tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4700513852252475902024-02-07T19:43:01.652-08:00Kozy Kabin In The KootsSamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06531482100670833489noreply@blogger.comBlogger282125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-470051385225247590.post-90972425125222447572015-04-21T08:16:00.000-07:002015-04-21T08:16:11.244-07:00We are moving.....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
No, not physically, this blog is moving. That's right, after 6 years of blogging with Blogger I've decided it's time to change it up a bit and we will be moving to <a href="http://www.kozykabin.wordpress.com/">wordpress</a>. A lot will be the same as it's been here, but I'm also planning a bunch of changes ( among them, a new name and also a lot more consistent blogging schedule :-) so I really hope you will join me over at our new home, just click on the link <span style="font-size: x-large; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.kozykabin.wordpress.com/">here</a>. </span>Thank you, thank you to all of you who have been with me through the last few years I have really enjoyed and appreciated your comments and questions and your loyal readership and I hope you continue on with me in this new adventure!<br />
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Samhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06531482100670833489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-470051385225247590.post-74535281330249472962015-04-17T14:19:00.001-07:002015-04-17T14:19:38.711-07:00We got chicks!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Spring is here! Yay!<br />
I'm so excited, this week we got our first chicks! These little gals are going to be our egg layers. They are so fluffy and cute! They are a heritage blend and some are possibly roosters so we'll have to see in a few weeks what we have. We started with 10 and so far (fingers crossed!) we haven't lost any. Their names I believe are, Alvin, Simon and Theodore (the ones with the stripes on their backs and look like chipmunks ;-) Miss Henny-penny, Furby, Peckles, Shadow, Snugglebug and.....I can't remember the last two, I'll have to ask the kids when they get home from school :-)<br />
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My little greenhouse is all jammed full of little seedlings and that makes me soooo happy! </div>
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Samhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06531482100670833489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-470051385225247590.post-53896150247556780262015-03-24T10:52:00.001-07:002015-03-24T10:55:08.355-07:00I'll be back....in a day or two.....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Can't wait until our garden looks a bit like this again! I'll be back in the next few days with more garden talk.</div>
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Hi!<br />
Alright I have a confession to make, this post was originally going to be "10 things etc etc..." but could only think of nine. Anyways, I always love these kinds of lists, getting to know someone just a little bit more, so I figured why not? As always any questions feel free in the comments below<br />
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1) I am shy- I have to say I'm not as shy as I used to be. but it's there and it's a constant battle<br />
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2) I have a tattoo<br />
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3) I love sci-fi and supernatural themed books and movies, etc (The walking dead, Znation, Supernatural,<br />
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4) I wanted to be a pediatric nurse when I grew up<br />
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5) I met my husband while cliff-jumping<br />
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6) I like a lot of different music but I especially love 80s bands (Journey, Def Leppard, AC/DC etc)<br />
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7) I went to college and became a certified hairdresser<br />
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8) I did the Au pair thing and lived in Switzerland for a yearish<br />
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9) I used to sit in a bath and read for hours (and if I could I still would)<br />
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Samhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06531482100670833489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-470051385225247590.post-48498113019646583712015-01-26T09:58:00.000-08:002015-01-26T10:37:06.809-08:00a little kitchen refresh<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Last week I was telling you I went a little paint crazy so today I'm going to share the other room I went paint crazy on. Well maybe not crazy but refreshing. Before I share the pics of my house, first I wanted to share a couple of inspiration pictures of the eventual look and feel I would like in our kitchen. I'm working with a very limited budget so this is going to take awhile but I hope you enjoy coming along on this journey with me.</div>
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I definitely love the open shelved, modern farmhouse/industrial little bit of Provence look about the kitchens and I love getting inspiration from seeing real chefs kitchens (a la Julia Child, Michael Smith, Jamie Oliver etc) and how they work. I have lots more inspiration pics on my Pinterest board <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/ncgmommy/all-about-the-kitchen/">HERE</a></div>
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So, here we go with my progress so far and first off we have a picture of the "before" what our kitchen looked like on moving day just over a year ago.</div>
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As you can see in the photo above, I took the doors off a couple of cupboards, partly to get a more "open shelving" look and partly to try out living with open shelves to see if I like it and if it works for me and my family. And you know what? I love it, these shelves have our most used cups and dishes and bowls and it is so quick and easy to grab and put away from the dishwasher and also for guests to find what they need. I also changed out the valance for something a little lighter and brighter (spoiler alert, its actually three cute dish towels clipped up there!)<br />
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The colour I chose is a soft grey but it shows quite blue in some lights<br />
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Most of the containers and glass canisters are hand me downs from my hubby's grandma or are thrifted finds.<br />
