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Author: Amber

  • I am so excited about my yard this year.  All three of us are obsessed with it I think. I’m having fun seeing how many plants I can cram in, so many nurseries, so many choices! Bj is more practical and pointed out that we needed something to eat on out there and maybe we should take care of that (side note, check out what my yard was up to last year, crazy!). On one of Bj’s days off last week we decided to just bite the bullet, drive to the big city and go to…

  • When Tuesday and I found out Chloe was coming to visit we asked our little play group if we could skip art time and do a tea party instead. In true Amber fashion I got a bit over my head, but we still had fun. I made these cute invites on the Silhouette, trying the print and cut feature for the first time, it really works! Now of the actual tea party you will not see many pictures. It turns out five 2&3 year olds plus three babies is a bit chaotic! (sheet covering up the…

  • Ready for biggest easiest project ever? I realized after using this blanket again this weekend that I never shared it. I whipped this little puppy up the night before my first Hawaii trip with Tuesday. I had visions of us sitting on the beach, her serenely playing on a blanket while I read a book. But wait! No blanket I had could squeeze into my already packed suitcase. So I took a few of my favorite prints pieced them together for the front. The back was a fun sheet. I put the right sides together, sewed…

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