Project Goodness

Being a Stay at home Mama can drive you into Creative OVERLOAD! I have a problem/obsession with anything design and have for years. If there were a Support group, I may consider being the president:) So Projects are my go to at nap time which really on most days is about an hour if I am LUCKY:) side note: when papa is off he naps for 2 hours wha wha. I usually have stuff around so there really is almost no cost involved! Free! So here goes all the Creative Goodness going on:)

 

 This project was easy and fun but, not free:(  although it could have had I found these hoops at my parents like I had hoped that I would and of course I did 3 weeks later! The Leland Tug "The Janice Sue" she is Lelands little Mascot if you will. Beau got these t-shirts as gifts so of course after he grew out of them I wanted to use them for my "Big Hoop Project" to represent Leland in Beau's room.  No t-shirt was harmed during this project, so pulling fabric tight was key! The sides were a little ehhh so I took a marker to each one. So fun and easy and who knows may be using these t-shirts again for another little Sweeney:)

This Winter was also good for the Creative Junkie... these butterflies wanted a make over in the worst way,so I did them a solid and gave them a sleek new black finish 20 minutes and our photo wall is looking Dapper!

 

 

 

 

 Next up with some Glue Gun Fun and extra fabric on hand...

 

 

 

Empty Diaper boxes are a plenty around here, so this project was a little recycling put to good use! These babies are easy to do and serve a much needed purpose! STORAGE, for all your babies goodies. He Loves them and quite often I find him like this...



not to mention they were very handy on our recent Road Trip:) Box of fun for the long car ride! I even recently did one for a friends Baby Shower gift :) I may have one more in me but, after that I think I am good, besides we are working on Potty Training so hopefully no more diaper boxes  in our future:)

 

This next one was my favorite :) i love Art, it makes me all kinds of Happy so this one I call my "Art Project"

 

Thrift store frames with Matte, White Spray Paint, an old game called Squirm that I bought 15 years ago with my Best Friend while we were at the old contemporary art center on 5th  street. This was a silly little game I think maybe $4?  Played it one time that night at a friends house! 15 years later it is Art in our living room:)  They are playful and fun and could go in a child's room but, for now they are playing in our living room! #lovinit

 

Thrift Stores  are where its at with frames, I got this baby for $1.99 with matte!  When I saw it I knew what was going to be framed and it only took me 4 years to do so:)

 

Hello Greenie! Yes this is her name:)

 

 

 

 

This is a photo taken of the day we got engaged in Michigan, not of where we got engaged. The Leland Report photographer Keith Burham takes a photo everyday of the year and you can always buy them this happened to be a gift I bought for Scott for Christmas that year:) and yes just now getting around to framing it!  Speaking of gifts... one last one I forgot to post about Scott's Valentines gift from me this year:)

 

and her name is Ariel! Scott named her:) She is an Air Plant and she lives in the terrarium I found for a 1.00 at the thrift store:) She just needs a little mist every couple of days and she brings us lots of happiness:) So Hope you like my projects of Winter will be getting GROOVY outside for SPRING!

 

 

 

Spring me Baby!

We are back in action after taking a little Break... The Spring Kind:) Road Trip Style! It was all over the emotions board but, pretty much just what we needed as a Family! Beau had such a great time and we did too.. Can't wait to post more once I go through the hundo's of photo's!

 

 On this day last year Our Sweet little boy was Baptized:) It was such a Beautiful day and we were surrounded by so much LOVE! Check out that oily head and that sleepy baby:) We hit the God Parent Lottery yes, it's a thing:) What a difference a year makes... just today my sweet blessed little boy said I LOVE YOU!!! Seriously such a good day!  So will be back soon with some more fun updates and fun projects that have me weak in the knees! HAPPY SPRING



20 is SOMETHING

We are entering into a whole new Ball Park! ACK. in just a month we have discovered how to really use the word NO! Before it was that cute awe:) no,no,no today it is... NO!!!!  ahh, I mean we had to know it was coming, my problem is how do I guide him without getting UBER frustrated and lose my Cool Mama status?  Guess I have to break out my old Nanny pants and figure it out because once that control is gone... Oh it is hard to get it back:) I'm in Charge.  By the way is your Mama a Lama I asked my friend Fred? He Loves the same books over and over so I can just bust out a verse or two or three or the whole dang book whenever I feel like it! Yeah. We are now repeating so Mama says "BEAU" b. Says " BEAU" It is funny now but, I am sure this one will be the one that gets me!

