more apartment pictures

Here are more pictures of our apartment.
This is Jacoby's bathroom or our guest bathroom. It's going to be an owl bathroom. It still has a lot of work to do, but will have a lot of bright colors with brown. My mom and I did the owl specimen art in the shadow boxes when they came to visit. They were lots of fun. We found the cute owl punch at Michael's.

I made the little owls and had them printed as 4x6s and put them in this frame.

My mom made a couple of these for my little sisters' room, but when Olivia moved into another room(took over Thomas'), she said I could have one of them. I was thrilled because I'd been eying it and hinting at wanting it for awhile. I kinda talked about stealing it really. My sisters and I do that all the time about things of our mom's. I Modge Podged different paper over top and added sheets of metal that I had my Uncle Dave cut for me.

Here's Jacoby's room. It's so fun to finally have it done. It was so fun to do. I found some darling fabric that was a line from Riley Blake that I fell in love with and used throughout the entire room on different projects. I used it for the pennant banner, pillow sham, laundry basket liner, and toy basket liners. For the bedspread, I made a duvet cover out of a set of queen sized sheets. They were the perfect size for a twin duvet cover and hardly required any cutting. My mom helped me with so many of these projects! Debie made the awesome bed skirt. She used some heavier white fabric and added a thick strip of green grosgrain ribbon on the bottom.

The J is for Jacoby frame came from an idea I saw on the internet.

It's really fun to have a picture from highschool of Tyler playing baseball in Jacoby's room. I originally gave it to him for Christmas before Jacoby was born, but knew that it would be fun in Jacoby's room. Jacoby always points to it and says, "Daddy. Baseball. Mitt." I framed a scrapbook page of Jacoby's that I will switch out from time to time. The collection of J's was really fun. I started collecting them a long time ago, so it was fun to finally have enough to do what I wanted with them.

I loved the shelves like this that I'd seen in Pottery Barn and happened to find one for ten bucks at Downeast.

This is the papasan chair that my mom recovered. I didn't do much there, I was her assistant as she was sewing it with the chair attached. (Not an easy project)

So nice to finally have this dang bookshelf done. It was quite the project, but I think I'm just slow. We got the bookshelf from Tyler's parents. It was brown, so we sanded and repainted it white, took off the backing and added beadboard, and added crown molding to the top. Devan cut the molding for us and my dad attached it when they came to visit. Thank you guys, we couldn't have done it without ya. The molding just finishes it off. I had my aunt cut vinyl for the buckets and Debie embroidered the liners. I added a strip of fabric to the liners of the baskets.

This is Jacoby snuggling up with his quilt my mom made. Isn't it awesome? As you can see, she also used the same fabric I used throughout his room. She brought it to him when they visited and I was ecstatic. It turned out awesome, Mom!

Here's a better picture of the entire quilt. It's such a fun design. Jacoby loves it, he likes to go get it while he watches movies and says, "Janet, thank you." He doesn't ever say Grandma Janet, just Janet, not very respectful huh? :)

Well, there it is, the rest of our little apartment. It's feeling a little more like home now. Thanks to everyone who helped us with all of our projects; our families are both very talented.

apartment pictures

Well I'm finally getting around to posting some pictures of our apartment. I am most excited about Jacoby's room, but I need to finish painting a bookshelf in there before I take pictures. I'm also posting my canvases for a project challenge on UCreate. That site is great and has so many fun ideas.
So here is our bedroom and family room for now. I like a lot of color; I always have.

It's fun to finally post pictures of my wall art that my dad put together. Red and robin-egg blue are one of my favorite color combos and were our wedding colors. Jacoby is constantly hitting wiffle balls off the trunk (like it's a tee) and playing catch with us, but I've been lucky enough to have nothing break so far. Knock on wood.

I've been looking for an entertainment center for a long time, but finally found one I loved that is just my style.

halloween decorations and a little giveaway

I love looking at crafting blogs and one of my favorites, eighteen25, had a spooktacular celebration of Halloween ideas. There were so many fun ideas. I was telling my mom about them and since I hardly had any Halloween decor, we talked to Becca and Steph, and we each made a Halloween decoration and did one for everyone. It was a lot of fun and everyone's stuff was awesome. Thanks to my wonderful Mom and sisters. Love you guys!

