Obssesed with paper....

I need to buy some of these....Inspiration, here.

Fun fans tutorial and my little Mr. D's. photoshoot for his b-day invitations!

I'm in love with him, with the fans, with his shirt with his expression...I could not love this picture more... I'm working in this wall for the house and I decided that it would be the perfect spot to take the picture of my Mr. D in his b-day shirt for his birthday invitations...

...so took his chair and got in action!...he even did the finger showing how old he is going to be in a couple of weeks!

...And here it is, the tutorial:First, you only need two scrapbook pages of exactly the same size and a glue gun...

...you fold both pages like an accordion...

...fold them in the middle and put a little drop of glue...

...then you glue the top...

after you have both little fans ready, you just glue the tops again...

left and right and tadaaaaaaaaaaaa......ready!

Can you be in love with a lamp?

...yes you can, and yes I am...here it is...in all its glory, hanging from the highest point of our stairwell window...

...her name is MASKROS, and we found her in Ikea...of course...it is perfect...love the little shapes that projects into the walls...

...we had a very ugly pendant lamp that came with the house before...but now, our not so little MASKROS brightens the place!

...this is the creator, Marcus Arvonen....oh how I love him!

...and you better believe it....if I had a huge house with very high ceilings, I would have a room full of these!

Peach cobbler, anyone?

...of course Diego is always ready for some sweet stuff....so yesterday my cute neighbor Liz gave us a box full of peaches!...so I decided I had to try making a peach cobbler..I've always wanted to make one... below, some pictures of the very easy proccess...

....it is not the prettiest thing I have ever made, but let me tell you, it tasted pretty good...This is the recipe I used.

the hoops...

I took this picture of Mr. D this morning... look how handsome he is...and then I remembered that I never posted anything about those hoops!...well...I got the idea from here, and they are so very easy to make and pretty inexpensive!...I made them while I was pregnant and now I think is almost time to change the mister's nursery...so I might give them away! (any takers?)

Wowed....

...oh....so so so so so pretty...if I could have another wedding, it would be for sure like this one...

...more images here.

Maybe you love it, maybe you hate it...

...but I love it!!!!....I painted my fridge...yes, again....We used to have a very old crappy one, so I decided to painted it with chalk paint. My neighbors and nephews loved to draw on it...then that crappy fridge pooped out and we got another crappy one from ksl. I was not in the mood of doing anything to it, since I knew it was going to broke on us as well...Finally, my sweet sis. in law gave us her fridge when they moved to Colorado...a much better fridge, but white...It didn't go very well with the rest of the furniture, so yesterday it was go time....creativity time....and maybe, just maybe, I went a little too far...you decide.

Well, first I must say that last time I painted the fridge I was 8 months pregnant and it was such an effort and pain...this time Mr. D was the pain!...he would not leave my side!

So first I used some pretty duck tape that I found at Robert's for 50 cents to make a frame....and after, I used frog tape to get it ready for the chalk paint.

...handles out and two coats of paint...

tada!!!...love it...it matches the kitchen...

...and we can write cute messages!

Around the globe...

After being inspired by this lady's kitchen, I started collecting globes. I found most of them at guess where....right, the D.I (for pretty cheap, no more than 5 bucks) or at consignment stores...little by little I am filling that very awkward space on top of my kitchen counters....I love how they brighten the whole kitchen...
And here you go, awesome decoration examples that you can do with globes...get inspired!:


(picture from my beautiful and talented friend Caroline from "Armelle")


(picture from "Project wedding")


(picture from "Apartment Therapy")


(picture from "Strathmore Living")

The headboard...before and after...

Remember this solid wood headboard that we scored at D.I for pretty cheap?

...We first took off the bars..they reminded me of a crib, so I didn't want them....

...and then we (I should say "I"), painted it black, to match our night stands...

...and voila!

...pretty happy with the result...

From ugly to cuuuute!

I forgot to take a better "before picture" but we got this coffee table from Mike's sister's husband...it was pretty beaten up....so after some sanding (actually a LOT of sanding) and aome pain, it turned out pretty cute!

...and here is a little preview of my favorite corner of the house...
Oh and on unrelated subject, Spain just lost to Switzerland...that ruined my day.

Flowers

Long time ago I was approached by a cute old lady. She knocked on my door and told me that she lived a couple of houses to my right and that from her window she could see the side of our house. I first tough that she came to complain and to tell us to put some clothes on (Mike and I sometimes wandered in our undies around the house) but she came for a different reason. She told me that she spent a lot of time looking trough that window and that she would love to plant pretty flowers in our little garden so she could see them. I said yes, and this is what's blooming there:

love it.