For the Aunties

So this post is for the kid's Auntie Kim, Auntie Blou, and Uncle Ryan who keeps asking me for pictures of the kids and not at all interested in my layouts or what their sister is up to. :) This week they went fishing in our backyard, played at the park almost every night, and on grandpa's trailer. Hey, you guys could log on & leave me a comment sometime.

Yo Gabba Gabba

This is what Micah is "into" these days. Every night it's You Gabba Gabba he wants to watch. If you've never heard of it, it's on Nick Jr and they sing and dance silly songs. My nephew Panya was doing his homework the other night in the same room and was watching it too, he said the songs are catchy. I have an ebay bid on the dvd since I can't find it anywhere and we have to watch it on the internet everytime Micah asks for it which is quite often. Kenzie knows every character's name although she's not into it as much. The pink daisy girl is her favorite. Even Lam's mom knows all their names by now.

Bridal Shower

I threw a bridal shower for my friend Amy this weekend. She's the one in purple. It turned out pretty good. Kenzie was such a good helper. She assembled all the champagne glasses and helped me decorate and play games. It was 4.5 hours from the time we started decorating to the time we finished cleaning up and she was such a great trooper. She kept asking me if it was time to go home before the guests arrived though.

Color challenge

Completed this layout for Gretchen's color challenge using coral, aqua, turquoise, and red.

Delectable!

Finally, the "after" pictures of my newly painted and reorganized scraproom. The chocolate brown/buttercream/tangerine color combo makes me think of the word Kenzie has been saying often after watching Backyardigans: Delectable! Scrumptious!

I bought a whole gallon of the orange color with the intention of painting a whole wall with it but I'm glad I changed my mind and decided on just painting all the accent wall hangings. This way, when I want a change, it'll be easy to switch it out with another color and a whole lot less work!


I got these wicker baskets at Michaels to organize & hide my stuff, they were 50% off last week, perfect timing.

These used to be blue/yellow/green/and pink!

This canvas was inspired by the cover of Ali's newest book - I'm going to add a picture of the kids once I get a good one taken.

I moved my target cubes to this wall. I keep all my pattern paper, cardstock and kits here.

Check out the chocolate colored wall, I love it!

I repainted these canvases. Inspired by aLove Elsie Zoe Soft Charm.

Got these at HL in the clearance isle for $3.40 several months ago.

My spot to hang layouts before I put them into albums. Ikea bar $4 and Target clips $1 spot.

IMG_9170, originally uploaded by Lan A.

So clean and organized, now if I can keep it that way!

3 things

Thought I'd do an Ali replica and post three things that inspireded me while surfing this morning.

1) Brenda Carpenter has posted some new Love Elsie layouts on her blog. I'm always inspired by her pages & her photos.

2) Prima's blog has a build-a-page sketch this week with great samples. I love flowers and their layouts are inspiring me to use some of my stash up.

3) HeroArts posted the winners from a card contest and i'm totally diggin the second place card "whoo hoo" I rec'd a free owl stamp from one of the kits I won during the WT's anniversary so I'm definitely going to lift this one.

I got my walls painted last night and I am so excited about it! Still have some touching up to do around the ceiling/doors/windows and I'm painting some canvases to accent it but I should be ready to unpack all my stuff and move back in by Friday. Whoo hoo!

Fabric Colors

I'm still deciding on a color palette for my room. I know I want Brown in it but not sure on the second color. I thought about brown/pink....or brown/cherry chocolate red....but maybe leaning towards a brown/tangerine. I'm just afraid it will make the room too dark. What do you think?





No painting done last night. I got the brushes and primer all set up but had to wait for Lam to come home from the shop to help me move the desk and bookcase & he didn't get home till after dark. So my MIL and I took the kids to the park and walked around the neighborhood. We pushed the kids in the double stroller then they wanted to get down and run.

Kenzie was playing pretend school like she always does and was showing me how I should jump. Micah watches intently and wants to play too, then he starts running all around doing his own funky moves with his foot and head bopping. I laughed so hard last night watching him.

Sunday morning Kenzie woke up came into my bedroom with her blanket in tow and said to me. "Mommy scoot over I want to sleep with you cut I need you, I love you, I'm your baby girl"

Reasons why I love being a mother.