91 degress and climbing

Yep, you read it right... 91 degrees today and looking at 95 tomorrow. We will definitely be at the pool tomorrow.    In the water.     The entire time.

We have completed a few more projects around the house and the girls and I have made a few cute items.


This is Abbey's planter we decorated with paint by inverting the pot and dripping different colors of paint down the sides. Again, a messy project but fun. It took a while to dry, then I sealed it with a clear coat. Hopefully tomorrow we can plant our flowers in it.

This is Madeline's planter. She had  fun adding a LOT of paint to her pot. Once she realized that more didn't necessarily mean better, she went back and added different colors to the sides to jazz up the blue. Madeline liked this project more than Abbey. After a bit, Abbey was bored with adding the colors and wanted to move on to something else. Madeline, however, would still be adding paint if I had not pronounced her pot "finished".

The next project was an idea I got from Pinterest (of course). I enlisted the help of hubby to paint and mount the board onto our garage wall.

I then used picture wire to run the length of the board.  I purchased the cute wood cut-outs at Hobby Lobby and hot glued them to clothes-pins. Before securing one end of the wire onto the board, I threaded the clothes-pins onto the wire so they are able to move freely up and down the length of the board.. The girls now have a place to hang their art work to "dry" once they are finished painting in the garage. It will make a great display for all those art projects that don't or (can't) make it to the refrigerator.

In addition to these fun OUTDOOR projects, I have finished filing that HUGE stack of papers on our bedroom desk.     Just one of my many INDOOR projects.

You know the stack I am talking about....
The one with receipts, health insurance EOB's, doctor visit charges, payment stubs, bank statements, etc.
2012 is officially filed AWAY. Good thing since it is the middle of 2013, huh?