I absolutely love this time of year! Happy New Year, friends!
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Monday, 31 December 2012
Sunday, 30 December 2012
Look what/who Santa brought!
Hey everyone, meet Marsha! Santa dropped her off at our house for Kennedy on Christmas eve, so she'll be joining Sammy as one of our lucky and spoiled pets!
She's a perfect little 5 month old kitten that Santa adopted for us from the SPCA and as you can see, she's right at home already!
Her and Sammy (our other kitty) are actually best friends already and they spend most of the day together napping and playing and eating each other's food.
It was quite the co-ordination effort to get her here and get everything taken care of and still have that special surprise moment on Christmas morning, but with Santa's help, we managed to pull it off!
We're so glad she's home safe and sound now and we're all adjusting to the new family situation so easily. How can it be hard to adjust to a face like that?
Have you ever given or received a pet for Christmas?
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The New Table's Big(ish) Christmas Debut
Two things happened to bring you today's post:
1) I hosted another holiday dinner at my house and once again felt silly that I never take any photos of the fun little table set ups I do because they're always just really basic, straight-forward, normal stuff. But still, sharing is caring.
2) I got a new camera that I really have no idea how to use, but I somehow managed to take a few OK (and some not-so-OK) pictures while I was playing around.
This table was a little extra special because it was on an actual table and not those folding plastic banquet tables. So that was neat. I was also able to use my Christmas plates that I bought for myself at the end of season last year along with the plates from this amazing china set one of my mother in laws gave me.
The set belonged to her mother and no one else in the family was interested in it, so I was able to put it to good use and it made the table setting a little more meaningful too!
I'll have to share more about those dishes with you in the future. I'm pretty fascinated with it right now.
This picture turned out pretty blurry, but you get a sense of things.
I always try to keep the middle of the table pretty simple. My family lets me play Martha Stewart on holidays and I don't want to scare them off by doing anything too over-the-top. I stick with what works for us and that's usually a table runner, some tea lights, and some other little things scattered about. Also, I think salt and pepper shakers that are a little confusing as to which one's which and where it comes out are starting to be expected.
I can hardly use this new-fangled camera thing, but somehow I seem to have figured out bokeh. Wait, that's bokeh, right?
Chris thinks it's pretty lame that you can see my reflection in this one. I think it's pretty lame that there's dust on that ornament after it was only sitting out for a day. It's neat that you can see the dust that clearly though!
Right?
So there you have it. You've now seen my holiday dinner set up, such as it always is, and I feel a little less silly for never sharing them. Thanks for joining me!
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1) I hosted another holiday dinner at my house and once again felt silly that I never take any photos of the fun little table set ups I do because they're always just really basic, straight-forward, normal stuff. But still, sharing is caring.
2) I got a new camera that I really have no idea how to use, but I somehow managed to take a few OK (and some not-so-OK) pictures while I was playing around.
This table was a little extra special because it was on an actual table and not those folding plastic banquet tables. So that was neat. I was also able to use my Christmas plates that I bought for myself at the end of season last year along with the plates from this amazing china set one of my mother in laws gave me.
The set belonged to her mother and no one else in the family was interested in it, so I was able to put it to good use and it made the table setting a little more meaningful too!
I'll have to share more about those dishes with you in the future. I'm pretty fascinated with it right now.
This picture turned out pretty blurry, but you get a sense of things.
I always try to keep the middle of the table pretty simple. My family lets me play Martha Stewart on holidays and I don't want to scare them off by doing anything too over-the-top. I stick with what works for us and that's usually a table runner, some tea lights, and some other little things scattered about. Also, I think salt and pepper shakers that are a little confusing as to which one's which and where it comes out are starting to be expected.
I can hardly use this new-fangled camera thing, but somehow I seem to have figured out bokeh. Wait, that's bokeh, right?
Chris thinks it's pretty lame that you can see my reflection in this one. I think it's pretty lame that there's dust on that ornament after it was only sitting out for a day. It's neat that you can see the dust that clearly though!
Right?
So there you have it. You've now seen my holiday dinner set up, such as it always is, and I feel a little less silly for never sharing them. Thanks for joining me!
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Thursday, 27 December 2012
Pillows....check!
I interrupt all of your holiday merriment to bring you: A super pink room (that keeps getting pinker!).
