7 Quick Takes – 6-21-14

#7QT - Up this week: Summer, ice cream cones, refrigerators, box store workers, husband awesomeness, canned ground beef and exciting news for Bou! -1- It's finally officially summer. I think. With all this crazy flopping back and forth and freeze snaps in May I wasn't sure it would come. And if it did I was…

DIY Canvas Totes

The Problem: needing 4 fabric bins for each of our 6 children. At $10-20 a piece. Not happening. The Solution: DIY Fabric Totes thanks to Pinterest It started with a nice trip to the store.  Someone... ahem... decided it would be a smart idea to take all the children to pick out their fabrics. At…

Bedroom Phase 2 – Beds

I knew what I wanted. Exactly what I wanted. But I had no idea how to get it. After extensive Pinteresting research, I saw a lot of people using those storage units from Target or Walmart. But at $40 each and needing 4 per bed and it still not being exactly what I was envisioning,…

7 Quick Takes – 6/6/2014

--- 1 --- I feel like it has been foreva! Ok because it has been.  We have been busy working on the house. Which basically translates into utter chaos from sun up to sun down... and a mama that crashes at night instead of doing anything that involves processing thoughts.  Sometimes mama has even crashed…

Upstairs Step By Step

I knew what I wanted. Exactly what I wanted. But I had no idea how to get it. After extensive Pinteresting research, I saw a lot of people using those storage units from Target or Walmart. But at $40 each and needing 4 per bed and it still not being exactly what I was envisioning,…

7 Quick Takes – 5/2/2014

Up this week: PDS tornado watches, another er trip, homemade cloud dough, Easter, a capella performance, a new cat.   -1- I started this last Thursday. And then tried to finish it while we sit in hiding during a PDS Tornado Watch (Particularly Dangerous Situation Tornado Watch meaning they expected large, long track tornadoes).  There…

Super cute and easy garden box

Yall this was so super easy and super cheap!  We're talking less than $20!  Sweet! I didn't take many pics because it went together so fast. Which is so weird and atypical for anything I have wanted to build.  I used 6 cedar fence boards, lopped off the angled top part.  Very accurately (or not...)…

Solar Power

This was interesting to set up.  Not difficult but I didn’t order everything to go with the kit we purchased, thinking it was all “normal” stuff that I could just pick up locally.  I was wrong.  I should have ordered the stuff online.  So after spending 2 days running around and calling various stores we…