the past few weeks

The past few weeks have been busy for Jarrett and I both with work but we've managed to have a bit of fun and a few projects. First of all my living room was driving me nuts. When we built our house a few years ago I loved really dark woods and colors so I went a little over board with brown. I like brown and all but it was way too brown for me so I decided to brighten it up with some yellows. I had brown curtains and I didn't want to buy all new ones I have six in all, so I just sewed some fabric to the top of my existing curtains. Below is one before and one after.

Then I recovered some of my throw pillows, I made a pocket cover so that I could throw them in the wash when needed. I got the textured pillows at TJ-Maxx, I LOVE them, they're cuter in person.

Next Jarre had his birthday this past Saturday. He went snowmobiling with my brother in law Danny in the morning, when he got home I surprised him with a cake and his favorite lunch.

Only one more year to be in his twenties, I keep reminding him too much of this...

This is my Sis Hilari. I'm so glad they got to come up and stay with us last weekend, I wish she lived closer.

He is such a good daddy and Ella adores him so much. She latches on to him every time he comes home.

Of course I made him carrot cake with cream cheese frosting from scratch, it was SO good. The whole cake was gone in two days.

After we celebrated we went to our cousins wedding and then out to eat, it was a fun day!

I want to show you another side of our cute little girl she turns into a monster sometimes...

This is how she eats, notice her hair...

She draws on the couch...

She bites my foot, notice the chunk that she took out.

but oh what a sweet little girl she is, especially when she sleeps.

Her hair was driving me nuts a few weeks ago so I decided it was time for a trim.

She insists on helping me put the hair mousse in her hair, what a funny girl!

That pretty much sums up the last little while, I'm hoping that soon I'll have a fun spring post to put up. I'm getting spring fever REALLY bad and so is Ella she tries to run out the door every time it's open. Jarrett on the other hand is loving the snow because of snowmobiling, what a weirdo.

Projects

Remember when I said I was working on a craft room way back in like July? I was working on a building a room to do all my crafts in because the kitchen counter just wasn't cutting it. Well I finally finished it a few weeks ago and it's so nice to have my own space to do my crafts because I am crafting A LOT! My craft room is in the bonus room upstairs where I rarely used to go, but now I'm up there all the time!

OK my craft room actually turned into a play room because toys were taking over my downstairs literally. So this is Ella's playroom and she loves to play in it while I'm crafting, what do you think? I love it for when my clients bring their kids because they have a room to play in and mess it up as much as they want.


It's not quite a room anymore, it's more of a crafting nook but I have plenty of room for all of my needs. This way I won't worry about her playing by the stairs and there is even a TV which you can't see in the pictures where I can watch my shows, (I love HGTV)!


Jarrett is supposed to build more shelves for me and there are a few more things that need to be hung up but I just love it! The two rooms combined cost under $100 dollars! I got the desks from DI and painted them and modge podged the cabinet fronts with craft paper. I already had a lot of the stuff that was just waiting to be used! I also use both of my upstairs closets because I have a lot of craft stuff but I have to be careful of what I leave out or Ella will either destroy it or eat it.


This is our guest bedroom that needs to be used more so come be our guest at our house!!


Poor elliptical that's collecting dust, I need to start working out because Summer will be here before we know it I just need a little more motivation!







This is another nook that turned into Maggie's house when we moved into our house, Ella plays in there now. I'm sure we'll turn it into Ella's nook soon. I'd like to put some shutters on the window and make it really cute but for now I'm taking a break from decorating. So that's my upstairs bonus area, there is a bathroom up there but I didn't take a picture of it.

Another thing that I'm really excited about is that Izzy's Attic is featured in the Barrel Magazine! It really is the cutest magazine and I'm in love with this Month's Issue they have a lot of giveaways and yummy recipies that I can't wait to try. Check it out here http://www.thebarrelblogreviews.wordpress.com/ You'll just love it I put it as a button to the right of my blog so I can access it any time I need to. I am so excited for the success that I've had with Izzy's Attic already it has been great and so much fun!