ETSY and Latest Art Projects......

 I had to come up with a creative way to make a bunch of gifts for my bosses and friends that I was leaving behind at good ole BHS..... I still didn't get to give everyone something because I simply ran out of time. BUT in the process, I discovered something NEW!!! I had the best time making these, in fact I'm even thinking about business propositions!! We are so excited, if I could only get my brain to stop spinning and thinking of so many more things, I could get some done. The problem with always finding new things to do, is I can never find time to do them all!!

Long story short...... I decided to set up an etsy page to make some extra $$$. It's fun to "not work" outside of the home, yet still be able to bring in some money! If y'all have anything other ideas or things y'all want me to try to make, please let me know. I always love new things!

Please visit my etsy shop and share with your friends! Hopefully more will be posted soon!

http://www.etsy.com/shop/DesignsbyKimsey

Here are some of the pictures, most of them I gave away. But I hope you enjoy browsing as much as I enjoyed creating!

I made almost 30 of them! I really had so much fun though!

This one was my favorite, I think because of the odd shape!

Baylor's shower

I have been a baby shower girl this weekend! Friday night, we celebrated Hart's baby, Madeleine, and Saturday we celebrated Abby and my nephew, Baylor! The "sprinkle" was awesome..... Abbs literally didn't need another thing in Baylor's room, so we surprised her with $$$ and made him a door hanger for the hospital room.....Another project I worked on this week while Lyds was napping :)

Abby's mom made a diaper stroller!

Sweet Stacie and Abbs

Sis-in-laws

The door hanger!

Side view, I loving adding a little "pop" to the edges of canvases. And the Liddy helped me distress the frame.

Funny story while I was painting the black frame........

 So we'd both been to KK's office earlier in the day, we had on our "good" clothes and shoes! I put the fame in the grass outside while Lyds was playing, I got out the bottle of black paint, and "thought" it was behind me where Liddy couldn't mess with it.

I'm not even a few strokes in, and hear this belly laughing..... I turn around to see BLACK paint ALL over her, her precious bubbles and new yellow shoes, AND all over my shirt, skirt and DRIVEWAY!

I instantly kick into teacher mode... this isn't first time I've had to deal with spilt paint..... I grad her up (as she's trying to put her dirty hands into her mouth) and run to the water hose. We both take a mini shower in the sprinkler. And the black instantly starts to run off. We clean up, leave our shoes our to dry, and run inside to throw our clothes in the washer. Surprisingly the black acrylic paint came completely OUT!!! I was thrilled, I just knew it was going to ruin both our clothes and shoes. I regretfully did not get any pictures, because I was in clean up mode! But those are the memories I want to keep. It was my fault for leaving the open bottle of black paint there, so I couldn't be mad. We made the best of it and laughed it away. She had fun and I'm glad.... we will have that splatter of black paint in the driveway to remind us of the day we "painted" Baylor's frame! Thank you Liddy and Baylor for reminding me not to sweat the small stuff and laugh it off if you can! Every day is a gift and there is no use in getting upset over things that don't really matter!

She loved dragging it around!

Abbs requested one like Baker's, but me being different, I can't do the same thing twice!

I do love that monkey on Baker's though, it matched his room perfectly!

Potty and Play time

A couple of funny stories from this week......

1. Liddy went TT in the big girl potty TWO times this week. She's only 18 months, I think it just kind of happened. I bought a potty a few weeks ago and keep it in her bathroom. I introduce her to it every time we go in there. One day at lunch she was holding herself and saying bo-bo.... I thought maybe something was hurting her in her diaper, so I went change her and noticed she was dry. So I plopped her down on her little toilet and said TT. And she did! I freaked out!!! Cheered, flushed it in the toilet and waved bye bye to it. Later in the week, she did it again! I'm so proud of my baby and hopefully we'll be out of diapers soon :) 

My big girl... and her new favorite word, YELLOW.  She carries around yellow things all the time and yelling the color "YELLOW". 

This is the only time it's ok to post a picture of you on the potty, Lyds!

2. She loves putting our shoes on! I caught a couple times when she was attempting to walk in my shoes. The tennis shoes are easier than the flip flops! Sometimes she leaves me chasing around for my shoes, and I have no idea where she's put them.

I promise I didn't put these on her... yes I take my shoes off by just sliding them and not unlacing them, I know it's bad.

I think she was surprised that she actually for her feet in them.

And then she goes to marching.

Flip flops are a little harder.

She's so happy!

3. She got a new toy and two new pairs of shoes this week! This lawnmower blows bubbles, but by the time she gets it going fast enough to blow bubbles, she gets distracted by the bubbles and stops to watch them! Troxy got her some new toms, since she outgrew her old ones. And couldn't resist these cute yellow sandals. She loves the white ones, they are almost worn out, so I got a summer color.

Cutie pie in her yellow shoes!

Working that lawn mower in her Toms.

Oh precious child, you will never know just how much we love you!

4. My favorite, I'm guessing he didn't mean to dress like Liddy. But since they basically look like twins and Liddy is a clone of her daddy, why not dress them the same?!

The man on the left stole my heart years ago, and now I share that love with the little girl on the right... no words can describe how I love these two.

Trying to get her to look at the camera, yeah right!

I mean... you don't have to wonder what she'll look like in 30 years.... congratulations Alan, you have marked this baby!