Sock Bun Curls

Sock bun curls have been on my "To Do" list for weeks now and we had an extra 5 minutes last night.  I tried it out on my daughter's hair.  It is a little difficult to get it started just keep working in the loose ends.

Instructions:
Start with barely damp hair
Make a high pony tail on the top of your head.
Get a sock and cut the toe out of it, I think a thicker sock would work best.  Roll it up like a doughnut.
Put hair straight up and pull it through the sock "doughnut"

Start rolling the ends of your hair and keep tucking and tucking all the lose pieces, eventually it will start forming a bun and just keep rolling it down until it is as close as you can get to your head.  It will stay with no pins.
Go to bed and get your beauty rest!
Next morning unroll and you should have beautiful curls, I don't think I did my daughter's tight enough but it was really cute!

I will be trying this again!~

The bun itself is super cute, add a flower pin and you are good to go!~

I bet two days in this bun would make the curls even better.

~The next morning~

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My next BLOG goal is getting the Master Bedroom Phase 2 pictures up!

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The Master Bedroom Redo (Phase 1)

I am so excited to share about our grown up master bedroom we finally have after almost 14 years of marriage.  I have wanted to redo our bedroom and get real furniture for oh about 12 year now but something else always seemed to need the money I saved up more.  So my dreams of a new bedroom got put on hold time after time, which was ok to me because the money I saved up always went to something more important.  NOT this time, this time I was able to design, paint and reorganize the entire bedroom and ALL on a very strict budget. (Dave Ramsey would be so proud)

We refinished the floors in all the house over the years and this was the first room we ripped the carpet out of.  My husband sanded them and I put 4 coats of poly on them with a 4 inch brush.  Very time consuming but worth the work.  

A little back story:  This was a rental house for years before it was finally put on the market to sell.  Imagine, off white walls everywhere & beige carpets throughout, very B.O.R.I.N.G.  This house had been neglected for way to many years and needed a lot of love!

Before pictures aka HOT MESS:
It doesn't always look this messy, we were in clean out stage at this point.   For my husband's Father's Day gift this year, I let him pick out a brand new Posturepedic Mattress.   Paying that baby off for the next few months........
(Something he has been begging for, for years)   
So that was the beginning....New Bed, NEW ROOM!!!!!

My kid dresser and chest a drawers.  While they are very cool and over 100 years old; every time I walked into the bedroom I always felt like a kid NOT someone fixing to celebrate 14 years of marriage.

The curtains I have loved (my Mom made them for Dave's and my very first apartment) But I was ready for a change and longer curtains.

My husband and I somewhat compromised on "brown"  He wanted baby poop brown, you know the brown that has yellow in it!  NO NO NO, I wanted the brown with gray tones in it.  The color swatch picture is really hard to show the true colors.  But we went with the lightest brown on the far right.. 

It is Valspar Signature Series: Dust Bunny

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So that was the beginning of the redo this Summer.  More to come this week, hold only your seats people, it going to be a crazy ride, including a kidney stone in the middle of painting the room.  Me NOT him!~ O.U.C.H.!!!!!!

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Happy October: Teacher Treat (Orange)

I'm back!

End of the Summer, beginning of school, welcome to Kindergarten, HELLO 3rd grade and oh my, two kids with homework.  That about sums what where and what I have been doing~

We are in week 8 of our school year and this past Friday my little peep's teacher's received little treats.

All you need:

Beautiful Oranges

Candy Corn

Clear plastic treat bags

Ribbon

Homemade tags ( I just found some vintage looking tags on the Internet and "borrowed" them.  Copy/pasted them into my photo program so I could type the names in!

The words are: : (Orange You Glad It IS Friday!)

How simple and cute is that!

You can click on the pictures to make them bigger~

 

I've also been busy pinning on Pinterest.  That site is so additive~  If you would like an invite just drop me a comment with your email address and I will get on sent out to you.

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Pinterest, my new addiction

I received an invitation to Pinterest about three weeks ago and took my pretty little time getting over there BUT when I did oh boy!! I am so addicted to that site.  For anyone that is remotely crafty and slightly leaning toward wanting to be organized this site is like a ray of sunshine from the Heavens.  I have two computers, in different locations and those two computers have bookmark after bookmark on them of all sorts of crafts, photography, to do list, blogs, you name it but the problem is I always end up needing the bookmark on the computer that I happen not to be around at that time.  I either get frustrated and go find something else to get into or search and search trying to find that cool internet clip so I can get started on creating~

Well be still my little heart Pinterest takes care of every thing for me now.  So no matter where I am I can get online and all my little pretties are right there all beautifully organized into their very own categories ready for me to explore.  You can have as many or as few categories as you like, name them whatever floats your boat and pin an endless about of things that you may or may not ever do BUT atleast they are all there at your fingertips!

