{The Snowball Effect}

Yes the Snowball effect is running rampant around here....
Remember this recent project?

Well, the window's still look like this.

Because I decided like any good woman to change my mind and do window boxes instead of rods.

Which means my husband has another project to help me with. I would try and cut all the wood myself but, I like my fingers where they are, so I'll leave the cutting to the professional.
He has informed me that the boxes will get done tonight all prettied up with trim so hopefully I can paint and get everything done within the next couple days.
That coupled with the baby quilts I am still "trying" to work on. I have one friend that already had her baby and my other friend is having her little boy today!
So good luck Teija :)

And I'm still working on flowers for the shop. I so want to list them but I'm waiting for some clips to arrive so it will be soon. I may just go ahead and list some of the pins. We will see how my day progress's

 Oh and I have to congratulate my 11yr old who is now officially a Boy Scout! He had his cross over last night at the Blue & Gold Banquet.

We are so proud of him. :)
I'd post a picture of him but he is ever so good at eluding my camera.
okay blogger is ticking me off. Why is it changing the look of my font... Grrrrrrr.......

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{New Etsy Stuff}

These cute little flower's/headband's will be going in my shop very soon. I can put these on a Pin back or an Alligator clip. 
I have some dang cute fabric on the way so I will be making many more I can hardly wait! Sorry cute baby model not included. :)

Seriously, could she be any cuter! I know I'm just a wee bit biased!

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{La' Curtain's}

I know shes not ironed but I had to get a visual of what it might look like and well I'm kinda liking it ... Okay hang on let me start from the beginning.......

I have been wanting to do some form of curtain panels ever since I found the Nester's blog (which by the way she rocks), but the only kind I could semi afford just happened to be these checked ones that I was secretly coveting at our local Wal-mart (I know I know....Wally World don't judge me), but even at $20 bucks a pop it was still to much for my lowly budget. But.... Whilest shopping at our local Wal-Mart on ♥Day guess what I saw was on CLEARANCE!

Yup, my ever coveted Malaga Check Better Homes & Gardens curtain panels.

So in my cart they went, I actually bought 4 panels but I ended up taking 2 of them back so now I am going to cut the 2 in half and I'll get 4 panels for the price of 2. Look at me being all thrifty, yeah I'm cool like that. :) j/k The full blown panel was just too much fabric for my skinny farm house windows. I will be adding some fabric to the bottom of the panel because right now the window looks like it's sporting some Steve Urkel high waters. So I'll have to do a big reveal soon but for now I just thought I would throw out a small teaser & a stupid story aren't you glad you read my blog...... :):) Have a Happy Monday!

Funny how my small, sad, pathetic curtains that have been hanging far too long actually match the new panels. Just goes to show you that I don't stray far from what I love. :) Yeah I know I'm a total nerd.

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{Feeling The ♥}

Yeah, I know another random post but hey I'm posting right? :) This is what we did when the kids got home from school today. 

It's nothing amazing, but when you have 90+ Valentines to do you go for what is easy! So this year I tried something new and purchased these all from Etsy they sell them as PDF files so you can print all you want (love that). 

Not only are the stinking cute but they are something that no one else at school is going to have. And I'm all about being a little different. :) 
So here's what EASY L♥VE looks like at 90+, maybe next year we will get a little more crafty :)

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{Could This Post Be More Random?}

Well again I find that I really have nothing to blog about. For the past month now All and I mean ALL 5 of my kids have been sick and I'm not joking... In fact Jentry had to come home from school yesterday because he was feeling sick to his stomach and true to form for this Flu that has been lingering in our home far too long, the flu won and he is home again today, all this on top of severe colds.
(this is what the flu looks like around midnight, he's so going to hate this picture)

Corbin is hacking up his last lung as is Parker, Brinley & Addison. I think they may be getting a little better thanks to the Nebulizer that has been smoking away for days.

I have not been able to work on my little project for my friend Ellen. But I did finish up an Etsy order for my stick people for a family of 8, and I'm working on another right now for a family of 4. I guess I'm getting some stuff done just not enough, I feel like I'm barely hanging on. 
 This is me last night tired & with some very red eye's might I add. Why is it that the only pictures that are taken of me are taken by me?...... What's up with that! Don't mind the fat face, I'm working on it.

Okay on to more Randomness, enter the play panels (aka before the ick). I won the fabric town panel from Quilt Taffy (thanks:) and on the other side is a train scene (which I purchased) & then I sewed the 2 together and can I just say it was worth every penny! 
He loves them and so do I, they take up no room at all and it travels ever so nicely. Plus the fact that it can entertain for HOURS a total A+ in my book! Hopefully my little man will be back to his fun little self soon and I can see more of this.

I don't know if they still carry these little panels but if you can find them and your little guy likes to play with cars and trains I say buy them you'll be glad you did!

