November BIRCHBOX

Have you heard of BIRCHBOX? Its an amazing website that you can sign up for and pay $10.00 a month and get between 4-5 samples of products. You'll receive anything from skincare to makeup to cult beauty tools, from well-known brands as well as emerging gems.

I was so excited when my best friend had told me that she had ordered us both a box!I was like a kid on Christmas morning when i got my box in the mail. I could hardly wait to open it!

The Products in by November BIRCHBOX.

 

I received:

1. Lavanila, The Healthy Body Butter in Vanilla Blossom 

2. Mama Mio Skincare, Boob Tube Bust & Neck Firmer

3. Tay, Cucumber Day Moisturizer with Mango Butter

4. Zoya, Nail Polish in Issy

Treat: Chuao Chocolatier, Firecracker Chocopod. 

Spicy and sweet, the dark chocolate is laced with chipotle and popping candy

Makenzi also got a little sample of Lavanila, the healthy Baby Lotion

I was so excited about the nail polish! I used it right away. It went on so easily and I only had to apply one coat and it is so beautiful!

Makenzi really wanted to try the Firecracker Chocopod, the heat does not hit you until you are done eating it. I wish I could have got a better picture of her face when it started to get hot. Poor girl!

The Tay moisturizer has made my face so soft! As soon as I applied the Mama Mio Boob Tube I could just feel it going to work. I am loving all the products I got in my Nov BIRCHBOX.

8 long months..

It has been 8 months to the day since Ive blogged last. The last 8 months have been pretty crazy for the Lemon household. My husband got out of the Army 7 months ago and its been a challenge to get back on our feet. We are now slowly getting there. We moved into our apartment a little over a month ago and we are really loving it here. It has been great to have our things back and just in our own space. It was really hard sharing 1 bedroom with my husband and daughter for 6 months. But we made it!

My daughter and I after feeding ducks at the Pond

Ive thought about bloging again but wast sure if i wanted to and if it was worth it. Our lives have changed so much and I want to share in my experiences in life and have my daughter be able to look back at this blog to see her life. She will always be able to see the things she has done in life. 

Going to feed the ducks, we do this a lot.

In the next few days I will post about our new apartment and just our everyday lives. Im excited to start documenting our lives again.  

Why Hello there

Ive taken a tiny break the last week or so. Not to much has happened around here. Nothing crafty going on beside getting everything ready for Makenzis birthday party next weekend. But we did have some very nice weather this past week. We went to the park and just spent most the days out and about.

I probably wont be bloging this week unless something comes up. We will be taking a trip home to Oklahoma this weekend for Makenzis birthday and birthday party.

Enjoy your weekend. 

Happy Valentines Day

Happy Valentines Day from my little darling. 

{10 on 10} Feb 2011

Ten on Ten: Take a photo every hour for ten consecutive hours on the tenth of each month. Document a day of your life and find beauty among the ordinary moments.


Aftermath of our Pancake breakfast, oh so yummy!

The worlds BEST juice.

Makenzi loves to take off and put on her shoes. Shes got so good at it!

Lunch at Steak and Shake. (cell phone picture)

The Husband had an appt today.

  Need a little pick me up candy.

Got some new shoes, love them!

 I love snow on trees. 

Yummy Panera Bread for dinner, Ive got a MAJOR addiction!

 Makenzi has not been napping here lately. She takes maybe 1 a week sometimes 2. So by bed time she is way past ready for bed but never wants to go to bed. But she was out in like 3min. precious girl. 

Tic-Tac-Toe Valentine shirt (pattern)

Firstly, im so sorry. I wanted to do a full tutorial on how do do this but a few things happened in the process and I just couldn't keep up with pictures.

Have you heard of Freezer Paper Stencilling? Its pretty awesome. I've not done to much with it but ive really been wanting to. I saw a shirt a few weeks back with a Tic-Tac-Toe design, I liked the concept of the design just not the shirt its self. So I decided I would try and make one.  Here is a really great video on freezer paper stencilling.  You can get my tic-tac-toe design here.

The first thing that stopped me from taking pictures was I could not cut out the stencil right. I tried 3 times and finally got it. I don't know what was wrong with me.

Second. I had just finished painting on the hearts and X's I walked away from the table ( I left the paint, cause I was going to touch it up when it dried with a 2nd coat) I did have the though of "I should not leave that there", but I said no to my self, Makenzi was sitting with her daddy and was being good. Not even 2min later I hear "Mommy wipe, Mommy wipe" I knew INSTANTLY what she had done. She had got up on the chair and dipped her finger in the purple paint and used the shirt as a wipe. I stood there for a min just in shock, Makenzi was freaking out cause her hand was dirty, of course I cleaned her up first.

I then stood there trying to figure out what I was going to do. Should i just throw it away and go get a new white shirt? Should I try and fix it? Well me being me I did try and fix it. I got it almost completely out! I was so glad. I spent 5min scrubbing it, i let the staind part soak for about 5min being very carful not to get the design and wet paint wet. I let the paint try as much as i could and heat set it and threw it in the washer. I let it lay flat to dry. When it dried you couldn't even really see where the stain was. Im so glad. I did have to touch up the paint some but its good as new!

after seeing this close up i have fixed the un-even lines

Here is a close up of the stain, see you really cant see it.

you can click on the image to see it closer.

Snow Cream

I have been wanting to make this for Makenzi for a while now but I always seam to forget and then the snow is gone. I didnt forget today!

Here is what you need:

big bowl of fresh snow

1 cup milk

1/2 cup sugar

1teaspoon Vanilla

Sprinkles (optional)

Stir it all together and eat fast!

Makenzi really did enjoy her snow cream!

Enjoy.