I made these candycorn wreaths. They are a lot of fun to do. The idea comes from the Women's Day magazine. I really like how it looks with the black and white polka dot ribbon. The only complaint I have is that it said to preserve it you could brush Modge Podge all over it, so I did this and it was a disaster. It made the color on the candycorns drip off and look runny and gross. I was so frustrated that they would suggest this when obviously they didn't try it before printing it in the magazine. I ended up redoing that wreath. :( I got together with some of my friends from here and did these. Brooke did one and since I was sending two home with my mom for her and Steph, Brooke said that I could have hers and she would make another one. That was very nice and thoughtful of her. Brooke and I got together a couple days ago and made some more.
My mom made these fun, colorful runners. I love the colors and textures, it looks just like Halloween.

My mom made these fun subway art frames. I really like how it's not like the normal subway art, but with the fun cursive over top. She is so creative and talented.

Steph did these fun plates. I couldn't believe how awesome they looked with the white vinyl against the black plates. I think it was a little bit of a pain for her, but they turned out really nice.

Becca made the fun garland. I really love the colors she chose. Now I want one of these for every holiday, you up for it Bec? Gee, thanks. :)

My mom went all out for this challenge and did these fun vinyl bats we'd seen on a blog. She had a bunch cut for all of us so that we could have more for next year. They're very fun.

Here's a close up of what's in the frames without a terrible glare. A picture of Jacoby the lion last year. I also made everyone the along came a spider prints.

Now for a little giveaway, I will be giving away one of these along came a spider prints. Just leave a comment telling about your favorite thing you ever dressed up as for Halloween. I want to send it out soon, so this giveaway will end Friday. I have to tell you that my favorite thing I ever dressed up as was a bride. I was a bride at least a couple years in a row and thought I was so beautiful. Ha ha. I will have to see if my mom has a picture she can scan so that I can post it. I think every girl dreams of getting married and being a bride and I just loved pretending I really was. Now go enter the giveaway!

the countdown has begun

Well the countdown has begun and it's a very bittersweet one. We have less than three weeks until we'll be down in Arizona. We're really excited, but really sad too. We're going to miss Idaho and all our family so much. We both love doing things with both of our families. I'm glad that Tyler is so happy and willing to spend time with my family and that I like being with his family too.

We've been busy working on some projects for our new apartment. These are things I've been wanting to get done for a long time. It's been great to have Tyler be able to help me. I will post pictures of everything when we move. When we get there, we're going to put Jacoby in a bed and so my mom helped me make a duvet cover for his new bed and Tyler painted his bed for him. We have been working on a bookshelf for him and need to paint it and do a few things to it still. I'm really excited about it because I have all the stuff to put in it already like baskets and pails. We also painted a rocking chair pear green; I love it.
I'm pretty excited to be able to decorate our apartment since I haven't been able to do much of that at this house we're renting.

Jacoby loves baseball now too. He likes to take his mitt and ball to Tyler's softball games. Also, he brings me his mitt and wants me to play catch with him. I'm pretty sure he would do it all day if I didn't quit, but I guess I'm not that nice of a mom.
I found a frame that was a 10x10 that I painted to go in Jacoby's room. I'm going to put a scapbook page in it and occasionally switch it out.

baseball and things

Tyler was able to play in a couple Hillcrest alumni baseball games. It was really fun to watch him play since he loves baseball so much and I was never able to watch him play in highschool. He even pitched and I loved watching that. It was fun to see him with all his old buddies. He said he's pretty sore today though. :) I've been wanting to make these fabric flowers I saw here, but have been searching high and low for the perfect, cheap vase. I finally found it at D.I. I love this line of fabric by Riley Blake and searched several fabric stores to find this pattern in every color so that it would match our room. I'm a little obsessed with this fabric, eh? I also used to for three basket liners in Jacoby's room in orange, turqoise, and green, and I'm going to make some bunting for his room with my scraps too.

These are better than real flowers. I originally had them on Tyler's nightstand and he sarcastically said, "Those are just what I wanted on my side." I decided to move them to my side because I would definitely appreciate them. :)

I wanted to share a couple of my favorite new recipes I've discovered. This lemon cream pie is awesome. It's very fresh and summery and light and oh so tasty. I made it Wednesday and already want to make it again.

These ribs are so moist and tender and have such a great, classic flavor. Tyler really liked them.

We're also having a giveaway on Make Your Tastebuds Dance soon, so stay tuned. It's gonna be a good one.