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The really fun part of my painting spree is this chalkboard wall. One side faces the kitchen...<br />
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and the other side faces the dining area where my kids have been having a blast writing up the supper menu (and various other doodles :-)<br />
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Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful week!</div>
Samhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06531482100670833489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-470051385225247590.post-49682414240456090852015-01-21T08:42:00.000-08:002015-01-26T10:02:54.350-08:00A Living Room Refresh<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I have been on a bit of a painting spree around here and one of my favorite projects has been lightening and brightening our living room. That chocolate brown was fine but it was quite dark especially as this room is North/North-East orientation and it made an already fairly tight space feel more tight.</div>
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So, here we go...</div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">Booyaa!! Light and bright and still colorful and cheerful. The color I used is Simply White by Benjamin Moore and it is nice and bright but also has a warm creaminess to it so it doesn't feel stark . I'm not quite finished, so this isn't a complete makeover before and after, but I couldn't wait to show you all the progress so far.</span><br />
The gallery wall, so far I love it and its mostly finished, but there are a couple blank spots I would like to fill. I used all sorts of different types of art medium (canvas, quilting, silk screening, poster prints) all different artists, some we know personally and some was given to us by family or friends and a couple of pieces are thrift store finds. The one unifying element through them all is color. I tried to work with pieces that had blues and greens and browns and stuck with black or white frames<br />
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As you can see in the picture below I painted the side table and I still need to paint the coffee table (probably the same color "French Enamel" in Miss Mustard Seed Milk Paint) Love love love that color and love love love milk paint!<br />
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So there we have it so far, like I mentioned I'm not completely finished. I am working on a window treatment as I took the original blinds down to clean them and they were absolutely disgusting and totally sun faded on one side so I'd like to soften things up a bit and do some curtains. I also want to paint the coffee table and possibly the t.v console and a few other tweaks.</div>
Thanks for stopping by and I'm going to try and share the other sprucing up I did later this week.<br />
Have a great Wednesday!</div>
Samhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06531482100670833489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-470051385225247590.post-60676047648487646572015-01-15T08:23:00.000-08:002015-01-26T10:01:15.696-08:00Snow what fun!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Whew I've been a busy bee this last couple weeks painting up a storm and I can't wait to share with all you. I just need to finish up some of the "after" photos so hopefully next week I'll be all set to share with you all that. </div>
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We've also been busy, enjoying the white stuff that finally decided to show up! </div>
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We had a day just before New Years that we enjoyed with some of my family sledding the slopes.<br />
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Samhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06531482100670833489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-470051385225247590.post-1236651506045135032014-12-29T11:39:00.000-08:002015-01-01T20:44:24.152-08:00Master Bedroom mini update<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas? We all had a lovely time, lots of family time and this is the first Christmas in a few years that no one's been really sick!</div>
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So this is where we were last time we checked in the master, I had done a bit of picture hanging and bed making...</div>
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and this is the other side of the room when we moved in, the brown wall on the left is what three of the walls are painted (it's actually a nice chocolatey brown) and the fourth wall is a reddish brown/burgundy wine color. </div>
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Not so pretty, so for the last year or so we moved the bed around a few times, tried to cover it with bookshelves, pictures etc but what I really wanted to do was to paint that whole wall and make it more of a feature wall.<br />
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Now, due to money and time constraints I never got the paint, but what I did have on hand was a thick book of vintage music sheets (which I got from a thrift store awhile back for $1.50) a low heat glue gun and about two hours to get something done, and so, this was the result...<br />
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I was also excited to find those lamps cause our last ones were puny. I found the bases at the thrift store for $3 each (still debating whether I want to paint them) and then I was so excited to find the shades on clearance at Target for half price, $12 each! Other than the pompoms, everything else I had on hand.<br />
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My first attempt at finger knitting and pompom making!<br />
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The music pages give that wall so much texture and really lightened the room too.<br />
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One more time, before....<br />
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Cost breakdown on master bedroom makeover so far:<br />
vintage music wall: $1.50 ( I had glue gun and glue on hand so they were free)<br />
thrifted vintage lamps $6 for two bases + $24 for two new shades<br />
yarn for pompoms $5<br />
Total so far - $36.50<br />
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P.S Sorry for the crappy lighting, so hard to take good natural light pictures this time of year!<br />
P.P.S I realize I never show you the whole room when I share these makeovers, that's usually because the other side of the room is still a disaster! One of these days soon I will clean my room ;-)<br />