Would you like an invite???  

If someone sends you an invitation you can get started that much faster, so drop me a message with your name and email address and I will send one out to you!  And trust me I won't be sharing your email.........I don't even know how to do that~  lol

~Happy Wednesday everyone~ 

~I am making the drapes for my master bedroom redo today~

Where did the Summer go???

We have been so busy, I think Summer packed up & left without even saying good bye.  School registration was last week and the first day of school started  August 8th.   We have been swimming at our local YMCA, gardening, redo out master bedroom (more from that Summer project to come), crafting and reading all Summer.  

Our Garden has out done itself this year.  We have enjoyed sharing all our produce with our friends, neighbors and family.

Here is a few pictures from July/August:

Those are the Cherry Tomato trees bushes behind Baby J.  Last time we measured they were around 8 foot, crazy people just crazy I tell you!

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So last Saturday Dave started picking the garden and tying up all the super heavy plants and Baby J brought in what you see in my sink below.......and then..........

He just keep bringing in bowl after bowl.

After BOWL of tomatoes

I ended up canning 4 quarts of homemade tomato sauce & 4 pints of salsa 

Dad's great little helpers

We gave away tons of cherry tomatoes this weekend to our neighbors and my hubby brought a gallon ziplock of them up to his work Monday.

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Angled French Braid and Waterfall Braid

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My oldest peep has been growing her hair out for a few years now and I have had so much fun fixing all different hair styles for her.  So wish I could french braid my own hair, I know I just need to start practicing and hopefully could figure it out, my hands get all confused when I try french braiding my hair.

Today for the second day of the new school year I tried the angled french braid.  I wasn't sure how it would work but with her hair being so long and all one length it was perfect for this style:

I started with spraying all her hair down with detangler spray and a wet brush.  This really helps when you are trying to pull the separate pieces apart and get a clean line of hair and she has LOTS of hair.

 Angled French Braid

Waterfall Braid

 

First attempt at the Waterfall Braid

I love this so much.  Reminds me of how little girls wore their hair in Victorian times. I will be doing this one again when it cools off, this is way to hot for a Summer look.  My goal for school is to keep her hair off her back during these last few super hot months..

Here is a link to a post from May 2011.  I did two french braids down the sides of her head and then braided them together into a large braid to finish.

FYI: I don't think I ever told ya'll (I can say that I live in the South) lol  My daughter and I got a sweet little feature on My Yellow Sandbox Blog.  The girl, Oh My, she is a hair genius and I have gotten so much inspiration from her 30 days of hair styles.  You have to check out her site!! LIKE NOW.......go!!
Here is the post that has our hair pictures in it:  Yep right Here....all the way down at the bottom.  Mine is the second on the top row and my DD is the second on the third row.


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First Day of school! 2011-2012 school year

Isn't he just the cutest little ray of sunshine!  He totally rocked his mohawk and check out the boots in the picture below!  Remember his pre-k graduation pictures.  I love that boy!!!  When I picked him up today his teacher was just beaming at how sweet and charming he was!  And I had 5 people stop me in the hall to tell me how cute he was in his black boots!  Yep I have a heart breaker on my hands!~

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~His dad polished his boots up for his Big day in Kindergarten~

We live down south and our school year starts early!  Wanted to share a few pictures from this morning.  Baby J starts Kindergarten today and my sweet baby girl started 3rd grade!

My sweet little girl is growing up too fast!!!  She had a wonderful first day.  We are so blessed that our elementary school allows us to submit Teacher Request forms and we were lucky enough to get both the Kindergarten and 3rd Grade teachers that were at the top of our list.  No working the system like so many of the parents try to do.  We write about how our child learns and about their personality and the wonderful principal hand picks the perfect teacher for each child.  Pretty cool don't ya think!

 And I didn't cry, I was so proud of myself!  He is my baby, my last one and not crying my eyes out when I walked out the door was a huge deal! 

Baby J and his daddy.

Hope everyone has a wonderful & blessed 2011-2012 school year!