A Day in the Life of

Our new (rental) house

So on the way to church one sunday, we saw this little house for rent. We looked at it and it mostly works and was in our price range, so we rented it.

I fell on rotted wood during the walk-through and hurt my elbow. The wood has since been replaced. I was able to twist so I didn't fall on Audrey who was in our Ergo.

The "Stump House" in the back yard. This huge yard was a huge factor for us in deciding to rent this over the apartment.

Stuff getting moved in. They literally "rolled out the red carpet" lol!

That is 2500 sq ft household amount of stuff and they're trying to fit it all in 1500 sq ft with no garage. Oi!

She really wanted her nap.

Cute sticker decals in Kari's room that I put up to add some cute without permanently changing anything.

Obviously this is Jill's room. Notice some of her decorations from her party?

Both those sets of room stickers I got on Amazon.

Circus, Circus

We went to the circus! It was so fun! And despite being tempted, I did not sell my kids to the circus. ha ha!!

They had THREE motorcycles in that little ball whizing around. It was terrifying.

Purple and grey puff quilt

This puff quilt was for my newest niece (who was only 4 months old when I finally made it, sheesh! I was moving KAY?) :P My sis-in-law wanted grey and purple. Your wish is my command!

All the puffs all lined up (I didn't take any other "in progress" pictures other than this one because I was trying to get it done really quickly (and in between party stuff)

Finished! My first printed binding. Usually I do a solid color, but I like that little flash of something.

Love it in the natural light.

Little miss enjoying it.

Tummy time with the big sis!

Big smiles!

One more (I just can't help myself, she's adorable)

Princess Sofia party-part 2

I will try to explain things as well as I can so if there is something you'd like to recreate, you can do so.

First up, the canopy. I bought three separate shades of purple plastic table cloths. (my walmart only had one shade, so the dark purple and the lavender came from a party supply store) You need 9. Start in the center, bunch it up on one end and staple. Then you'll pull that one out and staple to the corner of the room, in whatever direction that you put it in. Spread it out as you go so you cover as much ceiling as possible. If there is some of the corner hanging down after stapling, just trim the extra away. Try to keep the drape on all of them as even as you can.

When you're finished, put something to cover it up. Tissue pom poms work nicely.

See how it covers the whole ceiling?

Balloon towers. Pary city online actually has a tutorial for these. You take two balloons and tie them together, then take two more that are tied together, and twist them together so you have a four some, then add it to the streamer string to keep them together (of course tie the streamer string to the bottom set.)

I added a cone shape (with wrapping paper) for the tower part. Some sort of posterboard would have worked better though. And then I just took the rest of the string and stapled it to the ceiling so that the bunch of 2-5 year olds running around wouldn't knock them over. I made two.

My little balloon helper

I did the streamers in a scallop branching out from the middle of the room, where the refreshment table was going to be.

Cute banner from the party section at Walmart

Refreshment table. The 3 tiered cupcake stand is actually candle sticks glued to different sized plates or platters using this tutorial from the ballerina party except instead of gorrilla glue, which left yellowish glue, I used E6000, it dries clear and works better.

Walmart had this little Sofia banner set on clearance for kids to decorate their rooms. In fact, this is hanging in her room right now.

Yeah, no bows, my bad.

Here's a close up of that cupcake platter. I didn't glue the three tiers together because that would make it hard to store and they're more versatile when they're separate.