Life Is Swell: First Snow/Lila's New Room

It's been a while since I blogged but it has been a pretty busy month. We moved back to Utah and are now just trying to get back into some sort of routine. Hercules is looking for a job and has recently applied to the Unified Police Dept. but it will still be a while until we find out about that.

But anyway...

The weather has been quite an adjustment for us and last night we finally got a nice big snow storm so this morning we decided to take Lila out to play in the snow for the first time. We got her all bundled up in her new snow suit and hat and plopped her down. She didn't quite know what it was all about at first. She tried to eat it and then face planted. She kind of reminded me of Randy from A Christmas Story because she couldn't move her arms and when she fell over she would roll from side to side but could not, for the life of her, get up. We laughed pretty hard.. then helped her up. :) After about 30 minutes she was done and bored of the snow so we came inside to warm up, but of course I got some cute pictures!

Lila's New Room

So even before we moved home I was planning Lila's new bedroom. I was so excited, I repeat, SO EXCITED, for Lila to finally have a cute room. When she was born she slept in my room with me and then when we moved she had her own bedroom but we could not paint or really do much decorating (we couldn't even hang curtains) so when I found out Lila could have her very own room with fresh paint, new carpet and basically anything I wanted I was ecstatic.

The first thing I did when we got home was start on her room, when I say the first thing, I actually mean the first thing. I started her room before I even started unpacking.

A neighbor we had in California told us about how you can use cornstarch and water to hang fabric on the wall and then you just get it wet to take it down. I of course loved this idea and immediately started planning a mural.

For those of you that know me, you know I have a somewhat unhealthy love of vintage anything, mostly I have a love for vintage flowers and fabric. While in California I bought a fair amount of vintage fabric and even got some from an antique shop on Cannery Row. I decided to cut the fabric into big flowers and use them in the mural.

I found an old wooden picture frame that belonged to my grandpa and kept a picture of John Wayne very safe.. but no one here shares my grandpa's obsession with John Wayne so we tucked the picture away and I reused the picture frame in my own way.

I also found an old lamp that needed some updating so I recovered it and made some flowers to attach to it. Unfortunately I forgot to take a before picture but it was green, white, and blue stripes.