[spring break & easter weekend]

We hope everyone had a lovely Easter weekend, we spent a lovely day with the family, we went to a beautiful service at our church and it was so nice to see the huge turn out. Jesus lives! Grandma and Grandpa came down also and I made yummy a ham dinner with roasted veggies. The girls searched for eggs that the Easter bunny left in our house and afterwards we met up with some old friends who introduced us to NuSkin complete with spa treatment! Smiles all around I have to say! We also squeezed in two movies "Country Strong" with Gwyneth Paltrow and "Shaolin' with Jackie Chan both were really good.

Here's my quick table scape for Easter dinner...


 

 I wanted to share this blossom branch I made, that didn't cost me anything. I picked up these dead branches at a park near by and hot-glued on some silk flowers I already had laying at home that I bought from the dollar tree to make hair clips. Never made the hair clips.. but this turned out super cute!!

I always wanted to hang frames along the stairway but mine is so narrow and with the kids and dogs running up and down I was so afraid it would be a nightmare of broken glass if anything came crashing down. So I never did it.. but I recently realized that I didn't have to use glass... why didn't I think of that sooner???? I found some old ornate frames at thrift stores and took out the glass, some of them were really gaudy looking so i spray painted them to be similar color. I liked the gold round ones, to add color so I left them in their original condition. I also made the moss letter F using Dear Lillie's method it was so simple and easy. I didn't use the same moss as hers, the one i got from JoAnn's was a flat roll like wrapping paper so it made the project even easier. The letter J and A I already had so i started hanging the frames, it was a cinch, using Young House Love tips with the newspaper & a trick using toothpaste to mark the back of your frames where the nail needs to be on the wall. It all went up in about 1/2 an hour with one nail hole per frame! Yes wow right?? Gosh I wish I had've known these tricks 10 years ago! Love my blogs!



Now I just got to finish up with the prints... what to put in there... gosh.. do i have any pictures??? I kind like the look of no pictures for a while... cause my house is starting to look like a shrine with all the family photo display! LOL... I plan to fill at least 2 with some head sillouhettes of the girls like these http://what-rachel-made-today.blogspot.com/2010/06/tutorial-silhouettes.html but I might just print & frame them and not cut them cause I'm lazy like that.

I'm still working on Alannah's room, here's a what it looks like right now but we're still looking for the right bedding and curtains for her... then I can make pillows covers to match.

 And I'm still in the process of re-working Avila's room with a new "ballerina" theme. I don't want it to be cheesy ballerina, and I want to turn half her room into a mini dance studio.. right now i'm looking for a VERY large mirror to do so, then I'll do another frame scape above her bed to frame it out since we took out her mosquito net which she hated but I loved... hehehe... anyways.. that was our spring break, the kids were both under the weather most of the week, Alannah had a fever and Avila had a cough, now they both have a cough. So we stayed home all week but I got a lot of spring cleaning done so it was productive! Also we go to show the dogs some L-O-V-E...

Can I just put it on record that I LOVE LOVE LOVE our new puppy!! One of the best things about being a grown up is to be able to have your own dog! My parents never allowed us to have pets - except fish. Even though I tried many times to bring home stray dogs and cats... they always ended up gone after a few weeks. But Jinger Belle is the sweetest dog EVER and I LUUURRRVE her more than I EVER thought I could love a dog!

Thanks for stopping by!!