First Birthday Party!

by Robin on March 17, 2010

I’m redoing my fun-room…allllmost done! I didn’t groom yesterday until The Husband called to say he was on the way home…you may not be getting this.

I was in my Pa-Jay-Jays until 5:00. Hummmm. But I was uber productive in the fun-room!

Today I’m posting a few pictures from Ellie’s first birthday party…I was totally a slacker with taking pictures that day…

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Do you love pom-poms as much as I do???

Pink Pom Poms

Our tiny girl wasn’t sure about eating a cupcake…

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Birthday mosaic

~Love to each one of you today…Happy Wednesday Friends~

I’m going to groom before 5:00 today…hopefully.

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Cookie Splash!

by Robin on March 15, 2010

You know I’m doing this 365 project and upload a photo every day on Flickr. There is so much inspiration on Flickr, one thing people love to do is the “Cookie Splash”! All the cool people do it!!!

Being a cookie monster, I had to try out a cookie splash…

I’ve come to a conclusion about the proverbial cookie splash…

You can tell a whole heck of a lot about a person by how their cookie splash goes…here’s what I mean,

Tiny Cookie Splash

*Was it easy?(This tells loads about your skill level)
*How many times did it take to get a good shot?(This gives a hint about your hand-eye coordination )
*Did you feel nervous or giddy or nothing at all when you dropped that “cookie” into the milk?(This is hands down an indication of your personality. Are you a dare-devil or an overly-careful person. Or just don’t care either way :)
*How’d you feel about the mess?(If you’re neat and tidy you would have hated the mess or, if you’re more relaxed you’d have a: ‘who cares…just have fun’ kind of attitude!)

cookie splash

I used an egg for my splash and for the-love-of-Pete, I did it 15 times…I was, for some reason, as nervous about dropping the egg into the milk as I might be to say….jump out of an airplane.

Egg Drop

And as for the mess…ohhhh, I thought my eyes were gonna exploded out of my head every time I had to clean up the milky mess…

Splash

So, I suppose my cookie splash confirmed what I already knew about myself…I’m a nervous, overly careful not -so-skillful (pretend)photo-taker, who has little or no hand-eye coordination and nearly implodes when there’s a mess in my line of sight.

If you want to see some really great Cookie-Splashes click HERE!

Happy Tuesday My Friends…xoxo

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Inspiration Board

by Robin on March 14, 2010

Last year when I changed this picture in the dinning room…Untitled-1

To this scrumptious stain-glass… I kept the huge picture thinking some day I’d figure out something to do with it!

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Now in the middle of re-doing my “Creative-space” (aka: Fun-Room!) Here’s what I came up with…

Creative board5So simple: I used a spray primer. Then sprayed Ballet Slipper pink over the primer. The pink is way too bright so I brushed on a pearl-creamy color (craft paint) over the pink…it turned out just like I hoped!

Creative Board 3

I took the glass off and covered the mat-board with a Shabby Chic pillow sham that I’ve never used! (I knew I’d be able to use that sham on SOMETHING!!!)

Creative Board 2Then I added some trim so I could hang a bit of inspiration here and there!

Creative Board

Want to have some fun? Check out a few of these fun links…

The Persimmon Perch Made It Monday

Between Naps on the Porch Met Monday





Making The World Cuter Monday

A Soft Place To Land DIY-day
Todays Creative Blog Get Your Craft On
The Girl Creative Just Something I Whipped Up

BluWe Are That Family WFMWe

Someday Crafts Whatever Goes Wed

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Me and the Cat…Learning to Trust

by Robin on March 12, 2010

I had a wonderful post planned for today. Stephie, Ellie and I were making some pretzel candy coated  dragon flies for Ellie’s first birthday party.(I’ll show you next week!)

But just as we started Emma, my pregnant daughter, called. She had fainted in the shower and hit her head! I rushed to get her and Emma and I spent the day in the emergency room!

She’s fine. Emma has SVT (See THIS for more info.). She can be standing still and her heart will jump to 180-200 beats. With her terrible morning sickness, she was terribly dehydrated. Add that to the SVT and the poor baby could hardly stand up.  Other than a goose-egg right in the center of her forehead, she seems to be fine now. We’re headed to her Dr. today to follow up.

Emma-at-hospital(she insisted on covering up the bump on her head !)

Anyhoo…I missed the dragon fly candy making session!

So today I’m going with my photo of the day from Thursday…

our once feral kitty … Reba~

Reba and the blue chair

HERE is my favorite Reba story. HERE are links to several little stories about her background. (If you love cats, you gotta see this. She’s a miracle!)

Reba’s come a looooong way in 16 months, remember when she found us she lived outside and wouldn’t let us anywhere near her…

Reba mosaic 1

Reba mosaic 2Like Reba, I too am learning to trust…

Love to each and every one visiting today.


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Getting Ready for Ellie’s Birthday

March 11, 2010 All Things Crafty!

Yesterday was such an emotional day. Thank you from the bottom of my heart to all of you who commented, emailed and sent me Facebook messages. I am completely humbled with all the encouragement, hope and love. I feel honored beyond words that so many of you shared your own stories.
Today is light and frothy…whew.
I’ve [...]

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The Places Where Grace Is

March 10, 2010 All Things Heartfelt

“Lots of things would shatter my world, but “that’s” not one of them…”
I said this last year on two different occasions about the same thing.
Can you see “it” coming?
I was referring to someone’s young, single daughter getting pregnant.
Last month our baby, Emma, told us she was pregnant.  Emma’s  actually not a baby. She’ll be [...]

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Chocolate Pie with Mile-High Meringue

March 9, 2010 All Things Yumalicious!

I’m doing a Recipe-Redo today! This is one of The Husband’s favorites! Most people have a go-to Chocolate pie recipe, but just in case…

Chocolate Pie
First mix
~3 egg yolks
~1/2 stick butter
~1 cup sugar
~3 very rounded tablespoons plus 1 level tablespoon flour
~2 cups milk (whole works best but you can use low or no fat)
~Cook on low [...]

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Fabric Cupcake Banner!

March 7, 2010 All Things Crafty!

It’s my granddaughter Ellie’s 1st birthday party next Saturday! I’ve been sewing cupcakes on everything!
I found this Shabby Chic banner at Target for 60% off!I thought it would look great at Ellie’s party with some cupcakes on it!

This would be super easy to make but since it was so cheap…no need to make one!

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Making Granola…Yum.

March 5, 2010 All Things Yumalicious!

My new Flickr-blog friend Prairie Girl posted a photo of her breakfast the other day on her shared blog-home: 2 Blessed Beyond Belief . (This is the most gorgeous blog. It’s two beautiful “friends sharing their day to day creative journey”… Kim (also a new flickr friend and a kindred spirit, she and I may [...]

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You can tell a lot about a person…

March 4, 2010 All Things Heartfelt

In the 20 months or so since I’ve been hanging out here, I don’t think I’ve ever missed posting 5 days a week except once. And that was a medical emergency with my daughter Stephanie.
I was going to miss today.
But here I am.
This morning I thought: You can tell a lot about the [...]

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