I used to be an avid scrapbooker, but I’ve barely touched my stash in over a year! I have (almost) everything that I need to do Ashlyn’s “first year” scrapbook but I lack the motivation to start it. I’ve just got scrapping block! Since I don’t live close to the girlfriends that I used . . . → Read More: My scrapbooking challenge

It was really important to me to make Ashlyn’s birthday cake. I love to bake, and I was thinking for months about what to make for her. She loves carrots, and I have an awesome carrot cake recipe, so that was a no-brainer. We did her room in a “sea” theme so I thought . . . → Read More: Crafty Stuff ~ Birthday cake

We were really happy to find a house when we were looking that was move-in ready. The only things we wanted to change was the paint colour in the master bedroom and our daughter’s room, and all of the lighting upstairs. Ugly lights make me crazy!

We had brought a couple of chandeliers from . . . → Read More: Crafty stuff ~ DIY custom light

I’m a fan of Kodak on Facebook, thanks to a couple of giveaway blogs that I read. A couple of weeks ago, they posted a message on their wall asking people to email them with a bit of information about themselves and what pictures mean to you. I thought it sounded interesting, so I . . . → Read More: Kodak – “What do pictures mean to you?”

I love to scrapbook but some carpal tunnel in the last few months of my pregnancy put a stop to it, and so far I haven’t been able to get many new pages accomplished with the baby around. Just after Ashlyn was born, my mom was flipping through one of my old issues of . . . → Read More: Crafty Stuff: Baby Blocks