I DID IT!

I did it. I painted the wall with chalkboard paint. Hubby was in a good mood one night last week so I sprung it on him. Honey, sweety can I paint this wall? He quickly said yes. I was like who are you and what have you done with my husband? Not that he is difficult all the time but we sometimes don't see eye to eye with my decorating ideas. So I took the plunge and I love it. It's fun and whimsical. I'm sure we will have alot of fun with it.

COUNTDOWN CALENDAR

I've heard that Halloween is becoming the next biggest decorating holiday next to Christmas. I believe it, from what I've seen in the stores and on all the wonderful blogs Halloween has gotten big! They even have a halloween version of the advent calendar. I got this at The Christmas Tree Shop. I love it - so cute and Girlie girl loves updating it every morning. I'm sure you could make one of your own but for $6.99 who can beat it! 12 days and a wake up to Dress up day!

Have a great Monday.

NOT BRAVE ENOUGH YET

I love all the blogs I see that have been brave enough to paint a wall or large section with Chalkboard paint. I feel I have the perfect spot but I lack the courage ( and possibly the ability to convice hubby) to go for it. I recently bought Peel and Stick chalkboard from Lillian Vernon. It came with 4 9"x12" panels. The packaging says you can remove and reposition. I was going to use them in the family room for girlie girl but found something else for there so I've had these in my bin to use eventually. Today I thought I would stick them in that perfect place and see how they look. Of course they don't take up near the amount of space but it's still a good for a test run for painting the whole wall. I like it (sorry my picture taking is so poor. We'll see what hubby says when he gets home and maybe I will add chalkboard paint to my list of TO DO's.

IT'S MY PARTY AND I'LL CRY IF I WANT TO

Today marks 2 momentous occasions. Girlie-girl started kindergarten and I celebrate a birthday. A few tears were shed as I waved her good-bye at the bus stop. Nothing to worry about, she loved her first day. She's getting so big. On the other hand I am still trying to love the idea that I am a year older. It's growing on me. Of course the presents, cake and cards helped.

ONE LUCKY GIRL

I am lucky enough to have grown up having a family shore house at the Jersey shore. I've spent almost every summer weekend there since I was a kid. My grandparents bought the house about 40 years ago. It was a great house but it got old so about 7 years ago we (as in my Mom and Dad) knocked it down and built new. We now can use it year round. We've had holidays, family reunions here and it is great.

We have water on both sides of us, a canal on one side with a boat and the inlet on the other. We are all still amazed when we look out and see what our view is. This weekend Hubby took Girlie girl on the waverunner for the first time. My heart was in my throat while I watched them leave the dock. I was waiting on the other side of the house to see them go fast. She loved it. I heard her yell FASTER!! She is definitely her father's daughter.

Here's a few pictures above. I was hoping while my computer cousin was visiting us over the wknd he would help me figure out a easier way to post pictures. He mentioned something about another program but we ran out of time so for now I'll just have to deal with it taking me forever to post and today they are just all over the place. Someday I will be a computer savvy. Either way I am one lucky girl!!

BIRTHDAY PARTY IDEAS

I can't tell you how much all your blogs have helped make my recovery bearable. I am now 3 weeks into it and getting antsy. Only 3 more weeks to go. As I sit on the couch each day I look around the house and think of all the things I want to do. Changes and updates I can't wait to make. For now I will follow doctors orders but look out when I am all better. Paint, fabric, new furniture. Lots of things will be going on!!

So for now I thought it would be a good time to work on some lists and any computer stuff. Girlie-girls birthday is the end of August. She wants a Cowgirl party. There is a great Internet site http://www.birthdaypartyideas.com/ Anyone can go on and post there kids parties. Some are awarded 1st/2nd etc place. It's all organized into themes and there are some great ideas. I've found so much already and can't wait to get it all going.
For now I thought I would post some pictures from last years birthday which I did post on that site. The theme was Fairies Tea Party. I had a great time planning it. Everything turned out great and most importantly Girlie girl loved it!!

We set it all up in our front yard under a big tree. I borrowed the
Ikea tables from friends along with a couple tea sets. We made
place cards and bought tea party plates etc from the party store.
I had princess music playing and the girls feasted on PB&J, PB and Fluff, Cream cheese. I used a flower cookie cutter to cut them all
out.
Each guest got a set of pink fluffy fairy wings and a pink butterfly net.





For games we took the game Ellafun and placed it inside this cardboard
tube Hubby found at work. I painted it to look like a tree trunk with a little fairy peeking out. The girls all tried to catch the "fairies" as they came out.








We also played pin the wings on the fairy. I just took some foam core and
painted the fairy (glad to see my college art degree being used) Had some
old fairy dress up wings that I put velcro on.














This is my favorite picture of the day. That is girlie girl on the left with her cousin. So precious with their little fairy wings on.
Hope you enjoyed. I am getting all sentimental about Girlie girl growing so fast. Wish I could stop time but for now I am off to try to find cowboy boots and hats on the Internet.

BEST LAYED PLANS

Oh I had such good plans for my blog, my house, my summer. Well I just needed to get past some minor surgery last Wednesday. Well my minor turned into major. Had one cyst on my ovary that turned out to be more than one and some other fun things. So I am now sitting here with about an 8" incision in my lower abdomen and strick doctors orders to lay low for 6 weeks. UGH! That seems like a lifetime from now.
I am still trying to wrap my head around it but I intend to make lemonade with these lemons. I will soon be more mobile so I plan to do lots of sewing in a new craft room I plan to do (I should say have my brother do) I am going to finally organize all my photo's online which should result in lots of before and after posts on my blog.
I will say that all your blogs have saved me from long days of watching all the truly stupid stuff on TV. Thank god for my computer.
I'll be back soon!