Dumbestic

Wowzers.  I cannot believe this past year has already gone by.  It has been a crazy ride!!  We decided to go all out for babe’s 1st Birthday Party.  (When I say we, I mean I)

They always say when you want to design a room, find a fabric you love and design around that.  I used that for his party since I did not want to do a theme.  I found this party invitation and decided to stick with colors and shapes etc. for the whole theme.

While this is not my child, for the pictures we had babe dress in blue/green and white and bought the same color of balloons for his pictures.  They turned out really cute!

All of the decorations for the party were really simple and not expensive at all.  I bought coordinating ribbon, pom poms and paper for the Cricut and made a lot of the decor myself.

I buy a TON of fruit and cannot stand the annoying fruit flies that I apparently buy along with it. Why are there flies anyway in my fruit??? ANYWAY, I read about a great way to get rid of them and IT WORKS.

Take a small glass, fill it with some Apple Cider Vinegar add some dish soap and BOOM. FRUIT FLIES DIE. They are attracted to the vinegar and once they actually fly into it they get stuck in it because of the soap. Who’d a thunk it?

I have not posted once in April!! That’s insanity. I’ve been so busy with work and trying to get our house organized and put together for our babe’s 1 year party Family room is ALMOST complete – I ended up buying more pillows instead of making more because really… I just don’t have the time to sew EVERYTHING! And I’m waiting on husband to hang the last of the window panels… might be waiting awhile

I’ve painted a little play area for bubbies. When I say painted, I mean just white. I have ambitions to add cute stuff to make it look like a play area, but for now… it’s a big white box.

I did do another painting and will post it as soon as we hang it on the wall!

I have not been cooking AT ALL. If you count turkey burgers on the grill and peas in the microwave then yes, I’m a gourmet chef.

I have, however, been making my bed everyday and doing my laundry on Wednesdays and Saturdays (and sometimes Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays)…. you know how it goes…

here is another super cute menu planner. I, of course, printed a ton of the other ones out and cannot find them anywhere, so I’ve just been using a notepad… I’ve only done it like once though

This past week I decided to buy a new vacuum cleaner.  We have had our old vacuum for quite some time… I mean like over 5+ years, which means it was probably ready to be thrown away a long time ago, but it seemed to be doing it’s job… until I bought this new Dirt Devil that is bagless and clear.

Now this is pretty disgusting, so don’t judge me.  We have a dog, a black lab, and he sheds a ton, so we have to vacuum or swiffer often… my husband used this vacuum the other night for the first time and just in the FRONT section of our living room (okay? so just half of a room we are talking about here…) the container was HALF WAY FULL of dirt and hair!!!!  So this whole time, my other vacuum was basically just picking up the big things on the top of the carpet, not cleaning deep.

So naturally, I ran around the house in every bedroom trying to see how full i could get the container.  Our master bedroom was pretty bad too.

So… if you have had a vacuum for a few years, I’d suggest trying to get a new one – the one above that we bought was ONLY $40 at The Home Depot  I couldn’t even imagine what a $500 Dyson would do to my carpet!

We all know that buying wall art it not only challenging but also expensive.  Considering we just did our big kitchen reno, I need to be conservative with our family room makeover and do everything on the cheap.

I bought the below painting from Z Gallerie a few years ago for about $175.  I was literally about to throw it away a few weeks ago when I realized that it was a ginormous canvas that could most likely be painted over.

I kept an article from DIY Magazine last month on DIY paintings.   There was this incredible painting style called “Drip Painting.”  Essentially what you do is mix acrylic paints with water in a bottle – shampoo bottle works fine – I used the bottles the hospital sent home with me after giving birth hehe – and you simply pour the mixture from the top of your canvas and let it drip down.  Once it is dry, you flip over your painting and do another color the opposite direction and eventually you end up with something like this:

You cannot tell in this picture but the paints are metallics and they have a really neat sheen to them in the light and they go perfectly with our Family room now… you’ll see that reveal soon enough!