Artsy is NOT Fartsy v1

This instalment of art on our walls comes to us courtesy of Dr. Nails himself.

Well, he was the one who performed the actual construction,
whilst I stuck to my old position of on-site supervisor.
What can I say, it's a good job...

I like to think the idea came from somewhere within the vast genius that is my head,
 but I'm pretty sure it was undoubtably via some design show or another on HGTV

( of which, by the way, I am thoroughly addicted to.)

So thanks go out to whichever good looking designer graced my living room that day

and planted the seed for this in my head.

It was really quite simple:

I kindly begged asked the lovely and talented Dr. Nails to build frames out of scrap wood he had,

and bam!  Just moments later he arose from Manland bearing three!

Once again his talent takes my breath away.

A few rounds of the staple gun on the fabric I had cut out to size

and voila!  Cheap and cheerful it is!

 I give you full permission to steal this idea too : )

The Weekend

There was lots of good stuff this weekend:

There was a muddy walk because it's almost spring!

Which lead to much sweeping as said mud sticks to paws and boots and stroller wheels.

There were berries
( from somewhere else where it is already spring )
that turned into yummy smoothies.

There was bread baking which meant great sandwich making,
and led to Dr. Nails professing his undying eternal love
just as long as I continue to bake it.

Mmmm, homemade Ciabatta!

There was shopping with Dr. Nails where the dinky fleet increased,

and lunch out at Lefty's where great pictures of food  were delivered for the menu.

There was ice cream eating and art making.

( which will be a whole other post to come soon! )

Then there was readings of great books,

such as 'Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see?'.

And shingling of the house, painting of the trim,
and other fine works of carpentry.

There was also nap time and one big long sleep through the night!
( All of which certainly makes me happy ; )

Hope you had a good weekend too!

Photo of the Week

Week #6

He is a cheeky cheeky little man.

Trendy Tuesday v1

& Five For Friday - all in one!!  (can i get a hells ya?)


Five Fabulous Things I Love Today!

( And no, they do not ALL involve babies. )

1.  Bendy straws and the yummy drinks they come in

2.  Winter almost becoming spring

3.  Finding ridiculous deals at the mall

4.  Sadly, having a mini van

And my favorite thing at the moment:

5.  Joe Fresh

It's cheap, it's cheerful, it looks good, and it's actually half-decent!

( kinda like me.... ; )

Someone should be paying us endorsements for this one.

Happy Friday!

Tales from the baby's room

And er, the dining room, and the living room, and the master bedroom....

I remember b.b. (before babe),

when I had myself fully convinced that I would not be one of THOSE.

You know, those people who allow their children to take over the entire house.

You see them on tv, in movies and hey, maybe you even see it at your friends' houses:

Toys and baby gear strewn haphazardly throughout the entire house,

piles of dirty laundry stashed behind closed closet doors,
dishes in the sink and dirty floors.

 Oh no, that sorry state of affairs would not happen to me,

not in this little shack on the shore, no ways,

not with this here chick in charge. 

I was totally convinced that I would not become one of THOSE.

Well, I was totally wrong.

It's everywhere.

You know, I always equated it with a hostile takeover.

A coup d' état where we the parents are being overthrown,

 and the worst part is that the sweet little thing can't even crawl yet!

But the thing is, I like it, a lot.
I simply love the fact that he has a place to be no matter which part of the house we're in,
so we can always hang out.

After all, he is still just so little.