By Lisa Gutierrez on 05/23/2011 
I put up a curtain rod over one of the windows in my breakfast room, about 9 months ago. It took me that long to make curtains. That’s about how long it takes to make a baby! After putting it up, I had to decide on a fabric. I chose one and then hated it. Fast forward a few months and I win a Waverly Fabric giveaway on sfgirlbybay!
When I received the fabric, I was in awe. My creative mind kind of just froze and the box sat next to my knitting basket since then. I would sneak peeks and wonder if I should make a pillow, an apron, or perhaps some sort of magical quilt. It wasn’t until a few days ago, when I was standing in this room thinking about how I “wished I had made those curtains before the birthday party” (this Saturday), that I realized this fabric would be PERFECT!
View from the kitchen.
I sewed them up, yesterday evening. The boys went to Grandma’s for a day of fun in the sun (and crawfish. ick) and I stayed behind to clean their room (it was HORRIBLE but now is LOVELY). I made 2 simple rectangles out of one yard of this print and hung them up with a rod and clips from Ikea. They came out the perfect cafe-style length.
I think I might pick up some bamboo valances for the top and get rid of the blinds.
Boy, oh, boy. This is some beautiful fabric. I am in love with this room, now. I just need to score the perfect chairs and I’d be all set! Next up in my sewing queue: a valance for my kitchen to replace the ugly dingy one that came with the house. Can you guess what fabric I’ll be using for that??
It starts with a Wave and ends with an -erly. :)
By Lisa Gutierrez on 05/08/2011 I’ll be spending it with these dudes:
Nathan woke me up before 8 by throwing his card at me and yelling, “Happy Mother’s day!” I got up and made a quiche and sliced some strawberries. We’ll be visiting my MIL later this afternoon for dinner & dessert (I’m making a lemon berry trifle complete with homemade lemon curd! yum).
Have a good one!
By Lisa Gutierrez on 05/05/2011 
More photos taken in my backyard (technically, these are on the patio)! Aren’t you lucky!
These are my little succulents. The ones that sit on a bench on my patio, which gets sunny in the late afternoon/early evening. It gets sun almost all day at the end of summer and NO sun during the winter. I have liked figuring these little things out about my house. We’re approaching our 1 year anniversary of living here. That’s kind of amazing.
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Excuse my bloggy/Twitter absence…I’m in the midst of planning a party for my boys. I’ve procrastinated for too long and there is less than a month to prepare. Their birthdays are two weeks apart, so as long as they’re littles, they will have a shared birthday party. It would be acceptable to put up a birthday banner/decorations for the first birthday and leave them up those two weeks, right?? I want it to be colorful and super FUN.
By Lisa Gutierrez on 04/28/2011 This will probably not have any useful information. Just proud photos.
I grew edibles! effyeah!
what is that? A CUCUMBER!
I absolutely cannot wait til these are ready for picking. we LOVE cucumbers ’round these parts. my boys would probably eat these right off the plant!
baby bells! Ah! Nathan isn’t too keen on bell peppers, but Andrew like to snag some during dinner prep some nights.
My biggest plants: the jalapenos! I don’t even LIKE jalapenos, but the plants make me so happy! Me thinks there will be jalapeno poppers in our future.
There are also some flower growing about the backyard. Pinks and purples.
the gratuitous flower closeup with textured bokeh background.
Do you have a garden? If so, what are you growing? Fruits, veggies, flowers, succulents, all of the above? I have about 8 tomato plants growing, but only one has some tiny blooms right now. I’m excited to see them grow! Both my boys lovelovelove tomatoes.
By Lisa Gutierrez on 04/25/2011 It’s Pet Week over at I Heart Faces. This isn’t my pet (they didn’t even let us touch it!) but that’s ok.
Obviously, we had a trip to the zoo! Visiting the Houston Zoo has been an Easter tradition in my family for as long as I can remember. Since becoming an adult and having kiddos of my own, I’ve been allowed to skip it a few years. We missed Nate’s first AND second because he was sick those years! I thought he was coming up with a new Easter tradition, but he was 100% for his third and had a blast. We missed another since then, but THIS year…we bought a membership and will definitely go as much as we can.
ESPECIALLY FOR THESE GUYS. Getting up close and personal with these giraffes was awesome! My boys fed them lettuce while I snapped away. I have more photos on Flickr, but THIS ONE…it stuck out at me for some reason. I just realllly like it.
See more cute pet faces at I Heart Faces!
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