Kindergarten Career Day

Monday, April 30, 2012

It's Spirit Week at ASU Prep this week, and today's kick off is Career Day. In true Rosemary fashion, I completely forgot about Spirit Week until our Kathie called to remind me last night. Crap. I pulled together what we had to make La La her Cupcake Baker Outfit. If you see a little girl with Liberty Rolls, Red Lipstick, and a red & pink apron at a cupcake stand outside our house- stop and grab a Strawberry Cupcake from Olivia! 

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Foto Friday: Week 34

Saturday, April 28, 2012

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This week's challenge was super fun for me because I haven't shared my garden progress with everyone for a while, and this gives me the PERFECT opportunity to do so! 


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We planted these tomatoes in February- I think we have a total of 20 plants all together. They started off pretty teeny and I had no idea if they were actually going to fruit or not. After weeks of flowering, but not seeing any tomatoes on any plants save one cherry tomato plant, I was started to get a little worried. But now, all of a sudden in the last two weeks they have been EXPLODING with fruit! We bought some different varieties such as cherry tomatoes, Early Girls, Lemon Boys and yellow cherry tomatoes and it's crazy to see the differences in the sizes and shapes. This is one of our biggest tomatoes, which my mom planted under a pine tree just as an experiment. The pine tree tomatoes are doing even better than the garden bed tomatoes! All the plants have fluffed out and grown much taller it seems overnight, and we just added cages around all our tomatoes, some peppers, and our giant tomatillo plants (which have a TON of flowers, but no fruit yet) and it makes the garden look so official and not like we have no idea what we are doing. I have big big plans to can gallons of tomato sauce with these babies so we can have the freshest pasta and pizza sauce all year long. 


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Against our brick wall is our melon beds lines with Ornamental corn and sunflowers. If you look close you can see all the little yellow squash flowers waiting to turn into a squash bonanza. We're literally going to have squash coming out of our ears, so I'll keep everyone posted on when anyone can come and pick some out of the garden. We've planted all kinds of varieties- from crookneck yellow, to zuchinni, butternut, acorn, and this cute flat yellow peter pan squash. 

And here is our Anaheim Chilis! I'm beyond excited to start roasting these for Green Chile Pork. It is the BEST. We planted all kinds of peppers in our Salsa Garden- Anaheim, Habanero, Cayenne, Serrano, Jalapenos, and Bells. 

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We have a giant square Sweet Corn Patch in the middle where we've companion planted with squash and beans. Here is where the butternut and acorn squash are, along with Soy Beans and Lima Beans. It's going to be fun once the corn gets tall to send the kids in to hunt for the squash and beans.


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Last but not least, here is where our strawberry plants are. We planted Borage flowers around them because I read that borage protects the berries. Borage grows fast & furious providing lots of shade for the strawberries to protect from the impending heat, and while there are big bites out of the borage leaves from caterpillars we've found- all the strawberries are fully intact! We're plucking all the flowers off the strawberry plants this year to hopefully yield a bigger crop next year. We also have some humongous spinach growing beside the borage, so it's hard to see, but for reals- if ANYONE is wanting some free spinach, let me know. You can come grab as much as you need. There is no way we will be able to consume it all between two families. 

I'll keep everyone updated on the garden progress next month, as for now here are the other ladies of Foto Friday's entries!


Baby Update: Week 17 {and a quick sewing project}

Thursday, April 26, 2012


Another week down- just 23 more to go! So excited for our ultrasound that is planned for May 9th, and our Gender Reveal Party {more details to come}

In other news- I sewed myself a Coral colored maxi skirt! I just followed this pattern, and it took me 30 minutes. Make one for yourself- they are perfect for summer, pregnant or not! 


Weekly Sewing Project: Quilted Striped Pillows

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Remember the Easy throw pillows I made last week? Well, I think I may have begun a dangerous addiction because today, I sewed those Quilted Striped Pillows I talked about last week.


And now all I want to do is sew more throw pillows. Except I also want to do more quilting! It is time consuming and a little tedious with a crappy bottom of the line machine, but I LOVE the way it looks when it's all finished. I'm on the hunt of an easy quilt pattern or another throw pillow to take on next.







Source: flickr.com via Rosemary on Pinterest






Source: flickr.com via Rosemary on Pinterest


Source: etsy.com via Rosemary on Pinterest




Creative Team Tuesday: Rhonna's Creativity Week!

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

I'm so excited because just when I was feeling kind of blah and uninspired, Rhonna comes along to kick start everyone's creativity with her Creativity Week!


Run over to her blog to see how she keeps her creative juices flowing and the small steps you can do every day to start having a more creative life! The first step is snatching up this little gem...




...which I'm going to start today! I'm so  excited to become inspired by her methods and get creating again!

What I did this weekend

Monday, April 23, 2012

This is my bestest friend in the whole wide world- Stacy.

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On Saturday her baby sister got married, and I was lucky enough to photograph the whole thing.

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Stacy lives in Brooklyn and I live here in Mesa, but when we're together the time and miles disappear and we're like we've always been. Perfect together.

