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.

coolest kicks for coby

I know that everyone says that shopping for girls is so much better than boys, but I've found some pretty adorable things for Jacoby, these awesome baseball shoes are at the top of the list. They are perfect for this kid. He wanted them on right when we got home from the store and he was ready to play some ball.

Tyler and I have always agreed about how to dress Jacoby and since I do most of the shopping, it's nice that I know he likes what a pick out. I think he thought I was pretty cool for finding these shoes too...a lot cooler than when I got Jacoby the gingham outfit he's wearing in the picture below. :) The only reason he looks like Kermit the frog is because he's squatting like a frog, it has nothing to do with the green gingham. Ha ha.

Well, I still like it!

Halloween

We had a fun Halloween this year. Jacoby was a little dog and I think he thought it was pretty fun. He was excited about trick-or-treating and all the candy. Now he keeps asking for "candy" and "chocolate". We went to a carnival at Tyler's school on Friday where Jacoby went around to the buildings on campus and did some trick-or-treating and then played on some blow-up toys and had some good snacks. It was fun to spend time with Tyler and we just loved taking Jacoby around to get treats; this year he was at a fun age for Halloween.
On Saturday we went to a trunk-or-treat at the church. I'd never been to one before, but they are great. It was nice to walk around the parking lot to all the cars and he got lots of candy (that I will be helping myself to) and it didn't take very long. It's so weird to be going trick-or-treating in shorts and t-shirts. What the? This is weird, but I like it!
Yesterday we had a little Halloween party with some of our friends. It wa fun to get together and do something on Halloween. We had lots of good treats and had fun playing games. I'm sure grateful to have the new friends I've made down here.
If you know me, you know that I LOVE treats of any kind. I ate way too many over the Halloween weekend and am so SICK of them. Ah! I need something healthy. I hope you all had a fun weekend!

Jacoby with one of his friends, Brooklyn. She looked so darling in her little dress!

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.

winner

And the winner is #12, the nurse, Kristen, who said:

My favorite costume was when (as an adult) I dressed up like a nurse, with scrubs, a stethescope... the works. We took the kids around trick-or-treating, and had a great day. We decided to end at a nursing home that allowed the kids to trick or treat. The entire time we were there, old people kept grabbing me and asking me if I would take them back to their rooms... I had to keep explaining that I didnt work there. It was pretty funny.

Thanks everyone for entering! It was so fun to hear what all of you were for Halloween. Some of the different things you dressed up as were: horse, witch, Belle, crayon, Flinstone family, Pillsbury Doughboy, Winnie the Pooh, present, nurse, mermaid, pirate, and dice. Thanks and congrats Kristen! E-mail me at mlongroe@gmail.com your address and I'll get this in the mail!

fire truck

We went to the fire station this week for play group. Jacoby just loves fire trucks right now and was really excited to see a 'big truck.' He was a little confused that it wasn't red, but I just kept telling him it was a yellow fire truck. It was pretty fun!

Sitting on the front of the fire truck with Owen.

Looking for a yummy, fall recipe? My mother-in-law gave me this pumpkin chocolate chip muffin recipe a couple years ago and it's the best. It works well for muffins and bread and you can even make frosting for some extra yummy treats. Get the recipe here!

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!