tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60403333711898004932024-03-13T10:19:54.937-07:00The BellsGinger Bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12705944771386534681noreply@blogger.comBlogger113125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040333371189800493.post-61509472195905396422015-09-17T20:18:00.000-07:002015-09-17T20:39:42.524-07:00Our Home in WyomingBecause I am always curious about what people's houses look like, and since no one I know is going to physically see the inside of our little (tiny) rental in Wyoming, I thought I would share a few million pictures. (Run-on sentence, much?)<br />
We have been here for just under 2 months now, and have adjusted pretty well to our small living conditions. I actually quite like our little abode - but I will certainly not complain when I have more space sometime in the near future.<br />
So, we are dealing with 912 sqft. No garage. 2 bedrooms. 1 bathroom. 3 kids. 2 adults.<br />
Here is the layout (as sketched by my memory when we were planning for our move up here)<br />
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My drawing was surprisingly accurate, by some miracle. Not a bad layout, right? Okay, lets start with the outside and move from there. (P.S. the outside pictures were taken about a week ago...all of those green leaves are currently very yellow and fall-y).<br />
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This is the walk way up to our house. Not much to say here. <i>Boooring.</i><br />
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This is our front yard. The girls don't play our here much, mostly because we live across the street from the high school, so its a busy road right there. I kind of want to chop those bushes down to half their current size, but they do give us a lot of privacy, and do a pretty good job of blocking the wind, so I guess they can stay....for now</div>
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Next, lets move onto the living room, since that is the room you walk into. This room serves a myriad of purposes. For instance. In this corner, we have our office, our library, and our kids' corner.</div>
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In this area we have our Art Appreciation Gallery. I often sit here and muse upon the mysteries of life - art really opens one's mind (ha!). Coincidentally, in this same section, we have our entertainment area, which numbs my mind. Best of both worlds, I say.<br />
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<span style="text-align: start;">And most importantly, over in this corner is my sewing craft area. That table gets an incredible amount of use.</span><span style="text-align: start;"> Best birthday present ever, seriously.</span></div>
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Here we have our relaxation area, and it also functions as a sun tanning bed-couch. The sun blares through that huge window all day long...I should probably protect my couch from fade somehow, I'm seriously concerned.<br />
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And here we have our music room. Right next to the front door, where cold air will hit it all winter long. Not ideal, at all, but what are you gonna do. It fits where it fits.</div>
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Okay, lets move on, and go to the kitchen, shall we?</div>
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I definitely don't hate this kitchen. It has lots of natural light, decent layout. The cabinets... Well ya, they are what nightmares are made of. Why two tone them people, why?? Its insanity! They could have just painted them all white. I actually submitted a request to paint them white, but my request was ignored, and I am not going to push it. I have to keep reminding myself that we don't own this house, and we won't live here forever, so just deal with it woman. </div>
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You may have also noticed there is no dishwasher. Nope. We are hand-washing fiends over here! But I can't complain about my view while I am scrubbing dried, sugary, milk residue off of cereal bowls. </div>
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This room also serves as our pantry <i>AAAAND</i> Dutch's bedroom. We had to get creative folks. We hung a curtain up and called it good. We have to be pretty darn quiet in the kitchen at night though, which is lame, but we are used to it now. Life is about being flexible, right?</div>
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Next up, we have our "master bedroom". Its teeny weeny. We gave the bigger room to the kids, because they have more stuff and they outnumber us....we took a vote and Steve and I lost. </div>
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That corner, next the dresser, harboring all those awful cable cords, ya that one, is where we move Dutch's pack n' play for naps during the day. Moving that pack n' play back and forth just may be my least favorite thing about living here. Seriously, I hate it. So much.<br />
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Right next to our room, is the kids room. Its a fun and functional little room. I haven't decorated it very much, mostly because I don't want to make this room look any busier than it already does.<br />
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Bunk beds are the greatest invention ever. Thank you Ikea for making a loft bed that works perfectly for toddlers. Heidi and Dutch are best the best of buddies and can be found playing on Heidi's bed <i>a lot.</i> I love it.<br />
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This is the longest post ever, sorry. One more room. The one, the only, bathroooooom!!</div>
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Nothing to write home about. Yes, that is a wooden toilet seat. Yes, its porous and gross. BUT the screws to remove it are rusted and stripped, so the toilet seat wins the battle, and it stays to torment us with its gross, germ harboring ways. I must mention the shower curtain. It makes me sad, people, <i>sad.</i> I am really tempted to buy the most awesome shower curtain known to man, no matter the cost, just to make this room happier. </div>
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Last, but certainly not least, is our backyard. We love our backyard. And what's not to love? We have a baby swing, and a big kid swing, hung from and old clothes line pole, a hammock, soft green grass, a beautiful meadow to look at, with a river running through it, and horses that come close to our fence every other day or so. So fun. Of course, now it is covered in leaves and the temperatures are plummeting, but we hope to still find a way to enjoy our yard, even in the cold weather.<br />
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Congratulations if you made it to the end! Now, to reward myself for putting such a long post together, I think I will sneak into my kitchen and quietly get some ice cream, and pray that I don't wake Dutch up in the process....Ginger Bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12705944771386534681noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040333371189800493.post-24471575063221442612015-06-21T21:36:00.000-07:002015-06-21T21:36:12.752-07:00Crickets, be gone!Its really has been quiet over here for a while - mostly because I started a sewing blog and that was my obsession for a bit. It actually still is an obsession, but life has dramatically gotten in the way of my sewing projects.<br />
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Life is straight up lunacy for us right now. Steve's dreams are coming true because he got himself a new Spanish teaching job....in Wyoming! In August we will be completely uprooting everything familiar with our lives and planting ourselves in the tiny town ("village" seems like a more accurate term) of Big Piney, Wyoming. Population 534. Average high temperature in January, 25 degrees. Average low in January -5 degrees. Closest Wal-Mart....2 HOURS away.<br />
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People are always asking me if I am <i>excited</i> about our new adventure. I wouldn't say I am excited about the idea of living in the freezing cold, in the middle of nowhere, but I feel <i>good</i> about this move. Really good. Although I am not excited about leaving my family in Arizona and the daunting winters that lay ahead of us, I am excited about a few things such as:<br />
