baby announcement!

Ha! Fooled you, didn't I? *wink*

I just wanted to share with you the newest photo card I was able to design for a sweet new baby girl. This adorable one's mommy lives in South Carolina and she found me one day a little over a year ago and asked me to create a photo thank you for her little guy who was a few months old at the time. Then I was able to make his 1-year birthday party invites in February and just recently she had a baby girl and she asked me again! How honored I felt that someone who doesn't even know me wants me to {continue to} design something for her. She is the sweetest thing!

{click on picture to head to my photo card blog}

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We're just doing one thing after another these days. Aren't summer days supposed to be LAZY?!

Last week was our own HUGE garage sale (and what an exhausting weekend that was!)

Last night, I held my monthly 3/$5 card making night (go HERE to see the fun cards we made!)

Today was filled with the big community garage sale (we shopped!) and then tonight was Mikayla's dance rehearsal for her FIRST dance recital coming up tomorrow (Saturday). She is such the sweet little dancer and I was so proud watching her on the stage perform. I can't wait for tomorrow.

Since it was beautiful weather today, I just had to snap a couple of pictures before we headed out to rehearsal! I'm sure there will be many more pictures taken tomorrow!


Hope you all are being blessed with summer weather...it has finally arrived here in Oregon. Let's hope it's here to stay!

sweet girl, sweet dreams...

I have so many pictures to share of things that are going on in life...I don't even know where to begin, so I thought I'd do a short and quick post to see if I can get my blogging groove back...

There's always something cute about capturing this sleeping angel.

When you're tired, you're just tired...

February 2010
{rocking out to some tunes}

February 2010
{at the foot of our bed on the floor}

February 2010
{sacked out on the couch}

February 2010
{found in our bedroom closet}

~ February must have been an exhausted month! ~

May 2010
{wearing her birthday Tinkerbell crown}

June 2010
{asleep in the doorway of her room}

June 2010
{a new bed arrangement in the corner of her room}

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Things have been great these days, but we're all exhausted around here (as evident by the pictures)!

Today was another Stampin' Up! event (check out the cards we made HERE) and the next task at hand is preparing for the garage sale coming up on Friday/Saturday of this weekend. After that, we're back to working on house projects and the garage can be a little less cluttered. I can almost taste it...

tackling this, that, and the other

I hope you all had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend! Ours was spent doing project after project, but I loved having my hubby home for THREE DAYS! We got so much done, but still enjoyed spending time together. There still seems like so much left to be done, but we're on our way!!

The last couple of weekends, we have tackled...

*Decorating & painting the "formal dining room" (which won't be used as that for us right now.)

BEFORE

AFTER

Sorry, I can only give you a sneak peek at this time.
We're still in MAJOR transition, but it's painted!

*We proceeded to remove wallpaper cards off Austin's room...

...with a steamer...

...which left us with all of this on the wall!

...so then we tried this...

...and Goof Off
...and wallpaper stripper
...and peeling it off with our fingernails
...and using a straight blade

{insert helpful suggestion here!}

*We went to IKEA on Sunday and found the most awesomest (I know it's not a word, but it should be!) storage cabinet thingy for my very own craft room. Best part? It was in the "as is" section stating that it had scratches on it. Ummm...we couldn't find a single scratch anywhere. It was another 35% off its already reduced price because they are discontinuing it. It was meant. to. be.

So, now I can finally do something about all of this ugliness (hey, we "just moved in"...do I get a little sympathy?)...


Sorry, still only a sneak peek. It will take a lot of hard work and sweat to get this room up to my standards. But here is the bottom half of the unit we purchased. It has a hutch on top. It's actually meant to be a kitchen buffet, but it will work just perfectly for what I want it for.

To add to the tackle list from this weekend/past week:

-filled holes and touched up paint through the house (main living area color)
-hung picture frames (just a few!)
-started weeding the backyard, finished weeding the front yard, lawn mowed, grass seed filled in patches
-major rearrangement of furniture upstairs to make room for my new storage cabinet (we literally moved things from craft room to Mikayla's room to our closet to the play room - oh my!)
-finally organized our bedroom closet
-purchased 2 gallons of paint for Mikayla's room (next weekend, maybe?)
-garage sale pricing
-started organizing the garage (WOWZA! is all I can say!)
-laundry...too many loads to count

I bet there's even more I have forgotten, but all this to say...it was a very productive weekend!

Check out what others have tackled at 5 Minutes for Mom.

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And, on a business note...

