It's just a corner now.

A couple weeks ago, something amazing happened. I'm not quite sure what made the change but suddenly I'm able to get work done while Caleb naps. I finally feel on top of life enough that I can do housework and get some other things done during Caleb's naps or with him when he's awake sometimes. It's amazing.

My first project was the "corner of stuff". Some of you may have seen this picture on Instagram. This is how it looked two weeks ago.

With the help of my mom and some of this extra found time it now looks like this:

Treasures Tuesday - Cook in Style

So one of my next creative endeavors will be learning how to sew.  I'm asking for a sewing machine for my birthday (my 15 year old self would not believe it!) and I plan to look for somewhere in the Houston area to take sewing lessons (suggestions welcome).  Anyways...below is something I hope to someday be able to make.  For now, someone else has made it and its adorable.  I think that if I wore an apron like this, I would look forward to cooking more.  Although I might just have to put on some pearls too :).  Here are some of my favorite designs:

Scalloped Sassy Red - $30
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Original Sassy Black - $35

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Original Blue Chocolate - $35

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Even get one for your sweet little girl!

Original Pink Chocolate for girls - $25

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Vintage buys I LOVE!

Last weekend, I went with some girlfriends of mine to the Country Market Days in Bel Vieu, Texas.  We took a little road trip east across I-10 and went to the complete other side of the world Houston.  The main reason I wanted to go was to meet and buy some things from a little furniture company called Altar'd.  I love the few little things I got and instantly found a place for them.

I love the idea of decorating with hymnal pages.  I have this one right by my coffee pot and the song gets stuck in my head every morning...wonderful.

Love birds.  Esspecially vintage ones.

Great Aqua chair.  I put it my my fireplace for now.  The cats certainly love to sit on it which I need to find a way to discourage.

The pattern on the seat - it has all the colors of my house - green, blue, brown.





Crazy Caps

This year, I am a member of the Houston Calligraphy Guild.  I love it!  Two summers ago I took lessons from a member of the Calligraphy Guild.  This year, I decided to join the Guild to learn more about Calligraphy and meet other people who love it.  At this month's meeting, the early bird tutorial was about "Crazy Caps".  It was so simple but so fun!  The idea is basically to write in all caps and to make them crazy!  There's no real rules to it except for that it can't be too neat.  Below is what I wrote in Crazy Caps. Have fun with it!  I apparently love this verse :).  I didn't realize I did the same verse as my sister's gift.  It's just an awesome verse.

Treasures Tuesday - Girly party accessories

I love a girly party.  Recently, I had my college roommates over for the weekend and we ate our breafast on polka dotted plates.  It was lovely.  Below are some accessories you could use for a girly weekend or party. Click to go to my open sky page to buy.

White cupcake stands - $17 (Great deal!).  You will receive 4 small white cupcake stands.  Make the jumbo cupcakes and display each on its own cupcake stand. 

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Scallopped Green plates - Set of 4 $60

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Happy girly partying!

Happy Birthday sis!

My sister's (and mother-in-law's, and father-in-law's, husbands, and friend Jamie's) birthday is this month.  I wanted to give her a girly, shabby chic gift so I decided to write a verse in calligraphy and put it in a cute frame.  I went to a local store and found a light pink frame that was very shabby chic.  Here's what I did...

1. I wrote out the verse I wanted to use on graph paper so I could get the spacing right.  I cut it out (couldn't find my straight scizzors, only the curvy ones) and cut up the words so that I could see which words should go on which line.  I wanted it to be nicely centered. 

2. I made faint straight lines with soap stone so that the words would be straight and then I wrote out the verse with white Ziller ink on brown paper.  Soap stone erases really easily and leaves no marks behind.  I do this for dark paper that I can't shine the light through using my light box.

3. I erased the lines, cut out the verse and  put it in my frame.

Ta-Da!!

Treasures Tuesday - Pretty in a cup

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It's Treasures Tuesday...the day I will share with you treasures I have found on Shop Open Sky.  Today's treasure is a cupcake wrapper.  It's so elegant and pretty that it would dress up any special occasion.  And my favorite part is that this one has a little spot that you can write someone's name on.  So cute.  Have a black, white, and red themed party, make some red velvet cake and use these to display them in.  Adorable!  Love it? Click on the picture above to buy for $12 for a set of 12.