homemade bookends

I found this on marthasewart.com...it is making magizine holders out of ceral boxes. It was a very neat idea, and since I was putting a shelf in my son's room for his books I decided to make me some bookends to hold all his books on the shelf. Here is what they look like:

yes I know that you may think that they are not going to strong enough to hold books up but they actually do. I put some Mod Podge on the ceral boxes that I made. yes I know what you are thinking she made Mod Podge? but I did and it actually worked out great. My son loves his new bookends although he isn't even old enough to tell me himself but I know his does. After putting the Mod Podge on I covered the boxes with a silly scrapbook  paper that I had laying around. Its great.

Organizing the house

So right now, I am in the mood to get my house clean and decluttered but there is so much stuff that I am just compeletly overwhelmed by it, but I love Pinterest and while I was on there I found a lot of organizing and cleaning sites, and I have finally settled down to clean my house.....I will compelete on room a day and once that room is cleaned I have to keep it clean which means the next day means I will be cleaning two rooms and so fourth until I am done to where I have to clean the entire house everyday and not really have much to worry about. I love the idea, and I must give credit to my husband for thinking about it and suggesting it to me, but it will be difficult considering school is starting up again and i will have homework and class that will need my attention as well, but I will push forward. If you want to try one of the organizing and cleaning sites here is a great one to start out with Flylady.

Ribbion wreath

I wanted to make a ribbion wreath like the ones I saw on pinterest, so I finally did it....

here are instructions on how I made it....

what you need:

duct tape

1 6ft 3/4 pvc pipe protector tube

2 15 ft ribbions to wrap the wreath with

4 15ft ribbion of different colors to decorate the wreath with

hot glue gun

Instructions:

cut the 6ft tube in half and tape the two ends together so it makes a circle like this....

once you have the wreath in place take the 2 15ft ribbion of the same color and hot glue on end to start then wrap the rest of the ribbion around the wreath so it is covered in ribbion....

then take the 4 ribbions that you have in different colors and cut them 4inches long. once they are all cut hot glue one end and fold the ribbion in half and then hot glue it to wreath. repeat for all the ribbion you may need to do this three or four times around the wreath, then you are finished

I also made a gator wreath for my friend kim who loves the gator and it was her birthday.

Love Quilting

So on Oct. 8th the town my family lives in just had a quilttoberfest. I wanted to go so I went while the kids were taking a nap and my hubsand could stay home and watch them. While I was there I saw tons of beautiful quilts and I have been working on just a random quilt with all these quilt scraps that a lady at my grandmother's church has sent to me. I have been working on the quilt for over a year now and I am no where near done with the quilt, but since going and looking at the other beautiful quilts I want to start getting back into quilting and hopefully finish the quilt so I can give it to someone in my family for chirstmas. So what is it that has got your inspirations into doing some stuff that you have been wanting to do or get done.

Diaper covers

So recently I have came across this site that had a pattern for diaper covers and I need some bloomers for my little girl since she was no longer in diapers and the school she goes to requires her to wear shorts under her dresses. so instead of going out to the store and buying a large amount of shorts I choose to make her some bloomers to match the dresses that I have been making her. I know you are probably wondering how i did this. Well instead of using a pattern me and my grandmother grabbed a pair of her underwear and used that as our pattern. we cut the front a little lower so we could tell which was the front and the back. But for the pattern and the directions that I got my inspiration from visit cyatutorials

my daughter showing off her bloomers that should have been a lil longer....

Life these days....

My life for the past two weeks has been really hard. The day before me and my kids left for kentucky my ac unit chose to leak and the unit that was leaking is in my son's closet and his room had carpert in it. So enough said there everything that was in my son's closet got wet, when the A/C unit guy came out he tried to dry up the floor, fixed the problem then left. The next day I went the room to wake up my son and the room smelled like mildew. So of course we ripped the carpert up in his room. Thank goodness the owners before us had just laied the  carpert over nice tile floors. Anyways after that me and the kids left to go to Kentucky to see my brother come home from being over in war. When we got home my husband surprised me with redoing our bedroom, with a queen size bed instead of the king we use to have and bringing a tv stand in and some other things, but that was not the end of everything, our son started crying all hours of the night. We didn't know what was wrong with him expect that he was crying alot. I thought that he had an ear infection which the very next day we learned that I was right but instead of him just having one ear infection he has two. For me to over come this trouble that I have been having, I turn to God and know that everything has happened for a reason and that God will take care of me and my family. Now on to the pictures of our kentucky trip and my surprise bedroom make over.

 David and his Aunt Catie at the water park

 David and Aunt Catie at the movie theaters with uncle Justin

 David holding a sign up for his Uncle Justin while waiting for to come home

Part of the Family- My brother is the solider

 David on the way up to kentucky

 ashlyn with her grandpa holding a sign up for uncle justin

 the kids watching their movies in the hummer

 the kids riding in the car with uncle justin when he got back

 uncle justin and his favorite neice they are so happy to see each other

 ashlyn holding her sign up for uncle justin

 david playing with a toy uncle justin bought him

 ashlyn and uncle justin watching winnie the pooh in the theaters

ashlyn at the water park when they had everyone get out of the pool so the lifegaurds could take a break.

Now here are photos from my husband's weekend project:

 my quilt rack that my husbands grandfather made me for christmas that i didnt want to get rid of

 my new dresser and the filing cabinet

 our new bed with the cedar chest that my grandfather made for me for christmas a couple of years back that i didnt want to get rid of either

our new tv stands, the old night stands, and my husband's dresser. I know our furniture is all missed matched but at least they have the same color

This past week...

This week started out stressful, my daughter won't listen to me and little respect and my son who is younger than her was falling right in her foot step. Plus the little money we had all made the week start out just great, but by the time today came around the week was looking up of course my daughter still wasn't listening to me and would not take a nap in the world, but we still got to go out and have some fun. I am as a mother of two trying to lose all the weight i gained from my two pregnancy, so naturally my daily routine is pretty simple. I get up in the mornings and fix the kids breakfast and go on about our day, but since we had little money to spend I choose to start taking the action in trying to lose weight. before i go to bed I do 100 sit ups and 100 girly pushes, then some time during my day i try to get my kids outside and we will walk the block either my daughter is riding her bike or she is walking pushing the stroller. Well since my daughter doesnt really know how to ride her bike i thought it would be great to try to teach her. so we spent about an hour trying to get down one road and she finally gave up and parked her biked by our yard and just walked with me. She was not having a good day, but she was determined to walk the block with mommy and bubby and fun doing it and of course she walked and was singing songs all the way. So inspirations for this week even though it started out bad and I made the best of it  was Childern. I love how they can just be ok with something not going their way. sometimes I wish I was a little kid again.

I am back

Sorry it has taken me so long for this blog to get an update. But I have been busy with my son and daughter. Since then I have deiced to just make this blog about the life I live as a mother and wife. I will be posting every friday and giving you the ideas that we did as a family and how it went. there might even be some pictures. I love photography but since then I realized that I love being a wife and mother more than doing photography so I am going to blog about it. There will be struggles, activies that this family will go through. Inspirations that has helped me over come these struggles that helped to this family.