We have done a pretty good job of teaching the girls, that when they receive or earn money, it gets divided up into three jars. Save, Share, Spend. One kid doesn't spend a dime and the other one never has a dime. But because I got tired looking at this pile on the spender's closet shelf
We made a quick trip to Ikea (a trip the dad called "clearly just filling time") and I made these jars.
Super tidy problem solver!
The little one wanted a sky themed birthday. I was having some trouble envisioning that, until I saw the birthday cake my friend Alicia's husband made. Then Nicole of Making it Lovely, began planning a rainbow party for her daughter. If I had seen the balloon rainbow Gabrielle had for her June, Iwould have incorporate that as well.
The aforementioned flowers, looked much better when arranged on the table. The tablecloth is Dwell for Target. It seems to be last season, although I just bought it. Rainbow M&M were layered in IKEA glasses that we use for wine. Lanterns and tissue flowers are from Luna Bazaar.
Our local Cold Stone matched the colors perfectly.
The treat bags were super fun to put together with personalized bubbles ala Blonde Designs, flower lollypops, sheppard girls headbands and custom jump ropes from The Jump Rope Store.
Special shoutout to the loud talker moms at gymnastics who I overheard talking about the jump ropes. Thanks ladies. It was almost worth putting up with your very loud, overly personal conversations all year long, because the jump ropes were a huge hit.
When buying these flowers this afternoon, I found it very important to let the flower shop ladies know that we were having a rainbow birthday party.
I have been using these Valentine's Day fruit stickers from Twig and Thistle each day this week in the girls lunches. The little one saves them and puts them on her shirt. The big shows her friends and they all groan. That is the difference between seven and eleven my friends.
I let the little one pick a new bedroom color about a month ago. She selected a VERY BRIGHT pink. Once I saw the first coat around the trim and ceiling I was super worried. It makes her bedroom glow pink with the nightlight on.
I spent about a week reimagining her accessories and it has started to grow on me. Then last week Pantone named its color of the year for 2011.
I am totally going to let myself think she is a design genius.
I have always planned to put wreaths on the girls rooms. This is the first year I actually got around to it. Tinsel wreath idea from Creature Comforts. Fabric flower idea from somewhere else. Pretty easy. Cut circles , fold them into 1/4ths, make a few stitched at the bottons of the folded fabric and then stitch five or six of those together. Vintage Shiny Brite ornaments because I tend to buy too many.
Whoooo has the sweetest bus driver in the world? We do. This is the second year we have had Ms. Karen as our driver. She paints little rocks for each holiday, hands out treats, and makes a special turn around the corner to drop off right in front of our house on cold days. Last week she asked the little one if I made any bibs with owls because her new granddaughter's nursery was decorated with pink owls. I didn't have any owl fabric, but I could definitely find some.
Added, the fabric Japanese with no selvage so I can't be sure who made it. But it is adorable!
The biggest thing that our house needs is more storage. Don't tell me to get rid of things. More storage is the answer. Two of our closets had really nice closet systems when we moved in. The others have a bar and a shelf, including the front closet.
Now that the school carnival, which I co-chair is over, I can refocus on things like this.
Custom closet system from Twin Cities Closet. Back wall painted Benjamin Moore Wyeth Blue, which I originally bought to repaint our bedroom. I didn't really understand until last night, that if I wanted to do something like this, I would have to take out all the exisiting closet hardware and paint before the closet guys arrived this morning. I managed to find the crowbar, the troublelight and the paint roller extension in record time.
Photograph is this one from our Christmas card photo shoot attempt. It is my favorite. Although one of my kids faces is completely covered up.
I am packing our bag to go to Tour de Farm this afternoon. It is a locally run version of Outstanding in the Field, which we went to last year, at the same farm. This event is a family picnic, which seems like a fun idea. The little one is worried they will serve stinky cheese.
Apparently I married a hobo.
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