Trip to Kansas City

A few weeks ago, some of our friends welcomed a fabulous baby girl into the world!   She is super cute...according to her mom, she is not as cute as mom though ;)  {she's kidding, that's how we roll...I've been teaching her parenting through put-downs and sarcasm}  Kind of like these:

Since they are first time parents and we like to rock a hot mess of crazy train when we go anywhere, we opted to stay at a hotel.  It was the new Hampton Inn in Olathe...which I totally recommend.  It had all the requirements I need for a hotel... kick ass continental breakfast, indoor pool, clean room (no roaches in my hair....I'll save that for a later post), plus it was only $89 a night.

We went with the plan to go to the zoo on Saturday.  We drove all the way to the zoo, only to find out that it was free entry for 2 counties.  There were 1 billion people there, that's not an exaggeration.  Then we decided to go to Crown Center.  It was a mall that had a play area, Crayola Store, LegoLand, an Aquarium, some severely over-priced stores, and a cool restaurant called Fritz'.

LegoLand and the Aquarium open later this month....nope we didn't get to see them, maybe next time.

However, the play area was a blast!!

-make your life beautiful!!

do you ever have design ADD?

this is like the major dilemma in my brain at most time.  it ranks up there with what to do with my hair...i have a big butt, so i feel that my hair makes up for that in sex appeal. 

i love love the beach.  so i will get a bunch of beachy stuff....then it feels to theme-y (might have made that word up)  then i see someone else's space and think omg, i love that too!

then my brain starts over.  i also have a tendency to start a project in each room, sometimes  i complete it sometimes not so much.  then i feel like nothing is done because nothing is completely done.

the mr, has a job interview tomorrow, so we will be finding out if we are moving or not.  we wouldn't be moving for a while, but that kind of knocks the wind from my sails in plans of crap to do to this place if we won't live here for much longer.  that last sentence sounds weird, but i'm leaving it-it's my blog i can do that!

i have these ideas of crap i want to do and i need like 5 houses to do all of them.  i don't want to redo my dining room every 3 months.  some people have no idea what to do with their house....i have too many ideas of crap and not enough help to execute them all.  i could hire people to help me, but that would cost money.

i am trying to decide between red or kelly green for an accent color.  i am more of a whole house accent color, minus the kid's rooms.  i feel like it makes my house feel cohesive.  i can add different elements that add a pop here or there, but for the most part i am having trouble picking a palette.

KELLY GREEN OPTIONS

love the kelly green and yellow container!

 i found these chairs on craigslist for $150, but i think i could get them for $100.....not quite sure what to do!

RED ACCENTS

do you have these decorating problems or do you just go with it?  red or kelly green/yellow....maybe i could pull off a little of all three?!?!  some of the pics have a lot of all three!


-make your life beautiful!!

all images via pinterest   go figure :)

barn door baby gate

i know, i have been m.i.a for a while....but, i'm back baby!!  i have so much to blog about :)

first, on the block today is our knew barn door baby gate. our stairs are extremely wide, so a baby gate wouldn't fit...it did, however, when placed next to an empty pampers box.  classy, i know.  wish i had pics of that...not.  i know, i just went all 1996 on you with the not.  that's how i roll.

i designed, well more like told mr. tsl what i wanted, and he made it at school.

here were the stairs before:

and after the new barn door baby gate:

total for the barn door baby gate:  $5 for hardware.  the door itself is made of old pallet wood!

 now for a fun little new baby gate story.....

audrey likes to play in the dog food and water.  she use to run to it grab a handful of dog food and immediately throw it into the water before she got in trouble.  for the most part now she leaves it alone, with the exception of when you say wash your hands it's dinner time.  she washes her hands in it and then wipes her wet hands on my pants.  she does this every night.  every night, i say "no...that's so gross," and then wash her hands in the sink.  yes, i could grab her before i say wash your hands, but i am usually finishing up dinner.  plus, it's kind of funny and i have to wash her hands anyway. :)

back to the dog food. harley, our border collie, would jump over the classy pampers box to get to her food when the baby gate/pampers blockade was in place.  mr. tsl put the new gate up which is lower on the baby gate side, but a few inches higher on the pampers part side.

here is a pic to illustrate that:

the first day the barn door baby gate is up, harley decides to eat.  now, i didn't see this happen, but i sure heard it.  harley went to her usual side and attempted to jump over the gate....she did not clear it. not even a little.  which makes me snort laugh even thinking about it!!  anyhow, she then walked back to lay down by the front door very slowly with her head hung in shame, or pain...not sure which.  i opened the baby gate for her and she still didn't feel like going up there.  she just laid in front of the door for a while.

i can only equate her embarrassment/pain to my own.  i have many a time hurt myself and just sat back down.  once, i was attempting to flip off our diving board at my childhood home and took, well for-freakin-ever.  i finally get the balls to flip and smack right onto my back. this was uber embarrassing and extremely painful i just sat in the pool by the ladder for quite a while....this was all caught on tape. awesome.

so harley, i feel your pain, but will continue to laugh when people/pets do stupid things!

