Happy Anniversary to ME… and Mr. K!
Today is our anniversary. Five years! NO WAY! Way. Mr. K has a long standing tradition, a whole five years now… did I mention that, of gifting me traditional anniversary items. Past years have included paper and leather, last year I scored with yards of linen, and this year that creative guy got me WOOD thread organizers!
I don’t know where he gets his list from, I think there are many out there, and I think he picks and chooses which one to follow each year, but I love it. It’s our/his thing. Thankfully he didn’t know if I really had a place to put the big mamma one, so he bought me a small one too.
Well Ms. E isn’t parting with hers anytime soon, and mine looks too yummy all set up to take back to the store, so we are just going to have to do some wall rearranging and hang this baby up!
Thanks Mr. K, we *heart you too!
P.S. Do you spy anything new in these pics?? Oh yes, that’s right! A NEW CAMERA! Watch out internet, I have been having too much fun taking pictures of everyday items around the house! Don’t worry, I will give you all the vital statistics soon!
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Three wrens came for a visit…
I haven’t done anything crafty lately– I should I KNOW and I really have no excuse for it except that I have been in a bit of a funk. BUT I do have this picture of a project I did a couple months ago that I never posted about.
These are the quick wall hangings I did for Ella’s “baby room,” they coordinate with the, I guess you would call it window treatment, and the quilt that Lori so generously made for Ella when she was born. I had been meaning to do something with the remaining fabric from Ella’s window project but I was having trouble deciding on what. Ella’s walls stayed naked until I stumbled upon a great and simple idea from Anna Maria Horner which was then featured on The Martha Show. I already had the fabric and Modge Podge, acrylic paint is cheap, all I had to find were the square canvases. I eventually found them at a Joann’s, but not just any Joann’s, a super store of sorts, and then it was off to Micheal’s to pick up a couple great flat paintbrushes that I have wanted to own anyway! In an afternoon the project was completed and hung. Easy breezy. I decided to use the wren that Anna Maria featured because, well… I was uninspired to do anything else, and I really do like the realistic quality, not to mention my obvious obsession with silhouettes and birds lately.
They are hung above Ella’s changing table, which poses some problems when putting on pants now that she is one! They seem to be a bit irresistible to reach up and grab and knock off the wall, but I can’t blame her, they are tempting to touch.
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love love LOVE
I am absolutely in love with both of my Mother’s Day gifts this year and I got the art part of it on my walls in a timely manner, which is a record actually, I haven’t even had them for a month! It really is something to marvel at considering I have other frames on my walls that have been begging for content for months.
Keith, err Ella, so cleverly ordered two fantastic items from my Etsy Wish List, these prints from Emily at The Black Apple and these perfectly great earrings. I am in love with both equally– I have worn my earings everyday, but I am so much enjoying the new prints in my dining room as I sip my tea in the mornings, I can hardly stand it.
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