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<li>amazing summers</li>
<li>virtually no traffic (I honestly get pretty severe anxiety in traffic, so this is a really good thing for me)</li>
<li>open spaces</li>
<li>cool summer nights</li>
<li>looking at the stars at night</li>
<li>nights that get dark, really dark (no street lights)</li>
<li>being part of a small community (I realize <i>really</i> becoming part of a community can take years, but its a nice thought to me)</li>
<li>experiencing 4 seasons again</li>
<li>busting out a true winter wardrobe</li>
<li>playing in the snow with our kids</li>
<li>NOT living the ghetto anymore</li>
<li>feeling safe, not worrying too much about crime</li>
<li>a much higher income</li>
<li>exploring the wilderness we will be living by</li>
<li>getting creative with making a tiny house fits our needs</li>
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We will likely be living in a two bedroom, one bathroom, small little house. The school district owns housing specifically for teachers, so they charge a really (ridiculously) low rent. Though these houses are small, I have been inside of one, and everything was updated and clean. I can do this, not forever, but I can do this.</div>
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Our house will officially be on the market tomorrow. I keep looking at the "For Sale" post in our front lawn and trying not to feel sad about leaving our home. I know I complain about living in the ghetto, but I have really loved this home and our ward. I have brought <i>three</i> babies home to this house - so many, many memories.</div>
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I have also loved living within 25 minutes of 4 of my siblings and 2.5 hours away from my parents. I am really going to miss my sisters, mom, and friends. In fact, sometimes I get really sad when I think of only seeing my family once or twice a year, and my kids not really knowing my parents and their cousins on my side. Its kind of depressing for me, but I know we can't stay in Arizona with how little they pay teachers. I know this move is the right thing for our family, but I can still be a little sad about it too, right?</div>
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<br />Ginger Bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12705944771386534681noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040333371189800493.post-36169677171216928212015-04-27T07:42:00.001-07:002015-04-27T07:52:18.930-07:00A New BlogI started a new blog for my sewing projects. I will still update this one with family and personal stuff, I know you were worried about that, ha! Anyway, there isn't anything fun on it yet, just and introductory post. If you are interested in following along it is:<br />
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<br />Ginger Bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12705944771386534681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040333371189800493.post-24409939757726167332015-03-23T12:13:00.001-07:002015-03-23T12:14:35.019-07:00The Sewing BugIf any of you know my dear mother, one thing you probably know about her is her mad seamstress skills. The woman used to make wedding dresses for brides, countless prom dresses for her 4 picky (okay, maybe I was the only picky one) daughters, and the list goes on and on. As a child she tried to teach me the ways of clothes making, but I usually just got really frustrated with it and wanted to throw what I was working on into a fire. It wasn't pretty. So I gave up on clothes making altogether.<br />
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10 years later, my kind and thoughtful husband bought me a serger for Christmas. Seriously. I was shocked and felt like a spoiled little brat. So, to make myself feel like <i>less</i> of a brat, I decided I needed to put this thing to good use and really learn how to make clothes.<br />
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Easter is around the corner, so I decided I would start with Easter dresses. So I made this dress (and one for Heidi too, but I didn't photogragh it....poor Heidi).<br />
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I hated it. And still do. However, the pattern I used was really great and easy to use. (If you are interested it is called the <a href="http://www.made-by-rae.com/2012/12/geranium-dress-sewing-pattern-is-here/" target="_blank">Geranium Dress</a>.) Because the dress was a pretty fun sew, I decided to start over with the Easter dress thing and put my own spin on the Geranium dress.</div>
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This time I added a peter pan collar, lengthened the bodice, and made the skirt all fluffy-like. I made one for both girls and am really happy with them....so I decided to make another version of the addicting Geranium dress.<br />
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So I bought a pattern called the <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/174231043/bg-originals-crickets-dress-and-tunic?ref=sr_gallery_1&ga_search_query=cricket+dress&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery" target="_blank">Cricket Dress</a> from Brownie Goose.</div>
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And just this morning, I found a new designer who makes children's apparel patterns, and bought <a href="http://lilluxecollection.com/product/citygirlromper/" target="_blank">this</a> pattern with hopes to whip up this adorable romper in the next day or so.</div>
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Ginger Bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12705944771386534681noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040333371189800493.post-11831635272630797112015-02-12T12:36:00.002-08:002015-02-12T12:36:36.190-08:00Little Love SeatI finished the love seat I was working on last night. It was a new record for me. I completely upholstered it in one day. I was able to do it so quickly because it was really straight forward, and most importantly, I didn't have to sew a box cushion for the seat...it was lovely.<br />
Here are some fun before and afters.....<br />
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Its are really pretty color, which was a huge sigh of relief because I bought it online without ordering a sample first. Always a risk, but it worked out well for me this time. </div>
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We really need a minivan...like really bad. Three carseats in the back of a Honda Accord is not ideal - in fact its driving me bonkers. BUT minivans are expensive and things are just generally tight in the whole financial realm of our lives. So I am going to try this upholstering thing (once again) to try and help us save up for a nice down payment on a minivan. I've got my next project piece all lined out to purchase tonight. Its a couch, and it will not be a one day project, not even close, but couches are the money makers.</div>
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<br />Ginger Bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12705944771386534681noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040333371189800493.post-58767329574533763942015-02-09T21:46:00.000-08:002015-02-09T21:59:28.584-08:00Life Lately....So I had a baby. And he is super cute and I kinda like him a lot. Behold, Dutch. Behold him!<br />
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Having three kids is all kinds of wonderful and chalk full of all kinds of crazy "all-hell-has-broken-loose" moments. Our little Dutch is almost 10 weeks old now, and life is beginning to feel like our new normal. It feels pretty good to finally have the confidence to take three kids to IKEA or thrift stores. I don't feel captive in my house anymore!<br />
A little something about Dutch: he is the best baby ever. Seriously. He eats well, sleeps well (not through the night quite yet but we are getting closer), and best of all, he doesn't feel the need to be held all day. He is happy as a bug (because bugs are happy, right?) to just kick around on a blanket while I chase his crazy sisters around. Lately its been less chasing and more pulling Heidi off of Avery when she attacks her like a pit bull. She's a biter, and it is more than terrifying...for everyone.<br />
