Happy Halloween!

This was technically E's second Halloween and J's first, but this was the first year E actually go to celebrate. He dressed up like a dragon (by far, the cutest dragon I have ever seen, in my opinion) and M took him up and down the street. He even got to eat a few pieces. I could tell he was so excited and felt like such a big boy!

I wanted to share some recent pics as well as some pictures of E from tonight. Enjoy!

Our new addition!

Weighing 8 lbs. 3 oz. and measuring 21 in. long, J made his grand entrance on October 21 (my dad's birthday...which is fun since he is named after my paternal grandfather)! We are all so excited to finally have him here with us!

wreath re-do already!

I just did this wreath a few weeks ago, but I still wasn't crazy about the ribbon, and it really bothered me every time I looked at it. Sooo....

I bought this wooden 'W' at Hobby Lobby that I spray painted white and some cute green polka-dotted ribbon

and now I actually enjoy looking at it. What other projects can I squeeze in before Jude arrives in 4 days?!?! We shall see!

a quick Thursday night project

Ok, so my mind has been overloaded lately with projects - most will have to wait until after J's arrival (which is this coming Wednesday, by the way...Ahh!) but some are quick and easy and can quench my project thirst for the time being.

I should start off by saying that we have only lived in this house for about 3 months now, so we have yet to do any painting (which is bugging the living heck out of me!). As soon as things slow down a little bit (I'm dreaming, right?) and I've recovered from that minor birthing thing, I hope to tackle some of the bigger projects, which in turn, will help me figure out some of the smaller projects I have in mind. (My best friend, W, is going to kill me for that previous sentence....I know it is major run-on! Ha!)

Anyway, I have had a cute picture of a pear hanging above our kitchen sink since right after we moved. It was located in the exact same place in our previous house, so I thought it should naturally it should go in the same place in our new house. I love the picture, don't get me wrong. It's size was just not working for the bigger space. Long story short, I came up with the idea of using some old fabric I found and our initial to create a cute little monogrammed 'art' thing-a-ma-jig. I love how it turned out....and it cost me nothing! All stuff I had around the house, which of course is the best part!

Here is the before picture of the area above the sink. Picture is much too small.

This is the picture frame I used for the project. I'm not a big fan of the frames with more than one space for a picture. So, although I wanted to display these pictures, I need to switch them to individual frames.

The fabric is actually not the one I ended up using because there wasn't enough to cover the mat (matte?) in the frame. I printed out a large W in the font I wanted and used it as a stencil for the W I cut out of white card stock.

Meet my friend, Mr. Wrinkle Releaser. This stuff is great, not only for getting wrinkles out of clothes when you don't feel like ironing, but also for projects like this. I love it.

And WAHLA....isn't it cute? I like it anyway, a whole lot better than what was there before!

Nothing special....just a couple of pictures