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Back to School!

The kids started back at school a couple weeks ago.  They go to a pre-school at a church down the street from their Nana.  I'm lucky enough to be able to take them in the mornings and she picks them up in the afternoons.  Here's a couple pics from their first day...

They LOVE going to school! 

(And, I'll get pictures of Petra's birthday party up soon, promise!!!  My camera battery died, so I had to borrow my mil's and I keep forgetting to get the pics off her camera!!!)

~lisa

Birthday presents and STL art fair

Well, I'm sure Lisa will be posting soon about Little Miss Petra's birthday, which was last weekend. Sadly, L and I were unable to go down for the festivities, but I have been working on some very special gifts for a special girl!

First, I made Petra her own Princess Bean Bags!

But the big gift is this fun poodle skirt! Petra's party was Fancy Nancy themed. I had never heard of Fancy Nancy ... but the sticker on her invitation showed her in a poodle skirt ... with a pink bow and pink tulle underneath. I thought, "I can make that!" Lisa pointed out later that Petra's nickname is Petra Poodle ... so it's perfect!



I followed the directions I found online (at a number of blogs), but it looks really huge. I hope it fits!

Finally, L and I went to an art fair today, Art Outside at Schlafly Bottleworks, and we came home with these two beauties, the first items in Louisa's art collection:


They were made by friends of ours, Carmelita Nunez and Daniel Shown, a wonderful couple who do amazing art. They are known as Kung Fu Chicken. Carmelita's ceramics are To Die For, and Dan's mixed media pieces are so interesting and beautiful. The art fair was wonderful; I feel so lucky to be in a city where local and regional artists are embraced!

Hope your weekend was filled with everyday beauty.

Love,
LauraBell

Kids' Rooms

OK, I tried this the other day and messed up... so here we go again!

Gia's Bee-utiful Nursery...

Dax and Petra didn't have "themed" rooms,

but I found this bedding on Ebay and thought it was totally adorable!!!

The crib was Dax's, we're probably going to move Petra's white crib in here someday. 

Gia has a closet, but we use it for storage, so I had to bring in a plastic dresser. 

I don't mind it, it serves it's purpose!

The rocker is from Dax's nursery.  I was going to slipcover it, but I kind of like the blue, it breaks up all the yellow, black, and white.  Still need to get a lamp, too.

Bulletin board I made for her.

Here's the before.  $0.50 at a garage sale!!

A cute sign I painted.  I cut out the letters using my Cricut, they're vinyl.

Sign before.  Also from the same garage sale and only $0.25!!

My sweet girl's loooong name!

I made the letters using wooden circles from Hobby Lobby that I painted white.  I cut the black and white paper out using my Cricut and mod-podged them onto the circles.  The letters are also from Hobby Lobby, I painted them the same yellow as the walls.  Then I just hot glued the ribbon and bumblebees on.  I think the bumblebees are from Michael's.

The chair is from my mother, as well as the glass bee hive... love it!!

Just in case you didn't know... it's Gia's Room!!

And now for Petra's Princess Room...

Her new "big girl" bed.  I may finish painting those doors one day... then again, I may not :)

They love her bed!!

I made Petra and Dax tents. 

Petra picked LPS... I think she just liked the colors, I'm not sure she even knows what LPS is!

Laura and I painted that dresser when Petra was a baby :)

This is where her crib used to be.

*before*

Petra's crib

{one day when they decided to throw all of Petra's toys in her crib... fun!}

The other corner of her room.

{Yes, her crib is still in there... I'm *patiently* waiting for John to get it out!}

Her toys, all nice and neat!!

{That probably lasted for 2.2 seconds...}

And finally... the Boy's Room...

As I've mentioned before... he LOVES dinosaurs!!  I found this bedding on clearance at Bed Bath & Beyond and I had a 20% off coupon.  I think it was about $35... sweet!!

Dax picked out Toy Story 3 for his tent.  Here is the link of how to make them... very easy!!

Dax's closet, toys, and such. 

There are Gia's clothes, since she has no room in her closet!

Drop cloth curtains.

I mod-podged the letters for his name and got the dinosaurs at Hobby Lobby.

The cords are for his fish tank.  Probably not the safest way to do it... probably should fix that...

I love the cute little pillow it came with!

THE END!

~LisaBob

catching up...

Those of you who are crazy blessed like me to have three babies in four years knows that keeping up with milestones on the third one is almost impossible, but I'm trying my best!!!

And as of yesterday...

This little sweetie is definitely keeping us on our toes! 

She's rolling over, talking up a storm, and making us laugh everyday. 

Can't get enough of her!!!

~LisaBob

Shhhh...

~LisaBob

Why reinvent the wheel?

I've been planning a baby quilt for my niece, Gia. Planning in a very passive kind of way. More like, planning to plan. I've made patchwork tied quilts for Dax and Petra and Louisa. Each one is a little bit different, and for Gia's I wanted to do an appliqued "G" in the center, kind of based off of the quilt pattern in V & Co's shop.

Isn't it adorable? But, like I said, my quilts are tied, not quilted, and my pieces were larger. Really, I was just inspired to do the center applique, but I loved the overall look of this quilt.

When I was in Texas, Lisa and I went out and bought the material, a beautiful collection of soft rose prints, with some blue and yellow accents. Just gorgeous. And this weekend I finally decided to start the quilt.



After about an hour I had gotten to this point:





Note the extensive scribbling, and the sheer confusion, as well as super obvious things like "5.5" writen umpteen times. I am not so good at things like remembering seam allowances and the like. The truth is, Petra's and Louisa's quilts are each successively smaller than Dax's because I meaured the squares but forgot seam allowances! Twice!!!

So, after an hour of this, I had put Louisa down for her nap and decided to go to the V & Co blog to see if I could figure anything out from looking at the picture. I went to the shop and found the pattern. $6. Seriously? I had just wasted a lot of time and mental energy getting nowhere. So I bought it! And then I picked up my book and plopped on my bed feeling very satistied with myself!

Can't wait to get the pattern and start working on it! I'll post about it when I'm done.

Hope you're taking the opportunity to relax this weekend and this summer, too!

xoxo,
LauraBell