Got a little side tracked there. What I am trying to say is, we have been blessed with a very sweet little boy and we all adore him to pieces....and if Heidi sics him, he very well could be in <i>literal</i> pieces. Kidding! Kind of. She's be crazy.<br />
In other news, a couple of Sunday's ago was Dutch's blessing day. It turned out to be a beautiful day full of the people we love most. He looked so dapper and handsome. I seriously love that little guy. Sidenote: we think he may be a redhead. The jury is still out, but its definitely not brown like his sisters' hair.<br />
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Besides Heidi trying to chew our limbs off, she is quickly following in Avery's footsteps to love all things "princess". Its adorable and annoying all at once.<br />
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Avery is now a Sunbeam and is growing up on us all of the sudden. She is my paranoid little helper and the best diaper fetcher that ever was. </div>
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Since I am feeling more settled into life with three kids. I decided to start upholstering again. I honestly crave projects, especially upholstery, so I was pretty excited to come across this gem at Goodwill last week. It was a whopping $13.</div>
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My fabric is coming in the mail tomorrow, so hopefully in the next couple of days I can sell this off and make a few bucks. Oh, and I re-designed my sewing room since having Dutch too. Once I get that little love seat sold off and out of that room, I'll do a little posty-post on the changes in there.<br />
Over and out.Ginger Bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12705944771386534681noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040333371189800493.post-59173452869505802752014-10-12T14:01:00.000-07:002014-10-12T14:01:19.832-07:00October Break<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
This past week was Steve's fall break, and boy was it needed. It was so nice to spend so much time with Steve (and to have so much of his time to help me with the girls!). We decided to go up to Utah for several days for a couple reasons. 1. General Conference. I have never been to a session of conference in the Conference Center and the timing was perfect, so we went for it. 2. To visit Steve's parents (who live in Ogden), his sister, and a few of Steve's friends. </div>
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While we were at conference, during the Saturday afternoon session, Steve's friend in Bountiful watched our girls for us. After we got back, and "the men" watched the priesthood session, they decided the night could not end without them playing a few songs together. It was just like the good ol' days, except now there are a million kids running around and dancing, and of course an Avery girl with no pants on, naturally.</div>
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Sunday was spent relaxing at Steve's parents house and watching the last two sessions of general conference. We pretended it was colder than it actually was outside and turned on the fireplace and drank hot cocoa.</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">That Monday we drove to Steve's sister's house and met her new little baby daughter, Meena. She was a little sweetie. Then we spent the next few hours playing at a park, where golden leaves kept magically falling from the trees. It was wonderful and made me not want to come back to Arizona.</span></div>
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The park we went to had a small Zoo attached to it, for only a couple bucks too! I know the Phoenix Zoo is all exotic animaled out, but this little zoo was so much more enjoyable for the small kids (and this pregnant woman appreciated how small it was too). </div>
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That same evening, we said our goodbye's to Steve's parents and drove down to Provo to visit Steve's college friend. We went out to eat (but not before I got "grumpy hungry", unfortunately) to Brick Oven Pizza, and stayed up way too late watching stupid videos on the world wide web.</div>
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The next morning, while loading up our car to go back to AZ, Steve's friend noticed that our front left tire was low, then he checked all the other tires and saw that the actual tire belt was showing on our back tires. That's how blow-outs happen, people. So without hesitation we made a quick stop at Wal-Mart and got two new tires and a huge nail removed from our front left tire. We felt so blessed that his friend is a car guy and just naturally looks at these things, because we are obviously not!</div>
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The trip home was....long. 12 hours in a car, 7 months pregnant, and a two little girls who tend to be naughty, did not equal fun. </div>
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The rest of the week was spent at home doing house projects, going to "Meet the Mormons" <i>with</i> said naughty girls (we did not get to see the end due to some rather rambunctious behavior), and going to my niece's baptism. Steve is sad he has to go back to work tomorrow, but the dream can't last forever, pal. </div>
Ginger Bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12705944771386534681noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040333371189800493.post-30226580188994969762014-09-30T13:18:00.002-07:002014-09-30T13:18:50.458-07:00Girls' Shared RoomLook at me go, posting two days in a row. That never happens, except for when I have fun things to share, which I totally do.<br />
I recently finished re-doing the girls room. I have been working on the little man's nursery and the girls' room simultaneously but couldn't really finish either room until we moved Avery in with Heidi. That was a scary little leap for us, but shockingly the girls do <i>better</i> sleeping together than in separate rooms. Its sort of insane, but totally wonderful. Its really fun to listen to them chatter and laugh at each other as they are falling asleep.<br />
Sisters are so fun. And decorating a girls room is <i>way</i> more fun and about a million times easier for me than decorating a little boy nursery. I'm naturally drawn to feminine things, what can I say?<br />
So, two years ago, I totally redesigned this room for Heidi's nursery and it looked like this:<br />
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I really loved this nursery. It was calming and girly and just <i>fresh</i> feeling. But because we are having children like rabbits over here, we need this space to accommodate both girls, which in my language translates to: "<i>Change everything</i>!!". So I did.<br />
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To my credit I didn't change <i>everything</i>, the chair and crib are the same, aaand that's about it.<br />
Obviously I was over the whole "calming, pastel" look, so I just kind of went nuts with colors and bold patterns and tried not to overthink it.<br />
First thing I did was paint over all the yellow walls with a fresh coat of white paint. Then I stenciled that one wall of trees, which was super hard and annoying. Avery loves those trees though, and it makes my heart happy when she lovingly rubs her face against them.<br />
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That rug, aka "the rug that pretty much everyone has in their house", is from a little hole in the wall called IKEA. Ever heard of it? I know its an overdone rug, but the price it great and even better than the price it adds so much to the room. It really makes the space feel bigger. Also, you should know now, this room is really hard to photograph, so I apologize for the weird angles.</div>
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I really didn't want to spend hardly any money on the curtains, so I used the curtains from Avery's old nursery that were peach, and dyed them this bright and poppy tangerine color. They are far from perfect as far as the dye job goes, but you can't beat $5 curtains. </div>
