Darby Adventures

Gracie and I enjoyed a mild summer afternoon outside. What a gorgeous day. I believe these were taken towards the beginning of August, but since I'm so far behind with my pictures right now, I can't be sure of the exact date :(

Looks like William, doesn't it?

This is his self-portrait!

Gracie's Room

When I first decorated Grace's room I loved it. Then I experimented and did some canvas painting for friends. After some practice I realized that I could do a better job, so here are some changes I made to Grace's room over the summer (and there's a couple more changes I will post tomorrow after I take some pictures).

First of all, I took pieces of wood, painted them, and mod podged scrapbooking paper and embellishments on them. These sit on her shelf. They are super easy and fun to make.

Next I painted these canvases and then cut out and mod podged scrapbooking paper on them. If you have never used or don't know what mod podge is, you're missing out! This stuff is my new BF!

These letters were originally painted light yellow, but I wanted to do something else to them. Since I had scrapbooking paper left that I had used for the canvases and wooden blocks above, I decided to use it on these letters. I traced and cut out scrapbooking paper to match the letters, and then I mod podged the paper to the letters.

Every little girl needs a hair clippie holder (especially Grace since I make hair clippies and she has at least one for each outfit!). I once again took the same scrapbooking paper and mod podged it to a piece of wood I bought at Joann Fabric for about 50 cents. I hot glued the ribbons to the back of the wooden piece and then hot glued wooden flowers to the bottom of each ribbon. I also added scrapbook paper that I mod podged to the wooden flowers.

Recent Projects

Here are some recent projects I made! My mom was teaching me how to sew, and our first project was this batman/superman cape. Love it! William wears it almost everyday. He wears it to daycare and whenever we are out and about. He gets so many comments on it, and some people will call him "Superman!" or "Batman!" This is what started the Superman and now Batman obsession.

I also made a couple hair clippie holders for my cousin's daughters. These are their "big sister" gifts. For an amateur and something that cost me about $5 total for both, I think they turned out great!

The other picture are two fabric pictures I made for the bathroom. I painted the bathroom (it had previously been a light tan color with nothing on the walls for over 2 years). I found a tutorial for the pictures on a website that I LOVE.
http://www.makeit-loveit.com/2010/06/decorate-my-home-part-19-3-d-framed.html

My cousin had a baby at the end of spring so I made these wooden block letters for his bedroom.

I made these for our master bathroom. Each place is a place of significance to Olly and me.

Saint Malo-Saint Malo is located on the northern coast of France. We took a ferry to Saint Malo for the day when I was visiting Olly in Jersey one time. This is where he proposed!
Two Harbors-When Olly visited me for the first time we went to Two Harbors for a few days. It was the middle of winter and there was a ton of snow. It was awesome! Good memories.
Cancun-We met in Cancun!
London-I visited London with a friend and Olly came up from Jersey for a few days. We had an amazing time in London. I will never forget our few days together in London. This was the first time we'd seen each other since we met in Cancun.

ZOO!

At the end of the summer we had one last outing to the zoo. William had never been to this zoo so I thought it would be a fun trip for us.

More Pictures

Gracie likes to crawl and hang out under the table. No matter how many times I pick her up and put her somewhere else, she always ends up under the table.