Day 16: Over Exposure

I have decided to join some other bloggers to do a 30 day challenge. We are following a fun list of things to take a picture of every day for a month. It would be awesome to have you join in on the fun! Just let me know so I can follow ya. 🙂

Day 16: Over Exposure

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Our miracle.

Who will be turning 4.

Whaaaaa!!!!!!

Home tour: Kitchen

***our kitchen has changed a bit and I’ll upload newer picts as soon as I can, thanks!***

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It’s been like, forever, since I showed you guys a room. (it’s cause we don’t have that many rooms lol)

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(above) Here is one small part to our counters. Did you grow up being allowed to sit on your counters? We did, and I have the BEST memories of our family laughing and having the best ‘family time’ on counters.

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TEAM= Travis, Emma, Alexis, Mielonen

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LOVE this paper umbrella. It was a gift at a friends wedding.

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‘Love you guys’ in Polish…or something like that. Our friends did this before they left and we probably won’t ever change it…

This last picture is just to end with something green 🙂 My basil babies.

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Day 15: Silhouette

I have decided to join some other bloggers to do a 30 day challenge. We are following a fun list of things to take a picture of every day for a month. It would be awesome to have you join in on the fun! Just let me know so I can follow ya. 🙂

Day 15: Silhouette
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This seems silly because it’s so cold and rainy outside. Obviously this is a picture from last month, while we were having the summer weather. 🙂

Day14: Eyes

I have decided to join some other bloggers to do a 30 day challenge. We are following a fun list of things to take a picture of every day for a month. It would be awesome to have you join in on the fun! Just let me know so I can follow ya. 🙂

Day 14: Eyes
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Day 13: me with 13 things

I have decided to join some other bloggers to do a 30 day challenge. We are following a fun list of things to take a picture of every day for a month. It would be awesome to have you join in on the fun! Just let me know so I can follow ya. 🙂

Day 13: me with 13 things (or people in this case)
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This was taken a couple Octobers ago but it’s a special picture. It was when Travis and I went to LA for a fundraising seminar– which was amazing. These people are so special to me and I will never forget all the silly times (like getting lost in downtown LA-which is lame at 9pm) to getting to hear them talk about the people God placed on their hearts.

DIY: Cup Sweater

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So this next one is a fun one. Just crochet a small rectangle. 

Add a button on one saide and the other braid some yarn, and tie it on the back side in a knot. Pictures:

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Finished product:

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That’s it!!!! I raided my coats in my closet for any extra big chunky buttons. You know, the extra ones that are never used. Score!

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Let me know if you do this! I would be happy to see how yours turned out! 🙂

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DIY: Celery Flower Stamps

I saw this on Pintrest and thought SO EASY!! But I also don’t want these awesome ideas I pinned to collect cyber dust and stay in the ‘I’ll do it someday’ file.

So here it is! You should do it! Think shirts, pillow cases, kitchen towels, tote bags, baby bibs, etc.

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I wanted to do something to combated the pink in our house. Blue tones it is.

(* make sure to always have something under the fabric you’re stamping.* Yes, mine bleed through and I freaked out because I was afraid it would stain our white dining room table)

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Not too happy with the picture, but it’s what I got today.

YES you should try this!

YES you should start thinking about homemade Christmas presents!

YES more homes need celery stamped flowers. 🙂

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Day 12: sunset

I have decided to join some other bloggers to do a 30 day challenge. We are following a fun list of things to take a picture of every day for a month. It would be awesome to have you join in on the fun! Just let me know so I can follow ya. 🙂

Day 12: Sunset

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Travis took this picture. One of my favorites and one I’d like blown up and on a canvas. For some reason the picture is very emotional to me. Can’t put it into words why, but it has a lot to do with the two people walking right to you….

It was taken when it was amazingly cold outside and Trav was on his way to meet a friend for some HOT coffee. So glad he took the time to capture this.

Day 11: something blue

I have decided to join some other bloggers to do a 30 day challenge. We are following a fun list of things to take a picture of every day for a month. It would be awesome to have you join in on the fun! Just let me know so I can follow ya. 🙂

Day 11: something blue

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This is a picture of my first visit to ANY IKEA! *happy day!*

It was in Krakow, Poland- how perfect is that?!

I had no idea what to expect and was blown away by the amount of stuff they have. All beautiful, but a little overwhelming too for a ‘first timer’

This is also THE IKEA we will be furnishing most of our new home with in Poland.

Being yourself is hard!

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Found this quote through Facebook from a friend that posted it. It really made me stop and think. Where in my life am I being pressured…HA, where am I not?!

I thought of this silly little teeny blog you’re reading now. How SUPER CRAZY EASY it is to compare and change what I write about based on others blogs.

Some have special font.

Some have their blog done by a professional. And it looks like it.

I have dreams and visions of what I would love this blog to look like…and how many comments/followers. It’s not there. But would it ever be ‘there’?! I have to ask myself what is my motivation for any changes in this blog? Why change it to look like someone else’s?

I fight this one single fight everyday. Silly huh. So why do I do I keep blogging?

Because I like you. Family and friends. I want to say hi and bounce a bit of my crazy thinking/questions of you.

That’s it for now. Being yourself is hard!