Much better!

I decided on the light green for my basement and I love it! It's so light and pretty and calming!

I am almost done... just have the entry/ hallway part to do. I burned my thumb really bad with my flat iron on Sat and it still hurts! Too bad that is right where I hold my paint brush and roller, otherwise I would be all done. I am a little crazy and love to get things done right away, especially paint. That unfinished part is making me nuts, but I seriously don't want this blistery thing to get worse than it is. After that I want to repaint the white trim. I thought it was fine until I got up real close and I've got to match the newness of fresh paint!

Oops!

I screwed up big time! I've been wanting to repaint my basement for a little while now. The color was fine- just a tan color. But, we didn't have any touch up paint for it and we had some pretty bad scratches and holes to fix. I was getting a little tired of the whole brown basement- walls, carpet, couch all brown.

Terrible picture of my tan basement "before"

So, I decided to go with a nice, fresh, spring green color (or so I thought!) And ended up with this atrocity...

If it's possible it even looks worse in real life! AND I painted pretty much the entire basement for like 5 hours today. Ok, to my credit it looked slightly better in the daylight and it was a lighter color when it was wet. But, still I'm a huge dope and I bought 3 gallons of this putrid color at Walmart and I wasted the whole day. Does anyone know if I can return paint to Walmart?

Happy Birthday Daiser Doodle!

My baby is now officially a 3 year old! Wow!
She was just a little bug the other day...

About 1 month

Daisy used to be kind of "special."

Oh wait... she's still pretty special!

She got a heart sandwich on Valentine's Day

Happy Birthday to my sweet, big girl! Love you Daisy!

Heart Cake!

I tried my first fondant cake yesterday! I was pretty happy the way it turned out. Marshmallow fondant was pretty simple... marshmallows, a little water, and powdered sugar, but I did think it was a little tough to get the consistency right. I think I ended up using a little too much powdered sugar because it got a bit crackly looking. (The second picture you can especially see).

I had a fun time making the bow and putting on the pearly beads with tweezers. Boyd helped me roll it out and cut the hearts and all the kids were so excited to watch and "help." Daisy was sure a darling singing "Happy Birthday to ME!" at the top of her lungs (twice because Lucy blew out her candles before she got a chance).

See how Lucy is getting ready to blow out Daisy's candles first! Yep, we had to repeat the whole song and candles so Daisy could do it herself.

Lucy has been such a weirdo about paper mustaches. She wants to make a new one everyday and share with her friends. She even insisted on wearing one to school- What is wrong with my child?

Ok, they are pretty funny, but maybe it's just getting a little old for me cutting out paper after paper- she needs help on the curly part of the mustache (her favorite kind).

Daisy's face is great in this one. Lucy even tries to talk in an accent (not really sure which one, but it's funny). I got her to say "I mustache you to be my Valentine" and she laughed so hard she could hardly say it.
Wanna see what Ken and I did this week? We got a new water heater because our old one was leaking.

Pretty, huh? The easy part was bringing it down the stairs (I helped). It gave Ken some trouble with the connectors- the old ones were all rusted on, and then the new ones were the wrong size, etc. But my man finally got everything put together and working! Hooray!

We also put in a cute little kitty door to the utility room so we can keep the litter box a little more under wraps. Our cats are a little bit dumb, they haven't quite gotten the hang of walking through it. And Homer nearly doesn't fit in because he's so fat, but I've pushed him through the door a couple of times and put the food there to motivate them in.

Valentine Craft

Here's my craft of the day! Crepe paper roses on a piece of cardboard and scrapbook paper with ruffle crepe paper on the edges. Cute, huh?
A couple of weeks ago I was working on a felt banner, but my sewing machine was broken :(
But, now it's all fixed- YAY! :) Hopefully I will get around to finishing it soon!

Crazy about Cats

The kids and I made these cute cat Valentine boxes the other day. Boyd is supposed to make one for his school class and the girls were so jealous, we had to make one for them, too. Boyd has been going crazy about how much he loves his cat things. I hope his cat box makes it in time for Valentine's day, it has definitely been loved!

Boyd wrote some cute things for his questionnaire. I love how he spells "kittins" I haven't the heart to tell him it's not spelled right, I think he would be upset that every single paper he ever wrote has been wrong. Boyd has covered his walls in his room with cat drawings, covered his bed in stuffed cat toys, always plays "cats" with Lucy, and watches "Thunder Cats" everyday. He is one cat loving kid, and our real cats sure love him back! Boyd always makes sure they have food, water, and lots of pets! He is such a sweet heart.

The girls love to baby the cats as well. Ollie was out cold while Daisy and Lucy giggled and wrapped him in the pink blankey, he sure was happy though! 

Siff is the sweetest boy ever! He is so snuggly with the other cats and he lets the kids carry him around like a baby and he just purrs constantly.