20 Months is Fun for sure it just gets easier... I am not needed as much which I have mixed emotions about... part of me misses the little baby (which, I guess is when most Mama's decide on #2) and then the other part of me feels this Pure Happiness that, he is becoming his own little person:)

 

We  Have had a LONG , Rough Winter and I am ready to leave it behind. Yes we had some Fun moments in the middle of all the Sad moments, its just so hard to get to that place even if it is just for an hour it was Super important to maintain for his sake.Ugh.  If we were still in Colorado we would be in for a really LONG winter, Our first year out there it Snowed until May! We Love hikes so one thing we got to do a couple of weeks ago was get out and take a hike in French Park, this park is the park I spent many Summers hiking through ...those were the days:)

 

 

The hike that was a little too long... we lost my Favorite head band that was wrapped around his ankle and of course we realized this a little too late! These will be our memories that we can share for years to come:)

Will post more pics soon, having trouble with my phone and uploading ugh. technology is not my BESTIE:) But, she will be!

Our Asian-ish Bedroom

Our room is taking a turn I never thought it would take... Oriental ish? When we first decided we were going to paint I wanted WHITE all white! Clean and perfect and not Brown-Tan. My decision to go a totally different route was based on money, we moved in and thought we would just deal with the color of our room but, after spending 3 hours painting Beau's room I decided I could not and would not live with the color so I  rushed down to Lowes to find my WHITE and got a major Bummer when the paint guy said I would need to Prime:( whomp whomp... Prime plus paint and 70 dollars later, so I decided to try a more affordable avenue... Paint we already had,which is what we did for B. man's room. I had two choices Yellow-Gold which was used in our bedroom on Eastern and I didn't really LOVE or The Color I used for Beau's Changing table this Gray...

 

This Color looks great on the Changing table, would it be a good fit for our bedroom? I decided I had no choice. With my sister Emily's help we grabbed a few brews and got to work fast, because we were losing light! We kinda forgot to switch the power into our names and it would not be turned on until Monday:(  We did not prime and we decided to just go... first stroke and I was in LOVE! Not even close to the way it looked on the changing table, it almost looked Blue, So that is the story on how I chose our Color not totally where I even wanted to go with the room but, so happy I chose to be Thrifty.

First day we moved in.

 

I wish I took pics of how we first had the room, it would have been a nice before to the Beautiful after we have going on. So it only took me a couple of weeks to not really dig our room, before i started to switch it up, I love trying not to go out and buy new things, first I move stuff around like a mad woman it just has to work somewhere! So one night we were all downstairs playing and it hit me... I ran up stairs with two lamps and got to town:) This would have been fun if I were on some Decorating game show... fifteen minutes later we had a Beautiful Asian room:)

Head board, my gosh talk about using something... I bought this at a thrift store out in Colorado for $3.00 when Scott was first out there, drove it back to Cincinnati, painted it with all the left over paint from our apartment on Eastern (notice the yellow-gold color?) had it in our living room, then moved out to Breck. used it for our headboard vertical at both 96 and 100 moved back here used it for Beau's Birthday with a picture of him each month of his first year! Moved into this place and tried it out as is... we now have a King! Then the night I went all DIY crazy, I had this idea...

 

This is our Antique Quilt, that we bought one year for each other for Christmas, we saw it at The Antique mall and could not stop thinking about it, I am sure this thing is at least 100 years old, it is beautiful. The problem was we never knew where to put it. until now:)

 

It really just warms up the room. Very Happy:)

 

I still need to tweak a few things like those Pink Sheers ugh, yea they will do for now but, I have a more tailored look in mind as far as window treatments go:) and of course the art work is not Asian just has that vibe so I guess it is really an eclectic mix with an Asian feel, if you will:) We have a few personal things in the room like our framed wedding vows that Scott gave me for our first year Anniversary and a Tiki guy we bought in Maui that has magical powers:) My grandmothers Pink Ivory Rose Jewelry box. So pops of pink and green, our comforter that was in the guest room at 100 in Breckenridge, it has been so cold that we have doubled up on comforters! I am liking it even though it is a Cheapy from Target. I have Anthropologie Comforter  dreams. #notgonnahappen.

 

This room is now Calm and inviting it says SLEEP in me, and get a good nights rest:) As much rest as you can with a tossing,turning 19 month old sleeping next to you:)

These Jewelry Blocks were featured on Emily Henderson's blog  they looked pretty easy... I needed somewhere to hang my Necklaces so I took the idea to "The Carpenter" he was not thrilled with the idea but, did it anyway:) May be updating a few things but, for now I am 90% satisfied:) It is a nice Colorful, Calming room where I can go... and Bounce on the Bed with this Cutie Pie:)`

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Uncle Bill

I am hurting. My Uncle Bill passed away on Sunday, and I am Broken. Last Monday was the beginning of the end. The end of his six year fight with Colon Cancer and last week we started to say our Good Byes to the most Amazing man. There was no question in my mind that I needed to see him through till the very end, it has been a journey that he took us all on with him... I just wish I could have got him back home to where he was born and to where he loved most.  Last week had its highs and lows but mostly lows :( to watch someone you love so much go through so much pain is the hardest thing I have ever been through. He was a true fighter and he made the most of everyday of his life, I am so proud of him,he is my HERO.

