YIPPEE KAI YAY! VISIT MY NEW BLOG
Thursday, June 21, 2012
I've been marinating on this for a while, and I came to the conclusion that since I've reached my maximum photo storage for this blog and I've been wanting to consolidate and make my online presence a bit more cohesive; I've decided to move forward and step up my game a little bit. Please visit my NEW blog at iloverosemarywatson.com to keep up with all the fun goings on with my little (I mean big) family, my creative endeavors, and all the like. Thanks for reading, friends!
Baby Update: Week 23
Monday, June 4, 2012
It's getting hotter people. I've luckily only had one bad bought of acid reflux that resulted in a pretty sleepless night; other than that it's been pretty smooth sailing. Although I did get a call from my doctor's office today saying that my blood transfusion with the twins resulted in antibodies being formed and Braden's blood has those antibodies, so I may need to be transferred to a specialist. Not stressing or anything, everything will work itself out; it's just a circumstance I wished we could have avoided but C'est La Vie. I'll keep everyone updated on the progress.
It's Nautical Chic Time, Baby!
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Rhonna has outdone herself this time friends. Right on time for summer, she has release her amazing Nautical Chic line that is sure to make this summer the most creative one yet! Would you like the tour?
So many incredible things you can do with these kits- I've already come up with some new Facebook Cover Pages- what will you create with them?
Happy Memorial Day Free Printable from Rosemary Watson Creative!
Monday, May 28, 2012
To celebrate this first summer holiday, I'm giving away a fun free printable over at Rosemary Watson Creative. Just print & frame to have some Patriotic artwork displayed all summer long!
US Map Printable
Be sure to visit Rosemary Watson Creative for more free printables & other surprises from your truly.
Be sure to visit Rosemary Watson Creative for more free printables & other surprises from your truly.
Foto Friday: Week 38
Friday, May 25, 2012
We didn't do very much traveling for this Memorial Day weekend, so we had to make due with a tiny little trip with all our little bitties down to the corner IHop for breakfast.
I'm sure the other girls of Foto Friday have waaay more exciting travel plans than I. Let's look, shall we?
Jessica Sprague 7 Days in May Challenge
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Have you guys heard of Jessica Sprague? She's a fantastic Digital Scrapbooking Guru and the owner of one of the best scrapbooking sites around.
I've been a part of her mailing list forever, but I finally checked out one of the newsletters she sent me and I found the most awesome challenge- 7 Days in May!
I figured it would be a good way for me to start thinking outside the box with what I generally create and start actually "scrapbooking" more and adding journaling to my photos and designs. So I dove right into the challenge and created this digital layout:
Designs used: Rhonna Designs Quatrefoil Papers, Persnickety Prints Tangerine Papers, Rhonna Designs Quatrefoil Kit for the photo mask, and the free journaling card download from Jessica Sprague.
They have a new challenge today and a free download frame, so head on over there and join in the fun!
Foto Friday: Week 37
Friday, May 18, 2012
I have wanted a Macro lens for sooooo long, so I borrowed my sister's Macro lens attachment- pretty confusing and hard to use :( So I just snapped on my 50 mm and got as close as I possibly could to my veggies I harvested this morning from our garden! Photographing the veggies might be my favorite part about gardening (um, after the eating ;)
Lemonade Teacher Gift
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Penelope & Landen's Last Day of Preschool was Tuesday. We were so sad to see their Preschool teacher go, but we are so stinkin excited for the summer! I've been hoarding a ton of ideas to make this the best summer break ever for both me & my kids, I can't wait to share them all with you guys. But first, I'll share my impromptu teacher gift that I whipped up for Miss Crystal
I snagged the pitcher at Wal-mart, then swung by the produce section and grabbed some lemons & some fresh mint. I threw in a can of my mom's Lemonade Mix she juiced and mixed with a simple syrup from all her glorious lemons from her tree. I topped the jar with some directions, and added a wooden spoon I also grabbed from Wal-mart, and a tea towel embellished with my favorite yellow damask fabric I quickly sewed onto the towel. Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy gifting!
Team Tuesday: Mother's Day kit from Rhonna Designs
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Is it just me or is the time just FLYING by? I can't believe it's already Mother's Day, and the end of school is just weeks away! There's so much to do and such little time! Luckily Rhonna has got us covered just in time to show our Mom's how much we love them
Her new Prize Winning Mom kit will be released tonight, so either stalk the Rhonna Designs site or sign up for her newsletter STAT so you can get crafting tomorrow! I'm going to be working on a card kit that we can all print out easily, glue together and give! Keep checking Rhonna's blog this week for more fantastic Mother's Day ideas!
Her new Prize Winning Mom kit will be released tonight, so either stalk the Rhonna Designs site or sign up for her newsletter STAT so you can get crafting tomorrow! I'm going to be working on a card kit that we can all print out easily, glue together and give! Keep checking Rhonna's blog this week for more fantastic Mother's Day ideas!
Free Fiesta Printable at RWC
Monday, May 7, 2012
How was everyone's weekend? I hope it was a fantastico Cinco De Mayo! In case you missed it, I featured a fun Fiesta Baby Shower card & inspiration board over at Rosemary Watson Creative complete with a printable Hola! banner you can use any time you want to spice up your decor or a party! Check it out!
Foto Friday: Week 35
Friday, May 4, 2012
My mom says "Oh sure, go ahead and let the twinners play with markers."
Brilliant.
Here's what the other girls of Foto Friday came up with:
Baby Update: 18 weeks
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Here's a before & after pic of my "chalkboard" frame for my maternity shots. Landen wanted to help ;)
Now I must go and search for a Pear Cake recipe, which I have a sudden strange hankering for.
La La's Lemonade & Cupcakes
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
So, now that Olivia dressed up like a cupcake baker, all she's been asking to do is have a cupcake stand in the front yard. Of course, I'm happy to oblige and scour Pinterest for fabulous Lemonade & Cupcake Stand ideas. Here is the best of what I've found.
We're going to get to work today and tomorrow on it and hopefully by Friday, she'll be in business baby. All you neighbors stay on the lookout for flyers!
We're going to get to work today and tomorrow on it and hopefully by Friday, she'll be in business baby. All you neighbors stay on the lookout for flyers!
Brand Launch of the new Rosemary Watson Creative
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Oh, I'm so happy to finally be launching this. My new blog, Rosemary Watson Creative will be filled with all my photography projects from my new company, Rosemary Watson Photography (which I showcased here a couple of weeks ago). I also have a new Facebook Page, so I'd love to have you all join me there! My new blog introduced to me a ton of new coding skills and techniques, and I'm still learning and will be adding to it as I go along. Once I'm happy with the outcome, I'll be giving my personal blog ( I Love Rosemary Watson) a makeover so stay tuned for that!
Also, I'm offering an awesome deal through May in case any of you are wanting to get family photos taken for Mother's Day! Email me and I can get your session booked!
Also, I'm offering an awesome deal through May in case any of you are wanting to get family photos taken for Mother's Day! Email me and I can get your session booked!
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!
Foto Friday: Week 34
Saturday, April 28, 2012
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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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