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The girls' bedding is all fabric from Joann's. Their blankets are just duvet covers, basically just sewing big pillow cases. And because their beds are weird sizes for regular down comforters, I bought a twin size down comforter and cut in half, then serged it and they were the perfect size for their beds. Donzo.</div>
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That bench is my favorite piece of furniture in the room. I got for $7 at goodwill and recovered it with fabric I already had on hand. I talk a lot about how much things cost because getting a good deal for something awesome must be rubbed in other people's faces, I kid, I kid. Sort of, mostly.</div>
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That painting....I had this idea to let the girls paint something to hang up on the wall. So I bought a bunch of cheap acrylic paints, took the girls outside in their skivvy's and let them go wild. It was apparent really quick that if I didn't intervene, this painting was going to look like Avery had gone back to her days of fecal smearing. It was brown. Duh. A ton of wet colors mixed together by two crazy girls was going to turn brown. So I let it dry, then attempted, without their help, to bring some color back onto the canvas. It turned out okay, not what I had in mind, but Avery loves that she helped paint it, which was the point. So I am calling it a win.</div>
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These pictures are total fantasy land, by the way. What I mean by that is, this room is <i>NEVER</i> this clean. We don't have a separate playroom, so this room is where all of their toys are kept and played with all day. It gets crazy real fast. Honestly, I am surprised I was able to keep it clean long enough to take these pictures.</div>
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Ginger Bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12705944771386534681noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040333371189800493.post-15965422287176062302014-09-29T12:57:00.000-07:002014-09-29T12:57:08.765-07:00Bizarre to BestYesterday was super weird for me. After I finished singing time at church, I went to pick up the girls from nursery and they had the bubble machine going full blast. Looking at all the bubbles floating around made me extremely dizzy, almost to the point of blacking out. So we got out of there ASAP. Then I noticed a headache coming on.<br />
By the time we got home, I slumped down at the kitchen table and <i>tried</i> to talk to Steve, but literally couldn't form words, much less sentences.<br />
I started laughing because what was coming out of my mouth was total gibberish, then I started crying because I felt confused and frustrated. Steve was more than a little freaked out, so he walked me to bed and brought me some lunch. While I was eating lunch in bed my right hand went numb and my headache worsened. At this point I realized I was having a migraine. This was only the second one I have ever had in my life, and they are strange and painfully awful, I might add.<br />
The migraine substantially subsided after Steve gave me a blessing and I got a little nap in. Then the rest of our Sunday afternoon was bliss.<br />
In my book "Bliss" equals spending quality time with my family, while simultaneously relaxing, and being outside in perfectly comfortable weather.<br />
In case you are wondering, this is what it looks like: (sans Steve, he was taking the picture obviously)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Heidi was cracking us up. She looks so comfortable with her little body strewn across the berm like that, doesn't she? </span></td></tr>
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After the mosquitoes chased <strike>us</strike> me away we went for a jolly little stroll around the neighborhood where there were still plenty of mosquitoes to be found, go figure.<br />
Yesterday day certainly had a weird and rough start but it ended so perfectly (as long as we aren't counting Avery's tantrum right before bed, which we aren't). It gets me so excited for more long term cooler weather. Only in this blasted Valley do we ache for the winter to get here already, its so backwards.Ginger Bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12705944771386534681noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040333371189800493.post-11744901736100190622014-09-22T12:45:00.000-07:002014-09-22T12:45:12.383-07:00Our Little Man's Nursery TourOur little guy's nursery is <i style="font-weight: bold;">finally</i> done! (well, almost, knowing me I will probably be making changes forever because I am insane). I feel like I have been working on this room for the entirety of this pregnancy, so it definitely feels nice to put a big 'ol fat check mark next to that "to do" item.<br />
Before I show you the nursery as it stands today, lets rewind to 4 years ago when this room was Avery's and it looked like this when we moved in.<br />
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We got rid of the lime green walls the previous owner painted, and added some faux paneling on the bottom half of the walls, and painted the upper half a brown/gray color.<br />
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It was very shabby chic, very girly, and really never quite finished. I never even hung one thing on the walls, it was pretty pathetic.<br />
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The walls are stenciled, and they were a major pain. I literally spent two weeks of working on those walls every waking moment...which makes this next statement hard to swallow for me : I don't love the walls. Yes, I like them, but I wish I had chosen something less busy and a little more modern and not so fancy. But given that I pretty much got carpel tunnel from doing those blasted walls, they are staying that way for, I don't know, at least a year :)</div>
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The rug I got from Urban Outfitters, and I love it even though it tends to move around and bunch up. The chair is a craigslist find. It is a la-z-boy rocker recliner and I could live my life <span style="text-align: center;">on that thing forever and be totally content, it is so comfortable. And the best part is, it was only $40 bucks and I didn't need to reupholster it, winning!</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">The dresser is a vintage craigslist find, and it is actually the second dresser I bought for this nursery. The first one I refinished with new stain and it came out darker than I wanted it to be, Steve liked it, but it was driving me crazy. So I plead insanity and told him I wanted to find a different one and he begrudgingly allowed such happenings to, you know, happen. I married a good and patient man, I tell you what.</span></div>
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This awesome cross stitched bear is probably the most meaningful item in the nursery. Steve's dad made it for Steve when Steve was a little boy, in fact all of Steve's siblings have a different animal that their dad stitched for them. It goes so perfectly in our nursery, I just love it!</div>
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That side table is a dried out Saguaro Cactus, pretty neat right? Again, a craigslist find.</div>
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That's the end of the nursery tour. And now, I think I will go sit in that rocker and day dream about <i>not </i> being pregnant anymore and maybe I'll dream up a name for our little boy while I'm at it.<br />
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<br />Ginger Bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12705944771386534681noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040333371189800493.post-76000832679997701522014-08-14T07:49:00.002-07:002014-08-14T08:49:15.357-07:00Around the HouseAs of late, I have been up to my nose in house projects. And Heidi has been up to her eyeballs in tooth pain, throw-up, fevers, and snot....lots of snot. Thankfully she is all better now, but she is a rough kid to handle when she is sick, I'll tell you that.<br />
