The first two images are what she looks like when she plays peek-a-boo. Which really comes out as “Pee Boo”

She is so animated it just makes us laugh all the time…but it’s very hard to dicipline her.

I decided to go with a pink and green spring theme for a couple reasons. When I think of growing, I think of the garden, plants, “newness.” Growth having two meanings…the literal meaning of going from a seed to a plant and also growth as in learning and progressing. So I built boxes designed to fit on top of the piano and planted wheat grass in them. The boxes are sitting on top of mirrors to reflect the light (this really brightened up the area)

This was covering the chalkboard. The frame is actually an old screen (with the screen cut out and replaced with fabric) the “Growing” was cut from plywood with a jig saw, spray painted green and hot glued with reindeer moss. Magnets were added to the back which allowed it to stick to the chalk board. The shutters were able to just rest on the eraser ledge. The letters over the pink fabric were cut from cardboard and strips of newspaper were wrapped around them with modge podge; they edges were lightly painted with white paint.

I used some of my vintage locker baskets to hold various items needed for the night.

This didn’t quite turn out as great as I’d hoped. It really says “Be Strong and Courageous” but the florescent lights COMPLETELY washed out the pink letters, and even the green a bit and you couldn’t read it.
The frames are actually recycled cupboard doors. Then I cut the letters out of cardstock and modge podged them to the doors. The “&” sign is paper mache covered with strips of newspaper attached with modge podge.

Another leader made the seed packets which turned out darling! She did a fabtastic job!

I made the wreaths out of book pages and hung them on two of the doors and the back of the piano.

I made the bird house for my porch and brought it along for the decorations. Looking back, I really wanted to do more to accessorize the bird house but forgot the ideal time to do that would be BEFORE putting on the roof. So I’m not sure if I can now.

I made the table cloth for my lessons on Sunday and the colors worked for new beginnings.

THEN she called me a year later to do their family pictures…SO MUCH FUN. One of her son’s was the jokester making everyone laugh, the other well, bless his heart, he’d just come home from LA and lets just say Trendy LA lifestyle and the idea of Family pictures on the farm was NOT on his to-do list. And her daughter…(OK, I love her) but we were laughing that she could only go about 5 minutes without texting “someone”….I even caught a picture of her in the background on the phone.

SUCH a GREAT family!

Still working on the garage…it is now primed. I also started building a shelf that suspends from the ceiling. Nate helped finish the front and now we need to anchor it to the ceiling. I’d work on that today except that it’s FREEZING outside. No painting until Monday, since it’s supposed to snow tomorrow I think.