 

My Uncle was under Hospice care since November at my Brother and Sister in laws house. He was surrounded by LOVE and GOD all day everyday. I am so Thankful for them and their Huge Hearts. Monday he was admitted into the Hospice care Facility where he would spend the next 6 days. We were all there at one point or another, in shifts with our Kids even Zoey came to be with him. He was Love and LOVED so much. I spent my time with him telling him I loved him and Thanking him for everything he has ever done for me in my life. It was so hard but, I knew in my heart that he needed to know what he has meant to me. We were given this time by GOD to tell him. 

 

What am I going to tell my Son? How can I even explain this when he does not even understand? Beau really loved him... Uncle Bill loved all of our Children he was so good with them.

 

His service was exactly what I thought it would be... he touched so many and it really did show. I had the Honor of speaking on his behalf. My heart was telling me I had to months before and I even got to tell Uncle Bill I was planning on doing so. It was hard to sit down and think but, once I started it was like he was watching over me guiding me with his strength. My sister put together a picture tribute on Dvd for everyone to see how much he was a part of our lives.  My Niece Alyssa and her two friends along with their teacher drove 3 hours so that she could be there, and they opened up their hearts and Sang the most beautiful song. Last year we threw My Uncle a Surprise Birthday and my Brothers kids wrote a poem for him... which was read by them. Finally Allan and Traci (my brother and sister in law) belong to a really strong Faith Filled Community, their Pastor Jebba had been over to Pray with my Uncle a few times and came to the Hospice this past week to Pray with us... It was so Beautiful to be a part of that. He came to Pray at his service and yesterday at the Burial. We have so much more to go through. His house is filled with many things that I am sure will be hard. Please Continue to Pray for us, we are going to need it. For me today has been the hardest:( I miss him so much it hurts. I love you Uncle Bill, no more pain xoxo

 

 

 

Hi, Bye, Oh no! Baby,No! Words from a 19 month old:)

This week has been a very Talkie,Talkie WEEK! Beau is saying so much that it is too cute for words (Pun intended) Almost everyday we say 20 Oh NO'S and just today started saying I know:) he is too much sometimes... it takes everything in me to not post all of it on FB, or IG all day everyday! He makes a lot of Jibber-ish-y type sentences he is really starting to get it. Tonight Scott caught him playing with his little Owl Family, he accidentally dropped one and said "Oh No" and then picked him up and kissed his head:) Just hearing it makes me Melt into a puddle of gooey Mama Mess:)

 

This feeling of just pure Pride and Joy is unreal and sometimes I wake up and can't believe that it is real everyday:) We are Parents, we are a Family and we are trying our best to raise him to be a Sweet young man. Challenging as it may be I am going to give it my everything because, he is just that. Today we went on a Special mission to get Papa a Valentines gift, we usually do not do gifts on V- Day  just cards but, he is our LOVE light and he deserves a little something will post later on what we got our Sweet Papa<3

 

Hope everyone has a great Valentines Day here is a little Throwback for ya since it is Thursday and well, today is Mine and Scott's Anniversary of the day we started to Fall in LOVE! So Cheers to that:)

 



Life.

 

Our Little Man... he is growing so fast:) Decided to drop The Baby from the header and so now we are Just Beau on the Grow! Although our Blog started as Scott and I on our Journey as Newlyweds on the path of New beginnings and New Adventures- Rocky Mountain Buckeyes  and then evolved into a Blog about our little baby BUCKEYE today it has become a place where I can come and tell the daily stuff we are up to in life ect... Yes our Biggest is B. man but, there are other things too, like how that one time I tried to be a Vegan for a month :) #mexicanproblems. The truth is right now I am struggling in my life and it sucks MAJOR. I have posted about my Uncle Bill and even mentioned his fight with Cancer ... life is rough right now.  I am praying for strength for my Family, for my Sister in law who has without question has stepped up and has given him her LOVE and all the while taking care of her Family and Fostering Dogs ect. She is Our Blessing and I am forever grateful for her Amazing Strength. My Heart is hurting, I need to remember to have faith that God is watching over and guiding us. If you could please say a prayer for us to get through this very painful, difficult time. Thank you - Mary