i am a confessed craftaholic

So one night i went craft crazy and whipped out a ton of crafts in about two hours and i have to tell you the frames are by far my favorite craft that i have ever done! i want to replace all the frames in my apartment with these! I was inspired by some similar frames from another crafter's blog (i can't remember which one) but wanted something a little different and i am sooooo happy with them! i love the little  bow holders too and letter plaques< i am a little obsessed with plastering the girls initials all over their room :] i hope you love all these as much as i do! oh and the pictures in the frames were done by janea greene of janea greene photography. She is amazing! she is so good with kids and so talented i am going to her for future shoots as well! so talented, so fun, and reasonably priced! Love her!

crafts!! :]

So I have been up to a couple things, not too much but enough to keep my craft craving satisfied :] Although my list for more crafts is so SO long! I need more time in the day so i can fit crafts into my schedule! Well onto what I have been making! i made a gorgeous pillow, a surprise diaper cake for an unsuspecting family (there is another one in the making for another unsuspecting family) and then a simple jazz up to a calendar frame i already made a couple months back at super sat. Right now i am redoing my living room colors into brown and yellow, so i am making pillows, although the store didn't have a yellow i liked so i used gold, the next pillow will be a ruffle one! i found these adorable ones at pier one but didn't want to pay what they are charging so i will just make it myself! I am also going to be making a few other yellow and browns things and hopefully making over an ugly chair to match too! Woot Woot! too fun! The diaper cake is only so so cause well i have absolutely no baby boy supplies! But i am still pretty happy with it! simple but i like! Here are some photos of a few of the steps from the pillow! If you want a full tutorial head of to the crafting chicks blog!  Well what do you guys think? I am not too sure how i feel about how the pillow turned out yet.....

Reya's first step!

So last night reya took her first step! It was so amazing! I am so very proud of her!! She was standing up and i rushed over and stood in front of her and put my hands out saying "come here, come on" and she did it! She took her first step all alone! My little girls are growing up so fast!

the easel!!!

So it took me a week but i am finally getting the easel pictures up!! The girls love it! They use it everyday; I am so happy they get so much use out of it! :] Here are some pictures: Reya even helped! :] i will post some more crafts and updates tomorrow!

Christmas 2010

MERRY CHRISTMAS! hope it is a blessed one for you all!

painting, painting, and more painting........

well i was up painting the girls easels till 5am and now am getting ready to assemble. I am very tired to say the least. you should see katelyn right now she stripped off her pj's and is running around in circles all crazy :] too cute! I will post pictures of the easels soon! Can't wait to see them done!!! I found the plans on ana-white.com, she has so many amazing plans you should go check it out!! So do you guys have any christmas projects left? I still have to finish shopping! ahhhhh!

I'm a blogger!!

                             baking christmas cookies :] (ignore my sink i am an extremely messy baker)

                                                       aren't my girls beyond adorable!

Well I have been wanting to start blogging for a while now but just didn't get around to it for this reason or that, but after talking to a friend I got all excited and well here I am! I will be posting about my two gorgeous girls, crafts, baking, and all the crazy events of my life, there are a lot with my two year old katelyn. :] I guess  I should tell you about myself and my family.....I am married to Jesse Araujo, we have two girls, Katelyn who is two and Reya who is one. I love crafting, and baking, and photography, and playing with my girls. I am currently going to school and working part time so life is busy to say the least :], but I love it that way; although i do enjoy just relaxing in front of a good movie with candles lit and eating my chocolate. Right now i am working on a few projects for christmas; i am making each if the girls a toddler size chalkboard easel and making family sets of ornaments that i found on two different blogs(the easels are from anna white and the ornaments are from todays fabulous finds). i absolutely adore christmas time, it really is the most wonderful time of the year and it is becoming even more wonderful now that katelyn is understanding what is going on. She loves Santa Clause and looking at christmas lights and singing christmas songs and baking christmas cookies. It was so cute the other day we were looking at christmas lights and there was a star in a window and she exclaimed "look mommy the star is stuck in the window!" it was so adorable! I will probably be telling a lot of stories about the girls, they are just so cute and make me laugh and smile so much that I can't help but share! :] Well i am so excited to start blogging and hope you guys enjoy it!