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these tumbleweeds

Lisa — Mon, 14 May 2012 13:48:46 +0000

Did you know that last Friday was Tumbleweeds’ birthday? Well, it was! I didn’t get a chance to get online to wish them a happy birthday, but I’m here now to share a few shots I got of my boys on Mother’s Day. It was a beautifully sunny day. Nathan wore Jason’s glasses for most of it. He’s getting his own pair for his birthday. I had to hide them after they came in the mail, because if I stared at them everyday I would FOR SURE not be able to resist giving handing them over. Less than 3 weeks til he turns 7! The little one turns FOUR (4!) this Sunday. Let’s not talk about it.

Obviously, we had a pretty fun game of hide-and-seeks going on. Jason wins best hiding spot…every time. The boys win least creative, as they kept going back to the same place!

I hope everyone had a beautiful weekend! Mine was pretty darn nice.

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my boys

Lisa — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 04:11:25 +0000

We survived the 6 days without daddy! One of the perks of him being gone is he brings gifts! Andrew got this adorable robot hat. Now he can chant “I.AM.A.ROBOT.” and actually look like one. Nathan got a different more “grown up” hat and I got chocolate! Weee!

The week without daddy wasn’t tough at all. MY dad helped out a lot. My boys lovelovelove grandpa and I lovelovelove not having to walk in the rain to pick up the big kid from school. It was pretty great having him around.

sheeeeesh. guh-rown.

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take the picture now: Houston Zoo edition

Lisa — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 07:23:45 +0000

We decided to take a little trip to the Houston Zoo, this weekend. We invited the boys from our cub scout pack to go with us. We spent five hours there and yet we didn’t see everything. It’s such a massive place! We definitely want to go back and check out other stuff. We have a “Supporting” membership and so we can take a pretty decent group with us. For free! This thing paid for itself after the first visit.

Grandma went with us!

An Instax self-portrait by Nathan. The close-up filter is so cool!

Just say “booooooo!” to flash.

There are TONS of succulent plants (mainly agaves, aloes, and other cacti) around the zoo. Love.

I had my DSLR with me, but I didn’t take it out once. Instead, I used up a whole pack of Instax Wide film. I really love this camera! I posted some Instax photos, last week as well. Maybe next time I’ll get some shots of the animals. Womp.

take the picture now

Lisa — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:30:38 +0000

there are blue skies in my dreams
and laughter that seems un-ending
there are green grass fields there
and happiness and hopes for tomorrow

Just a few photos from our weekend taken with my Instax 210. We were in our old neighborhood, so we passed by one of the parks we used to take the boys to and found it torn down and replaced with this new…weird structure. There was a slide there that had NO EDGES on it. AND it had an awkward twist way up top. It was terrifying! I was kind of bummed to see this new place because I took some pretty lovely photos of the boys there when Andrew was a baby. Oh yeah, there are also no swings left behind at the park. I’d be so upset if we still lived in the area!

Small Style: Dressing for Santa edition

Lisa — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 05:46:30 +0000

Sunday morning, my mother-in-law emailed me to let us know Santa would be at R.E.I. that day taking FREE photos with kiddos. She suggested we stop by on our way to her house and get a shot of the kids with him. I went through their closet looking for the perfect little combinations and finally settled on a red gingham shirt for Andrew and a green gingham shirt for Nathan. FESTIVE!!

All was wonderful up until Andrew standing next to Santa and the photographer slowly walking to his camera… “NOOO!” He ran away. He actually told Santa what he wanted, but then got creeped out by the guy taking the picture. No offense to the photographer, he was nice enough. My little one is just at the age where #1 DON’T tell him what to do, and #2 Who are you? GET AWAY! Basically, only mommy can take his picture.

Oh well. Nathan looked pretty adorable–

Andrew is wearing: thrifted shirt & blazer, boots from The Children’s Place, pants from Target, pin from Mod Cloth.
Nathan is wearing: shirt & hat from Target, Levi’s pants, thrifted blazer.

Our Christmas Card 2011

Lisa — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 03:00:59 +0000

It was last Christmas when I gifted myself a copy of Print Workshop and the basic tools of a block-printing kit. Over the past year, I’ve made quite a few stamps using my trusty lino cutter, including a crochet-inspired one that I’ve been using on the envelopes for my Lace Love orders. I’ll share that one with you soon, but today I want to talk about my Christmas card!

I doodled this tree, inspired by a drawing in a children’s book, several times and knew I wanted to incorporate it into our Christmas card somehow. I cut a small version on a scrap piece of Speedy Carve and liked it so much, I began drawing it larger. When I was finally satisfied, I drew it directly on a linoleum block and began carving. I found some metallic Speedball ink on clearance at Hobby Lobby one day and took it as a sign. THIS needed to be on the front of my card! I got to work immediately and had my 30 cards printed in a few short hours.

Its metallic-y shiny goodness–which was surprisingly hard to capture in photos–is not the best part of the card. Nope. The BEST past of the card? The handsome little fellas on the inside:

Thrifted blazers, vests, cardigans, lollipops. Informal to the max, but just our style.

You want to see outtakes, you say? But, of course!

I took the outdoor photos first. There was more than one meltdown, I can promise you that. The black & white photo shows what a toddler looks like when his big brother tells him he WILL NOT hold his hand. Oh my word, the tears! I spared you the photo of them BOTH crying because I threaten their treat. When we finally came back in, they got their lollipop prize and were still so adorable, I HAD to take more photos. In our dining room. Lucky I did because I ended up loving one of those the most!

