing that a little book can't fix...






...especially when followed immediately by a nap.









This looks like sitting...






...but it is really falling.

Thankfully after nap, everyone is a different person and we can see the day through bright and fresh eyes. Oh, we love you, new and happy Alex!

I Have 2 Questions...

1. Who let me color my hair that color?! Seriously, what was I thinking and what were they thinking not telling me it looked that awful?!

2. Who did we think we were posing for this picture? I mean COME ON!? I can see my granny panties and the panty line!! Unreal.

Thank God I am not 20 anymore.... I have come a long way. I also can't wait until I am on the verge of 36 looking back at myself now saying, "what the hell was I thinking?!".

Snow Tubing

It was yet another snowy day around here, another 6 inches or so of snow. Alex got lucky because Hugo got off of work early tonight - meaning Ellie could stay inside all snuggly and warm with her Papa and Alex could go out and get pulled around our complex on the snow tube.


He was so excited to be heading outside right at bed time and he had no idea that I was going to pull the snow tube out of the car.

When I took the snow tube out and started pulling him around he was laughing so hard!! He loved it. I took him on a little hill and let him go down, took him down little steps so they acted like jumps, I thought he was going to cry he was laughing so hard.

Neither of us wanted to go inside but Ellie was hungry and it was well passed Alex's bed time. Being a milkbar means I am on call 24-7, the things we do for our babies!

Antenna Toes

Alex was born with some silly toes.

His 2nd toe is on top of his other toes. When he was an infant it would stick up in the air like an antenna, thus Antenna Toes. At first I thought they were weird. Then I just thought they were funny. After a while I just fell in love with them. They make him unique.

And at certain angles, he can even pretend he only has 4 toes!

When Ellie was born I was facing into Hugo's lap, he was sitting on the bed and my midwife was behind me (I was squatting - sort of). When Ellie actually came out, my midwife put her between my legs, I guess I was supposed to pick her up like all those moms do in the homebirth pics and videos... but I couldn't. I was still in pain and I didn't have the energy in my legs to not support my upper body with my arms (at this point, my hands were on the floor on either side of Ellie). I just stared at her, and specifically her toes. I was so hoping that she would have the same silly toes that Alex had. It would be something they would bond over, giggle over and hate together, I thought it would be awesome. At first glance I thought that she did have them, but later on it became clear she got Hugo's toes - where the 2nd toe is longer than the big toe. Now, I guess, this will just be ammunition that they will use against each other.

Hugo's Birthday

Alex got to decorate his first birthday cake today for Hugo's 24th birthday. Yes, friends, I am a cradle robber. Not only did he help with the icing, he stabbed the middle of the cake with the spatula and stuck his fingers into random places in the cake. He absolutely loved putting on the sprinkles, although, he got a little excited and dumped them all in the center towards the end.


He did his duty as the chef and sampled things along the way. Surely to ensure the safety of those planning on comsuming his masterpiece.



Between tastes he did, in fact, decorate the cake a little bit.


And of course, sampled it a few more times.


One last taste before Papa got home from work. We don't mind his feet!!