july 15th

And to celebrate the final chapter of the epic story of this generation, I give you the deathly hallows symbol as a vinyl sticker! (click on caption to visit website)

Deathly Hallows

picture frames

I always feel like I'm constantly heading to walmart to buy more picture frames that I need for various projects or presents.

Some new wall art in our home lately in the aforementioned frames...

My own menu finally completed!  I really don't like cooking that much (gasp!), but if I write it down then I pretty much stick to it.  It's been good for us.

A copy of the watercolor painting that is in my parents' house of my sisters and I.  Once upon a time there was a talented artist in our stake, and my parents traded painting the exterior of her home for this painting to be done.

Smile?

Some of the faces I've gotten recently when I ask Beckett to smile for the camera.

The "I'll look but I won't smile" face.

I don't even know what this is...some top teeth action perhaps.

 And the "I'm not even going to acknowledge your request".

What are we thinking?

Well, honestly, I think he's too smart and crazy agile for one of those tent things to work.  Also, he's a master crib escapee.  We really wanted to put this off as long as possible, but figured we might as well get it over with since he's having sleeping issues all of a sudden anyway.  That's right...toddler bed transformation time!

He likes to play on his "big boy bed", but has yet to like sleeping in it.  Last night was his first night and I just sat with him for ten minutes until he was out.  He made it until 2am when he woke up and wanted to come in our bed.  I really don't like co-sleeping.  I need my space, and even though we are relatively small people, the queen just doesn't cut it for three of us.  As for naps...he won't stay down, and I feel too lazy to go through the "supernanny" keep-putting-him-back-in-bed-no-matter-how-many-times-or-hours-it-takes-until-he-stays-there method.  Both yesterday and today I let him fall asleep on the couch and then carried him into his room once he was out.  We had trained him into being such a good nap and nighttime sleeper.  Hopefully we'll get back there soon.  Perhaps it's time to invest in the next volume of Baby Wise.

happiness

I loooove Winnie the Pooh, and have my whole life.  I'm so excited for this new movie to come out in Beckett's lifetime.  The trailer is genius (clever, nostalgia for me, set to one of my favorite songs ever).  It makes me so so happy every time I watch it!

The Happs...

Some of the crafty things I've been up to again.

Here's a quilted pillow my mom helped me make (the cute one in the background was my b-day present from Air & Abby).

 back (made with grey fabric also from Air)

Labels for my kitchen jars!

And finally, a fun custom vinyl project I designed and cut for Chrissy of "Imagine That".

You just slap these babies on the glass of a picture frame with whatever desired patterned paper inside it, use a dry-erase marker to write on your meals for each day, and now you have a fashionable display for meal planning in your kitchen!

                                            

Here's the inspiration...

(from: make and takes)