We have finally found a beautiful, quiet, friendly, well maintained, clean place to live! Yay for us! Not that our current apartment is dirty, but it does have a perpetual yard sale out front. Nuff said.
Our new dream apartment... a little on the small side, but a dream apartment still. Our new place is Spanish-style both in architecture and landscaping and includes an arch doorway with tile around it, tile floors inside, and a fenced-in shady patio for the Camsters to play on once she really gets moving (which will be pretty soon). We can't wait to move in next month!
Since it is so Spanish looking, I thought I could incorporate my great love of the artist Frida Kahlo into the decor. This is also my opportunity to take all my "hand me down"/ mix-match furniture and create a more coordinated look. It's going to look like a grown-up apartment instead of a poor college student's dorm room.
My first task this weekend is to sand and paint my dining table and chairs with bright colors like: chartreuse, fuchsia, persimmon, and cobalt. Very Frida don't you think? I am also very proud of anyone who can envision those specific colors... kudos. My furniture is just the start!
(Weekend adventure post tomorrow)
August 15, 2010
Etsy Picks of the Week III
I am in a Parisian mood today. Here are my picks for this week:
For Sweetpea...
a pleated French messenger bag. Technically not for Sweetpea, but to haul around her stuff. Justified right? It was too cute to pass up this week and it comes in other colors and designs! Here is Ikabags' shop.
and for Me...
a pair of Eiffel Tower earrings! Simply adorable. Here is HippieJoe's shop.
For Sweetpea...
a pleated French messenger bag. Technically not for Sweetpea, but to haul around her stuff. Justified right? It was too cute to pass up this week and it comes in other colors and designs! Here is Ikabags' shop.
and for Me...
a pair of Eiffel Tower earrings! Simply adorable. Here is HippieJoe's shop.
August 13, 2010
Road-trip to the Big City
Well well well, the Camster and I are taking our first big trip -road trip even- without Husband. This should be interesting. The longest Camster has been in the car is a 2-ish hour drive to the mall to buy my beloved iPad (more on that later). We're looking at a much longer trip for tomorrow.
Starting at 7-ish in the morning, we will be carpooling with my Mom and my three nieces in their behemoth of a SUV down to the Bay Area to pick up my Grammy. Easily a three hour drive. Then we are all heading over to San Francisco (another hour) for my cousin's baby shower, which is the whole reason for this trip. She better love me after traveling so long and far with a 6-month old.
Camster and I are staying over at my Grammy's house for recovery Saturday and Sunday night. Phew! I wouldn't want to make that drive twice in one day. This will also be our first sleep-over away from home since the wee one was born. Eek! Like my comic-like exclamations? And all my hyphenated-words?
I am finishing up the trip by taking a quick morning class on how to use my serger Monday before my mom, Camster, and I head back to the mountains. That should be quite interesting as well. Husband and I were talking yesterday about how Camster will have odd phrases like I do: 'as it happens', 'quite interesting indeed', 'by the by', 'ya haw'. Don't ask on that last one.
Anywho- I promise to take pictures of the party, because if you are anything like me, you love to see party decor. Also, I will magically post my Etsy picks on Sunday even though I will be away from electronics for the weekend.
Enjoy yourselves and your weekend!
Starting at 7-ish in the morning, we will be carpooling with my Mom and my three nieces in their behemoth of a SUV down to the Bay Area to pick up my Grammy. Easily a three hour drive. Then we are all heading over to San Francisco (another hour) for my cousin's baby shower, which is the whole reason for this trip. She better love me after traveling so long and far with a 6-month old.
Camster and I are staying over at my Grammy's house for recovery Saturday and Sunday night. Phew! I wouldn't want to make that drive twice in one day. This will also be our first sleep-over away from home since the wee one was born. Eek! Like my comic-like exclamations? And all my hyphenated-words?
I am finishing up the trip by taking a quick morning class on how to use my serger Monday before my mom, Camster, and I head back to the mountains. That should be quite interesting as well. Husband and I were talking yesterday about how Camster will have odd phrases like I do: 'as it happens', 'quite interesting indeed', 'by the by', 'ya haw'. Don't ask on that last one.
