Took a break for Fun!

Yesterday we took the day off from our home DIY projects to head to the Children's Museum of Houston. My girls just love to explore and play there. I was happy to see that Lego Duplo was in for an event and the girls loved building for a bit before we headed into the other activities offered at the museum!

The girls loved getting out of the house to play! But today we will be starting to put all of the Cat in the Hat projects into the room. here is a small start to the room:

Its a small start but you have to start somewhere. More to come!

Sneak Peek!

It has been a busy last few days. I am excited to share this sneak peek into our Cat in the Hat bedroom project! This week my mom came in from San Diego and I am not only happy to spend time with her but I am also happy she is here to lend her talent to this bedroom make over!

I have not only been watching her work today I have been putting the brush to work as well! Check out my read letters to go over my Ikea spice rack book holder!! I know that the girls are getting excited about the room and I am happy to say its almost time to paint and put things in the room.

Stay posted for our choice on the Kitchen wall color, the room has already gained a lot of counter top with cleaning out cabinets and relocating the small appliances!

Starting new exciting things!

This week is going to be full of exciting things! We have already taken a trip to Ikea and to Home Depot to get the supplies for our many projects! The bathrooms are almost done being repainted and decorated. Kayla has had her room redone and Jessica's is well on its way! We have so many ideas just hope it all pans out to a good finish! Stay posted for pictures!

Work is about to get way more exciting tomorrow. I will know what the new brand that the Scentsy Family is and be ready to announce it to my team, customers, friends and family! I am missing the Convention in Las Vegas but I am happy to be home with my family getting my business together and reading all of the Back Stage Pass information that Scentsy is sharing online!

Well back to making things to decorate with!

Princess Project 2012

As you might be able to tell from the date stamp, I have rethought this every day blogging. I just don’t seem to have time. I think that a few each week will be a better quality for everyone as well. So with that said the last few days have been full of pink princess and art projects. Both of my girls are getting bedroom make over’s and I am glad to say that the princess project for Kayla age 5 is done… or at least as done as it can be before our trip to Ikea next week.

At the start of the summer we ended up getting a great deal on a loft bed, because Kayla had been asking to have bunk beds for months we did the next best thing and added the loft bed to her room! She was beyond excited and is still very happy with the new bed! We recently added a couch that we had in the living room to her room as well and have since re covered pillows with fabric of her choice, sigh, my little girl is turning into a tween!

Dress up has been on Kaylas mind for years, I have finally added a dress up area in her room with a mirror and everything. You can also see her art desk in this picture! More on that in another post!

I am almost sure that this is Kayla's favorite part, she helped me with each part of it. She has a keepsake shelf with a picture of her and her sister as a baby and a dress up stuff holder that she helped me make! We also made a sign together that reads "Sometimes being a sister is better then being a princess" I am not sure she fully believes it at this point but some day she might. For right now she likes that it is shinny and in princess writing!

Now that Kayla is happy with her bedroom I will be off to help a friend with planning her twins rooms tomorrow night, and my Mom will be around as well to help with Jessica's Cat in the Hat Room...Busy days ahead, more to come!

7/17/2012…missed:

Oh no!!! I feel like a slacker!! I missed my a post in the first week, well I was home after 1 am and could not bring myself to a recap of my not very productive day. Yesterday was filled with planning, list making and order following. I was happy to have my latest order go in for Scentsy and some of the order is already shipping! I just love working for a company that works so hard to give great customer service! On the home front there was no running as it was the 3rd day in a row that I stood in an ant pile to get a dog from a hole in a fence, you would think she would learn or I would give up but the dog seems to enjoy escaping. Which brings me to my list, fix the back yard fence, try to do something about the ants, play more with the dogs. My list is much more then dogs, its bedrooms and bathrooms and kitchens. I even have the everyday clean the house, read for enjoyment, run because its worth it! I guess that gives you an insight on how my day got away with me and I ended up getting to a meeting with a friend that is making lists of her own to redo her twins’ rooms, it will be a fun project for me to help with since it is not in my house, and not my budget. Enough of the rambling about how I missed a day and how I have a lot going on. I will be on top of it tonight, see you in about 12 hours!

From Finish to Start

This Monday was spent finishing up some projects started over the weekend. I was able to make a pillow “no-sew” cover for Kaylas couch in her room. Make a “Bathroom Rules” sign to hang in the kids bathroom with a few other little things to add some personality. I was able to also start on the blanket that I am doing for Jessica’s room to go with her “Cat in the Hat” makeover we will be doing when Grandma is here. I hope it all works out in the end but there is no way to tell with no pattern and a stack of fabric. I let Jess pick out the fabric so I think she will enjoy it. The Cat in the Hat project will sure be a fun one; we will not be painting anything crazy on the walls just adding frames with scrapbooked book pages on her walls with a few Dr. Seuss quotes to live by! But most of all a reading corner because a little girl cannot be without her books!

Kayla's Project Day

Kayla’s Day! She was so excited to find out that I put together a plan to do some cool stuff for her room. I made up a clipboard with pictures of her walls and small things that we could add:

We checked out the options and made a shopping list and hit the road on a solo trip to get the cool stuff we were adding!

Kayla loved to have mommy time and I was so happy to have her with me, we got to do a lot of talking and had a great shopping trip! We got a lot of things done in her room and she is so happy to have her own little space. When Grandma Linda comes later in the week we will get a lot more of it done and I will add more pictures! Stay tuned!

Christmas in July 2012

Today I hit a Milestone of my own! I hosted my first Christmas in July Scentsy party! It was so much fun to put together and I am already looking forward to next year’s party! Here are a few pictures

This is my table with a prize tree!

This is the Velata station!

And my loving husband even helped me put together some international stuffed pita's! Tomorrow my Big girl and I will be working on adding a reading area and a craft table to her room! She is beyond excited and I have to admit I made her a board on pinterest all her own so I am a bit excited too! More on that tomorrow, Warm Wishes.

First Post

So today is my first day doing this and sad to say I failed at running. On the other had we had a very productive day. Running group was able to get together for a spa day and lunch! I was so excited it was the first time that I had been away from my kids to do something like that in about 4 years. After lunch I was able to send out the July newsletter….just a little late, and stop by the bank. After getting the girls home I was able to send them to “quite time” (a wonderful break to give them and me so time to ourselves) I took a quick trip around the kitchen and then headed to my latest project, repainting the bathrooms. I was able to get both bathrooms painted and put back together for dinner and have been working on getting my Christmas in July Scentsy Open House up and going for the weekend. More on that tomorrow.

Welcome

Welcome, will you join me for a year of ups and down? My name is Beth Doolittle and I am a mommy of 2 and they are just getting to the fun ages in life. We live in Texas and have for the past 4 years, I am a Scentsy Independent Consultant and my job and my loving husband let me stay home for all of the wonderful milestones. I am a crafty DIY mommy and I have a todo list to go on for days from paper crafting to wood work. My newest project in 2012 is running, I have currently run two 5k’s and I have a wonderful supporting running group that help me with my ups and downs in running and life! So I ask you again will you stick around and follow me for the miles and milestones of the year to come with my little family and I. It’s sure to be a journey!