My good buddy Lyndsi came over last week to have me help her make an invitation for her sister-in-law's bridal shower. It was so fun to see her and her little girl, Maecie. Jacoby was pretty sweet with her and just loved looking at her and saying, "Baby." He looked so huge next to her. Lyndsi always has her dressed so cute. Little girls are so fun.

Jacoby has loved going on bike rides around our neighborhood, but I wish the weather would cooperate so we could get out more. Come on summer, where the H are you?

Room Redo

Well I'm really excited to finally have our room the way I want it. I've been spending a lot of time searching for certain things and trying to find great deals. I spent hardly any money on these projects and it was really fun. I picked up the canvases at Michael's quite awhile ago when they were having a great sale and hadn't been able to figure out what I wanted to do with them. I searched tons of blogs trying to find ideas and finally found a blog home show where a lady did a damask design on a wall hanging. Not sure why I didn't think of that before since our bedspread is damask. :) I ended up painting them all the different colors I wanted in our room and had my Aunt Deanna cut out the damask design in vinyl. I just got it finished up yesterday and wanted to hang it up so bad, but we aren't hanging up anything at this house because it's for sale so I used blue tack; it worked like a charm.
I picked up the orange pillow at Target, but added the polka dots with felt. The green pillow I got at Ross and I added the ruffle with leftover fabric from Jacoby's chair my mom and I recovered. For the third pillow I had such a hard time figuring out what I wanted to do, but I finally decided to use some robin-egg blue ric rac I had and make that pillow.
I wanted to add little bits robin-egg blue, orange, red, and green throughout the room, so I wound up my earring yarn into balls and picked up the green alarm clock and orange lantern. There are still a few things I'm planning to do, but I'm finally happy with my room for once. This definitely proves that you redecorate a room for hardly anything.

one year, baby

Well it's been awhile since I posted, but nothing too exciting has been going on...except for THOMAS HAS BEEN OUT FOR ONE YEAR YESTERDAY! I'm so excited to get to this point. Wow. In a lot of ways it's gone by fast, but only because his letters are so awesome and he is loving his mission. I think that makes it so much easier for your family when they know you are happy and love what you are doing. It has been really hard though because I know that in a year when Thomas comes home, we won't be living there. It's hard to think about that. You bet I'll be there at the airport to see him though, but I will miss out on being around him a lot.
He has been such a great example to me this past year. I'm so grateful for the sacrifices he is making. I know it's not easy, but it's worth it. I love him so much.
This is quite an ugly picture of me, but I didn't get ready that morning he left, instead I followed him around and watched him. It was a really emotional morning for all of us; wow, that was a really hard day. I love my family, and I'm so grateful that we are close and have so much in common. We have our parents to thank because they are the best. I love you, Tom! Keep up the hard work! Recently my mom helped me recover this papasan chair for Jacoby's room. It was really fun to do, and I'm really glad my mom was so willing to help me. She has great taste, and I hope to have a beautiful home like them someday, but I know I'm not as good as she is. I definitely am really interested in decorating right now and look for ideas all the time. I will have to post pictures once we move and can hang things up on the wall because the house we're renting right now is for sale so we don't hang anything.
Jacoby has really liked this chair so far. I found him "reading" books in it the other day all by himself. He looked like such a big boy. I love being able to read him books in there before he goes to bed.

Wall Hangings and House for Sale

Awhile back Steph posted her wall hanging on her blog, and my dad just finished putting mine together, so I wanted to post some pictures of it. It's not hung up because we can't hang up anything in this house we're living in because the house is for sale. Dangit, I miss my decorations. :)
They were really fun to do and pretty inexpensive. Steph, my mom, and I all did one and they are all so different, but I really loved them all. Leave it to my mom to come up with great decorations that noone else will have; she is so talented at decorating. My parents were so nice to get a lot of the supplies and put them together for us.
The picture below is Steph's and the next one is mine. I will have to have my mom send me a picture of of the one she did which is awesome.
I will hang it up in our family room which is decorated in red and robin egg blue.

Steph's

Mine
Becca and Lonnie are getting ready to move away for Lonnie's rotations and they are selling their townhouse they lived in while they were in school. It's a great place, very well kept, good location, and a perfect starter home. It's close the the I.S.U. campus and many shopping areas. If you know anyone living or moving in Pocatello, they could get a great deal on this place. Check out her house blog if you are interested right here!