Walking in the Woods

After a rainy morning the sun graced us with its presence, so I decided to take a walk through the woods around my house. Nature is in full bloom after the rain.

 

 

Small Record Collection

 

I recently found a small stash of vintage vinyl record, while I do not have record player they are pretty neat if I do say so myself. They will be arriving in my shop in the next week or so keep an eye out.

The Portraits in Ivory record is signed by Peter Walters on the back.

 

Check out these great records in my shop http://www.kvclothing.com

Creative Challenge: Week 2 Beach

Who doesn’t love the beach? With sand between your toes, the wind in your hair and perhaps a drink in your hand if you are lucky enough.

I have found there are times when the beach is not fun.

Last year my family attended a wedding on a beach, we of course had the only kids with us due to using it as a vacation as well. Why? Well we live in Ohio and the wedding was in Florida in April of last year and I for one was in need of the sun and family time as were our children.

The wedding was beautiful, the bride and groom were darling in their wedding attire. The backdrop of the Golf side of Florida was spectacular. The down side to a beach wedding is the frickin sand, it was everywhere. I am still trying to get the sand out of my stroller and it was over year ago. I believe that beach weddings while good in theory are not good in practice, because of all the sand. Honestly I wouldn’t want to go to my marriage bed covered in sand, I’m just saying it isn’t my cup of tea.

Even I didn’t like the sand my children had a blast playing in the sand during all of that other boring stuff like the toasts and speeches.

New to the Shop this week

Hostage Bunnies

Every Easter growing up we looked for something we like to call hostage bunnies.

Now hostage bunnies are just inflatable rabbits people blow up and tie to trees, porch posts, mailboxes etc. They look they are being held hostage by the owner of the house. This of course was fad in the 90’s just like acid wash jeans and mullets, so to find hostage bunnies isn’t typical Easter decoration nowadays.

Not wanting my children to miss out of the fun of seeing hostage bunnies I found some on eBay and purchased them. Saturday was beautiful and just a week away from Easter so we set out to hang our hostage bunnies.

 

I hope you get a kick out of these just as much as I do.

Happy Easter!!

Week 1 Travel: Creative Challenge

Growing up we would take family vacations every year even if it was just to the campgrounds 45 minutes away from home for a week or travel down south from Ohio.

One year we went on vacation to St. Louis Missouri. The drive down was uneventful and filled with the usual car games such as “My Father owns a grocery store” and how many different state license plates can you see, sing alongs and the ever present audio book for the whole family to enjoy as we sped down the high way in our gold minivan that looked like a loaf of bread on wheels.

 (Our van was gold instead of blue)

Photo Credit: Google Images

Thankfully our van had the third row seating as there were 4 kids and my parents, along with all of our camping gear in the back of the van. It was over 800 miles one way, however we loved each moment of drive or we slept. My parents were fan of leaving for vacation at 10 O’clock at night so we would sleep and they didn’t have to hear us bickering in the back seat, of course they handed out the Dramamine medicine for those of us who got car sick namely me but it had the wonderful effect of making you sleepy which helped tremendously.

We arrive in St. Louis to the beautiful Gateway arch and the Mississippi River full of river boats. Living not far from the Ohio River the water wasn’t interesting to me however I loved seeing those old river boats which had been turned into fast food restaurants.

Photo Credit: Google Images

We get settled in at our campground that night the next morning our tour of St. Louis started.

Did you know there is a museum below the Gateway arch? It is the Museum of Westward Expansion, check it out HERE. 

A part of my parent’s vacation was also about visiting historical sights and learning American history while on our vacation such was the life of a homeschool family. Vacation are planned around what we were currently learning.

After most of the morning being spent in the museum we finally get our turn up in the gateway arch, now my older sister is deathly afraid of heights to the point that she once got stuck in a tree while only being 2 feet in the air. She was stuck for 2 hours before we could convince her to just step down. While we are riding the “elevator” up the arch she sat in the middle of the right seat and had both hands touching each wall just in case we fell to our deaths. I don’t think she realized we were going in a zig-zag pattern which made for a very bumpy ride.

Once we were at the top the view was spectacular, with windows on both sides you can see for mile and it was and is the best part of that whole vacation.

St. Louis was in the middle of a drought, they hadn’t had any rain for several months. We arrived with our affectionately  called “The Magic Rain Tent” whenever we set it up there was sure to be lots of rain and it didn’t fail us this time either. It rained so hard our tent fell in on us several times that night to the point my parents made us go sleep in the van. It continued to rain for the next 2 days, making the river rise and all the creeks swell. Later we heard there had been a tornado nearby as well.

The next day we all came down with the flu, to have the flu while on vacation isn’t what I would call the best time. To this day I still can’t eat grape or cherry Popsicle having gotten sick minutes after eating a grape Popsicle while on our trip.

We were ever so glad to go home and sleep in our own beds, we survived bad weather, the flu and fear of heights.

Photo Credit: Google Images

Birthday Flash Sale

Today is my birthday so to celebrate I am having a sale in my Etsy shop, get 30% off any purchase of $20 or more. Use coupon code BDAY30 at checkout to receive your discount.
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Creative Challenge

I love a good challenge especially if it is something I excel in. I am surrounded by super creative people and I sit here and say “I can draw stick people.” Even my daughter is the artsy type which I love however I have no idea how to help her become a stronger artist except to encourage her which of course is important.

Now I can write and I’m a published author for good reason, you can check out my authors website Here or my book on Amazon at this Link.

So my creative challenge will to be write something every week hopefully every day for 7 weeks, I will try my best to make sure what I have written gets posted in a new blog post at the end of each week.

Tomorrow Day 1 of this creative challenge begins, which also coincidence with my 30th birthday, April 10th.

Mother Goose

While browsing a thrift shop a few weeks ago I came upon the cutest little nursery decor.

 

Mary had a little lamb,
Little lamb, little lamb,
Mary had a little lamb,
Its fleece was white as snow

 

 

I think I need a bigger house so I can display these adorable pin-ups.

Little Girl Dresses

I recently came upon a darling stash of darling little girl dresses and rompers, I have been slow in putting them in my shop due to how adorable they are. Here is a sneak peek of what is coming to my shop soon (the plaid dress, first communion dress and romper are already in my shop).