Easter's on its way

 We have added some more Easter decor since our last decor post.

The subway art is from eighteen 25 and the pictures are from last year when they had their pictures taken with bunnies. I made the butterfly garland out of scrapbook paper.

The bunnies my great grandma made, she would have been a 100 on the 13th of this month.

If you weren't a follower of my blog last year here are some projects that I did and will probably do again this year.

[Bird Nest Treats]

[Egg-citing Easter Activities for Toddlers]

The fabulous parties I am linking up to:

Lil Luna
Organize and Decorate Everything
Crystal and Co.
House of Hepworths
Delightful Order
Gluesticks
Tatertots and Jello
Be Different Act Normal
I Heart Naptime
Tip Junkie
A Bowl Full of Lemons
Let Birds Fly
Somewhat Simple
Fingerprints on the Fridge
Tidy Mom
320 Sycamore
Six Sister's Stuff
Lolly Jane
The NY Melrose Family
Creatively Living
Cowgirl Up

Organizing Spices Part 1

One of the most unorganized cabinets in my kitchen is the spice cabinet...too many spices and too little space. Another problem is my kitchen cabinets are up pretty high and being that I am only 5'2, I can't even see to the back of the cabinet which results in me climbing onto the counter everytime I am looking for something that is not in the front.

I got this Swivel and Store contraption which I thought would be a good solution. While it is a good idea in theory, it is not big enough for hardly any of my spice containers. Anyone else have one of these? What do you use it for?

I also had bought this spice rack many years ago. Problem is none of the spices I used were in it. So it sat on my counter for years just wasting space.

Not anymore folks. I emptied out all the spices in the containers and took all the labels off and let them soak in some soapy water. Then using my Silhouette, I cut out new labels for spices I use all the time. I then filled them up.

What I love most about this project is that I took something that was wasting space and made it useful. Also, now all my spices are easy to find and in arm's reach.

I still have some bigger spice containers and oils and sauces that need to be organized in my spice cabinet. So I will talk about that in Part 2.

Do you have a project that you made functional that was previously just a waste of space? I would love to hear about it.

 

The fabulous parties I am linking up to:

Lil Luna
Organize and Decorate Everything
Crystal and Co.
House of Hepworths
Delightful Order
Gluesticks
Tatertots and Jello
Be Different Act Normal
I Heart Naptime
Tip Junkie
A Bowl Full of Lemons
Let Birds Fly
Somewhat Simple
Fingerprints on the Fridge
Tidy Mom
320 Sycamore
Six Sister's Stuff
Lolly Jane
The NY Melrose Family
Creatively Living
Cowgirl Up

Springtime Decor

Remember the day I flooded my kitchen?

 Well as if that wasn't enough to do in one day but I also thought that would be a great day to put out my spring decor. It was a great idea too because spring and all it's bright and cheery colors put me in a happy mood.

Want to hear the best part about my spring decor?

The only thing I bought was that big bunny and I bought him before Valentine's so I don't count that ;)

I got him at Home Goods for 12 dollars and I already had the eggs from my kids easter baskets. Doesn't it look like a jar of huge jelly beans?

I spray painted a old plate my Mom had given me and used my Silhouette to put a "Spring Chicken" on it. 

Since these tissue rosettes from The Idea Room took me so long to make for Valentine's, I decided I would use them with my spring decor too. I just painted a candlestick I had green and added it to the top. I think it looks like a flower.

This tea set is very special to me, my grandma gave it to me, it was given to her 50 plus years ago for a wedding gift.  I added the green plate behind it so it would stand out better. Oh and that book it is sitting on is from my husband's grandfather. Going through those old family heirlooms is a cheap and unique way to decorate your home and make it your own.

I had a bunch of spring scrapbook paper leftover from last year so that is what I used to make this banner. I just wish I would have made the letters a little bigger. 

This is quote by Lady Bird Johnson that I found that I think describes Spring, a season full of hope and new beginnings. 

Using vinyl cut by my Silhouette, I applied it to a old frame I had in my stash. 

I already had that blue mason jar and the hydrangea stem was part of some flowers I had for my wedding.

You might remember my bunny plaque from last year.

I made these yarn eggs. I did them a little different then that site though. I used multi-colored yarn and instead of cutting small pieces, I did one long piece and hung them to dry with a clothespin on a wire hanger.

Here it is all together. I never can get a good picture of this room, it doesn't get much natural light.

My other tips for decorating for holidays on the cheap are to get vases, frames, and plates in a couple colors that can be used for several holidays and interchange them.

For example, Red , Aqua, and Green are my favortie colors to use.