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Welcome to my corner of blogland. For any of you who regularly stop by, thank you for doing that and I apologize for leaving you hanging from my last post. I guess I'm just not cut out for daily posting (plus truth be told i only took 3 pictures that whole weekend...oops) Anywhooooo, on to the tour!</div>
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This is definitely my favorite time of the year, I love touring around all the houses on show, seeing what creative people have done to put some extra sparkle in their homes, so enough rambling grab a cup of eggnog or hot chocolate (or my personal favorite eggnog latte!) and lets move on with the tour! </div>
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I have to say I'm particularly proud of that picture above (although not so proud of the orangey look of the walls, what is that?!?!) as I found that vintage chalkboard at the thrift store! I've been dying to get one of <a href="http://lindsayletters.com/collections/holiday-2014">these</a> but they're just not in the budget this year. So I made my own :)<br />
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An integral part of Christmas, the tree! My family and my sisters new little family all went up the mountain to get our trees last weekend. Because there is very little snow, we were able to get pretty far up. We found a spot with a wicked view, got a bonfire going, roasted some smokies and had some snacks and generally had such a great time, we nearly forgot to get a tree! Thank goodness the kids were there to remind us of our mission :)<br />
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Dining room... I'm starting to get quite the little collection of deer.The two wooden ones are from a thrift store my kids and I went to during <a href="http://kozykabin.blogspot.ca/2014/06/may-travels.html#.VJJYgCvF9OI">this trip</a> the two silver are from a local store and the other is from Ikea.<br />
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I'm so excited to have learned how to make my own fluffy pompoms :) Thank you <a href="http://missmustardseed.com/2014/12/make-yarn-pom-poms/">Miss Mustard Seed</a>!<br />
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My first attempt at a real tablescape! I used a mix of mostly old and just a couple new things and stuff from my yard. Only the sparkly deer and the icicles on the plates are new (oh and the straws!), everything else has been passed down from grandmas on both sides of our family or bought slowly over the years.<br />
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Silver and gold and red and green, what could be more Christmassy than that?! (P.S does anyone else break out in the silver and gold song from Rudolph the red nosed reindeer any time they hear those two words together? No? hmmmm )<br />
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Our picture garland I made a few years ago and we used to hang on the stairs in the original Kozy Kabin, and some new pompoms ahem snowballs?...<br />
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Just a little bit of decor in the kitchen...<br />
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The merry Christmas and pompom garlands and the big red star are all from Target<br />
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The <a href="http://kozykabin.blogspot.ca/2013/12/favorite-christmas-books-repost.html">basket of Christmas books</a> is ready to go beside a cosy chair and a little friend.<br />
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Ooh and here we are in my new favorite spot, our master bedroom with its newly "wallpapered" wall. </div>
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I'm going to do a more thorough post about this wall soon but for now lets just enjoy :-)<br />
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P.S you can check out last years tour <a href="http://kozykabin.blogspot.ca/2013/12/christmas-home-tour.html#.VJRbNV4BA">HERE</a>, 2012 <a href="http://kozykabin.blogspot.ca/2012/12/its-beginning-to-look-lot-like-christmas.html">HERE</a>, and 2011 <a href="http://kozykabin.blogspot.ca/2011/12/my-one-hundredth-post-and-finally-my.html">HERE</a></div>
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Well hello again!<br />
I am so sorry if I left you hanging last week on my Week in the Life project, that was not my intention at all! In fact, I made (almost) every effort to keep posting. See, what happened was this, I had been posting the day after each day so that it would be an all around view of my day and on Friday I was fully planning on posting about Thursday's day, but, my sister and I went on a little road trip Friday morning. No matter, I thought, I'll just bring my computer and camera etc and post later from the hotel. Well, I packed the camera, I packed the laptop, but what I forgot to pack was the cable to connect the two to upload my photos onto the laptop.....wop wop.fail. Oh well, better late than never I always say :)<br />
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Morning cuppa Joe...<br />
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Breakfast is served. These two are tiring of paparazzi momma taking pictures of everything :)<br />
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This little furry girl likes to be social in the morning and if we don't let her outside, she climbs on places she's not supposed to in order to capture our attention. She is also the most vocal of our two cats.<br />
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*sigh* Laundry.....<br />
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Finally remembered to bring the camera and attempt an inside the truck shot! Kim and I heading to town to drop her off at her day program.<br />
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Rain rain go away.... oh well at least it's not snow.....yet.<br />
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Enjoyed seeing the last bits of colorful autumn leaves. One of my favorite things about living here is we get to see all four seasons at their best.<br />
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Since I was in town anyways, I volunteered to pick up the pizzas for Cady and Gabe's school hot lunch day. Smelled so good!! It was a long drive home ;)<br />
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After dropping pizzas off I went to check the mail.<br />
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Then back home for a quick lunch (chicken samosa from the bakery, yum!) and finish my post about Wednesday.<br />
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Back to the school to watch their special Remembrance day assembly. Cadence sang a song and Gabe said a poem with their respective classes.<br />
