I can't believe she's 4!  She can't believe she's 4....she keeps telling others that she is 3.  The pajama party was a huge hit.  The girls loved it, and now Paige is asking for a similar party for her 9th birthday. 

 

 



 



The best part was the living room tent complete with twinkling lights.

 

 

The first thing they did was find the Barbies to bring into the tent

 

 

 

 

 

Breakfast cupcakes...vanilla with blue frosting as requested by the 4 year old

(the bacon is fruit stripe gum,

the egg is a candy melt with an m&m in the center

the pancakes are fortune-like cookies from World Market

the syrup is real )

 

 

 

 

 Little miss here in the pink nightgown would have nothing to do with the sausage.

It all evened out.  The little one in the blue ate both portions gladly!

 

 

 

Beauty sleep masks... more entertaining than anything.

 

 

 

Fruit loop necklaces

(Don't they just look like they're engaged in the most girly converstion!)

 

 

 

 

Mom, please can we open the presents????

How can I say "not yet"  to that cute face.

 

 

 

AWWWW!!!   Isn't it pretty!

 

 

 

Little miss in pink was so proud of the gift that she brought...how cute!

 

  

 I think little miss in blue wanted to take this one back home with her!

 

 

 

Fort kits for party favors.

 

 

We told her that the bacon on the cupcakes was real.  Ha!

No sausage or bacon for this one.

 

 

 

 

 

mmmm...good!

 

 

 

Colonel Mustard

So FOREVER ago, I posted a bit about Colonel Mustard, my $5 Goodwill find.  He has been made over.  My intent was to do it myself.  My husband calmly and kindly convinced me to hire Miss Ginger to do it for $60.00.  He is a smart man.  Once I had gutted the Col.  I realized that putting him back together was going to be much more than I had anticipated.  $60.00 was a small price to pay.  I love the result....the professional-looking result.

I was worried about the tufting on the chevron, but it looks great.

Colonel Mustard's new look

I've had a few spare minutes on my hands. . . it's rare.  I decided to tear apart my model from the blog header above, the old yellow chair.  It's innards and bones are now taking up space in my office.  I'm afraid that this may lead to a new blog header in the not-so-distant future.  Maybe a different old chair.  I have several to choose from.

Colonel Mustard is inevitably getting a makeover. 

I think I've finally settled on the chevron stripes.  We'll see if it ends up this way. . . but the visual sure makes my day.  Hopefully this all works out.  Wish me luck.  I've never reupholstered anything this detailed.

Everything from the board is already in the room, except for the chair. . . .(insert climactic music here) DUN, DUN, DUNNN!  If that doesn't leave you with a foreboding feeling in your gut, I don't know what will.

You may never see Colonel Mustard again.

Baby doll bed

I'm pretty sure that I have adequately covered the adoration that I hold for Ana's blog. This plan isn't from her blog, but the ideas now forming in my hubby's head, I will gladly attribute to Ana's brilliant idea-sharing blog. She has plans for a doll bed on her blog, but I didn't neccessarily want the farmhouse doll bed. Ours is a more simple version. It came from a rough little 15-minute plan. He put it all together for me in 2 hours the night before my shoot. I painted it and sanded it and prettied it up. We work well together.

I had been dreaming of a newborn shoot with a little doll bed. My sweet hubby killed 2 birds with one stone here. Photoshoot, check. Happiest little daughter on the earth, check.

You see, in my 1600 square foot house, my photo accessories have to fit into the decor. I don't have storage room for these goodies, so I make them work around the house.

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3 year old birthday party {water fun}

We had a great little party for Morgan on Saturday. Her birthday was actually on Sunday. On Sunday she was so confused when people said "happy birthday" or called to sing to her.

Saturday morning she got to go to Mabel's birthday party. They were born 4 days apart. Then in the afternoon, Mabel came to Mo's party. Pretty good trade off I'd say. She loved her water party. . . especially the crab cupcakes. tutorial found here. The other kids loved the watermelon shark. Tutorial found here. Mo was afraid of the picture of the shark online, so I tried to make mine smile. Let's just say that things could have gone better. Overall, it turned out really cute though.

watermelon sharkcrabby cupcakes - I was wishing that my sister, Marilyn could come help me save my runny butter cream. Apparently 110 degrees and butter cream don't really get along.

loving every minute of the happy birthday song.blowing out the candledevouring those yummy cupcakes

There actually were adults at the party too, but who wants to see that when you can see endless photos of cute kiddies with blue frosting faces!

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