BABY DOLL BED REDUX

This is the last thing I made for Violet's birthday. I bought this bed frame last summer at out neighborhood garage sale for $2.00. It was white with and ugly canopy and curtains. I painted it black and made a new canopy and decided not to add the curtains. I had some left over foam and cut a piece for a mattress, covered it with fleece and made a sheet. I made the pillows and quilts last winter, and now they have a home.

I made a trundle bed that slides under the bed. Perfect for Violet's other baby's.

VALENTINE'S TREAT

So we decided on Yogurt tonight instead of cupcakes. The new cupcake place doesn't open until Feb 17. So tried the other new self serve yogurt place called Yorgurtini. Yes, Lee's Summit has two yogurt places that are virtually identical. We'll see witch one lasts.

Lucky us they had a Valentine's Day special. Buy 2 get one free, plus one is half off. All I know is it cost us a whole $2.85. Score again. The girl at the register said she's pretty sure the computer system is messed up and taking half off every order plus giving out the buy 2 get one free.


Here's Violet wanting hers and mine.

♥ ♥ VALENTINE'S DAY ♥ ♥

Violet opened up her Valentine's day gifts from us and Grandma F yesterday. Last weekend she got money and M&M's from Grandma Y.

A cute 101 Dalmation's with hearts sweatshirt.

Oooo... fuzzy.


Yeah ponies. This set was at Target over the xmas holiday for $29.99. It was marked down to $9.99. Score!

Playing with my pony house. Up until now she's only had one lonely pony and some plastic horses that she's played with in the stable. I'm searching ebay for the accessories that go with it. Most are all missing except the bed. I think I can snag them for pretty cheap.

Tonight we may go get ice cream or cupcakes.

A LITTLE UPDATING

Since getting new counter tops this past summer I've wanted to repaint the island. I was tired of looking at a giant white box for five years. Time for a change.

I bought some moulding and added it to the front. A bit more dimension and not so flat looking anymore.

I could have left it white, but...

...decided to paint it a gray that goes well with the stainless steel appliances. This pic doesn't show the right color.

This pic is more true to the color.

Now we're all jazzed about starting some other painting projects we've been putting off. Probably because I love the smell of new paint. Mmmmm....paint fumes. Next up is repainting the entire first floor. It still has the original builders grade paint. We'll be repainting the same color but in a satin finish. We'll also be adding a chair rail.

A PRINCESS PLAYING LEGOS

FLASHBACK FRIDAYS

Grandpa Grine to Violet and Chris

ICE CEAM! ICE CEAM!

We went out for pizza the other night. The kids pizza comes with a gelato. Violet loves any and all kinds of ice cream. This time around she got swiss chocolate. She will lick that container clean. She calls it "drinking the milk". That's what she calls melted ice cream.

NEW OBSESSION

Violet got small set of Legos at xmas. Now we've added Chris's Star Wars legos to the group. She likes the people with helmets. She actually passed up watching Dora to play with the legos.

CHOP CHOP

Taking a bit getting used to. It's a work in progress. I'm letting the bangs grow out a bit. We took Violet sledding this morning and I didn't take a hat. I thought my ears were going to fall off. Probably the wrong time of year to get a shorter hair cut.

FLASHBACK FRIDAYS

Me age 8

DIGGING OUT...LITERALLY

Because the plows still have not come by smaller cars are having a hard time. One of our neighbors got stuck and needed a push.

So Chris, and the neighbor that got stuck, started shoveling the street to make it a bit more passable. We fear that if the plows come over night they are going to leave a huge pile at the end of the driveway that we'll have to shovel in the morning. When we have snow like this I kinda wish we had a giant SUV or truck.

SNOWOCALYPSE 2011

Here's Chris yesterday afternoon shoveling the driveway and sidewalk.

This was about 15minutes later. Everything was already covered. That's how fast the snow was falling. You can still see Mr.Jeff across the street shoveling his driveway.

Where's the street? This was taken around 11:30 today. We've got about 12" here.

ORANGE YA GLAD I SAID YOGURT

Saturday afternoon we went to Orange Leaf. A new self serve frozen yogurt place that just opened. They have 15 yogurt flavors to choose from and then you can pick as many toppings as you want. Then you have it weighed and pay per ounce. The place is really cool. Bright colors, cool tile, fun lights, and big chunky plastic furniture. Reminds me of our basement.

Violet chose chocolate yogurt with, of course, M&M's, gummi bears, and chocolate syrup. Surprisingly she wasn't bouncing off the walls later.

I wish my bathroom had tile like this.

I discovered this place about two weeks ago when I went to Hobby Lobby, it's in the same parking lot. It was dark out and this place was just glowing green and orange. It definitely stands out in the strip of shops.

BIRTHDAY DRESS

I finished Violet's birthday dress this weekend too. When she unwraps her doll she will be wearing this dress too.

I've made some dresses for this spring too.

She'll wear this for St.Patrick's day. I found yellow leggings with white polka dots that go perfectly with this.

This one she'll wear for Valentine's day. She'll wear it with red leggings and a long sleeve white shirt.
All of these dresses can be worn into the summer

BOX COMPLETE

I just finished the box this afternoon.

Let's just say I might have made to many dresses. Everything fits in the box but there is no room for growth. So if I ever make any more dresses I'm not sure where they will go.