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Last week I finally finished stenciling the nursery, and it turned out awesome. It took me two weeks, and I may have carpel tunnel in my wrist and elbow, but it looks beautiful. Pictures to come soon when I do the nursery reveal in about a week or so.<br />
I also did the curtains for the nursery which involved spray paint, and not so awesome results, but it was really cheap and it was the look I was going for, just don't touch them, okay?<br />
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I have had this wall in my living room where the art drove me crazy every single time I looked at it, and it is literally the first wall you see when you walk through my front door. Yesterday I finally solved my dilemma and made some art myself. I bought a cheap canvas from the thrift store, painted over the ugly painting and added some cascading black dots. I love how modern and updated that wall looks now. </div>
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The wall is definitely still lacking a lot of art, but I feel like I am finally heading in the right direction, which feels really good when you think about design as much as I do. I have problems, I know.</div>
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Aside from doing projects, I have been selling off old furniture and replacing it with "new" old furniture like a mad woman. I am sure my neighbors all think I run a furniture business by now. I think I need to start attending a "furniture addict anonymous" group. Its that bad. But the fun part of it all is I usually come out <i>making</i> money on my furniture swaps thanks to good ol' craigslist and facebook groups. Speaking of facebook groups, yesterday I got the most perfect craft tables and chairs for my girls for a smokin' deal off of Mesa Consign.<br />
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Before I got these tables, the girls were using the piano bench as their coloring space, which was not ideal. And look how perfectly they fit in that weird little hallway we have leading to our guest room and pantry. I love putting wasted space to good use.<br />
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I have lots more projects to share, but they are mostly nursery related, and I don't want to spoil the reveal, so you'll just have to wait :).<br />
<br />Ginger Bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12705944771386534681noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040333371189800493.post-39074363182737233432014-07-26T21:09:00.001-07:002014-07-26T21:09:06.037-07:00Williams Family Reunion 2014And the summer travelog continues....we went camping, with my immediate family a couple of weeks ago. Camping with kids is so exhausting, but thankfully both of our girls slept pretty well for the most part. That makes a huge difference in the overall experience. So, thank you, children.<br />
We got dirty and the girls had fun playing with cousins galore. Like most campouts, we had lots of good food (a few too many red vines), card games, camp fires, swimming at the Legacy Lodge pond, and even a movie on the big screen courtesy of the Nelson's. I was a little sad it didn't rain on us at all, but it was nice not having to deal with that element, especially since last year we all thought we were going to straight-up <i><b>die</b></i> in our tents as trees were crashing down around us that were struck by lightening. That was seriously one of the most terrifying and longest nights of my life.<br />
Here on some pictures so can feel as though you were camping with us.....<br />
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Until next year....when we will have 3 kids in a tent with us...yikes.Ginger Bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12705944771386534681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040333371189800493.post-88626126356791000892014-07-20T18:44:00.001-07:002014-07-20T18:44:52.277-07:00I lost a friend today...By the way this is Steve writing <u>not</u> Ginger, so if it's not very witty or charming that's why. Sad to say that yesterday I lost a good friend of mine. He and I passed through good times and hard times. He was there to keep me company in work and play, running or driving the car, mowing the lawn, putting up a gutter, teaching kids Spanish. If my friend could speak it would be volumes. Let me tell you how he died.<br />
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I was in my room checking my email when I heard a pop and WHIIZZZZZ. I turned around to see a cloud of smoke coming from my beloved ipod. It was seated in its off-brand docking station (probably the reason it blew up), and it was about to explode. I quickly got up and ran to it. My first reaction (and not a good one) was to grab it to see if I could revive its burnt body. I no sooner grabbed it when my fingers recoiled in horrific pain. The ipod was so hot it burnt my fingers (just second degree burns no big deal). So I went for the power cord and yanked it out of the socket. The room was full of smoke and stunk like melted electronics. <br />
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That little buddy had all my favorite music on it, 8 GB worth. Luckily I have a poopy ipod with a cracked screen to keep me going until I can find a new one. It's only 4 GB, but who needs to listen to more than 500 songs anyways. Farewell my black electronic friend! <br />
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Ginger Bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12705944771386534681noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040333371189800493.post-65569777983692331812014-07-07T14:59:00.002-07:002014-07-07T15:00:41.422-07:00Project Status: Complete!<div style="text-align: center;">
I <i>finally </i>finished upholstering a chair I started upholstering oh...I don't know...something like 3-4 months ago. I had this chair stripped to the bare bones for almost all of this time, it was just waiting to become beautiful. And Steve was threatening to take it to the dump if I didn't finish it soon (the man likes his garage clutter-free, what can I say?). So with a little kick in the rear to get me back into upholstery mode, I got it done in a few days.</div>
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So glad to have this project off my "pending list". Now I am <i>allowed</i> by my husband to start nursery projects, haha, okay, he isn't a tyrant but he has to lay down some rules sometimes because I am insane. He is my voice of reason.</div>
Ginger Bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12705944771386534681noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040333371189800493.post-46091627092950999632014-06-29T16:34:00.000-07:002014-06-29T16:34:06.139-07:00In Case You Haven't Heard...We are expecting and found out last week that it is a BOY! I am around 17 weeks and am due on December 6th. We found out what the gender is earlier that most people generally do because I am <i>super</i> impatient and decided to pay $50 for an ultrasound to specifically find out the gender. I just had to know and <i>now. </i><br />
I really felt like it was a boy, I even had a dream it was a boy (and so far I am 3 for 3 with my dreams being correct with the gender thing), but I was mentally prepared for it to be another girl, which would have been fantastic too.<br />
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As soon as the ultrasound tech positioned her little wand on my belly and stopped moving, I knew. I knew it was a boy. Steve was oblivious and dealing with our girls, the tech hadn't said a word yet, so I tapped him and said, "Steve....its a boy, its a boy." I think I was in disbelief for a few days after...that is until I started designing a little boy nursery. Now it feels real :)<br />
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I recently have been <strike>obsessed</strike> having a lot of fun with creating mood boards, and it is super easy with Powerpoint. Here is the concept i have come up with for our little man's abode.<br />
