The happy camper has arrived

Waiting for Poppy to bring the camper.  It should be any minute now!

Acting silly and still waiting...

Don't hate him 'cause he's beautiful!

Oh goody!!!  Here she comes.  :)

Almost here!!!!

Home at last!!!!

A baby gift



(For a boy.)

I was invited to a baby shower a couple weeks ago.  I didn't end up going, but I did give a gift. 

For a minute, I thought about sewing up a simple quilt-something like this one-that Emily Falconbridge made for her son, Banjo.  Lack of mojo (or laziness) got the best of me, so I scratched that idea. 

I looked at my little stash of already made baby gifts and all I had left were a few baby washcloths.  I always like to add a little embroidery to them.  (And the funny thing was-the theme of this fall baby shower was 'monkey boy' and the only washcloths I had left were-one with a banana, one with a monkey face, one with birdies, and one with an acorn.  Perfect!)



(For a girl.)

I almost just wrapped the washcloths to give along with some money, but that seemed a little lame.  So I decided to buy a bar of Johnson's baby soap (I'm obsessed with soaps!) and some colored rubber tipped spoons (BPA-free!) and somehow, that made it seem less lame.  (Oh-I added a little money too.)

By the way, I stocked up on baby washcloths, bars of Johnson's baby soap, and colored rubber-tipped BPA-free spoons.  As I'm typing this, I'm thinking-wouldn't one of those tiny little jars of baby's first foods be cute included in a gift like this?  (To go with the spoons, of course.)  Must stock up on a few teeny, tiny jars o' baby food!



So, I guess this leads me to tell you about a wonderful book that I had sort of forgotten about until I lent it to a friend.  Rachel Ashwell's Shabby Chic-The Gift of Giving has tons of ideas for thoughtful and personalized gifts, theme gifts (I love theme gifts), and beautiful wrapping and presentation ideas.  If you are interested, I see you can purchase a used copy very inexpensively at Amazon right now.  I love you Amazon!!!

Have a great Wednesday!



November is for making...

APPLE CRISP!

  Time to use up those apples in the crisper.

(I happen to love sink shots and since my sink was actually clean this morning-I took one!)

Taaadaaa.  I loosely followed this recipe from Allrecipes.com.

Mmmmmm.....yummy! 

I had it for lunch, and I might have it for supper....and perhaps breakfast-you get the idea.  :)

Have a wonderful day!

Potions for Halloween

On a Sunday morning when I SHOULD be getting ready for church-I am making potions.

I had seen this potion idea around the blogosphere, I thought it was cute, and I wanted to try it. 

I knew that old spice rack with the 20 glass bottles (from Goodwill) would come in handy someday.  (That's what those bottles are from.)

Dang-I only had green and yellow food coloring.  Okay-that's when those kiddie water color paints come in handy.  (That's what the red, orange, blue, and purple are.)

I wrote the names of the potions on some name tag stickers I had.  In case you can't see them they are-love potion, truth serum, waking potion, eye of newt, sleeping potion, and antidote.  I tried to keep them on a positive note-you know instead of blood and brains and stuff like that, cause that freaks me out a little bit.

Have a happy and safe Halloween, everybody!

Before and after: Jessie's tv stand

A friend of mine (I'll call her Jessie), asked me if I would paint up this tv stand that she had inherited.  It was a lovely stand, but a little too dark for her taste, so paint it up I did!

Taaaadaaa!!!!  Here she is with a coat of primer, two light coats of paint, a little brown paint rubbed on and then off with a damp rag, and a heck of a sanding to the edges.   I like it, and Jessie, I hope you do too.  If not-I can always paint her again.  :)

I dragged her outside for her photoshoot.  (She's on wheels!)  I grabbed some fall decor from the basement (that never made it out this year) and decorated her up.

See this little runner?  I made this from a little ziploc baggie of already cut triangles that I picked up from Goodwill, a few years ago.  I think it looks autumnal.  (I love that word!)

I have a notion to just set some bowls of candy out there for the handful of Halloweeners I get.  That way they won't need to come into my GROSS basement!

Have a great Saturday evening!

A Rocco the Rottie calendar



I've been buying a rottweiler calendar for my daughter for Christmas for many years.

Lots of sweet pictures of sweet dogs. But-dogs we did not know, none the less.

Not anymore!



I made and ordered two Rocco the Rottie calendars from Artscow today.  One for my girl for Christmas, and one to keep here.

Go here  if you want to have a look see.

PS-That font is called 'GoodDog', and I thought it was perfect!

Indoor succulents



I needed something for my newly thrifted bear planter.  (I think it's a planter-does anyone know if it really is?)  I had seen on Flickr and other blogs and such, succulents growing indoors-so I thought I'd try my hand (or thumb-haha!) at it.   Very cute I think.  We shall see if it works for me.....

 

And here's Mr. Rocco at almost 8 months old and well over 100 pounds.  He's been getting into some mischief today and getting on my last nerve.  Doesn't he have a guilty look on his face?

Oh, and he wanted me to ask you and be honest, please-"Does this bone make my mouth look big?"