Big Girl Room

It feels good to be back blogging again.  It had really been too long.  Where does time go?  Time has really been flying by in our household.  My baby just turned two.  I can't believe this!  Do you know what this means?  I got to design a big girl room, I got to design a big girl room, lalala!!!!  Can you tell how excited I am.  I love designing rooms, especially bedrooms for little girls.  I started buying items to decorate this room the end of last summer when I fell hard for the Target's Love and Nature Collection for girls.  I am not one to purchase a bedroom collection, because I usually love to design the theme and decorations myself.  However, this theme was so cute that I couldn't resist.  This weekend was a very happy weekend for me because I finally got to decorate the room.  Thanks to my very patient and handy husband for all his help.  I have these beautiful dreams of what a room could be and he helps to make it happen.
Such suspense, I know you cannot wait to see the room.  This room that was once an office decorated with diplomas and John Deere is now sweet and girly.  Take a peek...

                                                                        

Not bad for a day's work:)  To view additional photos of this room check out my Flicker photostream.

Make A Splash

My youngest daughter recently celebrated her 2nd birthday.  She has always loved the water and been fond of Ariel, so I thought The Little Mermaid would be an appropriate theme for her party.

Invitation

My favorite part of planning this party was picking out the party favors.  There were both boy and girl guests, which made things a bit tricky.  However, after visiting Party City and some other fav stores,  I was pretty satisfied.  The girls received a cup of goodies including: Ariel socks, necklace/bracelet set, purple flower clippie, stickers, aquatic life gummies, purple tiara, and Ariel activity pack.  The boys received a beach pail filled with: sunglasses or goggles, fish bubbles, sand castle mold, stickers, under the sea dry-erase placemat, inflatable fish and aquatic life gummies.  All young guest also took home a Little Mermaid audio cd complete with music and story.

Being that this was a March birthday party and we could not go outside to play, I thought it would be fun to do an art activity.  All the kids made their own sand art creation.  It was neat to see each child's design and they seemed to enjoy showing off their artwork as well.  Needless to say, the birthday girl had a blast at her 2nd birthday party.