Insta-Friday

Happy Friday everyone, I hope you all had a great week!
Here's a peek at ours...

we attended a wedding Friday night...
black dress, jewelry, make up and hair done...imagine that!Saturday I got to sneak away for a little shopping ALL BY MYSELF!
I'm loving this song in church these days
Eric snuck over to the Apple store Monday after work and came home with this baby. To say the transition has been smooth would be a major lie. MacBook became a four-letter word in my vocabulary, and I haven't turned it on again. I've been told I'll love it, but I'm just not feeling it yet.
MacBook 1, Jill 0oh how I wish I had time to bake something every day.
it makes the house smell sooo good!
yum.
Thursday is Claire's day off from school which generally means we just lay low at home. This week I pulled out all my jewelry and let her go to town with it...she played jewelry store for HOURS! Sometimes I wonder why we ever buy the girl real toys, she would so much rather tinker with odds and ends!
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And, because I can't resist, here's a few of my favorites from Zachary's 365...Day 16Day 20
Day 25

And now, we have a wide open weekend and I can't wait!
Hope you all have a great one!

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Craft Room Art

Okay, so my new craft room was built a full year ago, and would you believe I still haven't decorated the room? I blame it on being so busy using the room, that I haven't even had a chance to make it pretty yet. (No really, that's a good problem to have!)
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I have about a million ideas floating around in my mind of what I would like to do,
but here's a peek at two pieces that I've started with....

free printable found on the 30 Handmade Days blog
because it's hilarious...and could be true!
I had this printed at Office Max for a whopping .70

New York Retro-Styled Art Print by Laura Amiss on Etsy
in our pre-kids days, we traveled to NYC quite a few times. I love the city and look forward to when we can take quick trips there again. In the meantime, I'll look at the fabulous colors in this print and dream about being there.
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I'll keep you posted as I add more items and will be sure to post pictures when it's complete!


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Insta-Friday

Happy Friday! Here's a peek at our week!
I spent Saturday afternoon at GRunveiled serving up lots and lots of hot cocoa with the fabulous Aletha of Pearls Events. Talk about some incredible displays...the show featured two rooms full of well-thought out, beautiful displays by local wedding professionals. So inspiring!
Sunday was the ten year anniversary of the day Eric and I met.
I knew after our first date that I was going to marry him, true story!
Monday brought a much needed haircut and highlight appointment, ahh!
Zachary's two month pictures were supposed to happen on Wednesday, but a little too much screaming was happening instead. Six pictures in and he was clearly not interested. Nice, kid.
so we went home to enjoy the nice 50 degree weather instead.
And Zachary...screamed.
It was one of those good-thing-he's-cute kind of days. SNOW!
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and finally, this week's 365 pictures...

Have a great (warm) weekend!

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Zachary's Nursery

Okay, so this post is only about 10 weeks late.
I figured the rate at which I get things done would go down with two kids,
but this is a bit ridiculous!
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When we found out we were expecting a baby boy, I was worried thinking of how I would decorate a boy's nursery. I knew I didn't want a typical baby blue nursery, and I also just didn't believe there would be great "boy" options out there. In the end though, I so enjoyed pulling this room together and am so happy with how it turned out.
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Here's a peek!we built our house when I was pregnant with Claire, and since we didn't know if we were having a boy or a girl, we went very gender-neutral with the room. This time around, knowing that we were having a boy, I knew I wanted to make the room all-boy.
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I tried several grays on the walls, and just couldn't be completely comfortable with any one. I normally pride myself in my paint-selecting skills, but grays are hard!
so we had the walls painted a very neutral color instead that's found in several other rooms in our house.and because I'm a little obsessed with chevron stripes, I found and used this fabric on Etsy to make a skirt for the crib.I love this fabric so much, there's a good chance once we're done using it as a crib skirt, I'll be taking it apart and seeing what else I can make with it!I then took our existing nursery dresser and side table, and had the very talented Dann of Rebel.Reclaimed paint them a dark gray. (Don't ask me the name of the paint color, he doesn't share!) The metal bucket was a $5 pick up at the Allegan Antiques Market last summer. The rocking chair is an antique that we had reupholstered in a red canvas-like fabric. Just look at the distressing he does...the furniture turned out so great!oak changing table : made by my dad
baskets : Pottery Barn
oversized diaper pin : Pottery Barn Kids
I struggled through several different combinations of different pieces of art for the nursery. One day, this combination of two unframed prints that I had plus two pieces of scrapbook paper just came together and clicked!upper left : scrapbook paper, frame from JoAnns
upper right : scrapbook paper, frame from Hobby Lobby
lower left : print from Lucius Art, frame from Hobby Lobby
lower right : print from Creative Thursday, custom metal frameon Zachary's rocking chair is a sweet little bird pillow by K Studio and a whale pillow by Rebel.Reclaimedon his dresser is a framed picture of Zachary in the hospital (frame from Hobby Lobby) and a glass jar from Target filled with blocks by Sincerely Abi.
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So there are all the details, now here's a few full-room shots...the room turned out even better than I could have imagined. I love that it's simple, clean and most of all that it's a sweet little boy room.


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Insta-Friday

Happy Friday! Here's a peek at our week!
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We kicked off last weekend with dinner and bowling with friends......and yes, I did do my hair and make up to go bowling.
(I don't get out much these days, people!)
Bowling was hilarious, we had such a blast!
and a late night run through the McDonalds drive thru for McFlurries???
Yes!and since we went out Friday night, we stayed in for NYE.
Just me and Ryan Seacrest ringing in the new year in my craft room.Late nights = Chai mornings
and out of nowhere, this guy turned two months old
*sigh*
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so to make sure I don't miss a thing with him, I've started a 365 for Zachary.
Here's the first 6 days...heart.be.stillI somehow managed to be extra-productive in my craft room this week...
more pillows to Rebel + a custom order completed too!
Thursday started out real sweet.
I caught Claire on our bed "reading" the story of
Joseph, Mary & Baby Jesus to Zachary.......but somewhere along the way, Thursday turned into day 2 of Zachary thinking that 10 minute naps were okay, and a feisty four year old. So I loaded us up and off we went to Target to do some aisle wandering......and finding a chevron striped kid's teepee on clearance made it so worth it.
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Happy Weekend, everyone!

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