Liz 2.0

Upcoming DIY project.

2010-07-14T10:31:00.000-04:00

I saw the cutest project for a tiered cupcake stand.from the Giverslog and knew I wanted to try it out. I picked up my melamine pieces from JoAnn's last weekend at 70% off. I can't wait to find the last pieces to make the project complete.

These are the inspiration pieces from the Giverslog.com

I found some great pieces on Amazon that could really get you started if you're looking to do this project too!

Are you working on any DIY / Craft projects?? What do you think of this project? Would you use something like this in your home? I'd love to hear your thoughts leave a comment.

Dress Up Fun!

2010-07-14T08:08:00.001-04:00

While our cousins were here the kids played in the playroom lots. We had a morning that was full of dress ups! These are a few of my favorite shots.

Little C as a alligator.

Little Miss D dressed as a fairy princess.

C went all super on us as a super dino – zebra

The kiddo hunting wraskly wabbits!

C definitely had the most fun with the dress ups.

Overall it was a really fun time playing dress ups!!

Happy Father’s Day!

2010-06-20T10:18:00.000-04:00

We’re enjoying a wonderful fellowship and then a steak dinner with the whole family, celebrating our dads!

Have a fantastic day with your dads!!

Having a Blast with our Cousins - Day 1

2010-06-19T21:01:00.000-04:00

My cousin Becca and her 2 beautiful kids have been staying with us since last Friday and we’ve been busy having a blast!! Her daughter is 2 weeks younger than my kiddo so it has been fun seeing them get to play and have little conversations.

Day one we went to Costco and Target, thankfully Aunt Jessie went with us. It has been quite an experience navigating and getting ready with 3 kids compared to my one. I think they’ve all settled into the routine by now. After running errands we headed on over to Lake Lanier for a party. We made the kids eat lunch in the car so that we wouldn’t have to corral them back in. By the time we got to the party all 3 kiddos were asleep.

We got to play on the beach for a little while with the new sand toys and D even swam off the dock!

After the party it was time to celebrate my Dad’s birthday! We took a boat ride down to the pool. Here is my kiddo saying no more pictures mom! :P

D did some fishing while on the boat.

C & J had a great ride too.

After the pool Aunt Jessie gave the kiddos a bath. (on a side note: AUNT JESSIE ROCKS!!!!)

After dinner we celebrated Grandpa’s birthday with a Brusters Ice Cream Pie! YUMMY!!

The End.

Another Laptop Crop

2010-06-13T09:45:00.001-04:00

Yesterday the Down South Scrappers had another laptop crop. We had a great time chatting and sharing tips, techniques, and our scrapbook layouts. As always the day was much too short and I can't wait to do it all again sometime soon!

Recent Installations

2010-06-13T09:32:00.000-04:00

We are slowly making the new house home. Last weekend Ken took time to do a bunch of installations and picture hanging through out the house. Here area few things we got accomplished.

The picture in the entry way.

The ikea leaf in the playroom.

The coat hooks in the laundry room.

The ironing board holder in the laundry room.

My framed wedding bouquet in our bedroom.

A hook in the furnace closet for our floor chairs.

Art work a gift from a friend.

The tv and dvd for the playroom.

One Room Done!

2010-05-27T13:06:00.000-04:00

Wow it sure has been awhile since I last posted. Mostly I've been super busy with work and moving, and then there is that little distraction of Facebook!

An update on the move: Things are coming along well we had a great group of friends come by on Moving Day to help us get our furniture from point a to point b. We moved most of our boxes and stuff in the pod. We only had a few outdoor items left at the old house and we picked them up and moved them the next weekend. We have a good bit of the boxes unpacked and put away, but there still are boxes or projects for every room. Developing a new routine and flow to this house has been one of my top priorities especially in the kitchen I keep running around searching for things and lots of back and forth. I'll get there eventually.

We were able to get one room finished, unpacked, decorated, and completely functional. It's the kiddo's room. The theme hasn't changed from his nursery theme (The Great Outdoors) but new things have been added. One of the cool features that he just loves is that his room has 2 doors one that leads to the hall bathroom and guest bedroom and one that leads to our room and the living room...he calls that his shortcut! So here is your virtual tour of the kiddo's new room!

I must give a big thanks to my mom for all her help getting his room completed.

Through door #1: The sitting area and closet, his stuffed animal head / trophies and his fish basket. The chair was my grandma's and is a new addition to his room a replacement of the rocker from when he was a baby. The only thing left I think is that I want to add a little red striped valance on the window. We'll see if that happens or not.

The stuffed animal heads are one of my favorite things in his room. We saw them on a trip to the Jeff Foxworthy Store south of Atlanta. I found the wood plaques at Hobby Lobby and stained them ourselves. The fish basket was another garage sale find and the wooden fish on strings are also from Hobby Lobby.