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If I love his room half as much as I love this mood board, when it is all finished, I will be totally happy. I also have a plan to do it on the cheap as well. For instance, the rug is a bunch of $7 rugs from Ikea that I am going to whipstitch together. I already have the crib. I am currently on the hunt for a cool mid-century dresser like the one pictured. I have ordered the wall stencil for the upper half of the walls (to get that wallpapered look). I am going to dye my own fabric for the curtains The rocking chair. Um, ya, I am not going to get that exact chair but I like the color. That chair is like $1700, crazy right?? I am hoping to find a vintage recliner-rocker that I can reupholster.<br />
And since we are adding a little one to the family, that means Avery and Heidi will need to share a room, and you know me, of course I have to redesign their room also. Here is their room's mood board:<br />
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Ginger Bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12705944771386534681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040333371189800493.post-42123239573897878952014-06-22T20:10:00.002-07:002014-06-22T20:19:15.734-07:00More Summer Fun-stuffWe are checking things off of our summer bucket list left and right! This past weekend we went up to Ojai, CA (an amazing little town 2 hours North of LA) where Steve's Uncle and Aunt live. We actually got engaged exactly 5 years ago in Ojai (technically on Ventura beach) so that was fun to realize.<br />
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Friday we spent the day at the beach and Steve and I got fried...but that is beside the point. The point is, the girls LOVED it, especially Avery. She really loved the waves and searching for seashells. We also got to see a lot of dolphins jumping around close to the shore line. Through our Arizona-touristy-eyes, it was the coolest thing to ever see, ever.<br />
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I even boogie boarded in the cold ocean water, not as much as Steve did, but he's a freak. But before I ventured into the ocean, methunk to myself, "Self, take your wedding rings off so you don't lose them in the ocean." So I took them off an put them in the outside pocket of our beach bag, a zipperless pocket.<br />
That evening we were eating a delicious meal that Steve's aunt made when I noticed our beach bag laying on their back patio...empty. So I said to Steve, "I forgot to tell you, I put my wedding rings in the outside pocket of the bag. You didn't shake the bag out, did you?"<br />
Long story short, he <i>did </i>shake the bag out and neither of my rings were in the bag. Happily he quickly found my main wedding ring with the big diamond just laying of their lawn, but my wedding band was no where to be seen. We looked for that ring for <i style="font-weight: bold;">hours. </i>Steve eventually drove half and hour to find a Harbor Freight and bought a metal detector and went back to the beach which was another half hour the other way...at night...and he forgot a flashlight. Needless to say, he did not find it at the beach.<br />
When he returned with the metal detector we were testing it out, and Steve's aunt was shining the flashlight on the lawn and saw something sparkling, my ring! It was literally in the very spot we had been looking for the previous 3 hours. Steve was a little sad we didn't find it with the metal detector he just spent the last 1.5 hours procuring.<br />
I felt so stupid during the whole ordeal. I told Steve the lesson to be learned here was, "Communicate with my husband!" and he said the lesson was "Don't put expensive rings in pockets that don't zip." Touche. Touche.<br />
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The next morning, Saturday, we got up at 5am, loaded the girls up and drove 2 hours South to the one and only Disneyland. Avery turns three next week, so we figured we better take advantage of her free admission while we can, because after next week, a fairly cheap Disneyland trip will no longer exist for our family.<br />
It was a really fun day, with about a billion other people, and two impatient toddlers. In our young parenting years fun=exhausting. There is no way around that one, toddlers are <i>work</i>, especially in a place like Disneyland.<br />
Steve and I have concluded that we are the worst at taking vacation pictures, so we got virtually no pictures worth sharing of our Disneyland adventure, but here are a few that {sort of } made the cut.<br />
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<i>Avery's favorite attractions were: "Mickey's Magic Map" show where several princesses sang and danced (her absolute dream come true), Its a Small World, Mad Hatter Tea Cups, the Train Ride, Jungle Cruise, the Tiki Room, and the Carousel.</i><br />
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Steve and I wished we could sleep the whole drive home like our girls did, well, I sort of did, but poor Steve had to drive the entire 6 hours. We didn't get home until 12:30am, aaaand we have 9am church...aaaand today is Steve's birthday. We are tired, to say the least, but being tired from too much fun is pretty much the best.<br />
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<br />Ginger Bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12705944771386534681noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040333371189800493.post-89491214657582082002014-06-15T21:56:00.000-07:002014-06-16T07:07:45.766-07:00Travelog TimeThis blog may turn into a travelog, and I just don't even care. I sort of, a lot, love that I have things "travel worthy" to blog about for the first time in a LONG time. Life is so busy during the school year, so fun weekends like the one we just had, don't happen ever.<br />
This past weekend, like as in a few days ago, our little family went on a camping trip with our friends Cami and Brady. We went up high on the Rim, past Happy Jack, on your way to Flagstaff, to some of the prettiest country you've ever seen. And beyond the beauty, it was breezy (when I say breezy, I really mean pretty darn windy) and fresh and most of all <i>cool.</i><br />
For a lot of the 2.5 hour drive up, Avery was sitting her carseat saying over and over in a sing-songy voice, "Camping, camping, camping, camping!" She was pretty excited, especially since we got her, her <i><u>own</u></i> pink sleeping bag. Parents for the win!<br />
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Do you see that little turkey sitting on that bed? She looks all cute and innocent, but when it comes time to sleep at night she wanted NOTHING to do with her pack n' play, but instead tormented Steve and I all stinking night long in our slowly deflating air mattress (which we are throwing away, we have patched that thing too many times). I would be fast asleep, and suddenly her little finger would be jammed in my mouth, and she would be playing peek-a-boo with her self, or rolling all over us, or simply sitting there, staring at us like a creepo. Avery, on the other hand, slept like a champ, but Steve and I, not so much. We just had to laugh and concede to the fact that camping with a kid who doesn't sleep is nuts, but so worth the memories.<br />
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Handsome man right there, naively smiling just before he had an hour long struggle trying to screw a small propane tank on to our portable grill so we could eat some delicious buffalo burgers.</div>
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We brought Steve's hammock that he brought back from his mission in Honduras, and as you can see, he thoroughly bonded with his little girls in it.</div>
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Giving her a red vine made her life complete.</div>
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Steve's stoic side.</div>
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This little girl was obsessed with her "princess chair", and would literally just kneel down in front of it and gently touch the princesses' faces with as much adoration as an almost 3 year old can muster. By the way, when we were packing up and she realized we were leaving, she got really sad and kept saying, "No, I don't wanna go home!" Steve said that was like music to his ears because she loved camping so much. Both of the girls did, it was exhausting but totally worth it.</div>
