My Brooklynn will be 2 tomorrow!

Here is a picture of my little girl wearing her favorite accessory, the tutu! Tomorrow will be her birthday OMgosh crazy stuff! And what a sad day for me! My sweet baby girl will be 2 yrs old tomorrow, time flies by and I have decided to go part time at work .I'm so super excited about it. I can't wait to sleep in with my little lovies! Well, I got her some of the cutest stuff for her birthday this year, she's really girly so I got her a little pink back sack, that sinches at the top, and it has her name embroidered across the top of it in lime green which is so cute! Then I got her a lunch tote that's kinda retro looking of course ;) and she got some of the prettiest dresses, and of course some toy story stuff thrown in there.

Whoa! Check out these freaking awesome shoes I just made!

I just bought a shoe pattern online and made some sweet shoes! The black pair is the "pre" or first pair and the second green ones are the actual shoes made out of canvas and burlap with a vinyl sole! Love them, I don't know if I enjoyed them enough to sell them though. Maybe if the kids shoes are easier to make I'll sell them in a little store in the old city or market square! That would be pretty sweet!
I've wore them to work for two days and I've had no problems yet, yay!

Also on a side note the bus fund is going pretty awesome! I'm still searching for the right bus and I've found a few in surrounding cities, but they just haven't been the right bus for me :P I'm still holding out for the perfect "Jessi" bus! Ha ha I may be waiting a long time.

The search is on for a VW bus!

So I would love to fulfill my dreams of owning a vw bus, be it camper or not at this point, and I am starting to save up for said bus and I'm going to take you guys along with me! I hope it's a fun ride, I looked at a bus this week, but it just needed to much done to it even though it was running and the motor was perfect, but needed some body work done to it, and I just don't have that amount of time, with the 2 kids and I am currently working 5 days a week still. Sooo, with that said I will be looking on thesamba.com and on craigslist, which is where I found this weeks bus :) Also if any of you know where a perfect bus is that someone would like to give me a deal on just throw me a wink will ya ;) Haha!

new blanket and some pyrex references!

I have decided to get Brooklynn a twin bed for her birthday that is coming up in a few weeks. I found an old bed on craigslist and it was only $5! It's real wood, but it was soooo ugly, with orangy brown paint and blue brush strokes all over it, like someone had tried to paint it with very little paint. So I sanded it and repainted it a baby pink, and it is oh so cute a chic! Then I bought some vintage bed rails and painted them a sage green, so now all we need is the mattress! I also decided to make her a retro looking quilt with some owls on it. She's gonna love it! just look at the pics ;P


For the pyrex references: In Jay-z's song forever young there is a verse that says forever my name will be remembered and passed down from generations like pyrex pots! How flipping awesome is that!!! Hahaha. The second one is in the movie adventureland, at the very end when the two are in the apartment, when Kristen Stewart opens the cabinet there is a pink gooseberry mixing bowl in the cabinet!!! That is so super cool!!! Love it!

what Jackson did once upon a time!

A few months ago my husband had to watch our children all day by himself. Jackson was 3 and Brooklynn was still a baby. While I was at work Jackson decided it would be awesome if he could show his daddy that he could make a cup of milk all by his self! While Mike was watching Brooklynn, Jackson snuck off into the kitchen and opened the fridge and then grabbed a cup. Then he proceeded to open the milk and pour it into the cup as well as my entire kitchen! At this point Mike still has no idea whats going on and he is very confused when Jackson runs into the living room and says,"Ummm, Daddy just stay right here, don't go into the kitchen OK." So my husband starts to get up and Jackson is screaming and waving his hand," NOOOO daddy NOOOOO don't go!"
Mike said Jackson just went to the couch and laid down bc he known he was going to be in timeout. Mike proceeds to clean up the milyway and calls me and tells me whats going on. The next day as I'm getting cereal ready for breakfast, I pour Jackson and Brooklynns bowls then I get mine ready and start to pour the milk when all of the sudden it stops flowing. But the jug still feels heavy? Weird. So I look in the jug and to my amazement I find a bunch of paper towels! Paper towels you may ask? Well before Jackson ran to my husband he thought he could clean the mess up by himself, but after he used all of the towels up he didn't know where to put them so he stuffed them back down into the jug so we wouldn't find them and he wouldn't have to go to timeout! So funny, I wish I could have the imagination of a kid again!

some more pyrex thrift store finds.

Today at the thrift store I found some fantastic Pyrex pink flamingo colored plates and saucers, but at $5 a plate I had to pass them up. Maybe someday I will be like my great Pyrex inspiration Julia, she found an entire box of these plates at a church sale and paid $5 for the whole box! Now that's a steal, when I come across that special box just for me, I will let you know ;p I did however find the two clear 10oz Pyrex bowls I talked about in an earlier post, so it was a great day indeed! Yesterday I found a set of 8 Pyrex mugs with the woodland print on them for only $3. I can't wait to clean them up and display them in my kitchen. I am off on Monday and I will be recieving some other Pyrex items and I will show them to you as soon as I get them cleaned up! So be looking for my new post :)

daisies

So I bought some daisies for myself the other day, and when Jackson saw them he asked me if we were getting married. I said "I don't know are we?" Then he said,"yes and we will have a big party in the back yard and everyone will be invited. We will have balloons and cake too!" He was so super excited, and it makes me sad to think that he will be 4 yrs old tomorrow. So Happy Birthday Jackson! My little man is growing up!

On a seperate note my little girl is starting to drink out of a "big" cup! This is so exciting I'm pretty much over the whole sippy cup thing! wow to think of how many sippy cups we've gone through in the past 4yrs is crazy :)

And on the last note, I went to a little shop in town called Living Vintage on saturday. I found some really cool stuff, like the table pictured, and my husband works for 7up and I found this really old 7up can turned into a lamp (which may be a future present)! My boss called me and told me I could take the whole day off so I did a little shopping and found a really old wooden magazine rack at a yard sale. It had $4 on it but I only had $3 in cash, so I asked if she would take that and she said she would. I will take some pictures of it at a later time and show you how it looks all cleaned up and super spiffy! Hope you all have a fantastic night ;)