Happy Rainbows!

Credit: Goh Li Kim

I was playing around on the internet and found this girl's really sweet illustration blog. I love her art work. She does tons of Jack Russell work!

Shutterfly Personalized Holiday Cards

    If you have read a couple of my blog posts, you'll know that I  love anything that I can personalize! I am in love with Shutterfly's Holiday products. Josh and I had only been dating for a couple of months last Christmas so it would have been pretty psycho to send out holiday cards from the two of us!

    I don't have the "official" holiday portraits done yet but I played around with some of my favorite designs from the site. I liked how I could customize the text to say what I wanted to. You can change the color, size and font of the text. Go check out the rest of their cards! It's a lot of fun. I am glad that I have time to decide because there are tons of cute card designs!

I am also really into their gift tags. They are way cute and I could see using some of the designs year round! I like to make little trinket gifts. I think that it would be really amazing to put a little pin or attach a pair of earrings to one of these cards. I plan on taping these to plates of holiday cookies. Sorry that the images are blurry, I am not sure what's up with that. Go see the tags on the Shutterfly site! 

Gift Tags

Vinyl is all over the blog world but check out this use of vinyl!

Photo Vinyl

Isn't that wild? They come in a couple sizes. Maybe I should get one of Josh for when he moves! Ha ha! He would kill me! They have a lot of other photo gifts, such as canvas prints, coasters and posters. Go to their site to see it all.  

What is your favorite product on Shutterfly? Let me know!

I also want to know when you plan on sending out your holiday cards?

Hey my blogger friends! Check this out:

Bloggers get 50 free Cards. Check out the deal here!

Show Us Where you Live! Apartment Bathroom

I think that I came up with some good fixes for this bathroom. My apartment is older but it's not too outdated for the most part. The bathroom is another story. There are all kinds of strange and ugly stuff going on! Thanks Windsor Hills! I have managed to make the bathroom livable!

View from the hall

World's ugliest bathroom light fixture! I was trying to come up with a way to replace it and  still get my deposit back. I couldn't because the room's only outlet is inside the cabinet.

 

I spray painted (mocha) and and screwed a set of brass door knobs to the wall so I can hang my bath towels on. If you look at the next picture, the towel bar that is installed is pretty worthless. I would rather my towels not drag into the the toilet!

See the bad towel bar? I don't have any counter space so I keep my cotton balls and q tips in the jars. I have my  breast cancer ducky that my friend Kat made. So cute that I can't stand to use the soap that it sits in.

This is a laundry hamper! It is muy ugly. It's rusted out in the inside. It reminds me of EVA from Wall E. I usually hang my robe up over it! If this was my house, I would have ripped it out and dry walled over it.

. This is a two for one post! These are pictures of the master bathroom in our new house in Louisiana. It's a huge improvement over what Josh and I have now. I do want to change some stuff but it's all newer stuff and it's clean!

I want to frame out the mirror and talk Josh into letting me paint the vanity.

I am going to build, built in shelves to go over the toilet in this little nook.

I am linking up to Kelly's Korner Blog. Go check out all of the other bathrooms! 

Go Josh!

Josh at his tri this summer!

Josh is running a marathon today in Richmond, VA! Good luck babe! Love you! 

How to make amazing Baby Leg Warmers!

Baby leg warmers are one of the top selling items on ETSY. They sell for around $10.00 a set. These are a very cool baby accessory, they allow baby's legs to stay warm but give you the ease of a quick diaper change with only having to deal with a onesie. These leg warmers are crazy cute, inexpensive and easy to make. Despite the look on Auden's face, he enjoyed his Halloween pair. There are so many cute knee socks out, that you could make these for any holiday or outfit!

My Lil' friend with bat argyle leg warmers!

So here's how you can whip up a pair of your own!

cut into "long piece", heel, toe, "bottom piece"

make cuff

adding cuff to long piece

I stretched the cuff over the sewing machine arm

1. lay the sock out, cut the "long part" off, then cut the heel off and the toe of the remaining piece. Throw the heel and toes piece away. This becomes. "the bottom piece"

2. Take the piece and fold it in half. It makes a cuff and this the part that goes up on baby's thighs.
3. Add the cuff to the long piece. Tuck the cuff into the long piece right sides together.
4. Sew the cuff to the long piece. I was able to stretch my sock over the arm of my machine.
5. Turn the socks right side out and your baby is really to sport some seriously cute leg warmers!

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MARTHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Martha was on Colbert Report last night!  Thank you Josh for letting me know! You can click on the link below to see the full episode. She comes on at the last part of the show. Martha is funny in her own Martha way! 

Click here for the episode

Navy Girl!

This was me back in the day, when  I was kicking it up and down on the coast with the Emory S. Land AS-39!