[pin] my favorite and my best

Charlie and Lola is one of the all time greatest cartoons.  I always wanted my little ones to love it as much as I do. Maybe the girls will one day?  Lola has her favorite and her best things.  My new favorite ... Pinterest.  I'm absolutely enthralled with it.  You find a photo or link that you want to keep up with and just click your little "pin it" bookmark.  Pinterest adds it to your customizable board and then poof, you have the photo AND the link and it's on your sweet little categorized boards. No more trying to remember where you saved a photo or idea from.  No more searching for an older photo so you can get the correct reference link.  And that's just the beginning....

[celebrate] babies in baltimore

How much fun is it to plan baby showers?  My favorite part is the pre-planning.  Thanks to blogs and entertaining websites and of course, Martha, the ideas are everywhere.  So for my friend up in Baltimore, here a few ideas for a little baby boy.  She asked for two schemes, navy and green and navy and yellow.  Which is your favorite?

 Images: table runner; flowers; coasters; apples; forks; candy bar; limeade; birth announcement; corsage; dots; peanut favor

Images: tulips; pie; pinwheels; tote bags; buttercups; favor; blueberry cups; lanterns; jam; table runner; lemons; monogram

[celebrate] jack's sixth revisited

No festival or county fair for me this year.  We are meeting the animals at the Catawba Science Center this year for the not so little one's big day.  It will be a great time and I love all things science so it's all good.  Here are my latest ideas.  Now to just figure out the party favors...

Images (clockwise): printable; treat bags; dinosaur/lizard cake; vines

bookshelves from spiceracks

I love of IKEA.  I tell my kids all the time that you "love" people and you "like" places.  But I love that big blue and yellow building.  So when I saw this here, needless to say my heart did in fact skip a beat.  It's perfect for the girls redo.

twin time

For Christmas, JuJu got the girls a new comforter set after we were graciously given two beautiful twin "big girl" beds.  Since it was Christmas, I just switched out their toddler daybeds and added the new beds and comforter sets. I guess it's time to address the rest of the room since I can't use the holidays as my latest excuse.  So here are a few ideas.

Clockwise: eye candy; madison bedding; chalk board; felt butterfly mobile; bulletin boards

[celebrate] birthday boy

Despite the rain I'm going to make sure I properly celebrate the leader of our merry band's birthday.  The birthday boy or better said, man has a full schedule today, but I'm trying to sneak in surprises as I can before his official weekend trip to Bubba's World.

[love] my favorite pillow

Before I had twins I always thought that it would be so cool to have twins.  Then when I had twins I realized that hard over took cool by quite a bit.  Women constantly tell me that they wished they would have or did have twins and I always answer the same, they are wonderful but it's a lot to handle at once.  Sometimes though, just sometimes, I'm jarred back to that wish that I had a twin sister and I'm so thankful that I was blessed with these two beautiful little girls and they with each other.

[love] fourwheelin'

It's alive!  The four-wheeler is all fixed up and ready to ride and so is the boy.  I insist on the safety measures, he's only 5 after all.  He did REALLY good!

feeling the love ...

February will be here before we know it and I'm actually feeling somewhat prepared.  Check out the new additions to PlayPending Bows.  These kind of count as bows, right?

These pretty little heart pins come in pairs too!

I've got twins, so let's be honest.  They all come in pairs.

Valentines Day may be coming up, but I just placed my Girl Scout Cookie order!  A few for the Daisies and Brownies in my life.

I may just keep these for myself.

If you are interested in anything you see, just drop me a note and I will be glad to share!

[love] snow ... snow .... snowwwww ...

Back to the reality of winter.  At least we can enjoy it, right?