-make your life beautiful!!

  SUNDAY:

The Girl Creative ,
The DIY Showoff,
Sisters of the Wild West,
The Tattered Tag,
Flamingo Toes,
Under the Table and Dreaming,
I Heart Nap Time

 MONDAY:

Skip To My Lou, 
Thrifty Decor Chick, 
C.R.A.F.T., 
Sew Can Do,
Dittle Dattle,
Between Naps On the Porch 
Homemaker on a Dime
Making the World Cuter

TUESDAY:

Tip Junkie,
Type A
A Bowl Full of Lemons
Today's Creative Blog
Funky Polkadot Giraffe 
Strictly Homemade
A Diamond in the Stuff
All Thingz Related
Handmade Tuesday

WEDNESDAY:

Blue Cricket Design
Not Just A Housewife
Someday CraftsHandy Man, Crafty Woman
Sew Much Ado
Organize Your Stuff Now 
Seven Thirty Three
Sugar and Dots 
The Mommy Club  

THURSDAY:

My Repurposed Life
Paisley Passions
House of Hepworths
Beyond The Picket Fence
Inspired by Charm
The Shabby Chic Cottage
Somewhat Simple 

FRIDAY:

Whipperberry

Fingerprints on the Fridge
Miss Mustard Seed
Remodelaholic 
Chic on a Shoestring
Shabby Nest
Tidy Mom
Little Lucy Lu
My Simple HomeLife

SATURDAY:

Funky Junk Interiors
Be Different Act Normal 
Tatertots and Jello 
Young and Crafty

guess hoo's 9? Morgan!!

last tuesday morgan turned 9!! it's almost crazy that i have a 9 year old...that's right people she is almost 2 whole hands!  which is unreal because i am only 25 and i was 21 when i had her...i know i just lied, i'm 30.  yep, 6 whole hands :)

anyhoo, we planned her party and she wanted  a movie theme.  so, we decided on the sound of music, but i couldn't find it anywhere.  so i picked another kid's classic...parent trap, not the one with before she was a druggy slut lindsey lohan, but the classic with hayley mills.

i only got a couple of pics before my camera battery died. boo.  

we went with a yellow ombre balloons and streamers to mimic popcorn.  i picked up lots of big box candy from walmart and some popcorn boxes from party city, the girls loved this!  however, we will not be serving popcorn with 10 little girls in our house ever again.  with plush icky carpet and a lot of, "she knocked over my popcorn"  or "oops, oh well",  the floor ended up covered in popcorn and our neurotic border collie won't eat popcorn.  suckola.

my favorite treat for the party were the owl cupcakes!!

-happy birthday morgan!!

when life gives you lemons....

make lemonade, right?!?  what if when you squeeze the lemons the little sting-y bastards get in the little cuts on your hands?  and did life give you sugar and water, because your lemonade is going to suck if it didn't!

i want to add vodka to mine :)

i found these uses for lemons as well...

sorry, i haven't posted in a while....lots of crap has happened.  i have a ton of stuff to post about though.  i have taken on a babysitting job to help with our lack of funds.  she is super little, so i do a lot of new baby holding, patting of the tushie, and feeding her. this leaves little time for projects and blogging.  not to mention all the other crap i've been dealing with.  so, i will try to get back to bliggity blogging when i have time.

this post may be laced with negative nancy-ness (please note: nancy is a lovely name), but don't be fooled i am and always will be a positive patsy!

yesterday, i walked out of the GW (pronounced: Gee-Dub, short for goodwill)  and a stupid lady hit my yukon right in front of me, pulled out and was going to leave.  are you fucking kidding me???  i proceeded to jump in front of her car and made her get out.  that's right bitch, in america we take responsibility for shit we do!  there was like no damage to my car.  a light scuff and a mark on my tire...no biggie.  but, she gets out and tells me she doesn't need this and begins to chew my ass for it.  i was like chicka what?  then i said, "are you fucking kidding me, i can call the cops and they can get involved or you can say sorry like you should have in the first place."  that's all i needed.  really.  but if you are going to chew my ass for hitting me, she is freakin lucky i had my kids with me, because i was in a bitch slap mood.  then she went a parked all f-ed up in another parking space.  what is wrong with people?!?  seriously.

images via pinterest

negative nancy is now leaving the building, positive patsy will be back tomorrow :)
love you all!

-make your life beautiful!