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Here is a sneak peak at some decorations for Ruthie's Baby Shower:)

Free Paint!!!

Want a free paint sample?  I just ordered mine from the Vaspar website; follow this link to get your free sample AND a $5 coupon:)  I just ordered the same exact color that I already bought for the boys play room (blue sail) but thought it would help for "touch-ups" since it is a PLAY room.  I am not gonna turn down free paint... oh, if you don't get it today try back, I tried last week but was too late in the day, but today I hit the jackpot.  YEAH ME!

Crafty... so there....

Not the best picture to capture my happiness with this little project:)

So there all you haters... Just kidding... My blog obsession is really helping my house (and my shopping with the freebies and coupons.)  Today I broke into my niece's house (well, is it really breaking in if you have a key?) while she was out shopping.  I had her crafty heaven of a basement all to myself and got to work with the Cricut.  The project above is my version of Annalea's Love Letter Banners hers are very inspirational and just make her house look like a home, so I thought I needed one:)  This is hanging in my kitchen, I made it for me and two more for gifting (just using the three sheets of scrapbook paper and cutting the entire word out of each one then "trading" them to get a mix in each banner.)  The yarn is from the clearance bin at Big Lots so the entire project cost less than fifty cents each... and isn't it soooo cute!!!!!
While I was there I also cut out letters for the boys new playroom that is being built and then letters/shapes for my friend Ruthie's baby shower that I am hosting on March 12th.  Maybe you remember my post on making her invitations.  Anyway, enough blogging, have to go kill my arms some more and finish priming the concrete walls in the basement.  Til' next time ~

Progress 2

• Carpet is picked out
• Carpet layer has been contacted
• Drywall is sanded and ready to paint
• Primer on 1 wall (decided this was the best idea on the foundation before painted)
• Dust and gunk vacuumed up
• Paint picked out and bought

This is so exciting, I just wish I had more energy right now so I could do more work!!!

A present for my husband....

Don't be scared, this is a totally cooolll transformation in our house.  You all know you have that one (or if you are the Boyd Family 1,000) drawer(s) or cabinet(s) that are TOTALLY scary.  One of our many disaster areas is the cabinet near the sink that has the spices and all the medicine in it.  My friend Erin introduced me to a new blog and of course I stalk, I mean follow, it regularly.  So I saw this post on organization and was inspired.  Chad swears ever time he opens this cabinet so I followed Miss Kate's lead and did a little organization makeover.... Here are the results.......

Mornings

Dear Person I will never meet;
Every morning as I drive to school I see your car, a very nice well-kept car.  I cannot see you for the distance is too great, I do not know if you are a man or a woman, but I know that you come everyday at the same time to the same place.  It is your routine (as driving to school is mine,) and it is your life.  In my heart I have a special place for you.  I hope that you are there to remember, not to continually mourn and/or weep.  I hope that you have lived a good life, and that the person you visit did not have to suffer.  It is my hope that this person you visit can see/feel your love as you visit them everyday.  My mind wanders as I try to think who you may be visiting, is it a mother, a father, your spouse, your friend or heaven forbid your child?  I cannot imagine your thoughts or feelings.  I just hope that somebody loves me as much as you have loved them.  So although we will never meet I want you to know you have an impact on me.  I hope I have/will love the way that you have loved.
Kimberly

Think positive thoughts....

Tomorrow is solo and ensemble for my junior high kiddos, please think positive thoughts that they will perform well and that I will hold up.  I have been sick and I am exhausted, but I think we will all make it!