Anywho- I promise to take pictures of the party, because if you are anything like me, you love to see party decor. Also, I will magically post my Etsy picks on Sunday even though I will be away from electronics for the weekend.
Enjoy yourselves and your weekend!
August 12, 2010
12 of 12 | August
I am now attempting to participate in 12 of 12, which is 12 pictures taken on the 12th of every month.... August- check!
More about this blogging phenomenon here. Play along!
1. Enjoying swinging together in the brisk morning air at Grammy & Grandpy's.
2. Camster watching her cousins riding horses in the arena.
3. Camster takin' a test drive.
4. What a natural... Grabbed right onto the horn!
5. Hold on kiddo!
6. What fun Mama!
7. Sampling her first otter pop... bad, I know.
8. Don't take it away Mama!
9. Chickens at Columbia State Park.
10. Camster's cousin showing her how "miner's bowling" is done.
11. Asleep, yet still has a firm grasp on her toys.
12. Columbia Candy Kitchen! Candy Mama! I AM old enough... I swear!
More about this blogging phenomenon here. Play along!
1. Enjoying swinging together in the brisk morning air at Grammy & Grandpy's.
2. Camster watching her cousins riding horses in the arena.
3. Camster takin' a test drive.
4. What a natural... Grabbed right onto the horn!
5. Hold on kiddo!
6. What fun Mama!
7. Sampling her first otter pop... bad, I know.
8. Don't take it away Mama!
9. Chickens at Columbia State Park.
10. Camster's cousin showing her how "miner's bowling" is done.
11. Asleep, yet still has a firm grasp on her toys.
12. Columbia Candy Kitchen! Candy Mama! I AM old enough... I swear!
August 8, 2010
Camster's Cousins: Round One
Whenever my nieces come up to visit, the days are filled with projects and activities galore. ThIs visit is no exception.
Yesterday included the big reveal on our tie dye projects from Friday.
Yesterday included the big reveal on our tie dye projects from Friday.
Camster loved her shirt.
Cutting out and sewing a Halloween costume for the Camsters. I used my new birthday serger for the first time. A little gnome dress gave me the chance to use multiple settings.
Voilà!
We also stopped by the fabric store to grab some supplies and found this. Baby sign language fabric! Being that I took sign language as my foreign language in high school and we are now teaching Camster sign... this purchase was a MUST!
And then we watched a play written and performed by the girls titled "The Princess Academy". Very entertaining.
Etsy Picks of the Week II
August 6, 2010
Happy Six-Month Birthday Sweetpea!
So today is Camster/ Sweetpea/ Kitten/ Cuteness/ Poopypants/ Sweetie Pie's six-month birthday! Yippie! I've... I mean Camster has survived to the halfway mark. We all wait for it, but hate when it has come so soon.
By day, we tie-dyed shirts with the cousins and ate "special sandwiches", which is just a nice way of saying unhealthy whipped butter sandwiches and drank radioactive looking apple kool-ade. Then as a girlie collaborative we cut out some different sized felt flowers and attached them with a button to a headband. Adorable success. We finished up the afternoon by getting the Camster's ears pierced. She was such a good sport and only cried for a second, I assume because of the abrupt noise and shocking pinch. So freaking cute! Babies are so cute with little baby sized earrings!
By night, Husband took Camster and I out to Baskin Robbins for a late night ice cream. Bananas, scoop of strawberry, scoop of chocolate, and the best part... hot fudge. And Camster played with a spoon. A good time had by all!
By day, we tie-dyed shirts with the cousins and ate "special sandwiches", which is just a nice way of saying unhealthy whipped butter sandwiches and drank radioactive looking apple kool-ade. Then as a girlie collaborative we cut out some different sized felt flowers and attached them with a button to a headband. Adorable success. We finished up the afternoon by getting the Camster's ears pierced. She was such a good sport and only cried for a second, I assume because of the abrupt noise and shocking pinch. So freaking cute! Babies are so cute with little baby sized earrings!
By night, Husband took Camster and I out to Baskin Robbins for a late night ice cream. Bananas, scoop of strawberry, scoop of chocolate, and the best part... hot fudge. And Camster played with a spoon. A good time had by all!
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