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Kids are home. Let them watch t.v (doesn't happen every day) but it is rainy and miserable out and no one has homework.<br />
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Unfortunately that is where my photos end for the day. I didn't capture the rare treat of having Chinese take-out for supper and bedtime etc. but it was a good representation of a busier day (for me anyways)<br />
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I will be posting tomorrow about the last three days of my Week in the Life all together as I kinda forgot to take many photos. I hope to work on that next year for my week in the life project.<br />
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Have a lovely Thursday :)</div>
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5:15am First pot of the day... <br />
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This little kitty comes out to say hi and to convince us to let her outside (we don't as it's still dark and there's been a lot of coyote activity around here lately)<br />
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5:30- I start uploading photos and edited my post about the previous day. Last year I started getting up early with Pat both to see him off in the morning and to have a bit of time to enjoy my hot coffee and wake up before the kids do. It's been a challenge as I'm such a night owl, but now finally to the point that i do enjoy it.<br />
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6:30am Cadence is up. Probably 75% of the time she is the first kid up, 20% it's Gabe and the remaining 5% Nyla<br />
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7am- Time to wake the other two up. Gabe has a hard time leaving his warm cosy bed (those of you who read my blog regularly may notice that he is in the room with orange walls, I will share that change-around soon)</div>
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7:05am- Making lunches. Today I make sandwiches with the bread I made yesterday and they get 2 Halloween candies and fruit (pineapple)</div>
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Rainy yucky wet morning good day for laundry and computer work.</div>
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noon- Charlotte and Leah (my sister and niece) come over for a walk<br />
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1:30pm I take photos of and post some stuff to sell.<br />
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2:40pm- Cady and Gabe are home, they show Leah how the tractor works :)<br />
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So yesterday (Monday)I started this week in the life project and though it kind of had a bumpy start, today I started hitting my stride. Things of note, a lot more pictures were taken, not only that but I had some fun playing around with angles, the timer on my camera (which I have never used before!) and different lighting. For my words today I included some observations of our life right now, to distinguish this week from any "normal" week </div>
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8 am- After the rush to get kids to the bus on time. Every morning when she wakes up, Kim has to play her cards.<br />
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8am - I start cleaning up the after breakfast mess. Sometimes there are dishes leftover from last night, sometimes I'm on the ball the night before and they get done then. I see my initial attempts to making this house our home with decor, The window valance made with new dish towels, the upper cabinet doors removed to see if I really would like open shelves there, the paint chip cards tucked by the walls with colors I'm thinking of to lighten and brighten the space up.<br />
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9:30am - After getting Kim off to her day program it's on to laundry. With three adults and three kids living in this house, the laundry is never ending<br />
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10am - Second pot of the day going. Morning coffee is essential :) I see the tea bag left over from Kim's morning tea, the fact that we are using whipping cream because that's what we have leftover from our party this past weekend (normally we use half and half)</div>
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1pm- Getting dinner prepped, trying to get more organized with dinner earlier in the day<br />
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2:40- Cady and Gabe are home. They play so well together most of the time. Had to stop their play for a bit and run to town to get Kim and Erin (which is semi-unusual for a Tuesday as mom usually picks her up but mom is busy today) forgot to take an in the car photo :(<br />
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4:10pm - Nyla's home. She needs some time to herself after her busy day,but also likes to be near us all so this usually means she's sitting on the couch on her iPod. I have to be kind of sneaky getting her picture this week as she's in a "no pictures" phase (what isn't shown is 2 seconds after I took this one she looked up and glared at me and asked me not to take her picture.<br />
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4:30pm- I sit down and read for a bit while waiting for dinner to cook (I told Nyla I was just practicing taking pictures of myself with the timer, which is a half-truth)<br />
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Gabe has had that tractor since he was one and still plays with it a lot. When I asked if we could pass it on to a younger cousin he said, "not yet mom, maybe next year I'll be too old to play with it."</div>
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5:40pm- Pat's home! Long long day for him, he left at 5:45am this morning. He's a hardworking man and it shows in that dirty, tired face.<br />
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6:02pm- Dinner time :) Even though this is blurry I still like it as every person is showing and I love when we can all sit down to dinner together. Bonus the kids liked most of the food so not many complaints. We ate steak, roasted beets, fresh carrots, cooked frozen peas and scalloped potatoes with apple upside-down cake for dessert. I enjoy cooking and baking in the fall as the cooler weather calls for a nice warm oven.<br />
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7:15pm- After dinner relaxation. Stella just loves being in the middle of things.<br />
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8pm- Bedtime! I love this angle. This boy is like me and gets hot easily, what's our remedy? Stick your feet out of the blankets :)<br />
