Raspberry Jam

Tonight I was forced to make something with the amazing raspberries the kids and I picked from my Grandmas house. I couldnt stand to see them go to waste, and there was NO way we could eat them all. If you know me you know I do not cook or MAKE JAM or anything food related for that matter. But even though it was super easy I am still proud of myself. LOL

(and these cute jars photographed so cute I couldnt NOT share) :)

Ainzleys Bedroom

Ainzleys room has been a work in progress. And its finally coming together. I love how it is turning out. Here is her room in pictures

Here is the best picture I could get of the whole room!

And I love RUFFLES so I had to make a ruffle pillow!


A pillow to match the flowers on the quilt.

This valance I am loving it. Aaron made the scalloped wood valance and I took all the left over pieces of fabric and sewed them all together. I love how it turned out. I kinda wish that I had made it longer so it gathered alittle more. But oh well maybe next time. :)
I have told you about this quilt before but I am going to tell you again. This quilt is amazing I love EVERYTHING about it. I had this wonderful lady piece it together for me since I wanted it done NOW. It would have taken me months to put it together. She did an AMAZING job. If you want a handmade quilt and dont want to make it or dont know how. I totally recommend her. She is fabulous!

Close up of the Quilting
Close up of quilt


I used the soft Minky on the back. Ainzley loves to curl up in it because its so soft!

The only thing left is to get the picture frames hung. I will show you how those turn out. When they get finished.

Hope you enjoyed the little tour!!

Pre-school Graduation

Yesterday was the last day of Preschool for the summer.

We loved preschool. But better yet we loved Miss Sherri. She is amazing. Seriously Izaak would always say "well Miss Sherri says I dont have to." To funny. He probably likes her more than me most days :). But he will get to enjoy her another year. Miss Ainzley will be joining him. He says they can be in the same class. :)

He has got some moves!

He had been talking about his mask for weeks. He didnt want to take it off

My New Photography Blog

Please check out my NEW photography blog. After people asking me if I had one... I decide why not! :)I hope you enjoy it :) I sure have been enjoying taking pictures.

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WOW 100th POST!

This is my 100th post!!!

Yeah!

Its only taken me like 3 years! LOL

Does anyone still read this lame old blog of mine!! I keep thing that I am going to keep up on this blog and do some fun things, but Holy Cow. I have been super crazy busy! I still need to do a post on my NEW room and Ainzleys New Room! I will get there! I promise! I have some tutorials I want to share to! I just need to finish my projects! I have so many started and none of them finished! Hopefully after Easter my Etsy shop will slow down and I can get a few things done!

Well stay tuned and I will do something fun for my 100th Post Celebration. Maybe a little give away or something!

This past weekend we had a little get away at Fairmont Hot Springs with Aarons family! They have been going there for many many years. If you dont know what or where this is. Its a small resort in Anaconda Montana out in the middle of no where. Yea I know what your thinking. :) Its fun for the kids we spend two days swimming, and they love every minute of it!

They had a great time!

Spring Open house!!

This past weekend we had our first open house boutique! Oh my it was a ton of work but totally worth it. Here are some picture of the fun we had! Thank you so much to everyone that came and supported us! We had a blast!

OUR NEW ITEM LEGGINGS!

ANOTHER NEW ITEM CHECK BOOK COVERS!

LAST NEW ITEM BANNERS!

We had some other vendors there too!

Check out Divas Mama for all your hair accessorizes! She has some darling things!

Also find her on Facebook!

Spring Open House!!

EVERYONE IS INVITED!

I saw this quote on a blog and I loved it!!

Hope you all have a great week!

Something to brighten my day

I got this in the mail today and it brightened my day!!!

I had this lady make Ainzley a quilt for her new bed and it is so cute she did an incredible job. She has inspired me to practice my quilting abilities.

I will show you all Ainzleys room when I get this quilt back from the quilters.

Imagine pink,green,and aqua and vintage. Its pretty amazing!

My weekend!!

HOLY COW!!!!

I got a lot of sewing done this weekend!

