Sale Postponed

The Tee for the Soul Warehouse Sale is postponed until next weekend due to inclement weather. The sale will be held Saturday, April 4, 2009. Same time, same place!

Tee for the Soul Warehouse Trunk Show

I am going to be a vendor at the Tee for the Soul warehouse trunk show this month! I love doing this sale. There are always so many great booths to peruse, and I always meet such great people.

I will have many new items in my booth. I have lots of new fabrics, and I have been busy sewing! I will be offering some discounts on some of my most popular items as well! Mention that you read my blog and get 25% off an item of your choice!

The sale will be held Saturday, March 28 from 10 am to 4 pm at the Tee for the Soul store, 101 West First Street, Edmond OK. (One and a half blocks west of Broadway on First Street, west side of railroad tracks)

I hope to see you there!

Don't they look nice?

OK, so as I posted previously, I finally did it. I sorted through all of the kids toys and got rid of what they absolutely do not play with. Again. I then organized them into categorical labeled see-through bins and stored them in my new cabinets in the sun/play room.

This is what is behind door number one:

Door number two:

And door number three:

The upper cabinets are still empty. I managed to fit the majority of their toys in the lower cabinets where the kids can easily reach them. They still have a few things in their rooms, but now everything is so much neater!

Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!

Today would have been Dr. Seuss's 105th Birthday. He is my favorite children's author, and that is saying quite a lot. I love that he never talked down to kids, that he wasn't afraid to put a message in his stories, and he knew kids would get it. Mostly, I love that he knew the importance of fun.

Today we read Green Eggs and Ham, The Cat in the Hat, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, The Lorax (written nearly 40 years ago and he is still speaking for the trees!) and Sneetches and Other Stories. I hope you had an opportunity to celebrate this masterful writer's birthday and read a little Seuss today. "If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good."

Don't Panic.

It seems we were on the go most of the day. We finished our errands around dinnertime, coincidentally near a Pei Wei restaurant. The kids love the Chicken Lo Mein (the adult kind, not the kid version that comes sans veggies) so we decided to pop in for a little dinner.

After dinner we headed over to choose our fortune cookies. This is always a lot of fun. Brandon's said "Your co-workers will enjoy your creativity." Very fitting, considering he is a writer. Emma's read "A good laugh and a good cry both cleanse the mind." Okay, pretty typical. Aidan's read "Hope is the most precious treasure to a person." I opened mine last. Mine simply stated:

I am fairly certain that I could win a "Weirdest Fortune Cookie Fortune" contest hands down with this one.

So Sweet

I am a sucker for silhouettes. I ran across this sweet little personalized print on Warm Biscuit's website, and I must have it for the new sun room. After all, it will primarily function as Emma and Aidan's play room, so I feel it is very fitting.

You can personalize your silhouettes. They have several to choose from. And at just $30 it is a steal! You can grab yours here.

I can't believe it is March!

February was a busy month. It seems the four of us were sick for most of it, which is a shame. But it was not all bad. Some pretty exciting things happened. Aidan turned three. Emma lost TWO teeth. I finally got the kids' toys organized into labeled bins. (More on this astonishing development later.)

I have decided that my kitchen needs a little makeover. Nothing extreme, I actually love my cabinets. I would LOVE LOVE LOVE new counter tops, but that project will have to wait. For now, I am going to do a little painting and add some new fabrics. Primarily, Anna Maria Horner's delicious Sketchbook from her Drawing Room collection:

If this doesn't brighten things up, I don't know what will! I know it is not super clear in this picture, but there is a gorgeous teal color splashed throughout the fabric. I am going to match paint to it and use it to paint the wall under the chair railing. I am not exactly sure when I will commence this project, but I hope to get started in the next few weeks. Once I begin I will make sure to post plenty of before and after pictures.

I picked up three wonderful chairs at an estate sale a few months ago, and sadly they are still sitting in my garage begging to be updated. Now that I have picked my primary fabric, I can finally recover the chair seats. Unfortunately they need new webbing, too, which if I remember correctly is a bit of a pain, but I know I can do it because my mom is a super hero who can do just about anything. And I know she will help me. (Mom, you ROCK!) Anyway, I think I will use a coordinating fabric on the chairs, maybe the pressed flowers. There are so many pretty coordinates, how is a girl to choose?