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Bedtime essentials include kitty snuggles (Nyla didn't mind this photo taken because it involved her cat, note to self, involve cat in pictures of Nyla) and reading or listening to quiet music to wind down<br />
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8;15pm- Our time together. Some nights we watch a show we are both into (currently Ramsey's Best Kitchen) on Netflix. \<br />
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Samhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06531482100670833489noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-470051385225247590.post-78164699749091692892014-11-04T11:21:00.000-08:002014-11-13T09:42:52.542-08:00A Week in the Life Project<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Hello there,<br />
It's been a long time again,...Sigh<br />
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Moving on, Last week <a href="http://aliedwards.com/blog?tag=Week+in+the+Life%E2%84%A2">Ali Edwards</a> did her Week in the Life project and it seems like every year I want to do it and every year I forget or I get too perfectionist about it and want to do it the exact same time and week. Well, this time I am one week off kilter, but I've decided to do it anyways. I'm hoping it will help me jump-start my scrapbooking season (aka our long Canadian winter)<br />
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8 am - Kim finds Monday mornings are so hard to get up for.<br />
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Halloween decorations and Firehall rally and raclette souvenir :)<br />
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8:30- I decide to record our Halloween decorations that I need to start taking down, So happy with how they turned out and that it added to the fun we had on Saturday night<br />
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9am- Start the remaining clean up of Saturday's Halloween party and reminisce about how much fun we had (and how busy our weekend was)<br />
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9:05am- Come across this during some clean up, Cadence's report card for Pony Club testing and felt so proud that she did so well for her first year.<br />
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3:00 pm- Kids and animals relaxing after school. Rainy day and busy weekend means they got to watch a movie (How the Grinch Stole Christmas) chosen together because now that Halloween is over, they are looking forward to Christmas.<br />
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Like I said, not many pictures of our first day, but something to work on the rest of this week. I'm hoping to be back here later this evening or early tomorrow to share today's (Tuesday) photos and thoughts.<br />
Oh! And if you want to know more about Ali Edwards and Week in the Life, check out her blog <a href="http://aliedwards.com/blog">HERE</a> and getting ready for WITL <a href="http://aliedwards.com/2014/10/week-in-the-life-2014-getting-ready">HERE</a> and <a href="http://aliedwards.com/2014/10/our-days-are-built-with-stories">HERE</a></div>
Samhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06531482100670833489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-470051385225247590.post-34783013935629360502014-09-22T09:34:00.000-07:002014-11-13T09:43:16.341-08:00Back to School.....finally!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Can't believe how big they are all getting!! Especially this little man going into grade 2<br />
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And my bright and bubbly girl, this girl loves funky fluorescent everything!</div>
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And this sweet girl who is growing up so fast, going for her second year of middle school.<br />
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And they're off and running to the bus stop through the early misty morning sunshine...<br />
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Sigh......peace and quiet for mom and time to indulge in a few mom treats, uninterrupted blog time, a special candle, magazine I picked up yesterday (Christmas ideas already?!?!?!) and a yummy warm chai latte. Bliss<br />
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Samhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06531482100670833489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-470051385225247590.post-72462310630130719252014-09-16T08:08:00.000-07:002014-11-13T09:43:37.302-08:00Garden Photo update<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Hello Strangers!<br />
Actually, I guess I've been the stranger around here. August flew by and before I knew it it's September. I guess this year it doesn't really feel like September because my kids still haven't gone back to school as their teachers are all on strike. We've been doing a bit of homeschooling trying to keep up with their math with workbooks and lots and lots of reading so it's been busy busy around here. I don't know how full time homeschoolers find time to blog and do housework as well!<br />
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(this is a very common way of seeing Gabe while I read to him, maybe being upside down helps him think? ;)<br />
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And in other news, this girl turned 12 a few days ago! What?!?!?<br />
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But, back to the garden stuff! I think we did pretty darn good this year for our first year of gardening a plot that didn't exist before, so we've (I've) done everything from scratch.<br />
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This is looking in from the main gate, you might notice we finished the fence! You can check out my previous garden update <a href="http://kozykabin.blogspot.ca/2014/06/garden-bliss.html#more">HERE</a>. The yellow line around the top is to discourage deer (apparently they don't like the color yellow?!) so far it seems to work...<br />
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Strawberries and one of the kiwi vines,<br />
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I'm in the midst of moving those raspberry canes, hopefully they will decide to like me next year and produce again.<br />
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Yellow crookneck summer squash (which is producing a ton!)<br />
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Tomatoes! I'm still slightly in shock at how well these tomato plants have done<br />
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See how pathetic they looked back in June?<br />
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Zucchini have done well too, I have a yellow and a green variety and have made several of our favorite cakes (chocolate zucchini cake!) from the fruits of these two plants.<br />
