Sunday Scoop

Here on the Sunday Scoop I am going to share projects that we have going here in our home. I started our bedroom about a year ago and I am going to finish it now!!! When we bought this house it was covered with gold stuff, gold door knobs, gold ceiling fans, gold bathroom knobs, gold gold gold.... It also was covered in flowers, don't get me wrong I like flowers and floral prints but these were not nice (in my opinion!) The first picture I want to share is my hubby and daughter working together to tape off my middle stripe! (The top will be light blue and bottom will be navy blue, then the middle stripe is going to be brown!)

The next picture is our bed, ignore it I was stripping it to wash everything! There will be pictures of me and my husband on either side of the window.

OK now this picture is embarrassing!!! We have been using a box to put our DVD player on and other various items. When this project is finished there will be a mantle under the tv. This will hide the cords some and give me a spot to sit a few creative projects!! I think that the people that owned the house before us were smokers (I can't smell it but the fireplace isn't white, its like yellowish white...yuck!) I plan on repianting that and then getting some sort of shelf to sit the DVD player on and other items!

BEWARE!!! These pictures have the last remaining floral wallpaper. HIDEOUS! This is
a niche in the ceiling and I plan on painting where the floral paper is brown. The ceiling fan has already been replaced! I had to get rid of the gross gold one!


I can not wait till this project is finished and I can show it off!!! I have wanted my bedroom done forever ago! I also have some uppercase living that will be on the walls and I hope to complete some fun creative projects to add to the room too!

If you have any fun creative ideas for me I would absolutely love to hear and see them!!! If I use your ideas in my bedroom remodel I will link you and feature you on my blog!!! Thank you, Brooke

Some Favorite Items!!!

I want to show everyone an order that I have been working on! I absolutely love how these items turned out and I am so excited to give them to the customer! I hope that there are some excited kiddos to recieve their gifts!

The first is a First Birthday Outfit! The mom wanted a very pink outfit so this is what I came up with. I think I succeeded on the very pink part!!! I love the number 1on the front of the shirt and it all matches so well!


I also made a very fun brown and pink spiral dot M bow holder! This is the biggest style of bow holder that I make and a perk of this bow holder is, it comes with a wearable hair bow! I can paint this bow holder in many different ways and can have it match your little princess' room!

And last but not least is the JOHN DEERE T-Shirt I appliqued for her little boy! This shirt was a lot of work but i loved how it turned out! Anyone that likes John Deere should love this shirt! I hope the lil man does too!



I have many more birthday outfits to complete and will continue to share with all of you! Thank you for following my blog!
Brooke

Week #1 of ME!

Well I know this seems hard to believe but I actually have two "ME" times to share for this week!!! I have been finding about 30 minutes for the last couple days to do my Biggest Loser Workout on the XBOX 360 Kinect!!! I love this thing. It is sooooo amazing. My kiddos absolutely love Dance Central and I can say it is super fun for me too!!! I might just secretly dance dance dance, even when the kids aren't here!!! I am sure there is somewhere that does this, but it would be a super fun bar thing, kind of like Karaoke. (But me find time or energy to go to a bar would be like winning the lottery, not happening!) So my workout time has been nice and I plan on keeping this "ME" time going for a while. I want to also thank my husband cause last night he made the kids go in the dining room with him so I had the tv and XBOX all to myself for my workout! If not, they are behind me moving and dancing around in the camera!!

Ok for the next "ME" time! My husband rented a movie from REDBOX the other day (he rented this one with me in mind, it was a chick flick!) and we have not had a night where the kids got to bed and we had time to sit down and watch it. Well I told him last night that I wanted us to watch it. Guess what? IT HAPPENED!!! GOING THE DISTANCE is a great and laugh out loud movie. My husband even enjoyed it! If I can make it through a night movie, that means it has to be good because I am usually out!!!

Well I had a great time trying to find "ME" time and look forward to more of it!!!
Comment here about what you got to do for yourself this past week.

HUGS, Brooke

and I can't leave out a picture of my youngest!!! Her sister has this white seal that makes noise and stuff and she found it today and absolutely loves it (great how will I break the news to her older sister?!!) Well Bella wanted me to take a picture of her and the baby seal!

Try these two things!

Wake-up, wake-up kids, shower, cinnamon rolls baked, kids fed, Lauren out the door (Cooper stayed home, his eye is irratted), fix and ate my bagel, messaged and sent out all invoices from the Bella Buy, ran to friends house, post office, walmart trip, made lunch for kids, ate, fixed jello, fixed pudding, worked on a couple new projects, and now blogging!!!

I have been super busy all day long and I am just now getting a second to sit down and post. I hope everyone enjoys this post and gives inspiration for some creative ideas and projects!

I have two things in my blog today. I will be showing you directions to a fun and crafty bow holder. I will also show you how Lauren's hair turned out. I love Girly Do Hair styles. I really love doing the front braid and when I saw the bows made from hair, I thought "OOOO so much fun and soooo cute!!!" Lauren's hair is not quite long enough but it still worked!!! She really liked it and wore it to school!





Next:
Check out this fun bow holder!!!
Here are most of the items you will need for this project. You will also need scissors (to cut the ribbon),a lighter (to heat seal the ribbon ends) and a hot glue gun.

Now paint the wooden shape any color you want. (I chose white so it wouldn't be too busy and easily read.

Then you are going to paint your design on the wooden shape with paint pens. I chose my ribbon and that helped me choose what color paint pens I needed and the design I wanted to paint.

I now let that dry and while it's drying I heat sealed the ends of my ribbon. Just take a lighter and run it across all ends quickly.


Next I put a little bit of hot glue on the ends of the ribbon and fold it over. This gives a clean look to the end of your bow holder.

Once your painted design is dry then you can paint on your letters. I chose to write BOWS but you could write a name, initials, DIVA, PRINCESS, etc...

Now you are going to glue the long strands of ribbon to the bottom of the bow holder, the NOT folded over ends!

Next step is to glue anything you would like to the ends of the ribbon. I chose little poms!

Now glue you top ribbon on the top of the bow holder. This is what you will hang the holder with.

And TADA you are finished!!!!! What a great bow holder!!!!

My Sweet Bella and the BELLA BUY!

I am doing a Bella Buy, it is a sale on my facebook page that I try to have weekly. I sell my items at a discounted price than what it usually sells for. This is a great opportunity for customers to get great items at great prices. Come on over to facebook and check out my sale. I have not set a specific day of the week for Bella Buys cause I have to go with the flow of my kids, orders that need to be done for customers, and the 24 hour a day time restraint, that I fight daily!

Here is what my sweet Bella Boo is doing while I work... What more than playing dress-up!!!! She is loving it and having so much fun! I have to stop about every 15 minutes and change her dress for her but it is worth it to see that sparkle in her eye. I think she feels so special today and is loving every bit of it!




DO NOT FORGET to check out the Wake-Up Wednesday tab under my banner. It has the instructions for the very first challenge! I think there are going to be a lot of happy strangers this week! I can't wait to do my good deed and make somebodys day! Join me and then next week on Wednesday tell me all about it!

HUGS!
Brooke