Back to School

Now that school has started back up, so has our crazy life! No more relaxing all day long with the little Monks (baby girl) with a little bit of picking up the house while she naps! Her nap time = my school time! That's been the biggest bummer since I have been loving the three hour naps she takes so that I can nap too clean up or get dinner prepped before my husband gets home! 

To start the school year off right my computer kicked it and the computer charger for my husbands computer stopped working about two days later! Awwwesome.  So I have been sharing a laptop with my very generous little sister (thank goodness she lives with us)! Fortunately, our new cord came in and hopefully soon I will be able to figure out which computer would be best.

In the meantime, I have been shopping for a new camera as well...Nikon d5100 say what???

Love her. I think I have been checking the prices every day since at least November.  Soon sweet camera, soon. 

Decorated Baby Wipe Container

Here is a quick project to do while you're just sitting around watching TV. 

This is everything you need, plus something to use as a straight edge...like a ruler.

And here it is after drying

I already had everything except the paper and the container, so this was only about three dollars! Now I just need to make one for our sweet girl!

Kasie

For Photography Fans

There's a giveaway on Crave Photography's Blog! There are six winners and the number one prize is a Nikon 85 mm  1.4 lens OR a Cannon 85 mm 1.2 lens and the winner picks which one! Go check it out!

Kasie

Homemade Potpourri

Our house doesn't always smell lemony fresh or like fresh baked apple pie.  Let's be real here, we have two dogs and a sweet little girl so there is usually dirt, mud, whatever else the dogs roll or step in, dirty diapers, and spit-up around somewhere in here.  I wanted something that would put off a nice subtle smell that might compensate for the not so great aromas floating around.  Since I decided this later on in the day and I'm not a fan of waking a sleeping baby, I looked around our house for whatever we might have to help and spotted some roses that I had let dry up. So, I decided to make some homemade potpourri.  I already had essential oils on had and I wasn't necessarily worried about making it the right way.  Here's what I did:  pour a few drops of whatever essential oils I wanted (fragrance oils would probably work just as well) on to the dried flowers (crushed cinnamon or something similar might also work if you wanted something else to add to the scent), sealed them in the mason jar for a little while (apparently the suggested time is four to six weeks and mix it up just about every day...I looked that up, but was too impatient to wait), and then I just opened the mason jar and set it near our front door.  Even though I didn't wait the whole four to six weeks the flowers smelled great and helped with the stinky diaper smell, plus I didn't have to wait around for my house to smell nice!

Kasie