FOR THE RECORD

3 Dresses

1 quilt top finished ( I only started this quilt in July)

3 quilt blocks (just need to be quilted I am going to try my hand at quilting these on my sewing machine I am just waiting to get my quilting foot in the mail)

PLease excuse the poor quality of these pictures my camera battery was dead so I took these with my phone.

What a productive weekend! I also cleaned my house up and did ALL the laundry and even put some St. Patricks Decorations up.... I will share in another post!!

I Also noticed while writing this post I have almost written 100 blog entries its only taken me 2 years but hey its 100 blog entries. I only have five more to go and then I was thinking about doing a give away. What do you think!!!

I hope you all had a productive weekend to!!!

Valentine Airplane Tutorial

Valentines Airplane

This is my very first tutorial!!! I am kinda excited about it. I know that doing these for Izaaks Valentines was a little over kill, but I only had to make nine so it wasnt to bad and I thought they were soooo cute. I could resist.

What you will need!!!

Heavy Duty Chipboard

(cut in to 2 21/2-8 pieces

1 1/2 x21/2 propeller

1 4 x 2 then a notch for the tube to fit)

Long plastic tube

Scrapbook paper

*I just used a paper pack that I had from a long time ago

Buttons

Wire

Ribbon

Candy

I cut out all my cardboard pieces and then took my wire and threaded it through the buttons and twisted the wire around so that the button was tight. Then I Hot glued everything to the plastic tube. They are super simple and it took me about an hour to make nine so not to time consuming either!!

Then I just made a cute little tag that said "You're just PLANE cool"

I loved how they turned out and Izaak was so excite!! Sorry I didn't post this sooner so you could make some for your Valentines, butt maybe next year!

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!!

I am A Lame Blogger!

I am totally a lame blogger! Nothing to adventurous has been going on here!! We have keep things kinda low key this past month. So here is a bunch of randomness!!!

I have been trying to stock up my Etsy store with come cute things!!!

I also took some Valentines Pictures of Ainzley!! Hope to take some of Izaak this week!

Isnt she so cute!!!

Last but not least a kind funny but painful story. I have been really wanting to redo our bedroom and so I have kinda been bugging Aaron to get things done for it! And we have had this super cute Headboard and Footboard that we got at downeast home in Utah for $75.00 super sweet deal. I wanted it painted and distress and all that. Well he has finally been working on it. Yesterday morning he was finishing up the footboard and I was out in the garage talking to him and the footboard sliped and I was like "oh let me help you with that" and I took a step to pick up the other side and he dropped the footboard right on my foot. Oh Man it hurt so bad. I ran into the house and by the time he got in to see if I was ok my foot had formed this huge huge bump that was bright purple on it. Aaron felt so horrible he was sure that it was broken and that we need to go to the Community Care, but I could move my toes and walk alittle on it so i didnt think it was broke. Our neighbor is a PA that works in the ER came and looked at it and said to give it a coupld days to see what happens, so thats what I am going to do! So needless to say I did not get anything done yesterday. I did lay in bed which I havent done in along time. It was kinda nice.

Here is a picture that Aaron took with his phone you can not see the huge purple looking thing that was on the top. But now its just black and swollen from my toes to my ankle!! Sorry if feet gross you out. And I really need a pedicure!! LOL

But our bed looks amazing and I cant wait to finish up the rest of our bedroom! I will post pictures and I will be posting my first ever tutorials on my blog. I have some fun ideas to share..

Lets Do 52 - Paint the Moon Photo Challenge

I am participating in Paint the Moon Photography Lets Do 52 Photo Challenge!

Its a challenge to take a picture a week with whatever the challenge may be and this week it was taking pictures from a different view point!! I took this picture of Miss Ainzley last-night. And she is pouting because she didn't want her picture taken. Got to love it!! My kids get so sick of me trying to take there picture. But whats a Mama to do... take them anyway. Right. Even if they do have pouty faces. Love it!

If you want to join in the Challenge just find Paint the Moon Photography on Facebook!