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We found this cool tree all by itself in the middle of a meadow and snapped a quick one....the wind was blowing and little did we know Heidi's hair was doing some gravity defying tricks. I zoomed in on the picture and......<br />
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Behold! I was cry-laughing when I discovered this after we got home.</div>
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Another fun surprise I got after arriving home and charging my dead phone, was to discover Sharla had her little girl while we were gone! So I showered and zoomed over to the hospital to meet my newest niece, Elizabeth. Such a cutie pie, and Sharla looked like she had just spent a week at the spa, she looked amazing.<br />
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<br />Ginger Bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12705944771386534681noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040333371189800493.post-69939942871188706822014-06-10T21:02:00.002-07:002014-06-10T21:03:32.444-07:00Welcome Summer!In our house, the season of "Summer" is usually not greeted with a smile and open arms. For the past several years summer has meant Steve working long, very hot days, spraying pest control. As a result I am usually stuck in the house all day, because it is insanely hot in this place we call the Valley where literally, life should not exist, but I digress. I spent so many summer days and nights alone waiting for Steve to come home from a very tiring day, and once he was home, he would pretty much eat dinner and sleep, just to do another 10-13 hour day the next day. Not the happiest of times.<br />
This summer, however, has been very different, so far, in the best way possible. Steve is <i>not </i>spraying pest control this summer, instead he is teaching summer school for 5 hours a day Monday through Thursday. Can you say, <i>hello quality family time!!</i> It has been amazing, so much so, that I don't even mind the blistering heat, seriously.<br />
We have big plans for this summer, which include, but are not limited to, 2 camping trips, 1 trip to Ojai California, 1 trip to Disneyland, 1 trip to Utah, and whatever the heck else we feel like doing. Its pretty fun to actually enjoy the summer like all teachers and their families should.<br />
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^^^This is how Avery feels about this Summer too....mmmmwah!</div>
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The other day Heidi pretended this little hair bow was a phone.....</div>
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I was <i>so</i> bored today. It happens. So to kill said boredom, I decided it was the perfect day to give Avery a much needed haircut. I thought about taking her to a salon, but figured, "Hey if I mess it up, I can just have the salon fix it. Win, win."</div>
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Feeling a false sense of capability and a very real sense of ambition, I turned on some Daniel Tiger, gave her her own spray bottle to play with, and had a secret stash of jelly beans for when she would get squirmy.</div>
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It is a tangly mess like this most days. Super uneven and <i>always</i> in her face. I was a little nervous that once I cut off the bottom few inches, those beautiful curls would be gone forever. That's just sad.</div>
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See how stringy it is on the bottom? That needed to be fixed, STAT.</div>
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After about 30 minutes of pretending I know how to cut hair and a handful of jelly beans later, here is how it turned out. (I flat ironed her hair because her little curls were doing some funky things with this new cut)</div>
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I sort of really love how she is pouting here.</div>
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Backside. A little uneven and crazy, but good enough where I don't feel the need to take her to the salon for am emergency fix. :)</div>
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After I got done cutting Avery's hair, Heidi was still sleeping, the scissors were still out, and methunk, "Hey Self, why stop here, how about you cut your own bangs while you're at it." </div>
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After watching a quick youtube video, I suddenly felt like a licensed stylist and before I knew it I had hacked off about 6-8 inches of hair. Bam. What's done is done. </div>
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Ginger Bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12705944771386534681noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040333371189800493.post-51217656016260911632014-03-26T14:14:00.002-07:002014-03-26T14:14:38.942-07:00A Pantry Face-Lift.When we bought our house, over three years ago, we were super excited to have a full sized pantry. It is part of the addition the previous owners added, so it isn't exactly in the kitchen, but close enough. It also was never totally finished.<br />
As embarrassing as it is to share these photos, this is basically how it has looked for the past 3.5 years.<br />
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Words that come to mind, anyone? I have a few: dirty, dingy, disorganized, gross, yuck, grab-my-cereal-and-get-outta-there!<br />
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This is one of those rooms where we have talked about painting, at least the trim, about a million times but have never done it, because, well, its a pantry. A couple of days ago I surprised, even myself, and just dove right in.<br />
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Because I started this project with a zero dollar budget, I looked to our garage and rustled up two old paint cans and decided to mix my own color and pray that I had enough.<br />
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I ended up with this dark and moody green. I emptied out both of those paint colors, so this was as much as I was going to get, and I knew it wouldn't cover all the walls, and honestly I didn't want the entire wall to be a solid cover. I wanted to get weird. Here is where it ended up....<br />
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Words that come to mind now are...."I <i>love </i>my pantry, and I think I will just plop myself down right in this handy chair and eat my huge bowl of cereal here."<br />
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Steve doesn't really understand why I totally styled and decorated a, ahem, <i>pantry. </i>But<i> </i>my feelings on it are: why not? Why does a pantry have to be boring just because nobody but us sees it? Our home is for us, and I see this room all day long. And plus, I am way more likely to <i>keep</i> a room clean and organized if I don't want to hide said room's beauty under clutter and grime.<br />
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This project took about a day to complete, and a grand total of $2.29. The only thing I bought was some acrylic black paint to darken up the green. Like I said, I reused old paint, and actually already had the curtain that I originally bought for our bedroom from Urban Outfitters, but it didn't work quite right. It works perfectly right in this space.<br />
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We are a little low on food storage right now, so as we fill in that supply the yellow picture at the top of the shelf may have to find a new home, but for now it makes me happy when I see it up there.<br />
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Full disclosure: If you love <a href="http://stylebyemilyhenderson.com/" target="_blank">Emily Henderson</a> as much as I do, you are probably thinking my pantry looks strangely familiar to a room she did, and you are totally right. I was <i>heavily </i>inspired by this room of hers. Can you tell?<br />
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So there you have, the story of how our pantry became pretty much my favorite room in our house. Who knew?Ginger Bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12705944771386534681noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040333371189800493.post-51212438010807051082014-03-21T13:44:00.002-07:002014-03-21T13:52:19.252-07:00IKEA TreasuresIt is no secret that I have an IKEA addiction. So much of the furniture in our home is from IKEA - its hard to beat great style and affordable prices, but I am getting ahead of myself here.<br />