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Those light green leaves in the middle bottom of the picture above, are a miniature white cucumber plant (heirloom seeds) and we got a couple this year, they were sooo yummy! I wish I'd taken a picture cause they were so neat looking. The rind was a pale yellow and the flesh was pure white.<br />
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And yes, those are strawberries....in September! I'm absolutely loving these ever bearing variety of strawberries, can't wait to see what they're going to do next year!<br />
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Now, I have to disclose something, these pictures were taken last week and then we were hit by an early frost which killed all the zucchini and summer squash and beans and nasturtium plants. I've since harvested nearly all the salvageable produce (lots of green tomatoes!) and have started fall cleanup of the garden. I'm hoping to have a post by the end of the week with our garden harvest numbers, I'd like to keep track of that every year and see our progress.<br />
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This past month has been lovely, I decided at the end of June to make July an electronic device free month. Now we really don't have that many compared to a lot of people, Pat and I have iphones, Nyla has an ipod touch, Cady has a ipod shuffle and we have an old Nintendo DS. But, I was getting so tired of waking up every day to one of the kids asking to play games on my phone or arguing about who got more time on what or constantly telling them to put devices down and go play outside or use their toys and games and imaginations, that I finally lost my patience and took them all away for a month. And you know what? </div>
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They have been on bike rides, running through the sprinkler, jumping on the trampoline with the sprinkler underneath, digging in the dirt, playing with their toys,<br />
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Watched storms roll through and seen double (and even a triple!!) rainbows<br />
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Whew! So much and that was just one month! It wasn't always easy, there was a lot of whining especially at the beginning but then they hit their groove and off they went. I am working on making August just as device free so I can enjoy them doing their fun stuff and maybe I can do more of this....<br />
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Her name is Leah Mabel and she is our newest little niece :)</div>
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Proud oldest cousin (Nyla)<br />
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And this is her Very proud daddy (her mama, my baby sister, didn't feel like being photographed in the hospital and I don't blame her ;)<br />
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Samhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06531482100670833489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-470051385225247590.post-29393506058593760212014-07-17T14:36:00.001-07:002014-09-22T09:45:10.236-07:00The living room change up<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The beige couch was literally falling apart, so we got rid of it and the beige chair was ok but it was quite stained and dirty. The bench used for a coffee table got moved somewhere else as everyone kept bashing their knees on the corners and I found two round glass topped tables at the thrift store (that I hope to paint soon!)<br />
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I wanted to see what the wall would look like a little less cluttered so I took down the gallery wall and hung this one largish canvas painting (which I got, at a boutique store that I love in our town, before we moved in) I just love that cow!!! I think she needs a name though, any ideas?? I also love all the colors in the painting so it's going to be my inspiration piece for this room. See the little paint swatch on the wall above the candle holder on the right? That gives you a little sneak peek of the direction I want to take on this wall :)<br />
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I just love the little wing back chair and I have a couple ideas for it (I got it from my mom) I'd also like to find a little different fabric for the console under the t.v (too similar to the throw pillows that are staying put) I just used a piece of fabric I had left over and tacked it to the inside of the shelf to cover up the mess of dvds etc.<br />
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There we go, a little change up that cost me little to nothing (tables were $15 for the set and fabric I had on hand, all the knick knacks were gathered from around the house) Oh and the green couch was given to us as well.<br />
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So last time I talked about and showed pictures of our visit with family and our time at the beach and this time I'm going to share our two farm visits. </div>
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So, we pull up and park in the parking lot and the first thing we see in a field adjacent are these beautiful bovines :) Our kids have never been up close to a cow before and they were amazed at how BIG they are!<br />
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See? So cute!<br />
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These guys were in the same barn and they were pretty cute too.</div>
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Cadence (my little animal whisperer) made fast friends with "Carl" the llama :)<br />
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The other two got brave when they saw their sister and went over to say hi too :)<br />
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Morningstar Farm is also home of Little Qualicum Cheeseworks and the Mooberry Winery (you can read more about it on their website <a href="http://www.morningstarfarm.ca/">HERE</a>) We enjoyed seeing the process of seeing the cows getting milked and enjoyed sampling some of the final yummy product at the farmgate store (I might have gone home with a bagful of cheese including some delicious brie, my favorite!) You can have a tasting of some of the wines they produce as well, but we were short on time and unfortunately I didn't get to sample the goods.<br />
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Nyla had a hard time leaving the pen, all the kids wanted to come too!<br />
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At Tiger Lily farm we were able to go right in the pens with most of the animals and hang out :)</div>
