Showing posts with label Under the Sycamore. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Under the Sycamore. Show all posts

Sunday, August 8, 2010

Onesies for Averie


I finished up stenciling these onesies for my new little cousin Averie and got them in the mail this weekend. I got the stencils for the chimpanzee and for the little character, Totoro from the website stencilry.org and the idea for the cat's eye glasses onesie from Ashley Ann over at Under the Sycamore. I got the onesies from Joe Fresh for 3 for $10. I also sent a little pewter pendant that I picked up at Aitkens Pewter for Averie's mom. I like having a gift to give to a new mom that isn't a baby item but something just for her. I hope she likes it.


Welcome little Averie!

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Mudroom

Our little house in our rough little neighbourhood came with a rough little mudroom. The whole house is in pretty great shape, except of course the mudroom. A couple "before" pictures to show you what I mean:



Pretty mangey right? Anyway, I'm happy to report that a quick coat of paint made quite a difference but there are still quite a few things I want to accomplish in there in the next couple weeks. With any luck I'll be able to post some "after" photos soon. One of the projects that I had in mind for in there was to take some photos of flowers in our yard, frame them and put them up on the wall to brighten it up a bit and I thought it would be a nice way to remember the things that grow outside in the middle of winter when they are six feet under snow. I snapped a few the other day and am happy with the results. I had originally intended to pick a few favourites and frame and display them separately but when I put them into collage form, I really liked how they looked. So much so that I'll likely do something similar for the wall. I was eating Smartfood at the time so maybe that was it...


Speaking of taking pictures, I found a blog called Under the Sycamore written by a photographer. She has amazing photographs. Looking through her blog makes me want to a) take better photos and b) have said photos published into coffee table books (for my own coffee table). I shouldn't admit these things, should I?