The kiddo's bed (rooms to go kids) the bedding is from Target. The dresser I picked up at a thrift store, lamp from Hobby Lobby.

A view from the chair, you can see the two doors into his room. The wooden owls hanging on the wall are from his Aunts T & R, both brought back from Italy from a couple different trips, they are one of my favorite things. The bookshelf ($8 garage sale find) is a nice shallow shelf perfect for his books and special wooden toys from Santa and mommy and daddy.

I absolutely love the scalloped edge on the bookshelf. It is a rough wood painted or stained a red brown color, it definitely has a handmade cabin feel too it. When I found it at the yard sale I learned a bit of the history and turns out it was taken out of the owner's lake house before they remodeled...so glad they didn't toss it because it is another one of my favorite pieces.

My new favorite thing in his room are the ski shelves. Way back when I was preggers and decided on a nursery theme I really wanted to make ski shelves. I came up with the idea of using log cabin coat hooks (found on the internet - super $$) and vintage wooden skis ($10 yardsale find). I have had these components since before the kiddo was born but never got around to getting it figured out and up on the wall. I was determined to get them up in this room and mom and I did it!

I'm definitely pleased with how the room turned out and the kiddo very much loves it too! So that's our first completely done room. Onto the next one...

Rain Rain Go Away!

2010-04-29T08:18:00.000-04:00

So the weather.com says we’re getting rain on Saturday. Booo. We all know the weather forcast can change quickly so we’re really believing for the sunshine for tomorrow to carry over into Saturday for our garage sale. We shall see.

Going Going Gone!

2010-04-28T11:56:00.001-04:00

Going Going Gone!

I am so excited about moving. Since my design style and tastes have changed over the years I'm taking this opportunity to weed out what fits and what doesn't into the new house and the new style.

We are selling LOTS of our stuff! We are definitely not taking it as far as my friend Margie and her family but we're paring down for sure.

It is amazing how easy it starts to get once you just start letting go. This Saturday we're having our annual garage sale and will be selling the usual stuff, household items, clothes, kitchen ware etc. etc.

In preparation for the yard sale I've been packing and sorting and getting pictures taken of the bigger items to list on craigslist and facebook.

Check out all we have for sale right now. Oh and if you can think of something you've seen in our house that you like let me know it might be for sale!!

Recliner Sofa

Entertainment Center / Wall Unit

Storage Ottomans

Kitchen Table & Chairs

We’re Moving!!

2010-04-11T10:08:00.000-04:00

After five years at this house we are moving!! I am super excited. Lately I’ve been getting more and more frustrated with the layout and design of this house. You would think a three bedroom house with a family room an eat in kitchen a formal living room/dining room would be adequate for two adults and one little kiddo.

Well it isn’t! The house we’re in now is a 1970’s split level. Everything is very boxy and has terrible space planning. Which we have lived with for a while but has become to annoying now to put up with. I can go on and on about how much I don’t like the house, but I’ll spare you the details.

It has been fun doing some DIY projects at this house that really made the functional parts of the house really great. Like taking down wallpaper in the kitchen and the bathroom and painting. Adding laminate wood flooring to the den, and replacing crown molding.

The house we’re moving to is not newer it is actually older but the space plan is SOOO MUCH BETTER! A ranch built in the late 1960’s with 3 bedroom 2 bath (same as before) but the public areas are more open and have a good flow between rooms. The kitchen is another retro kitchen look at those floors! The one thing that makes me a bit nervous is having to deal with another vintage oven, remember what happened the last time?

We have a good bit of painting, cleaning, and other todo’s before we move in so we’re factoring that into the move schedule.

I’m having lots of fun space planning the rooms with our existing furniture but also designing and decorating with new pieces. I’ve found that my design aesthetic has changed from a traditional style to a more eclectic style of artsy, shabby chic, contemporary and retro all kind of mixed together. Hmm does that make sense??? I’ve found a new love for WHITE!! and I’m excited to incorporate that a bit more, into our home. I will share more on the designing and planning parts of the move in future posts.

I’m also busily packing up the house. In the last five years of living here we’ve had a kiddo and accumulated a quite a bit of STUFF. I’m working hard on decluttering and reducing the amount of STUFF we have, only keeping the practical and the sentimental evaluating what works and does within this new space. This has been a great process so far I’m being really hard on myself the goal is to eliminate 50% of what we own. EEK, I’m working hard to make that happen. We are anticipating having a garage sale before the move sometime and listing stuff on clist too.

One thing that I loved about the house we’re in now is our backyard it is such a great space, it’s private and big and just allowed for the most fun parties. Even with all ken’s hard work last year planting grass seed it never really took. One of the criteria I was looking for was another house with a great back yard, and this house has it!! It’s a great flat yard with NO pine trees (dh loves that) and will make great space for the kiddo’s parties!! The huge back yard is matched by the huge font yard, and this landlord does not mow the lawn so DH is excited to be looking for a riding lawn mower.

