Snowflakes and Snowmen!

Though we have not really had any snow here yet! (Not counting the small flurries on Halloween!) I love this program on Better Homes and Garden's website. Makes me want to get decorating!

Snowflake Maker

Very Cute Snowmen made from fondant.
Martha Stewart's No-Melt Snowmen

Maybe I will make these this year for the kids!
Martha Stewart's Snowman Cupcakes

Who could eat a snowman with a face like that?
Martha Stewart's Coconut Snowman

Favorite Things.....

So I am hoping to use this blog more often as I have been inspired by several others blogs. We will see how it goes!

I am inspired in my crafting, art, decorating, everything by many different things. I would like to think I see the beauty in things that even are not typically 'pretty'. Of course there are all those very pretty things as well. Of course I have a head full of ideas and actually doing any of them are not always possible. Thus the use of this blog to categorize and keep track of the things I love, the things I hate, the things I actually get the chance to do!

Here are a few images that I think speak to my design aesthetic.



Above: A beautiful craft center! Love the light open feeling!
Picture from Pottery Barn.


Above: Dinning Room that is my current inspiration for my own. I recently painted one wall green and another yellow to pick up on the colors in my curtains. I wish I had the moldings all done the same!
Picture from House Beautiful.


Above: Country Kitchen! I actually like the colors in my current kitchen better but I love the usage of the pops of green inside the cabinets.
Picture from House Beautiful.



Above: Oh how I would die to have stairs that were not only painted but had this much character! Somehow this sums up everything I love about decor! Who could not love this? Picture from Country Living.

Would you buy these?

More crafty things...

Projects in the works....

So I've been a-wall for a while. Being pregnant with number three, and having Liam start school and a busy summer are all my excuses! I have been working on making jewelry. I sent everything I've made so far to the Whistle Stop Country Store to be sold, we will see how it goes. I will attach some pictures of the earrings so far and I hope to be making more in the next week or so.

Mothers Day Weekend

So my mothers day weekend was lots of fun. A stormy Saturday! We went to the TFC game in downtown Toronto with the whole Lobban clan! The kids had a great time, we were all a little cold by the end though! See the pictures!

There is something about this picture that makes me smile every time I see it! What isn't there to love about David Tennant? I am hoping that Rex is not my Lawyer is picked up by NBC for the fall line up! As David Tennant is in the lead role. Anyone who watched Hamlet on PBS knows how amazing he is! Glad to see some are recognizing it!

New Post...

I click on this link for 'New Post'. I have/had so many thoughts running through my mind. It's been quite a while since I've actually stopped long enough to think for myself, about myself. I took a trip to Oregon to visit my family. No kids, just me. I did think then, but that feels forever ago. It wasn't but it feels like it. Life is hectic. It's kids, pre-school, doctors appointments, my health, the house, work, money, time. Too much stuff sometimes.

When did life become so complicated and yet so simple?

Planted new plants in the garden. Got more for this weekend grown from seeds. Feels nice to play in the dirt. I need to get myself dirty every once and a while. I miss painting. I miss yoga. I need more me time. Time that isn't about what I am not eating, or are eating based on my stupid diet, or just trying to survive.