Free S***!!! from INFLUESTER

I have been meaning to blog about my last VOX BOX from Influenster but with layoffs, holidays ect...I am just now getting to it :) Here is some of the stuff from the VIOLET VOX BOX.

I stole the Soyjoy pic b/c well we ate mine before I could take a pic but its the same flavor as this one and it was pretty good for being a "healthy" snack. The "Chubb" AKA my 4 year old son who isn't even a little chubby anymore LOVED IT! We shared it on our way to speech one day.

I have not used the Not Your Mothers Dry Shampoo yet b/c well I haven't blown out my crazy curly hair in MONTHS but I will update on that ASAP.

The Red Earth Clay Spa mask, haven't gotten to that yet either but I have used other products by the same company and they were decent. Its 14 degrees here today so not really into putting something cold on my face but will update on that ASAP also.

The Sally Hanson Triple Shine, is super cute! I can always use more sparkly nail polish, here is it on the "Peanut" AKA my 6 year old. I want to do it over a nude color polish, that I need to find for myself but  I have been taking this time off work to craft and paint ALOT of stuff so manicures aren't really going to last right now.

One more product in the box not pictures is a Sally Hanson fabric headband which is PERFECT for keeping my crazy ass bangish hair from falling in my face while crafting and painting. :)

I LOVE INFLUESTER and this is not the first VOX BOX I have gotten from them. I also get other samples from them from time to time. Over the summer I got a box of two FULL SIZE Palmolive dish soaps and I love them so much its what I buy now. Its nice to get FUN stuff in the mail again, its like HIGHLIGHTS Magazine for Adults :)
 

CRICUT Project 2: Custom T-Shirts

My kids think the Geico Camel is HYSTERICAL and well Christmas just happens to be on HUMP DAAY this year. So months ago I started looking for t-shirts for them to use as their Christmas PJ's this year. I was about to order them this week when I remembered I could cut transfers on the CRICUT. I went from idea, to design to execution in two days! The hardest part was getting the image from Cricut online today. Something about my computer and the website are not working right together this weekend. Anyway here is the finished product my kids are going to love them. :) Just going to put them with some crazy Christmas print pj pants and TA DA Christmas Eve present DONE!   FYI: You just type what you want in the CRICUT DESIGN STUDIO and hit the FLIP side to side button at the top of the screen. This gives you the mirror image needed to cut the transfer correctly. A bunch of websites and other blogs are making it harder then it is, this was SIMPLE. Took me no time at all. 

 

CRICUT I LOVE IT!!!!! Project 1 - Teacher Ornaments

Christmas ornaments for the kids teachers. This was super easy. I used the glitter ornament tutorial found here http://theornamentgirl.com/blog/being-crafty/how-to-make-glitter-christmas-ornaments-diy/. I had done this about two years ago as gifts too and used pre cut stickers for the initials on them all. But this year I have a CRICUT!!! I created the names I wanted in the Design Studio and cut them out of vinyl, this is actually chalkboard vinyl. I bought it by accident, this was my first time trying the vinyl, I just got my Cricut the week after Thanksgiving. Anyway it WORKS! I would have likes to use white on the white glitter but I was going with what I had, the kids picked out the glitter colors.

 These and a gift card will be going to the teachers this year :)

Home

The realization that I (we) are so far from the people we shared so much of our lives with has become glaring to me recently. I do not mean far in distance although that is the reason why, we have been in TX for four years now. Its been four years since we have shared any experiences with them, four years since we have seen each others kids, hell there are kids we haven't even met and these people were so important to us that they were in our wedding, were at the hospital for the birth of our first child, helped us move, shared countless dinners and vacations. We went to or were a part of many weddings some have dissolved into divorce in the past four years. :(

It seems like so much has changed about the people that meant so much to me and I can no longer relate. It feels like a loss, like someone has died. :(

Maybe its because I finally feel at home in TX after feeling lost for the past four years...

Or maybe I finally feel at home here because I know I do not have a place there anymore. I KNOW home is where ever Eric and the kids are but I felt like we were out of place until just the past couple of months.

 

 

Super Hero Bedroom

When we moved into the new house I knew I wanted to do Pierce's room first. Since he is a boy, the 2nd child  and we have been renting for 4 years, he sometimes gets shafted when it comes to the effort put into his room. I also had a very clear vision of what I wanted it to be. Both of the kids are all about some Super Hero's right now and I figure he will be into some sort of super hero for a while. So he we go.... I found skyline clip art online and printed a bunch out. Then I went and bought an art projector from Joann's I had a 40% off coupon (40% off $60.00 so it was worth it) I projected the skyline onto the wall and traced it on with a pencil. Then Eric and I taped off every single line...it was tedious to say the least. I also forgot to mention that Eric spent a week at least resurfacing the walls in this room and painting the base color.The walls in our 1973 house are some sort of textured stucco and well this would not have worked on any other surface but SMOOTH. The base color is a pale blue gray in eggshell.

 

Then we started painting the skyline :)

This is the Atlanta skyline.

New York inspired plus Stark Tower...

Hall of Justice..