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Way back in May our family did some travels and we spent about a week on beautiful Vancouver Island on the west coast of Canada (I can't believe it has taken almost a month to post about this but hey that's life) I'll warn you though, this post is going to be pretty photo heavy :)</div>
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So, in order to get to Vancouver Island you need to either fly or take a ferry and in this case we took one of the ferry's. On our trip over we had gorgeous weather, but unfortunately didn't see much marine life (we saw one sea lion, very far in the distance)</div>
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We were visiting the area of Parksville and Qualicum and we had such a great time! We took the kids for their first time mini-golfing and we all had a blast (so much so that the kids kept asking if we could go back every day!)<br />
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My sweet cousin and her hubby and three kids live not far away so her and I and all the kids all had a great time hanging out and getting to know each other (our hubbies were both busy that week, hers was working and mine was there to do a conference)<br />
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We had such a great time together! Reminded me of so many special times hanging out with my cousins when we were small. I just wish we all lived closer so we could hang out more often!<br />
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This tree stump was at Rathtrevor beach, it was so cool. At one point there were probably seven or eight kids climbing all over it and having a blast. Who needs a playground when you can play on a huge tree stump?!!<br />
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It has been a long time since the last time I posted, so long in fact, that there was still snow on the ground and I was heading up to the ski hill! My how fast things have changed...<br />
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Part of the reason I haven't been around is that every waking moment that I am at home, I am in my garden and/or working on it somehow and another part is that soccer has been taking over our lives at the moment (thank goodness it is a fairly short season!) and the last reason is we did a lot of travelling in May (nowhere super exciting but I'll share more on that soon), so that month especially flew by.<br />
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Yay for green stuff! When all is said and done the garden will measure approx 50x50 ft. You can see a bunch of the fence posts we've put in so far (we're about 3/4 done getting those in) and then we will put fencing around the garden to keep the deer and dogs etc out.<br />
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The white bins you can see in the picture above will all be planted with various things, but currently a bunch of strawberries are the only plants growing in there.</div>
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I've been working hard building up some raised beds, doing some lasagna type layering with some cardboard on the bottom, chicken or horse manure, topsoil and then shredded wood on top for mulch, and so far so good. Below are some more strawberries, some beets just starting to sprout and in the back are some onions.<br />
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More strawberries and one of two kiwi vines that I am hoping will grow up and over an arbor I hope to have over the entrance gate :) The kiwi vines take 3 years to mature so I really wanted to get them in right away.<br />
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Garlic!! Can I just say that I'm totally in love with my garlic!?! I think I'm mostly just grateful and flabbergasted that it is growing so well. I was so determined to grow our own garlic this year that in the fall I had Pat till one long strip in the location of our hopeful future garden, (this was right after we moved in and we still had boxes everywhere but I wanted garlic!) then I threw some worm castings on the plot, worked them in the soil a bit, planted the garlic cloves and threw some coconut coir mulch stuff on top. Then I just prayed and hoped they would pop up this spring and so far they haven't disappointed me :)<br />
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Looking good there garlic ;) and onions too ;)<br />
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Here we have some lettuce and some radishes, with the garlic making a cameo in the background. The garlic is currently planted in a row right down the middle of where the rest of the beds are going because sometime during the winter I decided to change the positioning of things in there (surprise surprise, me changing things around ;) Oh well when the garlic gets pulled then I'll fix it all up, right now it just looks like it's charging through the middle of everything.<br />
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Here we have some of my pathetic looking tomatoes. They're really looking sad<br />
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Chives, mint and lemon balm, lovely gifts brought from a sweet relative :)<br />
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Those tall lanky things are some raspberry canes I <strike>stole</strike> dug up from my moms large raspberry patch<br />
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Oh this is exciting stuff, two big piles of horse manure from two different friends :) One is perfect for now, one is for the fall.<br />
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Here we have peas, runner beans (two types) and yellow and green zucchini<br />
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About half of the garden hasn't really been touched yet. This is the biggest garden I've ever had so I'm trying to take it somewhat slow and steady in getting things established. Plus, my time has been really split up between getting stuff in the ground to grow and getting the fence built up to protect it. Can you guess what that little building is? It is a chicken tractor/coop! No chickens in it yet as it needs some work done on it but it's a step forward at least :)<br />
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This little backyard farm is slowly coming together bit by bit and I'm so enjoying every minute of it. One more picture of the garlic you say? Well, OK ;) P.S that's the compost bin my hubby threw together out of some pallets in the background<br />
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Samhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06531482100670833489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-470051385225247590.post-44369842734690336842014-03-21T08:21:00.003-07:002014-07-10T11:29:08.848-07:00Blog Love<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Happy Friday everyone!<br />