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Did YOU take your own Christmas card photo? How did it go?? How did you “dress it up” for your actual card? I want to know!

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p.s. Don’t forget to enter the giveaway for 100 custom postcards I posted earlier today!

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p.p.s. I totally forgot to mention I’m linking up with The Paper Mama’s Holiday Photo challenge!

Day 30: three wonderful things that happened this month

Lisa — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:45:18 +0000

1. We went to the Houston Museum of Natural Science in Sugar Land. This kid loved it. It’s not so small that you’d get bored, but not so big that you’d get lost.

2. Lace Love was printed and released! Yay!

3. My littlest and I went to a baby shower to celebrate the impending arrival of my cousin’s sweet baby boy. We are all so, so, so anxious to meet him! 2012 will bring newborn snuggles. I can hardly wait!

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Day 29: Some place I’d like to visit.

Lisa — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:00:42 +0000

My son and I were actually talking about this on our walk home from school, yesterday. He was talking about family traditions and somehow we ended up on quinceanera and he said an alternative to a big party would be a trip to someplace. We went through the obvious destinations a six-year old would like–Disney World, Disney Land, and pretty much any other theme park he could think of–and then he said he might like to go someplace different if he were six-TEEN (heart.stop). Maybe he would want to visit the Eiffel tower. Well. I suppose it’s a date.

-photo source-

Day 21: something I could never tire of

Lisa — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 02:41:45 +0000

crafting with my little one. Oh, the day he asks me to teach him to knit, or crochet, or even sew–that will make my life.

He’s on Thanksgiving vacation for this whole week. Today, we made winter hat ornaments from the tutorial I posted yesterday, by Kate. You should really check it out! My first grader got a hang of it fairly quickly! He even taught my sister how to make them, this evening.

Day 17: My family

Lisa — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 23:09:04 +0000

my littlest boys

and the boy who made them possible (heh)

p.s. those blazers are featured in our Christmas card, this year. My kiddos luhluhlooove them.

Day 10: what I love about my job

Lisa — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:55:16 +0000

I am a mother. That’s my job.
Clean toys, clean noses, clean clothes, clean butts. I basically do a lot of cleaning.
I also provide cuddles and knit hats.
I give out treats and warnings.
I have clocked in over 225 minutes of listening to my first grader read aloud (we have to keep count now. big UGH. let’s just read to read, k?) in the past week or two.
I enforce bed time and I comb hair.

What I love most? Watching those dudes grow.

Past Halloween Cuties

Lisa — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:32:38 +0000

Happy Halloween, friends! We (I) carved this Jack-O’-Lantern on Friday night. My son helped me find a design on google. He wanted it to be scary and he chose this face. I am so very thankful for the straight lines. It’s been a very long time since I carved a pumpkin, so I wasn’t prepared for the blister I’d get on my finger. It’s all better now, thankfully.

It’s also my husband’s birthday, so I’ve spent the day getting a yummy dinner ready and trying to tidy up the place a bit. I’m pretty beat and I still have quite a bit left to do, but I wanted to pop in and share some of my favorite photos from the past few Halloweens. Caution: Much adorable below.

This photo was taken in 2006. I had one baby and he was radical. He was also 1 and so very into Halloween. He was a red dragon with bodacious hips, but THIS polaroid is my favorite photo of the night. His smile, his ‘I love my mummy!’ shirt, his missing arm warmer…he was just so jazzed to be there.

Last year, he was an Incredible. We found his costume at a thrift store for under $3. I made his mask out of felt. WIN. ALSO–notice the similar pose to the Polaroid above? GUSH.

The baby’s past 3 Halloweens have gone like this: peanut, lion, pumpkin. He always brings the cute.

This year, they’ll be dressed as Iron Man and a police officer.

After daddy’s birthday dinner and dessert, the boys will head out with him for treats and I’ll stick around to pass some out to visiting ghouls and goblins.

Stay safe, everyone! Enjoy this very last night of October. And wish this guy a happy birthday if you see him:

Worldless Wednesday: Evening Swing

Lisa — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:47:13 +0000

Wordless Wednesday: melting at the park

Lisa — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 18:27:35 +0000

(look, he’s wearing a Flourish leather bracelet.)

Small Style: Nathan 03

Lisa — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 02:04:27 +0000

MAN, IT’S HOT. Ok. Broken record, I know, but good golly I am SOOOO ready for Autumn. We put our swing-set way back here, between the only 2 trees in the whole backyard. It’s on an easement, so maybe one day the city will need to dig it up, but the swings would not get used if they were out in the sun. No way.

Nathan got a new pair of shoes, today. They’re supposed to be for school, but he likes them so much and I would totally suck if I made him stare at them everyday for the next 3ish weeks before letting him wear them. Who cares if his shoes aren’t brand-spankin’ new on the first day? Not us. He chose these Simple Carport Sneakers because they look like his jacket, but guess what! The uppers are made with 55% recycled wool taken from thrift store coats! AND the bottoms are made from recycled tires. His greatest love is cars, so that fact kind of thrills him. “My shoes are made from CARS.” Yeah. Hello, dream shoes.

Nathan is wearing–
shirt: Children’s Place
pants: old Levi’s
socks: Toy Story (Woody!)
shoes: Simple Shoes Carport Sneakers

Andrew is wearing–
underwear: Spongebob Squarepants

My toddler kind of shuns clothes, these days. I wish I could.

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