I really wanted to have a bridge and it was a HUGE pain in the ass. Eric worked on it a lot...when you cut tape with a razor blade its very easy to cut thru the base paint color and some peeled off when we took the tape off :( It needed some touch up but I was very happy with it. The skyline color is called Gotham Gray...I knew it was meant to be when I came across it in Lowes. Its a dark blue gray, almost black.

Then it was time for some color to be added somewhere...I turned these into....

these :) Canvas on sale at Michaels I think they are 20x20, I paid $6.00 each for them. I painted each with acrylic paints and then used my awesome art projector again to trace the Super Hero symbols on. Then I used a black Sharpie to color the images in. The Sharpie worked great and gave me WAY more control then paint since I am not a painter :/ They look like vinyl decals now that they are done.

 

I had to do the telephone booth closet door. I wanted it to add more color to the room and well b/c I think its awesome. Pierce won't even get it still for a few years but when he does...He will know I am an awesome mom ;) This closet door was a pain in the ass...every part of it...just FYI.

 

That Batman is my husbands favorite part of the room :) I had this little piece of wall and I was sick of square buildings at this point it was the last section I had to go...so I found a really artsy adult looking poster of Batman and projected it onto the wall. No I did not create him that would have been awesome but I am not talented in that way at all.

 

I did a couple other DIY things in this room...I used glow in the dark Batman Duck Tape :D To cover the light switch cover and sides of his toy bins...love that stuff its AWESOME!!

I added some puff paint in yellow for windows at random places in the room...I also used to glow in the dark RUSTOLEUM but you can't tell in pics.

 

Then I needed to get him something for his clothes since we were getting rid of the baby changing table he had been using for a dresser...I found these at a garage sale this summer($30.00) and they fit perfectly. They kind of look like buildings :)  thought I would try that Pinterest thing I pinned about painting laminate furniture...well it totally works!!

http://www.centsationalgirl.com/2010/08/the-boys-dresser/

 

That was pretty much what I spent my summer doing and I loved every minute of it. :) This is pretty much all we did, I hung a new blind and a curtain topper I found at Wal-mart on clearance.

He still needs a new bed...but he did get Super Hero bedding from Grammy already...will post a pic next time his bed is made :P

 

 

 

NURSERY FLIP: GIRL TO BOY

This was the first complete room that I had a vision for and was able to execute exactly as I had pictured. This was before Pinterest so you are witnessing a completely original design :) I am not sure if it was the pregnancy hormones or the fact that maybe I had extra brain power, since my only job at the time this brilliant plan came to me was growing a baby. I hope I get a shock of this awesomeness again soon because this baby is almost 6 now and requires a big girl room in our new house.

I knew I wanted pink and green that was the new thing for girls at that time.
I found the bedding on Ebay,$50.00 it was Pottery Barn Kids regular price like $200.00.
The furniture was a gift from my mom and grandma. They found it at a yard sale for $250.00 regular price like $1500.00 from Babies R US.
Shelf was a yard sale find $10.00.
Curtin rod: Target, I registered for it and got it at my baby shower.
curtain white tie up @Target or Wal-Mart $10.00

The square frames are wooden from Michaels, they were $1.00 each and I had 25 of them. I then bought 25 different scrapbook papers in all different colors and prints and acrylic paint in hot pink and bright green. I designed and my husband painted :) I still LOVE this room to this day. My daughter wasn't in this room long b/c SURPRISE I was pregnant again when she was 6 months old.

We were trying to sell our house now and didn't want to spend the money to redo the entire room but I also didn't want my son to be in a pink room. Not that was going to care, we moved when he was 6months old but still I felt bad putting so much into the room for baby #1 I felt like he needed to have just as much effort put into his arrival.

TA DA: Pink and Green to Blue and Green
Bedding Wal-Mart online :$25.00
New Scrapbook paper and brown and blue acrylic paint.
Tan painted over the pink and here is a super cute baby boys room. Again I LOVE this room really in any colors possible.

I still have the squares and I am planning on using them in our master bedroom this time, I am thinking Navy and Coral :D

REGULAR ASS BABY TABLE - $150 (Bedford)

http://dallas.craigslist.org/mdf/bab/3972860171.html

CONGRATULATIONS you are having a baby! This is the only time in your life you will require a designated poop station. So look up, I promise there is an end to the insanity of wiping, diapering and powdering..no wait no powder that is a HUGE misconception...baby power is actually not good for babies so why is it called baby powder then? Must be made from some fairy dusting, magical powder shitting babies, like the ones that walk at 6 months, potty train at 12 months and READ Charlottes Web while taking a crap on their royal pottychair throne... If you are thinking "Oh well maybe I don't need this, maybe I'll get a powder shitting baby. I can pay for college with all the $$ baby can make me selling magical baby ass powder to Johnson & Johnson"

HA HA think again bitches!!!

You are getting a regular ass baby just like me..no sleeping, bottle rejecting, POOP FACTORY. So you need this heavy ass piece of furniture that your husband/partner/baby daddy will BITCH about for years to come when having to move it five feet or five states away. Seriously its the heaviest piece of furniture we have ever owned.

Its in FAIR to GOOD condition...the drawers roll like it was new, the door latches its fully functional just some average wear and tear...don't judge after years of having multiple REGULAR baby asses on you, you will only be in FAIR condition as well.