catching up...

This girl loves to color, just like her big sister. Crayons, markers, colored pencils, paper, chairs, walls, pantry, face. . .you name it.


A big d. reeves design house order shipped out last week. That and two little ones staying up WAY past their bedtime as well (11 pm and midnight almost every night!) made for many opportunities for sanctification and patience testing during the day.

11:00 pm

I did manage to finish up Emma's ornament box. As I was wrapping up her ornaments to store inside, I thought I would share these.


Made by my sweet sister in law, Kelly. She made these for the tree in Emma's room and they coordinate beautifully with the bedding. The bedding in the girls room was sewn by both my mom and mother in law. Jeremy and I picked out the fabrics, from Moda's Paris Flea Market line a few years ago. These ornaments are just perfect for the room and such a treasure to us.


I also created a little thank you gift with the d. reeves 3x5 clear album. You can see more photos of the inside here.

And now for some sweet photos of Stella with her very first pigtails.

And finally a bit of a follow up on this post. A splash of turquoise, the pressed tin used to be brown and rusty. Jeremy used a paint brush to apply the paint since we could not find the right shade in spray paint. Love it!

I am so happy this girl moved to town, just a few blocks away from me too! We got to hang out and talk scrapbooking which I love to do. Speaking of scrapbooking, I created my first layout in months, so I thought I would share.

I hope to catch up on reading my regular blogs today. It has been awhile.

Have a wonderful Wednesday!

Like mother. . .


like daughter...


I have been seeing a lot of these lately


We had a drawing on the d. reeves design house blog for a style file. This is my inspiration file. You can see a few more photos here.



She loves her shoes and socks

I am looking forward to hanging out with this sweet girl tomorrow. We met our freshman year of high school and here we are- both in Waco, mamas to precious little ones...who would of thought this is where we would be when we were sitting on the bleachers at the dance competitions our freshman year.

I can't wait!

ornament box

I finished Stella's ornament box this weekend...Yay! I still have Emma's to complete. Thankfully I had a (rare) moment of uninterrupted thought and had the brilliant idea of cutting 2 of everything. Now it is simply a matter of piecing Emma's together. I just had to share the finished box with you.

The box came from Hobby Lobby. It is about 13" diameter. I covered the box in Martha Stewart paper, wool felt, vintage ledger paper and rhinestones and tissue paper.

I wrapped up Stella's ornaments in bubble wrap (we have an abundant supply around here). Then I jotted down each ornament, the year she got it and who it came from on library cards and tucked them in a pink 3x5 acrylic album. One of these days, I will embellish the album. For now, I will enjoy the fact that the boxes will not be sitting in the corner of my dining room.