My New Life

I don't think I've kept it a secret...

Pinterest is changing my life...

I know what you are thinking...

WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN??

So here's what we've done so far.

We started out small with a 20 minute project of glass cannisters.

I've wanted some of these for ages.

This was an idea pinned from This Old Chair.

I have to admit, hers are cooler.

Then we moved onto a bigger two hour project.

1 yard of fabric per pillow.

I used old fabric for Colette's.

I spent three dollars on Parker's.

Then I pulled the stuffing out of pillows that I've made in the past...

that are were just sitting in storage.

$3 project.

And it only took about a minute and a half for a pillow fight to erupt.

You can make these from Living With Punks.

I don't think I've ever seen Colette happier.

She really doesn't even need a remote to play MarioKart.

Parker looks just like my brother Nick playing Nintendo.

Crickin his neck back as far as it will go to see the tv. 

Sheesh.

I couldn't leave Mitchell out now. 

His room is so cute to me, but one wall was kind of bothering me.

It wasn't "cute" enough.

So I saw this idea from Apartment Therapy.

I knew I had to do something similar.

So here it goes.

The "distressing" of the letters was a happy mistake. 

I intended them to be crisp white. 

But I painted the second coat too early...

in my giddy pinterest motivated state.

So the layers started all pealing together.

So I went with it.

And then lightly sanded the edges when it really was dry.

I like it enough to keep it that way.

It's more Classic Pooh-ish this way. 

Plus every letter is different and has character.

It would look great really crisp and white too, 

but I'm too lazy to do it again.

The best part, which has no pictures, but only memories...

I also spent a complete day actually doing the activities 

with my kids that I kept pinning.

Some of you moms might do that everyday.

But it was so fulfilling for me to put EVERYTHING aside.

I sat by my kids all day,

ate meals with them,

played games with them.

Did experiments with them with baking soda and vinegar.

We put soap in the microwave.

{which by the way, it does have to be IVORY soap.}

We tried Dial and it just turned black and made the house stink.

But I told Parker I really wanted to be by him all day...

Then his friends from down the street knocked on the door for him to play.

I said he could but he looked at his friends and said, 

"No, I'm being by my mom all day."

Then when we shut the door, he said, 

"I love you Mom! It's Just You and Me!"

You can't beat that. 

I think I'm going to cry, again.

Now what, you may ask, does Richard get out of Pinterest?

Besides about an hour a night of complete quiet

with the kids in bed...

and my face glued to the screen...

But also, Richard is quite a tease 

{See The Rich Moments}

And my new Pinterest fettish has given him quite a lot of material

to tease me about.

For Example,

He will hand me my Kindle Fire and say, 

"Here's your portable Pinterest device."

Anyway, Thank You Pinterest.

If you haven't started... just give it a try.

It took me months to warm up to it and fall in love with it.

However, If you are on Pinterest...

I'll follow yours if you follow mine.