Archive for January, 2011
Fresh Find: Joe Nail Polish
Okay, okay, so maybe I won’t be trying out these little pots of colour on my walls anytime soon. But your personal style is just as important as your interiors right?
So… for all my Canadian beauties out there… did you know Joe Fresh has nail colours??! And, they are affordable, and they have a ton of colours in the most trendy up-to-date shades. 3 for $10? Sold!
Fair-skinned like me? Try Coral or Sun-Kissed. Why haven’t I seen these before?!
Fresh Find: Fleet Objects
Thank you Canada’s Style at Home magazine for introducing me to Fleet Objects Pools! As the Fleet Objects site explains, “Pools is a complete ceramic tableware collection consisting of vessels and lids that can be used in many combinations for multiple purposes.”
So many uses. So simple, so pretty. A great investment at a very reasonable price! Check them out!
Baby Clothes Dividers
You know I love organization. And, now that little Olivia is here, it’s time to flex some organizing muscle. Everyone has been so generous with gifts and hand-me-downs, but I’m not letting them pile up in a corner. No no… time to make a place for everything and everything in its place as they say. Enter the closet clothes dividers…
Who knew it would be a challenge to know what fits baby at any given time. Or, that reaching into a drawer and pulling out something the wrong size could be so disappointing.
All you need:
- thin cardboard (think cereal or gift box)
- scrapbooking paper (in the patterns of your choice)
- straight edge
- circular container (small baby formula size worked great)
- scissors
- spray glue
- pencil
For each divider, you will take one sheet of cardboard, and 2 sheets of scrapbooking paper. Apply spray glue to the front and back of the cardboard, and attach your scrapbooking paper to each side with the pattern facing out.
Next, take your circular container and trace two circles overlapping, and use your straight edge to connect the sides of the circles to achieve an oblong sort of shape. (I’ve shown it here on plain cardboard so you can see it a little better).
Use your scissors to cut out your shapes.
Next, take another circular shape (this can be anything, but remember it needs to be slightly larger than the circumference of your closet clothing bar), and trace it out on your divider, in the top centre.
Cut on an angle (consistently for each divider), into your centre circle, and continue cutting around the circle until it is completely punched out.
All that’s left to do is label each divider with the clothing size.
And, there you have it. Everything in its place. It is a wonderful thing.
She Has Arrived!
We’ve been a little busy at our house. Time to kick off the 2011 year of blogging with the best post imaginable. As you might remember, we’ve been on the adoption waiting list for a while, and much to our delight, our daughter was born on Christmas Eve morning. The best Christmas surprise we could hope for, and she’s perfect.
As far as I can tell she approves of her nursery, her change table, and her dresser. Here is a peek at our little one, winking in the new year.