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Foto Friday: Week 32 (Late)

Friday, April 20, 2012

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I'm a week behind on my Foto Friday, so I decided to post last week's today and I'll do this week's in between today and next Friday to hopefully get all caught up! 

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Last week's assignment was doors, so I snapped some pics of my very favorite door in our house, our kids' Tooth Fairy Door. Olivia is getting close to losing another one, so another glitter filled trip from the Tooth Fairy will be in order. 

Here are some of my favorite Tooth Fairy doors I've seen online:

Source: etsy.com via Beth on Pinterest






And I need to get busy with a new tooth fairy pillow for La, since the old one was a little wonky and a tad creepy. I love this one I found. 

Source: etsy.com via Rosemary on Pinterest

Happy Friday!

Check out the other girls of Foto Friday to see their Door photos

Weekly Sewing Project: Easy Peasy Throw Pillow Covers

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Do you ever have those awful awful things in your house that you walk by every single day and say to yourself  "I really need to fix/clean/trash/burn that thing", but instead of doing something about it, you just ignore it and it just sits there being gross day after day until finally you cannot look at it for one more second or someone is going to lose a body part?

No? Well, then I must be the only one. Because I swear, our couch throw pillows have gotton so much dirt and glitter and snot and black sharpie and yogurt and God knows what else on them they were starting to make me gag every time I sat down. So finally FINALLY I decided that something needed to be done. A quick google search later, I had found this tutorial on how to make quick & easy throw pillow covers. 



They really only took an hour and a half and I have no idea how much fabric I used because I had a spare piece of black linen in my stash (which I'm sure was supposed to turn into a dress years ago) so this project was *sort of* free. You can mix & match the front and 2 back panels too, so it's easy to get rid of some of your fabric pieces that you've been hoarding for years.



My pillows were 21" x 21", but now I want to create a whole slew of easy couch throw pillows. Perhaps I can try this one next with my leftover black scraps and some white stripes. Perhaps next week?


Cailin's Senior Portrait Session

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

I've been plugging away at my new photography website, and it's coming together little by little in between Senior Portrait Sessions, Wedding Photo processing, web design work for some friends, and some social media marketing projects. It's a little hard to fit everyone in, but juggling is what I'm made to do- so I keep on throwing those balls in the air. Here's a taste of another one of my client's sessions.

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Mint Dress Reveal and a Baby Update

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

I got sick, then I got busy, then I finally had the gumption to do my hair & makeup and VOILA! My mint dress and baby bump....


The dress was fairly easy, albeit a tad confusing. I ended up scrapping the neck and back lining and just hemming the neckline because I was not happy with the sleeves following the pattern directions. I wish I would have just kept it simple and hemmed the sleeves as well, but C'est La Vie. 

I do plan on making another Kimono Dress, perhaps in some navy that I have stashed for another flowy pregnancy dress that will stretch as my belly grows. I would recommend this pattern for a quick weekend sewing project. 

Source: etsy.com via Rosemary on Pinterest


On another note- I am officially 16 weeks along and knee deep into my second trimester. There wasn't really anything exciting to report or take photos of until now, so I'm starting off my countdown now. Stay tuned for more belly photos, a gender reveal, and more sewing projects!

Today's Project: Mint Kimono Dress

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

With all the Pins I've been collecting in my Style & Sewing Boards, I thought it was high time to pick a project and sew me up some new Summer Clothes. I need Maternity wear, so I picked out these favorites













I went to Joanne's and grabbed a mint cotton, a mint with popsicle print cotton sateen, a melon jersey, and a coral floral print cotton. I started with the mint cotton, and this pattern





Source: etsy.com via Rosemary on Pinterest

I spent the whole day printing the pattern, piecing the pattern together, cutting it out, washing the fabric, pressing the fabric, then cutting out the fabric. Tomorrow is sewing day, then I'll reveal the finished product! 

Introducing The New Rosemary Watson Photography Website

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

I am THRILLED to debut my new Rosemary Watson Photography Website, soon to be tied in directly with my Rosemary Watson Creative Website. My Creative Site will feature more Graphic Design & Business Branding, with a link to my Photography Site, which is more for traditional clients rather than business clients. I still have a few kinks to work out on both, but I love love love how they have turned out. Head on over there and give it a looksie!

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I took Tristin's Senior Portraits on Saturday, and she is the first client that gets her very own + site on my site, which can be shared on Facebook for her family & friends to view!


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What we did this Easter Sunday

Monday, April 9, 2012

It seems like all the Holidays in the beginning of the year get away from me. We always do a ton of fun things and a ton of decorating for all the fall & winter holidays, but not so much for the Spring ones. We did however, have our Easter Egg Dyeing Party with our neighborhood, which was super fun, but we didn't really plan anything for Easter Sunday. So luckily last minute, my mom came to the rescue and had the kids come over to her house to plant jelly beans in her yard for Lollipops to grow in the morning!



It was such a cute tradition to start (thank you Pinterest!) and then we had a laid back dinner in her backyard in the afternoon with an Easter Egg Hunt with their best friends Izzy & Diego


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