Free Christmas Cards. Seriously.

If you've been following this crazy blog for a while you know how I feel about things that are "free." If not, read this post for a funny story. So I was wandering around blog land when I came across a post about free Christmas cards that piqued my interest. Say it isn't so...could it really be true?! This time it really is legit.

Too legit, too legit to quit...hey hey.

Sorry, I got sidetracked.  

Back to the point. Meet my new, old friend  

Shutterfly. 

I've been a fan of Shutterfly for many years now and have always used them to order prints. I just upload my pictures and order the sizes I want. I can even edit and enhance them to my liking. They usually arrive in a few days and I've always been pleased with the quality of pictures. You can even order from them and pick up your prints (only 4x6) at your local Target. So convenient. I really love their selection of holiday cards and this year there are so many new ones! 

Love the simplicity of this one...

or the vintage look of this one...

Since I'm not working right now we've been on a tight budget and I was kinda bummed that we might not be able to afford to send out Christmas cards this year. Well, not only do we get to send out cards but we get some really nice cards this year. You just might see this one in the mail from us...

The best part is that all of you can be in on the action as well! You can get your FREE on, like us. Seriously.

Check it out here

You can thank me later. Have fun going through all the pretty cards finding just the right one. Just don't pick the same one as me! :) Or maybe you'll get distracted by all the other things you can order too!

Merry Christmas!

Time Out

I thought I had wrecked my sewing machine and I panicked slightly. It made some awful noise, grunted a few times, then beeped and stopped. What in the world?! After some investigation (reading the manual) I came to the conclusion that it was jammed because the thread got tangled. Sounds easy enough to fix.

Yeah, that was last week.

I got too frustrated because after every time I thought I had "fixed" it, it would happen again. So I walked away from it. It essentially has been sitting in time out for the last week because I was not happy with it. Well today I decided I was calm enough to try again. Perhaps it just needed a break because it worked like a charm and I was finally able to finish this onesie order

 

Along with a coordinating headband...

Now there's no excuse to not finish the hundred several other projects I'm working on. Ha! Here's miss A modeling one of the onesies I made her while preggo.

Can you believe someone else thought she was a boy today? Crazy people. She is way too cute to be a boy!

A Bit Too Much?

This is what our downstairs guest room looks like as of today (don't judge me):

Boxes, accessories, art work, and stuff junk just gathering dust and making me crazy. Somehow it's become the landing spot for all things that don't have a home. I really want to clean it out and turn it into an actual guest room...then maybe we can actually have guests stay in this room. So, my goal is to make over this room BUT on the cheap. Like, less than $100. Think I can do it or is that a bit ambitious?

Here's "the plan" - I have an armoire that I tried to salvage last year but ran out of spray paint and never finished it because I changed my mind halfway through (surprise, surprise). I'm thinking I can refinish it (again) and make it work in here. I'll make some curtains, hang up some artwork and be done. We already have the bedding and end tables so the rest shouldn't be too difficult right?! Ha, famous last words. Keep you updated on the progress!

Week In Review

We've been pretty busy over here this week so the blog posts have suffered and the projects have been sidelined...oh well, it was worth it. I'll get back to it next week...just in time to take another break for Thanksgiving! :) Here's what we've been up to...

Cheering loudly for daddy's baseball team during playoffs...

Nice hit, daddy!

Hanging out with mommy while she made dinner...

 

Cooking is just SO fun!

Munching on Sophie's face and pretending to be eating dinner with the grown folk...

 

 Mmm, tastes like chicken

Relaxing in my bath...

Where are my bubbles?

Teething...

 

 Teething isn't bad enough? You need a picture?!

Falling asleep on the way home from San Diego to see great grandma who is visiting from Hawaii...

 

I think Sophie is her new best friend

We'll be back after we recover from this week. Happy Weekend!

Drooly Julie

That's a mouthful, let me tell you. Try saying it 5 times, as fast as you can. Did you try it? Mouth.ful. right??

"drooly Julie, drooly Julie, drooly Julie, drooly Julie, drooly Julie"

Anyway, baby girl has started the teething process and it hasn't exactly been fun for her. The drooling isn't the worst thing in the world but the fussiness, increase in poopy diapers (they swear teething doesn't cause diarrhea but I disagree), and pain she is in, now that's a different story. I didn't really want to give her any medicine if I didn't have to and luckily I remembered this post by my friend about amber teething necklaces. Well Mandy (you know, Jack's mom) and I decided we would try it out on our unhappy babies. We ordered our beads from this shop and waited for them to arrive.........this is us waiting.......still waiting......maybe I should check on that order.....

Well today they finally arrived (I didn't realize they were being shipped from Latvia...explains the wait!) and we tried them out right away. I was a bit skeptical but I must say they are pretty fabulous. Baby girl was a happy camper all day, drooling away, chewing on her hand. She slept better for her naps, had fewer messy diapers, and didn't seem bothered by her gums. It still is the first day, perhaps most of it was coincidence, but only time will tell. You better believe she'll be wearing these bad boys from now on.

See my pretty beads?

I thought I had ordered a clear-ish necklace with hints of yellow but they ended up being more yellow than clear. Oh well, it can't all be fashionable right?!

 Sitting on the couch, rockin' my skinny jeans, munchin' on my hand...

Check out Jack and his beads here...he looks like he's loving them, doesn't he?

Funny Girl

Boo!

Doesn't she look like she's about to sneak up and scare someone?! "I'm gonna get ya!" is what she's thinking. She cracks me up. Man, I love this kid.

Back In Business

Now that baby girl is on a pseudo-schedule, I have a little bit more time to get back to doing projects and back to sewing a few things here and there.

I just finished this fun shirt for B-man...you can read all about the story here.

 

I made some pillows for Erika's new place,

(no pics right  now)

I've also made a couple more headbands,

And finished up these burp cloths for part of a baby shower gift. 

 Oh, and I made my first diaper cake! 

 

Guess I missed using the creative side of my brain. Good thing a few of my friends are pregnant. I'll get to work on more projects for their new little ones! Is it too early to start baby girl on projects too? :)