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I linked my Butterfly Specimen Art over at Whipperberry and they were kind enough to feature it!

How exciting!! Go over and check out the other great features too.

Thanks for featuring me!!

Fabric iPhone Case

Not JUST A House Wife has a super cute tutorial for a fabric iPhone case. I would love to make one of these.

Great sewing project to add to the list.

Cookbook Heaven!

I've mentioned a time or two about Our Best Bites, my favorite foodie blog! Well, the girls over there just put out their first book (came out this week). I was at Costco last night and I was just walking by and BAM! the book was calling me from across the aisle!!
I ran over there like if I didn't pick one of those books up Right. Then. All of them were going to disappear. I'm sure people were looking at me funny because I got a big grin on my face as I held my book in my hands.

I'm so excited to try out all the recipes. I use their blog several times a week for recipes...case in point, it's SAturday morning and I have already used the O.B.B blog to cook something this morning! NOW I have the Book :)

Ok, enough rambling...Just go out and buy it!

{ It's even in a spiral cover so you can have it open with out putting big cans of beans on it to keep it open }

Butterfly Specimen Art

A couple weeks ago I made this Butterfly Species art thing! I don't know what the heck to call it!

I borrowed a butterfly punch from a friend and punch a bunch of cute paper that matched the colors I want to be in my daughters room.

I mounted them on a piece of white card stock and then put it in a frame (I took out the glass, so the wings would stand out.) I just used a glue dot in the middle of each butterfly and stuck it on the paper. I hadn't predetermined where I was going to put them I measured to the middle of the paper and went off of that. I think next time I would have it all marked out with a dot in each spot I wanted a butterfly.

I had seen this idea a while ago cruising through blogland, but I looked and looked to find it again to give credit for seeing the idea but couldn't find it. If you happen to know where it's come from let me know!

***Ok, Yes, I think I originally saw this over at The Idea Room, If I had remembered where I had seen it before I made mine I would have done some things different. I love that her picture is matted. I love that she has twice as many butterflies as I do. So I really like hers!***

I'm going to link up at:

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Tatertots & Jello 
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Today's Creative Blog 
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DIY Bench

I love this DIY Bench! JandJHome Did this fabulously!

Absolutely beautiful material and I love that she stole the legs from a second hand piece.

I need something like this for the end of my bed!

You can also find a similar bench done over at 221vision.com theirs has black and white strips! I need one of each!

Spring Centerpieces

Time for some fun centerpieces now that it's almost spring time!

I tried to find natural looking stuff, but wanted to stay away from fresh flower stuff because...come on, let's be honest, NO ONE has $ to keep buying fresh flowers to keep up a cute centerpiece.

Terrarium, not much up keep.

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Lemon Tree (fake of course, I saw this in a friends home, it was very cute) 

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Anything moss covered.

 

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I think this is so simple and cute! And Gerber Daisy's come in every color under the sun.

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I LOVE anything to do with cherries, cherry blossoms, etc.

I know that this centerpiece looks like it's for a wedding/party, but I LOVE it so much.

I love the square vase inside the square wreath!!

Valentine's Day

Because I couldn't post about what I had planned for Valentines Day because I thought my husband might see I'm now sharing our day we had!

My gift to myself was having some of my house cleaned! You know...the things I REALLY hate...bathrooms and floors!

I made a super yummy dinner: Steaks, Ceasar Salad, Corn & Black bean Salsa & Chips, Twice baked Potatoes! Then Harmons had Chocolate dipped Strawberries...so I got a few of those. I don't have any pictures of this because it was serious madness when I was making dinner (husband got home, revealing gifts, 2 seriously poopy diapers, doorbell ringing, kids crying, I was just trying to survive in that hour or so).

 Beautiful flowers from my Valentine

 My Hubby loves Peanut M&M's

 Mylar Balloons for the Kidlets

A Valentine Bucket full of goodies from a very nice neighbor for my 2 year old

This one I have been planning! I'm sneaky! My husband, FOR YEARS, has been asking me to put up old family pictures on this wall, and I kept shrugging it off. SO I knew this was the holiday I was going to get it done and surprise him with the finished product. This wall was empty, except the middle wedding picture. I had the Vinyl made a couple days ago and then go all the frames and pictures put together and hung up while my hubby was at work. I think it turned out SO nice. The blank pictures are for my kids pictures, plus we need to put a few others up as well.

 Close up of our wedding picture. Awww!

AND...TaDa! The new iPhone 4! We really wanted to get these because there is an app called Face Time.

So you BOTH get to see each other while talking! My Husband has been so busy lately and has not had a lot of time to spend with the kids. So we thought this would be so nice to get so that the kids can still talk and SEE him during the day. (kinda like Skype, I guess).

We put the kids to bed early so I could have extra "me" time and just watch TV, Read a book, or whatever!

Happy Valentines Day!