Red can be used for Valentine's Day, Memorial Day, 4th of July, Fall, and Christmas.

Aqua can be used for Winter, Easter and Summer.

Green can be used for St. Patty's Day, Spring, and Christmas.

The fabulous parties I am linking up to:

Lil Luna
Organize and Decorate Everything
Crystal and Co.
House of Hepworths
Delightful Order
Gluesticks
Tatertots and Jello
Be Different Act Normal
I Heart Naptime
Tip Junkie
A Bowl Full of Lemons
Let Birds Fly
Somewhat Simple
Fingerprints on the Fridge
Tidy Mom
320 Sycamore
Six Sister's Stuff
Lolly Jane
The NY Melrose Family
Creatively Living
Cowgirl Up
Oopsey Daisy

Mama said there'd be days like this...

I thought I was having one of "those" days on Tuesday. One where nothing went right, one where the boys were into EVERYTHING. They dumped a container of dog food twice, broke glasses, wouldn't nap on the couch, put them in playpens in my room and then climbed out of course, put them in their room to take a nap and they take off their diapers(that are taped and have on jeans and a belt) and spread their poop all over the room. That would be the reasons that I have been putting them downstairs to nap.

Fast forward to today and they decide they want to go through another phase of doing this....

Only this time they are getting their stacking cups and filling them with water and dumping them on the floor. After them doing that several times I decide I am going to turn the water that connects to the fridge off. Only I end up turning the connectors for the hose to fridge instead of the valve because I didn't move the fridge away from the wall where I could see. Water spraying EVERYWHERE and the pressure was so high that I couldn't even see to turn the valve off because off the water spraying in my face. Babies screaming. All I could think was how my whole bottom floor of my house was going to be ruined. I felt like I was in the scene of the Titantic where the portholes bust, water is going everywhere, women and children are screaming. By the time I got it off, there was water standing from my stove to the french doors and it was flowing out the french doors onto the patio even though they were closed.  I squeegeed the water out onto the patio and used a wet vac to do the rest and after 2 hours, the kitchen was finally back to its normal state.

What is my point in telling you all this?

Well God sure has a sense of humor because remember the whole reason I was turning the water off to start with?

So my kids wouldn't dump CUPS of water on the floor, so what happens when I go to turn it off I get GALLONS of water poured on my floor. So I think the lesson learned here, is don't sweat the small stuff and the things that seemed so bad a couple days before are nothing in the grand scheme of things.

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The good Lord sure is teaching me lots of lessons in patience lately!

I hope everyone has a fabulous weekend!

{Random} Thoughts

It's been awhile since I have done one of these. Heck it has been awhile since I have done a blog post period.

The main reason for that would be after 3 years of running on very little sleep, I have finally become tired enough to go to bed at a decent hour AND if I go to bed after midnight I can sleep the whole night through usually. I use to do all my blog post and crazy projects instead of sleeping so those have been put on the back burner.

You wanna know who else has been sleeping? These guys!

They hadn't had a regular nap in months, so we finally decided something needed to change. By their evening crankiness we could tell they definitely still needed them, so we moved them on to the couch where we can watch them and it prevents me from going up and down the stairs a hundred times to put them back in bed, make sure their diapers and clothes are on, etc.

All my twin mommas out there know that there is hardly a place you can go without being stopped by someone asking if your children are twins. It is annoying when you are trying to get in and out but I kindly answer their (silly) questions and go on about my business. I really thought this would be over after they weren't cute little chubby babies anymore but that is not so. I could go on and on about the crazy things people have asked or told me but I think by far the oddest story happened today. While trying to keep my kids from throwing cheerios all over the waiting room floor, a man walked up and asked if they are twins and I said yes, he goes on to tell me he has twin nephews. This is not uncommon, everyone tells me how they know someone who has twins( or my favorite, I know someone who had twins and then had triplets). He then tells me how one twin had a "freak" accident( he went into detail but I will spare you the details) and died and the other twin lived a miserable life without his brother. I was so in shock that someone would think that this is what a mother of twins would want to hear or in fact any mother would want to hear. I am sharing this because I think it is a lesson that you should think how your words will affect others before you open your mouth, we all want to share "our story" with other people but somethings are just better left unsaid unless asked upon.  I think as moms we already go through worst case scenarios in our head before we do anything and adding extra worry is not necessary.

And to end this random post on a good note...

I texted my husband the other day asking him to go get some tweezers because I couldn't find ours and he comes back with these.

I went back and looked at the text thinking it was a auto correct error but nope he just read it wrong.

Wouldn't be so bad if I liked Twizzlers. Twizzlers anyone?