If you love Stampin' Up! products, check out my most recent blog post at Stuck on Stampin'. They just released their retiring products in preparation for the new catalog coming out on July 1st. There are also a handful of accessories that are 25% or 50% off. Even if you live far, far away you can still order through my website at heidiboos.stampinup.net. Feel free to e-mail me or leave a comment with any questions.

room redo - tackle it tuesday

Surprised to see me?? Don't fall off your chair in shock. I know it's been awhile, but we've been B-U-S-Y with a project here, a project there, a whole bunch of clutter everywhere!!

We've been in our NEW home for 6 1/2 weeks now (hard to believe!). I wish I could say we've painted all the walls that need to be painted, decorated each room, hung up frames, etc. but...nope. The reality is: We have 2 kids, the husband works, I have a side business with Stampin' Up!, on the MOPS leadership team, and if we want to eat, I make meals, too. Oh, on top of cleaning the house and trying to tackle the garage for our garage sale in June. Yep. Reality. So, I'm OK if everything isn't done yet. We have time!!! I'm trying not to stress myself out about all that needs to be done around the hosue. We'll just take it one day at a time and do what we can when we can! I'm trying to have the same mentality with blogging...I'll do it when I can and not feel guilty about it when I don't. (Something I'm trying to work on!)

A couple of weekends ago we decided (OK, I decided...I think my husband had other hopes for the day) to tackle the upstairs bathroom (the one the kids use). I figured if we started on something relatively small we might feel more successful in getting it done quickly. Well...most of it was done quickly and then there was ME putting off a project that I wanted to finish to make the room complete. I finally decided I just can't wait for that one little thing to be done to show off our hard work. So, the {little} project will still be on the back burner coming one day, but for now...the room reveal!!

Background: The previous owners had painted the bathroom an orange color (even the ceiling!) and sponged flowers all over. Now, I'm not going to diss the hard work that someone put in to do this, but it is just not my style. I needed more light and plus, I was keeping with the theme from our former guest bathroom and wasn't about to go out and buy new stuff when I already adored my other bathroom decor.

BEFORE

AFTER

BEFORE
(we'd already taken things off the wall)
AFTER
BEFORE
(snapped a quick picture in the middle of taping up the room)
AFTER
(See that empty frame? That's the project I was putting off. I plan to make a collage of some bath tub pictures from when the kids were little and include a poem.)
A little accent I added was using an Uppercase Living vinyl to put on the mirror. It says, "{Begin each day with a smile}" I love how it adds a fun little touch to an already "smiley" room!

Does the paint color look familiar? It is the same color that used to be in our play room at our old house. We opted to paint the ceiling this color as well vs. white (since they had it orange) and were a little shocked at how bright it was, so we decided to paint a darker 6-inch green stripe along the top to break up the ceiling from the wall. I am so pleased with how that turned out!

Those little wall "spot" decals might also look familiar. I was able to salvage them from the decor in our old play room and used them to make a "wave" around the room. I couldn't believe how well they matched the shower curtain...which by the way was a new addition! The shower hooks were brought over from the old house, along with all the froggy accents, towels, polka dot accessories, candle, and faux flowers.

Nothing like tackling a project and feeling proud of the accomplishment! If you have a project you've been putting off (big or small), tackle it and show off your hard work by linking up with Tackle it Tuesday at 5 Minutes for Mom.

Next room redo I hope to tackle? My son's room! It's currently purple with butterflies and flowers...but I'm hoping to transform it into firetrucks!! This one is going to be a GIANT-SIZED tackle, so we'll see when this one gets finished!

tulips!

Our annual trip to the Tulip Fields in Woodburn was 2 weeks ago. The kids and I had a great time together! The weather cooperated for us and gave us clear skies for most of the morning. It started sprinkling just as were leaving to head back home. The kids were {mostly} happy, so all in all it was a good day. I posted a few pictures of Mikayla amongst the flowers already, but there were so many fun ones that I just had to share more. It was such a different experience than last year. If you don't know what I'm talking about you, just go take a look for yourself. (FYI: Most of the ones I'm sharing of Mikayla are more of her "outtakes" since I already shared the really good ones last week. The adorable thing about this sweet 4-year old is that she loves to pose!)

I absolutely LOVE these next ones of my two sweet, adorable, but totally UN-COOPERATIVE children!

Yep, and that's as good as it got!

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Before leaving the farm, we took part in a few of the activities they had there. These pictures weren't nearly as "WOW" as the ones in the tulips, so here are just a few.