You know what I love.....

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the fact that THIS GIRL...

 And these BOYS

They're ALL MINE..(smile)

Thank you God for sharing.

Alivya's Nursery Part 1

Pin It So here are some recent/updated pictures of Miss Alivya nursery that is just about completed!
This is the enterance to her room.....

I love LOVE flowers..i dont grow my own yet so I just get the "artificial" ones..:0)

Her little pettiskirt that I'll keep forever and ever and ever:0) One of my dearest friends Alyssa is an amazingly talented artist and painted this personal canvas of her name to match her room decor! To top it off she came over and "enhanced" my swirl loopy design around her room! I definitley tried to do it myself but I am so glad she came along and finished it! It looks SPECTACULAR! I wanted the hand painted look in the room some how and I thought that this would be perfect!

This is the main part of her room! The chandy......it looks sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo purty!!! You can get one at Overstock.com! It came super fast and it was pretty easy to put together and hang!

Another shot of her fabulous Craigslist crib!!!!

So that it for now! I want to do the same window treatments but with different fabric and I have an entire wall that I want to dedicate to all her girlly collections so she can, or right now I CAN :0) put some of her favorite things on display. Growing up my mom collected angels and I've always wanted to have my own collection of something! But I just never could figure out what I wanted to COLLECT! lol. But by accident I ended up noticing that I had my very own collection of  perfume bottles...mostly new ones...lol but I also remember my mom having about 10 really pretty and fancy looking perfume bottles on display in her bathroom...at one point she let me keep them in my room on my little brass vanity...lol! I was always sooo fancinated with them. Who knows where they are now. But I just wanted to give her a chance to start her very own collection of something, because if shes anything like me and her MamaC...lol..she'll be doing the same anyway, so why not give her a head start! lol So you'll see this wall,her FINISHED dressers and window treatments in part 2 :0)

It's coming along...I guess:0)

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What you ask? Her room. Yeah it's coming along I guess!!! I have sooooo much to do still but here are somethings I've done or been working on!

So this is the color that I first decided was going to go into her room. A nice Crisp Green from Benj. Moore. LOVED LOVED loved it in PotterybarnKids Catalog. It reminded me of a pretty garden and it looked soooo relaxing and girly. I even purchased a sample and it look great. Then it bought a whole gallon of it, did one wall and hated it! lol! It just looked neon...and then I didn't like the fact that it looked like I didn't even paint! I just can't commit to painting an entire room and at the end have it look like NOTHING....lol. So instead of taking it back I mixed this color with another green I had and got this color...

(sigh) much better..a nice sage green, not to dark not to light, girly, garden, and relaxing. So that just about all I've done so far! lol!

So checked off the list is:

• Her crib
• Half of the paint...lol
• Rocker-From the boys room
• Semi Table from HomeGoods
• Cute little girly dress stand..HomeGoods

Things I gots to do:

• Decide: Wainscotting or Ribbon Stencil
• Hang Chandilier- PoshTots had HER chandelier on sale for 50% off...guess who missed the sale?But I found one on Overstock.com that will do just fine:0)
• Crown Molding-anyone good at this?
• Hang Mirror-From my childhood! Mom saved it!
• Paint Dressers- Mom saved some from my room, gonna redo them!!!
• Finish Crib Skirt!!! Started but haven't finished-LOVE MY NEW SEWING MACHINE!!!!
• Order Bumper-Not sure still:0) lol
• Get another lamp and shade
• Hang curtain rods
• Pick out curtains..lol
• Nicknacks..picture frames,
• Decide on shelving
• Hang up shelving!

I am thinking I want everything done by the end of Jan! SO that way I can just wait for her to come! Wish me luck....wait who wants to come help?????!!!! lol!!!!

Nesting and Bows

Pin It SO about 9 more weeks to go until our little girl makes her arrival! I've been in a complete nesting mind set for the last couple of weeks. I am list girl, so right now I have about 6 list going, including Baby Room, Gameroom,Living Room,Baby Shower, Hospital Bag, etc. I am trying to do one at a time but it seems like my mind just cant stay focused on just ONE project! I have to say this is actually very normal for me! Cant blame pregnancy for that one! Well my mind drifted off again back to making bows. I am a BIG fan a BIG BABY BOWS! lol! I just think they are sweet as can be and it makes it know that the baby your strolling around is actually a girl and not a boy dressed in pink...I say that because Bear gets mistaken as a girl ALL the time because of his beautiful curls! Even when he is wearing the same outfit as his brother! lol!!!

Anyway last weekend I went on over to my favorite, well not my FAVORITE but my convenient craft store Micheal's to start my ribbon project. I used my handy dandy EXTRA 25% of ribbon coupon and bought some clearance ribbon. Just about everything that has a yellow tag I grabbed! lol I got about 12 rolls of ribbon for 7.00 pretty cool!

I refrenced this helpful website to help me make them! GIRLYTHINGS. Seriously girls you can learn and do just about anything your little heart desires on the internet. That mixed with your very own creativity equals a product that YOU want and some saved money in your purse!!!

To use the bows I'm making right now I am going to attach an alligator clip onto the back of them and order some NYLON headbands from etsy.com. That way they are interchangable! I am not a big fan of the crochet ones. They ARE cute, but I just like the nylon look a little better!

I am also in the process of making some flower attachments TOO! Now talk about sweet! Nothing prettier than a girl with a flower in her hair! I will post some pictures later on that!!

Hello!!!

Pin It 4 months later! and I'm back! As you last heard Reggie and I are expecting another baby and guess what it is!!! A GIRL!!! Yeah! I am so glad I got pregnant during girl season! lol! EVERYONE I know is have a little girl!!! Well you know how excited I am after having two amazing little guys! As soon as we were told the news I started thinking about her nursery. At first I wanted to do the traditional PINK....because well she is a girl. I wanted soft and feminie pretty and sweet sophisticated and luxurious all wraped up in one little bow! Don't get me wrong I still want all of those things but instead of going with PINK....which has taken me forever to make up my mind, I decided to go with the untraditonal colors, yet still girly of lilac and sage aka PURPLE AND GREEN! I thought that would be some what different and I would still be able to have all of those things I wanted in the room!! Check out some of the things I was thinking about....



This is the crib that we purchased for her 3 days after we found out what we were having! It the Stanley Isabella Crib by Young America! You can find it on PoshTots! I found mine on craigslist for a fraction of the cost and it was in PERFECT PERFECT PERFECT condition! What a steal!




Ohhh how I heart this chandelier! Perfect fot the HER room! I found this one a PoshTots too!





PoshTots again! The color scheme is right on with what I want! The bummer is that this beautiful little hand made set is 800+ smackers! :-( I did find a place that I can have something like this made for about 300 though, which is still alot! Hey you never know, I might just have my mom help me tackle another sewing project...how hard could it be!?...lol











This one is just as sweet and much more affordable...and you can acutally customize the color scheme anyway you like! My girl Alexia found this site for her crib set and told me to take a look! Glad I did!!! The colors are wonderful! Babybedding.com

I also looking for some BIG FAT BOWS!! :0) Can't wait to have one in every single color...lol...this should be fun!!!