Before I jet off to the ski hill with my kiddos I wanted to share with you some blog posts I'm loving right now so that you have some fun reading for the weekend ;)<br />
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First off , since I am definitely feeling like we are going through some <a href="http://www.vintagerevivals.com/2013/01/blog-puberty-its-thing.html">blog puberty</a> I have to share this hilarious post by the always funny Mandi at <a href="http://www.vintagerevivals.com/2014/03/i-mean-this-just-is-not-something-i-can-stand-behind.html">Vintage Revivals</a><br />
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And next up for some actual real prettiness <a href="http://www.thenester.com/2014/03/girlie-office-in-progress.html#more-36623">The Nester</a> has come through once again with her combination of beauty and reality in her <a href="http://www.thenester.com/2014/03/girlie-office-in-progress.html#more-36623">office progress</a> post<br />
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Last week I made <a href="http://www.lifeingraceblog.com/2011/08/cheese-tortellini-soup-for-caiti/">this Cheese Tortellini Soup</a> and it was amazing! Thank you Edie for sharing it with the world :)<br />
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And last but certainly not least we have <a href="http://diyshowoff.com/2014/01/07/tips-for-making-a-diy-pipe-shelving-unit/">this amazingness</a>, from Roeshel<br />
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Have a fantastic weekend!</div>
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My kids are home for spring break although it is still quite snowy as you can see,<br />
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I can't believe how fast it all goes by and I've so enjoyed myself slowly working on making this house our home. We've done some somewhat large jobs, lots of painting and some small projects too. </div>
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A lot of my focus has been our kids rooms. I wanted them to feel settled and comfortable after these last couple of unsettled years. We've come a long way from what we started with, in six months, and those rooms are getting pretty close to being finished. I have a few more little projects up my sleeves that I can't wait to share with you in the coming months (well, maybe years ;)<br />
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It's been quite awhile since I shared our living room/great room<br />
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I'm feeling the need for some greens!<br />
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Big plans for this side of the house....<br />
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Kids playground that hasn't been set up yet<br />
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My sanity saver ;)<br />
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One of my favorite parts of this place, wide open sky, but with a view of the mountains all around.<br />
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Part of where I think the garden will go...<br />
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Samhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06531482100670833489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-470051385225247590.post-19337635606641197972014-03-12T08:54:00.001-07:002014-07-10T20:50:31.495-07:00A 9 year old girls room that isn't pink!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Since Cadence and I finally went through her room and organized and discarded a bunch of stuff she's grown out of and we can now walk into her room without fear of stepping on some small painful item IE barbie shoes or playmobil animals, I figured it was high time I shared all the work we have accomplished in her room so far. The last time I shared her space, it was just after <a href="http://kozykabin.blogspot.ca/2013/11/girls-rooms-are-painted.html#.UyBmH_ldX9Q">I painted both girls rooms</a> and there was a considerable amount of stuff everywhere (my little girl is a bit of a hoarder :s) Hence the picture only shows the top half of her room ;)<br />
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But let's not dwell shall we? Moving on, here's Cady's room now:<br />
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Bright and colourful you say? It sure is! That's because our Cady is a bright and colorful girl! Remember a couple years ago when we had a <a href="http://kozykabin.blogspot.ca/2012/03/bright-and-colourful-birthday-party.html#.UyB7IvldX9Q">Rainbow themed birthday party</a>? Well I kind of expanded on that for her room and she loves it :) My mom gave her that wall quilt which ties into the room colors and theme perfectly (it used to grace the walls in my childhood home, I think in my brothers room) Her room is definitely an eclectic mix of new, colourful and vintage. For example her "desk" is this old secretary from my dads side of the family (pictured below), the vintage quilt mentioned above, the new curtains I made for her room and the fun funky colourful fabrics (which are all from Ikea, now that I think about it!) </div>
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You may also notice the plethora of animals scattered everywhere? This girl is an animal lover for sure! All different ones, but her current fave are HORSES!<br />
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These two pics are under her bed. I was trying really hard to figure out how to utilize this space in the best way possible. Her bed is a loft bed but kind of a half loft as one can't really stand under it unless you are about 5 and under. So we decided to make it a kind of reading/puzzle nook. I got some short shelves that would fit under the bed and we were able to <strike>cram</strike> nicely place a ton of books and things under here. The green box and pink bins in the picture above are full of her barbie stuff :) When she grows out of barbies (which will be soon I fear! Not the barbies, but the growing up!) we're thinking of putting a nice comfy loungey chair or bean bag chair to hang out down there more comfortably.<br />
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So there we go, a colorful little girl is thrilled to have a room of her own (first time ever!) A mom who is glad there aren't any barbie shoes to step on in the dark, and though we aren't completely done with this room (still need to get some proper flooring as well as some extra storage and a couple little decor ideas) we are a heck of a long way from where we began six months ago which looked a little like this<br />
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