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  • Tuesday’s Room

    It’s been a while since I’ve shown Tuesday’s room. I never really did finish her “nursery” I had a kind of space theme in mind, but quickly realized that themes don’t really work that well for me. We finally moved her crib out and just put the mattress on the floor. Its been, interesting. Tuesday didn’t want to get rid of the crib, but has to pee every night no matter what, and it was so silly to go lift her out of the crib, when she could easily take herself. So this is her room…

  • Quick painting project

    I found this link via Pinterest, and thought it sounded fun. I’ve used watercolor masks, but rubber cement was a quick and easy alternative. When I was up in Alaska I drove Tuesday and I out in the snow one day, and of course got lost. I ended up at a Michael’s though so it wasn’t all bad 🙂 I decided to pick up cheap watercolors, some watercolor paper, and the rubber cement. I tried to let Tuesday dribble the cement, but it wasn’t that easy for her, so I did most of it. I’ll admit…

  • Be mine

    Tuesday, Bj and I got out the glitter baby! We assisted our glue loving daughter in her Valentine’s making. It was pretty dang cute. (side note; so glad I stocked up on eight cent bottles of glitter glue this summer!). She had us write cute things inside. One of them, “star, I love you.” to a boy named Ewan. So random. Or “you’re sweet, smiley face.” We were trying not to blatantly laugh at her, but it was hard. I mean the cute! I let Tuesday pick out some shapes and we put a sheet of…

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