Ok, for real now. I have the pillow portion of Kennedy's room COVERED.
Things keep happening and I just can't resist adding "just one more".
My friend Elizabeth from Blue Clear Sky had this pillow cover sitting in a drawer in her house the last few years. With a house full of boys, it just wasn't getting used.
She thought it might look perfect in Kennedy's room. She was right!
So she sent it to me! Is there a better gift you can give to a girl like me?
It's got this fuzzy chenille on one side and a vintage rose pattern on the other. I love mixing up all the different tones of pink in this room. You really can't mess it up.
I stuffed it up and sewed it shut myself in about 20 minutes one evening. Kennedy loves it and calls it "the big fluffy one".
Thanks, Elizabeth!
Psst! You can read more about some of the other pillows I made for the bed like the horsey pillow and the ruffle pillow too if ya like!
Hope everyone's having a stupendously joyous and peaceful Holiday season! We've got our last family dinner at our house tonight and then it's time to relax and get into some house projects! Wahoo!!
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Ok, for real now. I have the pillow portion of Kennedy's room COVERED.
Things keep happening and I just can't resist adding "just one more".
My friend Elizabeth from Blue Clear Sky had this pillow cover sitting in a drawer in her house the last few years. With a house full of boys, it just wasn't getting used.
She thought it might look perfect in Kennedy's room. She was right!
So she sent it to me! Is there a better gift you can give to a girl like me?
It's got this fuzzy chenille on one side and a vintage rose pattern on the other. I love mixing up all the different tones of pink in this room. You really can't mess it up.
I stuffed it up and sewed it shut myself in about 20 minutes one evening. Kennedy loves it and calls it "the big fluffy one".
Thanks, Elizabeth!
Psst! You can read more about some of the other pillows I made for the bed like the horsey pillow and the ruffle pillow too if ya like!
Hope everyone's having a stupendously joyous and peaceful Holiday season! We've got our last family dinner at our house tonight and then it's time to relax and get into some house projects! Wahoo!!
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Tuesday, 25 December 2012
It's the merriest of days!
Image found at Little Emma English Home
Merry Christmas, Friends! I hope you have the best one ever!
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Saturday, 22 December 2012
Parenting, Crafts, and Mittens
I saw this beautiful and simple idea for displaying some more greenery (cause I don't already have enough! Ha!) several months ago on Aiken House and Garden and I've been thinking about doing it ever since.
So that's where the idea started. But it kind of collided with another idea along the way.
I have a really creative kid. In my opinion all kids (and people) are creative for sure, but mine seems to really need to create something every day. Or several times a day. I get this and I get her. She gets all the little bits of crazy in her personality from me, after all.
So often I end up with a recycling bin torn apart and strewn across the house or a kid in mental anguish because her crazy far-fetched idea for a project just isn't working out and she wants me to fix it for her. A lot of the time she just wants me to come up with the idea for her. She wants to make something badly, but has no idea where to begin.
I've felt like I needed to have a pre-planned activity or craft everyday all set up and ready to go sometimes, just to get a little peace in the house and to fulfil her need to make something. Of course I fought back against that idea, thinking it would just be a little too over-the-top in terms of catering to her and also, don't real kids just run off and play for hours and want nothing to do with their parents? Isn't that what I'm supposed to be teaching her to do? Tough love baby, tough love.
But then I got thinking, is it really worth all the stress and fighting and tantrum throwing just to make it look like we're at least trying to turn her into one of those kids? Isn't she going to be one of those kids soon enough anyway? If having some little fun project to create together will really calm her down that much, isn't it worth a try? Hmm, come to think of it, maybe that's something I could use too.
Sometimes we feel like we can't "spoil" our kids because if we give, give, give, then we'll have nothing left and be exhausted and crabby and all that. But what if we're just really very much like our kids and we give them what they need, and then just do the same thing for ourselves? So rather than trying to make her entertain herself so I can have a little "me" time, I've started planning a little craft each day, with the help of Pinterest, and then I'm planning another for my own "creative time" a little later on at night. All set up and ready to go. Like I'm in pre-school or something. Having it set up for you by your mom just makes it more fun when you're a kid, and when you're a grown up too.
And the mittens were my first little project. And I love it.
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