Some Good News!

I'm happy to announce I'm pregnant! 

I am almost 15 weeks along, and it is such a huge blessing! 

Two years ago I was diagnosed with a partial molar pregnancy, we found out at 10 weeks. The baby had stopped growing very early on, but I had an irregular growth that was continuing to grow. I had to go through two rounds of chemo to get rid of the cancerous growth in my uterus. Then we had to wait for a year before trying to conceive again. It took longer than expected, and then we found out why. I was going to start clomid the week I found out I was pregnant. So I feel like this is a miracle baby for sure! I am still nervous that something will go wrong. I think after a miscarriage everyone is a little more cautious and worried. But we are praying everything will go well, so far all signs lead to a healthy baby. 

 This is also one of the reasons for the lack of blogging. With my girls I was sick for around 16-17 weeks, and it is the same this time around. So hopefully I will be feeling better soon! We are finding out the gender in two weeks and I am so excited. After that I will be starting some baby projects. We are hoping for a boy since we have two girls and this will more than likely be our last baby, but I'm guessing it's another girl. I just hope the baby is healthy!

Here's a picture from a few weeks ago, I started showing really quick this time around!

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter! 

It finally felt like Spring today, it was amazing!

DIY Mixer Cover

I decided to upgrade my mixer cover. I made one over a year ago with some extra fabric I had. It's a little kiddy and does not go with my decor. I bought this chevron fabric at Hobby Lobby and made my girls skirts out of it. I had just enough left over to make a new mixer cover. I am so excited they have chevron fabric at Hobby Lobby now (I'm obsessed)! This material is cotton, they also had black and white. The first cover I made was from duck cloth, which is probably a better choice. They also had some different colors of chevron in duck cloth there. This is an easy beginner sewing project.

So here is what I did: 

Step 1 and 2:  I just placed my old cover over the material and cut around it. It measured 21inches long 16 1/2 inches high. I curved the top edges. You can make a template out of tissue paper if you would like. 

Step 3: (This part is optional) I took one piece of the fabric and monogrammed our initial on it.

Step 4: Place both pieces of fabric together with right sides facing each other. Sew around the curve of the fabric from the bottom of the left side around the curve of the fabric to the bottom of the right side. Then fold the bottom of the cover over twice and sew all the way around it. 

Now you are done! Enjoy your custom mixer cover! It's great for keeping dust out of your mixer, and making it match the rest of your kitchen. (My mixer is red, and nothing else in my house is red)

This would also make a great gift!

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Merry Christmas!

 Merry Christmas!!!!

Girls Bathroom Makeover

Yes I'm alive! I know I've been MIA for a while. I have no exciting excuses for it either. I have been sewing and crafting, just not blogging about. Here is one of the projects I did a few months ago. 

Sorry for the picture quality. I found these free printables here. The I am a child of God printable is from here.

I bought a bunch of picture frames from Goodwill for $1-$2 a piece. I spray painted them all white. I used the spray paint that has primer in it. I then printed out the pictures I wanted to use. I bought the shower curtain at Ross for a little under $6, it also came with the hooks. The basket on top of the toilet was $2 from goodwill, it is the perfect size to fit two rolls of toilet paper. 

I really did not like the aqua color of the walls (it's much brighter in person). I think the white frames and neutral colors in the shower curtain tone it down a lot. This was a very inexpensive project and it makes a big different to me. I don't hate the wall color anymore, so that's good! And it's not super kiddy either. Which is good since this doubles as our guest bathroom.

 

I also added a little something to our master bathroom wall. This pictures show the true wall color. Luckily there is some natural lighting in that bathroom so it photographs better. I found this metal wall hanging (not sure what to call it) at a yard sale for $1. I bought some silver spray paint and painted it. Then I hung it on the wall. It takes up a lot of space which is good. There is nothing else on the walls in that bathroom. The only other thing we bought for the bathroom is the cabinet over the toilet. We bought it at Bed Bath and Beyond. Total waste of money if you ask me. It's not deep enough for towels, which was really the reason I wanted it. If you need it for storing other things I'm sure it will be great. We also bought the basket sitting on the shelf for $5 at Marshall's. I think I'm going to get all my baskets from Goodwill from now on since they are so cheap. I do the love bluish gray paint in this bathroom. The silver matches all the fixtures so it looks nice.

I hope everyone is having fun getting ready for the holidays! 

Happy Crafting!

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Happy Halloween!

Glenda and the Wicked Witch

I bought these costumes last year at Target for 80% off. Glenda decided she wanted to be a butterfly, our compromise was dollar store wings. I did have to take the costumes in and the ribbons were already falling off, next year I might just make there costumes. But they loved them anyways! 

I hope you all had a Happy Halloween!

$1 Fall Wreath

I decided to make a wreath for my front door. It's the first one I've made since we moved in this past May. I bought this wreath at Dollar Tree, for $1! It's not huge so if you need a bigger one try Hobby Lobby and use a 40% off coupon. You should be able to get one for under $5. 

I used silk flowers I had leftover from making headbands to decorate it. You can also buy some at Dollar Tree or any craft/fabric store. All you do is pull the flower off the plastic stem and lay out the leaves and flowers in any pattern you desire. I attached the flowers using hot glue. I added a jewel to the middle, and that's it! I think it's pretty cute for $1! 

You could really use anything to decorate your wreath. Felt flowers would also be a great inexpensive idea. A great tutorial for making felt flowers can be found here.

And because one picture just is not enough, here are some pics of my girls with their pumpkins. Enjoy!

Happy Fall Ya'll!!

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