Again we’re super excited and blessed how everything has come together and this new house seems like a great fit for our family over the next few years.

Gone Bowling!

2010-04-02T07:36:00.000-04:00

Today was the first day of Spring Break for the local schools so Aunt J, Aunt R, mom and our friends G & M all headed over to the local bowling alley. We had a blast bowling and the kiddo really enjoyed it too!

I think my favorite part were his adorable little bowling shoes!!

[P365] 03.31.2010

2010-03-31T19:31:00.000-04:00

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"03.31.2010 - The kiddo washing out the truck with grandpa b (phone pict) "

[P365] 03.30.2010

2010-03-30T19:32:00.000-04:00

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"03.30-2010 - We had a few minutes before class started so the kiddo and G, the neighbor played some soccer since the weather was sooo incredibly nice :D "

[P365] 03.29.2010

2010-03-29T19:32:00.000-04:00

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"03.29.2010 - My free Wink from Shutterfly arrived this past weekend had to snap a picture of it. Definitely worth $0. Not sure If I'd pay $2.50 yeah i'm cheap like that. "

[P365] 03.28.2010

2010-03-28T19:32:00.000-04:00

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"03.28.2010 - What a cheesy grin :D but I sure love this kiddo :D today we had dinner with the fellowship and communion before everyone had class. "

[P365] 03.27.2010

2010-03-27T19:31:00.000-04:00

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"03.27.2010 - While dh and I headed down to florida for the weekend the kiddo got to hang out with grandma & grandpa b they had lots of fun with trips to home depot and playing outside! "

[P365] 03.26.2010

2010-03-26T19:32:00.000-04:00

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"03.26.2010 - a quick shot with the phone while driving back and forth. A long day but a pretty view! "

Happy Birthday DSP – and Winners!!!

2010-03-26T09:57:00.001-04:00

DSP’s birthday week kicks off tomorrow with the traditional 24 hour chat!!!! The week then moves into lots of chatter, challenges, fun and of course SCRAPPING!!!

Yay I get to hand out three free kit coupons to 3 of you lucky readers, thanks so much for making this a fun give away.

Okay so even if you don’t win you’ll definitely want to hop on over to the store and check out the over 10,000 digital scrapbook supplies!

Oh and if you are going to play along be sure to check out the birthday forum (goes live at midnight tonight) I have a Super Six Photo Sketch Challenge that will be running all week.

Okay Okay I know you really want to see if you won so without further ado here are the winners!!!!!!

bludlfn003 aka Amanda (bludlfn003@)

SilvaHeala (silverhealer21@)

Shana34 (sayoung79@)

YAY for the winners!!!! See you all in the forums this week!!!!!

[P365] 03.25.2010

2010-03-25T19:31:00.000-04:00

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"03.25.2010 - Before our trip to florida the next day we ran out to kroger to coupon a bit the kiddo came with us and got to ride in the new thomas carts. They have little tv's in them that plays a thomas show. The kiddo was a bit too big and could hardly see the screen. "

[P365] 03.24.2010

2010-03-24T19:30:00.000-04:00

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"03.24.2010 - One of the boys last full days together. They enjoyed a father son day of golfing. "

[P365] 03.23.2010

2010-03-23T19:32:00.000-04:00

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"03.23.2010 - Our rice cooker! One of our most used kitchen gadgets. This thing just totally rocks and I would have to say the best $20 I've ever spent! "

[P365] 03.22.2010

2010-03-22T19:30:00.000-04:00

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"03.22.2010 - We got our new game and played it! I sooo stink at racing games! "

[P365] 03.21.2010

2010-03-21T19:30:00.000-04:00

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"03.21.2010 - The healthcare bill passes...sad. "

[P365] 03.20.2010

2010-03-20T18:45:00.000-04:00

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"03.20.2010 - We had ice cream sundaes this family night. We watched Disney channel's Handy Manny Big Race program together. "

Digital Scrapbook Give-Away!!

2010-03-20T09:32:00.001-04:00

Well if you’re a long time reader of this blog you know I love freebies!! Any chance to win some goodies I’m there. Well my favorite digital scrapbooking site has offered up some goodies for me to share with you!!

One of the top digital scrapbooking sites on the web is celebrating their Super Sensational Sixth Birthday...and you're invited!! This is one of the biggest events Digital Scrapbook Place, Inc hosts each year. The week long event is filled with games, chatting, prizes, freebies, sales, challenges and lots of F-U-N! The party starts March 27th with the traditional 24-hour chat and the partying continues through out the week.

To kick things off The Digital Scrapbook Place, Inc has offered up some goodies for me to give away. I have three free digital scrapbooking kits to give away to three of you lucky blog readers. Check out the Shop at Digital Scrapbook Place, Inc to pick out your favorite kit!

Winners will be chosen at random (via random.org) on March 26th.

HOW TO WIN

Comment on this post. Simple eh?

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