Visual Project List {Part 1}

I was inspired by Allison of House of Hepworths to create a project to do list.  Allison has been rapidly crossing stuff off her list and that motivated me to do the same!  

Here is my visual to do list. 

        All of these projects only require three things: Valspar's Betsy Linen paint, a brush, and time.  What I really want to work on is my kitchen cabinets, powder room, and laundry room, but I have to get the boring stuff finished first. I will post the rest of my project list tomorrow because I know you are dying to see!

Checking out the New Exhibits at TCM

We love our Children's Museum and always try to attend the Target Free Nights which are the first Thursday of each month from 4-8.  Two new exhibits are Frogs, and National Geographic Treasure of the Earth. We went with some good friends and had a great time! 

Wyatt and Isaiah as Terra Cotta Warriors

Ribbet

Luke taking his role as a warrior very serious!

The biggest Bullfrog I have ever seen! 

Falling for Donuts

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This morning the family got dressed and headed to Dunkin Donuts for a morning treat. I had the Caramel Apple Donut and it was amazing!!!  The pumpkin donut was good too and along with a raspberry iced coffee, that is my kind of Saturday morning!  

\After breakfast we ran into Toys R Us to purchase The Lion King for only $14.99. This was the first movie Matt and I ever went to together. Hard to believe that we have been watching movies together for the past seventeen years. While at TRU Wyatt picked out his Halloween costume. This year he will be Jango Fett and the first thing he did when we got home was put on his costume.  I have a feeling I will be seeing him look like this for the next three weeks!

Schedule House Cleaning?

I do all right with the day to day cleaning and keeping things picked up, but it is the deep cleaning that gets my mop in a knot. This house is big and last time I deep cleaned it took me two weeks working one room at a time.  One of my fav blogs is Clover Lane and I noticed that she had a cleaning schedule. How smart is that?  

Source: memoriesoncloverlane.blogspot.com via Stephanie on Pinterest

Instead of taking 14 days to deep clean I am going to take 14 weeks. I posted my schedule by the command center. I will make modifications when needed and highlight when the task is finished. 

This week is the Master Bedroom, so I better get started!

A Winner, Napper, and a Mr. and Mrs.

  What a crazy title, right?! Well, you will understand by the end of this post.  I bought a Monopoly game for $5 last week and we decided to break it out and play. It took three nights and several hours to finish one game, but it was fun and Wyatt was the big winner. By the end of the game he had all the money and properties. He owned all the railroads and I promise I hit them at least twice each loop. Forget Boardwalk, get the railroads!

The Napper

Here is a picture of my sweet baby. We could not get him to wake up! Of course it was after 5 and he was up until 11!

Mr. and Mrs.

A lot of Mr. & Mrs. love out there on Pinterest and I thought that is just what I need as a filler for my frames in the master bedroom. I like the girly font and the "manly" font.  I had some dollar store photo paper and with PSE I had these in my frames in less than 10 minutes!

I printed them on 8.5X11 paper and cut to size. Here are the images if you are interested. 

Mr. and Mrs. downloads.

Praying for Will

I know that this blog is usually about decor, craft, family stuff, but my heart has been heavy with the sad news about a fellow first grader at Wyatt's school. His name is Will and he was seriously injured in a fall that could have happened to one of my children in my home. I believe that prayer works and I will admit that my prayer time has been minimal if not non existent, but I feel the need to keep this boy in my prayers.  I hope that anyone who reads this post will also pray for Will.
Here is his CaringBridge site.

Oliver +S Doll Carrier

A few months ago at the library I checked out this oliver + s book.

Many cute patterns, but the one that caught Madeline's eye was the doll carrier.  I like the pattern because it is fairly easy to follow and the carrier is adjustable so Madeline can carry a variety of "friends".  This project was free because I used scrap fabrics and I had traced the pattern and scanned the instructions.  The only modification that I did to the pattern was add buttons as opposed to Velcro.  If you are looking for a doll carrier this one is a winner in our book!