About 6 months ago I bought these vintage teal dining chairs, from an antique store, without Steve approving them (a <b><i>big</i></b> no, no.)<br />
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and he has barely tolerated them but allowed me to keep them because I thought they were so adorable. Then we discovered the wheels were denting up our extremely soft "hard" wood floors. That was a deal breaker, even for me. So I have been on the hunt for new captain chairs for a little while now.<br />
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The other night we took a family outing to IKEA and Steve and I both saw these chairs and they caused us to <i><b>BOTH</b></i> pause and say, "hmmm, those might works just wonderfully." (and they are no longer $129, they are $79 at IKEA these days by the way).<br />
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Steve was 100% ready to impulse it and buy the two chairs then and there, you know, just drop close to $200 bucks on chairs, no big deal. Aack. No way.<br />
Still in love with the sleek and modern design, I decided to check craigslist and had a stroke of luck. I found two nearly brand new Tobias chairs (the ones pictured above) for less than half the cost. I bought them from the nicest pregnant lady, so that was doubly nice.<br />
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Just as a refresher, this is how I styled our dining room when we first bought our house over three years ago....<br />
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Although we didn't impulse buy the Tobias chairs at IKEA the other new, we did. however, impulse this cool circus tent. It is so hard not to spoil your kids, because it is so dang fun to buy them things they <i>love. </i>And Avery and Heidi both love this tent. </div>
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I made an A-Frame tent for the girls last summer, but Avery never really like it because it wasn't completely enclosed, and she couldn't stand up in it. Our entire family can squeeze in this thing together, even Steve's big lanky, handsome body :) No buyers remorse here!</div>
<br />Ginger Bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12705944771386534681noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040333371189800493.post-34156426688546406072014-03-18T20:41:00.002-07:002014-03-18T20:41:41.473-07:00Other NewsMarch is definitely my favorite part of living in Mesa, especially since we have a beloved orange tree. Right now the orange blossoms are in full bloom and our backyard smells like total heaven. Add in warm days running through sprinklers and cool evening spent at the park, it just doesn't get better than that. The only thing bad about March is it is fleeting, I want to hang on to it forever, but <i>much</i> too soon the summer heat consumes me and makes me grouchy from May through October.<br />
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Add in warm days running through sprinklers and cool evening spent at the park and it just doesn't get better than that. The only thing bad about March is, it is fleeting, I want to hang on to it forever, but <i>much</i> too soon the summer heat consumes me and makes me grouchy from May through October.<br />
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In other news we bought a zoo membership on Saturday. It was insane, and mostly we were insane for braving it on a Saturday. So many people!<br />
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When it was time to leave, Avery was not ready, of course. So Steve just scooped her up and did the "football" hold and we marched out of there with a screaming, kicking, red faced child. I actually even overheard someone talking about us, they muttered as we walked past, "<i>Child</i> abuse". Ha! Oh childless person, your day will come, just you wait.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">While we were looking at the Zebra's, Avery kept saying, "Crab, I want to see a crab." And pretty much every other animal that wasn't a crab (which was all of them). She was not impressed with this crab-less zoo, which is probably why she decided to be so "crabby". I'm so funny.<br /></td></tr>
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We left there feeling pretty darn defeated by our crazy two year old, so on Monday I decided I would be a glutton for punishment and go back to the zoo...<i>by myself</i>. I was there for almost 4.5 hours, determined to not leave there with a screaming Avery again. I failed. I failed miserably. Good thing we bought a zoo pass! (note heavy sarcasm).<br />
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In other, other news Avery pooped in the toilet for the first time yesterday! She did go in her diaper later, but it was still really exciting. And today she went poop in the toilet every single time she had to go. I feel like a weight has been lifted off of me, but I am trying to not get too excited in case this is a weird phase. Those who follow this blog or know me, know that I have been dealing with "poop" issues, to say the least, for the past year, and it has about broke my spirit as a mother. Today was a definite win in that area.<br />
Getting her to go pee in the toilet is a whole other story, I can <i>not</i> get that girl to just tinkle in the dang potty for anything. I always heard it is harder to get the poop part down, but like most things with Avery, we are doing it backwards apparently.<br />
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In other, other, other news, Steve is on Spring Break right now = amazing. He is busy studying for and taking his certification test for School Administration, and doing home projects and being the best dad and husband ever. Hopefully, later this week, we will get out to the lake so this man of mine can do some much needed fishing.<br />
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The End.Ginger Bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12705944771386534681noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040333371189800493.post-44620087029238940752014-03-07T19:48:00.004-08:002014-03-07T19:48:51.508-08:00A Fun Before and AfterI finished a really fun chair today. It was pretty darn tedious, but I learned a lot doing this chair, which feels good. And at any rate, it has a really dramatic before and after, which is always satisfying to me.<br />
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Obviously I painted that dingy frame, which was an undertaking for me because painting furniture is not in my comfort zone. Thank goodness for my spray gun!<br />
I love breathing new life into old chairs that have such potential.<br />
The end.Ginger Bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12705944771386534681noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040333371189800493.post-57580824832629721902014-03-01T06:45:00.000-08:002014-03-01T08:05:45.445-08:00A Modern CouchAre you sick of reading about my upholstery stuff yet? Because that is basically all the "news" I have to report these days. And also, I get pretty dang excited when I finish a project and basically want to show everyone (I'm like a four year old "look what I did! look what I did!" I know, but I can't help it!).<br />
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Its actually sort of a boring couch. But its got a modern feel to it and it is totally neutral which makes it much easier to sell. If I thought I would be keeping it, I would have done something a little more bold I think.</div>
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So there you have it. Not much to talk about with this couch. Pretty darn straight forward...come to think of it, this was probably the smoothest project I have ever done. I would like to think that means I am just getting better, but in reality I know this was just and easy couch. </div>
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Crossing my fingers that it sells quickly! I listed it for $475, does that sound reasonable to you? I always have a hard time deciding on the appropriate price!</div>
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