October Fun

October is a super busy month for our family and it's also a really fun month.  This past weekend we went to the neighborhood school since every year they have a harvest event. They had music, Metro and the fire fighters were present.  Matteo had a blast dancing and participating in all the games along with the neighborhood kids.

On Sunday we took him the pumpkin patch with his cousin Isla and Talya. 

Messy Mondays!

A few weeks ago Matteo started a class called Messy Mondays.  It is such a great idea to take our kids to a place where they can have the freedom to play with things are very very messy and we (moms or dads) don't have to worry about cleaning the mess.  YAY!! I just love this class hehehe.  Here are some pictures.

 

 

 

 

 

More Milestones

October is one of my favorite months and we are sure enjoying this month now that my baby (he will always be my baby) has learn how to ride his tricycle.  I think his legs are strong enough that he can push the pedals and go go gooooo! hehe. Now we'll enjoy our walks around the neighborhood even more, with Matteo riding his tricycle next to us YAY!

Here is a short video.

My New Addiction!

 

Infused water is a new thing for me, and I see it more and more in the web. What I have notice is that some people call it infused water and others call it detox water; either way I love it and I know it's healthy.  This is my favorite recipe:

 

~purified water

~1 sliced lemon

~A handful of raspberries

~10 mint leaves

 

You just have to let it sit for a few hours (I let it sit over night) and it's ready!!!

 



 

QUE RICA AGUA!





Matteo is growing up!

My little Matteo is growing up, and it really hit me when I had to take the crib out of his room and replace it with his cool car bed :( A bit sad but now I had a new project to tackle.  His bedroom had to grow up too.  I, like so many other people, looked for inspiration in Pinterest. I wanted something graphic and with color and we end it up with something that we all liked.  Here are the pictures of our weekend project.

He wanted to paint too, so he had his own painting project. 

 It was fun to see him getting paint all over him, but it was not fun when I had to clean him.

 Before we pulled the tape:

After pulling the tape:

He was relaxing and reading his book.  I soooo want to be him!

We also made a book ledge for all his books.  It was also a Pinterest idea!

Cute Little Flowers!

I am in love with this little flowers/pom poms. I learned how to make these from a YouTube tutorial a few months ago and decided to make them for my friend's baby shower.

I used them to decorate around the house and also to decorate the favors.

 

Very easy to make... it was easier than regular pom poms.

You will need tissue paper (any color). Since I wanted to mix textures and color, I used a paper bag and tissue paper. 

 

1. first I used the craft puncher to punch out 2 circles out of the paper bag and about 4 out of the tissue paper.

 

 2. Second step it's to layer them. I used 2 tissue paper, 1 paper bag, 2 tissue paper and 1 paper bag.  You can layer it how ever you want and you can try different variations.
Once you have it layered the way you want it, staple it all together from the middle.

3. Now is time to wrinkle it all up layer by layer.  You can see in my last picture how it looks when its all wrinkle.  The last step is to go pull the layers back and you'll see the textures that each layer will have.

 

 Here you can see the final product and how it looks in light pink, bright pink and yellow.

 

 

 

 

 Hope you like it!!!! ☺♥
Have a great weekend.

It's A Baby Shower!

Oh how I love to have an excuse to have a party at my house!!!
Few weeks ago we had a baby shower for my good friend and here are some pictures to show you what I did.  I decided not to post pictures of her since I don't know how she would feel about that.


First of all "The Invite" and the inspiration for everything to come.

 

Pastry Bar with a little bit of everything.

 

 

 The Favors: We gave a jar of body scrub and a small (flower shaped) hand soap (both I made at home)

 

I also thought of having a (sort of) photo station. I used my work corner to place several decorations that were turned into prompts. I also used a tray (painted the center with chalk paint) to have people write a messages.  I decided to do this last minute and it turned out fun.

 

 

 

I kept it simple with the center pieces.  A glass with an artificial flower on top, baby block (that I painted white with gold glitter) and pink candy in shape of a pacifier.