Secret Hideaway Curtains

Project for today: create zebra striped curtains for the girls' room.


Emma and Claire share a room. It's a pretty big room, and they are okay with sharing most of the time, but over the past year they both felt the need for some personal space. Emma chose the area under her loft bed, and Claire claimed one of the dormers. They both spent a lot of time decorating their secret hideout. Here is how it looked before the curtains:
Claire's dormer:


Emma's loft:


Well, even after all of their "special stuff" was moved in, their hideouts still lacked privacy.
Curtains were a necessity. We purchased a set of zebra striped twin sheets at Target and got out the trusty old sewing machine. I am NO seamstress, but I can sew a straight line, which is luckily all you need to do for this project. A few straight seams and two tension rods later and, voila, two happy girls!






Now they have their own private hideaway to escape from our usual family chaos!

Adventures in Ice Skating

 

Hi, I'm Emma and this is Adventures in Ice Skating!

 

 That's Claire and she was a little speed demon. She also had fun in the ice skating lesson that we received. 

 

  That's me and I had a lot of fun. I mostly just helped the littler girls with their ice skating.

There's Joey, the bearded child. He was like a hockey player, low, fast, and tearing around the rink.

So that's it.  See ya later with more "momentary" chaos!

One Year Later....

Ok, so it's been almost one whole year since my last post.  I'm going to be better this year, really I am.  I promise.  I have lots of reasons to start blogging again...for one, my enduring infatuation with Pintrest has inspired me to blow the dust off of my blog and actually post something once in a while...and maybe, just maybe...pin some of the cooler stuff we do around here.  Also, for the past year, I have been a miserable failure in the picture taking department.  Hopefully I will be inspired to snap away if I have somewhere to post all of those beautiful pictures.  Oh, and I also have some very creative "guest bloggers" who are itching to express themselves.  So...here goes....2013 will be a year of self-expression amid the chaos, and maybe I will capture some of these memories.  Wish me luck!

Happy New Year!

All decked out and ready to P-A-R-T-Y!!!
Notice the black & white coordination going on here?  That was due to the creativity of my good friend and ultimate New Year's Eve hostess extraordinaire, Nicole.  Love it. We looked fabulous ;)

Claire-bear almost conked out before the countdown, but after changing into jammies and getting all comfy, she made it all to midnight...then fell promptly to sleep in daddy's arms at 12:05.  She's a trooper!

Love ringing in the New Year with my sweet boy!  Can you tell he's itching to get back downstairs to his buddies and the video game controller?  Hmmm...I'll still grab a NYE squeeze from him while I still can!

Let the party begin!  After a 60 second countdown (yes, the kids all counted down from SIXTY), the noisemakers were blaring & this girl was lovin' every minute of it!

Happy New Year! !! 2011 brought us a new office, a new dog, and more good times than I can remember...we'll see what 2012 has in store!