Life Hack #1

Incidentally... During the making of the last post I discovered something I wish that I had learned long ago. I will take credit for this genius (so don't tell me if you already knew this because I'm living in the glorious cloud of discovery)

Nail Polish Remover (the I used had Acetone) ALSO removes that sticky, gummy, residue left from stickers/labels with ULTIMATE EASE!

I've never really been one for the life hack pins, but this is worth it. I never to need to struggle to scrap off that icky goo or look for the little bottle of goo-be-gone again!

Glass Jar Picture Frames

Catching up from last week's missed "Pinteresting" craft of the week.  

I like this because the photos are so easy to change (easier than picture frames even! - and that's saying something) AND you can keep adding to your collection whenever you get an interesting jar. I'm particularly smitten with the tiny jar from a sample of maple butter my sister gave me once <3 p="">

Revered Pewter

Before and After

First you should try and picture this in your head: A shockingly lime green house with a red brick fireplace. Now paint over that shocking lime green with pasty peach. But do it poorly so that your lovely peach colour ends up smeared on the ceiling, the underside of the window trims, and some of the green still pokes through if you look for it. Also leave the back side of the fireplace green.

Got it?

Now imagine that. 

A red brick fireplace with the back side shocking lime with peach EVERYWHERE else. 

Welcome to my home :)

Needless to say the peach must go! I've slowly been painting over it all with this lovely colour from Benjamin Moore called "Revered Pewter" It's a fantastic "greige" as is so popular right now. So fantastic in fact that it was the same colour my sister painted her beautiful home. In all fairness she painted first, but I didn't know the colour name until she saw my paint job and asked me. Discovering we had picked the same colour! I guess good taste runs in the family.

As switching up the tiles is a big job they'll stay for now. But it's been a fun process to see the house transform with just a coat of paint. I LOVE painting with Benjamore Moore Aura paint. It's so stellar. Really just a coat and a bit. Which is awesome because I can only ever paint for about an hour at time while the babe naps.

The peach is almost gone now. Just the bathroom left to go, and touching up the mess that was left on the trim. Seriously people! If you can't edge well... TAPE! (rant over.)

Little Koala

Halloween 2013. My internal brain dialogue went something like this:

"Meh, I haven't dressed up for halloween for awhile..."

"The baby doesn't need a costume. He's not going trick or treating."

"Um... but it's his first halloween! What kind of mother are you!?"

"Okay... but it's the morning of Halloween. I didn't do this ahead of time! Shoot!"

"I can probably pull off that koala idea... oh no! He's awake."

"Okay, lets do this. Sewing the costume while the baby is awake. Perfect. Not."

But it all worked out in the end. And here are the basics so you too can have yourself a little koala :) It turned out so cute I might just keep the toque going for a while and pull out the ears after Halloween.

You'll need: 

1 white baby toque

2 black buttons (for eyes)

1 pair of grey baby socks

Some black fabric or felt for the nose

Grey Clothing (I taped the white patch on the tummy, but stitched on felt would probably be nicer if you were more on the ball than me and thought ahead of time)

Stitch it up, find your green and brown garb, grab yourself some leaves to make a crown and Voila! Baby Koala in the Tree :) I'm pretty proud of this one actually...

I thought the grey socks added a cute touch for the legs instead of pants. (also I didn't have grey baby pants that fit) And who can resist a cute baby diaper bum? 

He certainly seemed to like think it was a pretty swell costume. And now this mama can tell her son that he had a first halloween costume. Crisis averted!