Auburn's Room

The baby room is done! We did yellow on yellow pin stripes, and it took us 3 days. It really was a fast project (compared to all the other projects that are sitting around our house right now).

The two colors we picked out were "pale daffodil" and "moonbeam". "Moonbeam" is the stripe color, and "pale daffodil" is the wall color. We started by measuring out the spacing for the stripes and marking them with a pencil by hanging a piece of blue painters tape with a weight on the end of it:

We then stuck the tape to the wall and traced the right edge down. Then we pulled off the tape and painted with the color "moonbean" over the top of the stripe. We did this twice, 6 hours apart from each other:

Then we did our blue tape trick again over the top of the "moonbeam" paint stripes. We tied a weight to the end of the blue painters tape until it lined up straight and pressed it down. As you can see in the picture we then took "moonbeam" and painted over the top of the blue tape. (We did this so that the wall color wouldn't bleed along the edges of the tape. It helps to make a nice clean line as you'll see later.):

Again, we waited for this to dry, and we painted the walls with "pale daffodil":



It took Greg and I one hour to do the first wall coat working together, and it took me two hours and twenty minutes to do the second coat by myself. When it was dry, we pulled off the blue painters tape......and........

As you can see in the Alice-in-Wonderland-picture it looks pretty nifty now!

Painting the Kitchen

I have been promising EVERYONE pictures of our progress on painting our kitchen. I'm pretty sure I'm slower than molasses when it comes to blogging. But molasses taste good. So here's the mini kitchen update:

Step one: We primed all the cabinets and painted the first coat before we went to Disneyland. This is four hours before we're suppose to leave for Disneyland:



Step Two: Paint all of the cabinets:



Step Three: we're not ready for yet....so here's a close up of the color instead.

Yummy! Doesn't that make you want to eat something in my kitchen? Thought so!

my first quilt

I have been working on my first quilt, and I thought I would throw up some pictures so that everyone could see what it currently looks like. For the past three days I've been trying to get my machine to do the actual quilting with no success, but last night we turned a corner and it's smooth sailing now!



Giant baby loves the quilt. She has been playing with it all morning. I put paperclips around the edges to keep them together, and she is slowly taking each one off.


We were suppose to close on our house today, but there is a paper that's missing so we can't until they get it (next week).

Decoupage What????

I am addicted to decoupage. Not only the smell - but it looks good on every single thing I put it on! I have used it on a dozen Christmas decorations and plan on using it ALL SEASON LONG! I made this little sign with some scrapbook paper I found - super cute and super easy! I also made a candle holder, tree decorations, and gift tags with paper similar to this. Whoever invented decoupage is genius.

Little Goodies

My friend Kristen found this great blog called make-it-and-love-it which happens to be the coolest blog ever, and we tried out one of the projects on there and it turned out pretty cool if I do say so myself.

All you do is get baby food jars, some cool fabric, decoupage glue, and some kind of fancy ornamental ribbon/twine and put it together! Super easy - I think it took a total of 20 minutes (not including drying time).

As you can see we did Halloween ones, and Kristen had the BEST fabric! These little owls are a hoot. I also happened to have some trusty-dusty glitter spray* which, of course, makes everything better, that we sprayed on these little suckers giving them a healthy glow.

Inside I put my special spice rub - stolen from Alton Brown (of course) and modified for coolness factor (so I can say, "why yes this is my secret special spice rub").

All-in-all I was really happy with how these little buggers turned out. Now all I have to do is make cute cards to go with them.......Happy Halloween!

*if you choose to spray some glitter spray on your project, make sure to put the lid on first so you don't get any inside. I would hate for you to die of glitter poisoning.