Feeling more at Home!

Now that we have been in our place for a couple of months, I am starting to settle in more and enjoying making some decorative additions. This place needs some work but I love the character this old 1930's house has!

I found this CD rack at a garage sale this weekend - couldn't pass up a $5.00 item! I thought at first it would work in our bedroom closet upstairs which needs serious organizing help but then I ended up putting it here in our entry since all our shoes end up downstairs anyway! The orchid is from Matt for Mother's Day and I could not bear putting the vintage framed butterflies for sale in my Etsy store. I love the way the light shines in through the old window!

Another garage sale find are these two shelves which I ended up putting at the base of our curved staircase. I was excited to finally display some of the "N"s I had been collecting. My orginal idea was to make a whole wall full of "N"s but that never happened in our old place so I am glad they have at least made it out in the open! Pictures, by the way, were taken by my talented friend Shannon www.shannonmontez.com.

At the top of the stairs is a bookcase that was left behind by the previous tenants. Here I have my little homage to Winnie the Pooh and some of my favorite pictures. I can't bear to put away this picture of Tyler even though he is 9 now. He was such a smiley baby. He smiled with every inch of his body and it always warms my spirit to look at this photo.

This grouping of photos are all of the men in my life. From left to right, Matt as a little boy, Timmy and Tyler. That was one of my quests was to tget each of the boys on a Pony shot to go with this one of Matt!

Here is what I worked on during National Scrapbook day!

So this is how my sewing project turned out. I took 4 receiving blankets and made 1 baby quilt, 1 burp cloth and two bibs with lots of scraps left over! I was inspired by the this pattern for the quilt and I used this pattern from Marth Stewart for the bibs . I think I will be making more these!

Hoping that I can turn this:

Into something cute!

Here is some scrapping goodness for you!

Hi All - I wanted to share with you the upcoming class I am teaching at Picture Me Perfect in Fremont, CA. It is called Fun with Letters! My class will be next Saturday, April 25th from 3:00-5:00pm.

If you love using chipboard letters and learning different techniques to stretch your scrapping dollar than this class is for you! Using a simple and bold scrapbook style to create 4 different layouts, we will have fun playing with glitter, paint and markers to create different and unique looks for letters that are all out of the same package!

Cost of class is $20.00 and you can call the store to sign up or order a kit. (510) 744-9583

And for all of you that are not local - I can ship a kit to you!

http://www.bayareascrappers.com/classes.html

Happy Easter Everyone - here is some Easter eye candy for you from Martha Stewart.com!