Then my mailman who I now ♥ (sorry Lloyd) :) brought me some fun mail today. While all this sick has been going on, I felt the need to buy something, so I hopped on Amazon and bought this book.

Yeah I know it's so Cliche', but I love it! Every time we go to eat at my cousin Donna's house she makes the best food and every time she tells me she got the recipe from this book. So I decided it was time for me to buy it. 
So a little research, a debit card and $13.99 later I'm the proud owner of a book that will tell me the secrets to all things Jell-O! 
Okay the sick are calling my name, must run! ;)
I promise to post more about nothing later!
I know, I know you can hardly wait!

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{My Cotton Prozac}

I know I have been missing from Blogdom for a while, but that's because I finished Addison's quilt, I finished my TV hutch and have been project-less for a few days. Yes I have found that when my dark cloud is hanging overhead having some form of "project" to do has been good for me.

Enter my Cotton Prozac!
Well, that and my Best'est Friend Ellen just had a baby yesterday so I now have a good excuse to make up something cute for her new little guy! So I'm going to be bonding once again with my rotary cutter and my sewing machine anything will be better than the vomit that has been coming out of my children the past few days. Yes we are living the good life around here. Hopefully I'll have something to post soon. :)

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{My New Old Doors}

Well, another project is finally done! 

Here is the Hutch with it's original screen door. Yes, it's cool and has family history behind it. BUT. It takes up so much room when it's open. 

I had a freaking brilliant idea while sitting and staring at the TV hutch one evening, I thought why not take a door and cut it in half. 
DONE!!
Here is the "new" door in it's original state. Don't mind the dust.

 And it was FREE!

Compliment's of this neighbor who didn't know the kind of treasure they were giving away. Thank you very much!

During the "painful" paint stripping days.... Oh the humanity! I think this would be a good job for the convicts in prison, trust me it's punishment.

After the prisoner finisher her job.

I painted her black and added these fabulous knobs that I got at a yard sale YEARS AGO for $1.00, I do love me some glass knobs.

All finished! I do love how it turned out, it seems more grown up to me. It is distressed the same all the way around but for some reason it's not picking it up in my photo. I'll blame it on the old farm house lighting.

Okay don't mind the little fingerprints all over the TV screen & the mess of toys, just proof that I have 5 kids and am keeping it real. :)

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{ Vintage Baby Quilt }

It's done! I actually FINISHED making it! I'm pretty proud of myself as I think it turned out pretty darn cute & that it only took me a couple day's working on it here and there.

The quilt kit came from Quilt Taffy I think I'm going to make another but I want to make a twin size for Brinley. Don't know if it will work or not as that's a whole lotta fabric to be wrestling with while trying to stitch it all together.
Sigh.....decision's are the worst! :)

Edited: The Fabric used for this quilt was from 
April Cornell's Poetry collection.

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{A Little Of This & A Little Of That}

Just a catch up post here as I have been a bad blogger lately, and sadly I haven't been super busy just feeling tired and sore, thanks to my not sleeping at night and then working out yesterday on the darn elliptical and it's evil resistance levels.

I still think the elliptical makes a great coat rack, as a matter of fact that is it's other job! ;)

The birthday's went off without a hitch it was very low key this year. For Jentry's we had pizza with 3 friends & had a galactic good time with all things Star Wars. Ya gotta love boys who eat drink and breath all things George Lucas!

Then for Brinley's she choose to eat her birthday dinner at McDuck's aka McDonald's or as Corbin affectionately calls it Old McDonald's. :) She is now the proud owner of some new Littlest Pet shop creatures and loves them.

La' Heart Party!

Then yesterday I decided to get a little craftiness going and made a Valentine Tutu for Addison. I am hoping to get her some baby legs made & then I'll take some pics. I have such sad pathetic sewing skills so don't look too close.

And while all the above was going on we (as in Lloyd and I) have been stripping paint off of the "new" doors for the TV hutch and we still have a ways to go but it's getting there.

Can I just say that I would rather give Birth to Triplets naturally than strip paint. Next time we are just going to buy a new door and distress the crap out of it to make it look old. Paint stripping is just not for me....

lesson learned!

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{Lucky #7}

Our Brinley Boo is 7! I was so excited when she was born finally a sweet little girl after 2 cute boys. She weighed 8lbs on the spot and of course was Jaundice as all my little bumble bee's are!

Brinley is the BEST helper ever, and this girl LOVES to clean. I can always find her making a bed or helping clean a room. She loves going to school and is a great little reader. She's into all things Polly Pocket and she is a lover of shoes and bags I have taught her well. She's ever so sweet and I hope she never changes!

Here she is this morning in her shirt I made her last night. Don't mind my house lighting... :) Well off I go to make a cake, she has requested a heart themed party it should be fun. I'm just glad we are going low key this year.

HAPPY 7th BIRTHDAY BRINLEY! WE LOVE YOU!!!

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