Third Pregnancy Bump Comparison…Just when we were getting the swing of life with 2 under 2, we are adding another baby to the mix, #3under4 here we come! Our spacing turned out pretty fantastic—there are 19 months between Baby J and Baby K, and there will be 22 months (or less!) between Baby K and Baby #3. We aren’t finding out the sex because we have a girl and a boy, so we have everything we could need either way…
Sugar Cookies with Royal Icing…I have been promising a life changing sugar cookie recipe for a while now. My friends, I am finally delivering on that promise! These cookies are seriously to die for, everyone who eats them asks for the recipe or proclaims they are the best sugar cookies they’ve ever eaten. I’m not exaggerating! I top them off with an egg free meringue powder royal icing (because #pregnant) and they not only taste great, they look beautiful, too…
Billy Bookcase Built In with Corner Unit DIY…I’m so excited to reveal the first room of our new house, the library! This is by far our favourite room, my husband comes here every morning before work to drink his coffee, my kids love sitting on the floor and colouring or playing with stickers (or pulling all the magazines off the shelves), and I just love looking at all our pretty, beautiful things that all have such lovely memories. This isn’t the first BILLY Bookcase built-in hack you’re going to find, but it’s the first one with a corner unit! I wanted it to wrap around the whole room, Princess Belle style, so it took a little bit of cleverness to add the corner plus a CD tower to fill the whole wall. We decided against adding a ladder because, well, kids, but maybe that’s something we’ll add in the future…
Jelly Roll Cake Raspberry…It’s New Year’s Eve, and I am a believer in the superstition that the way you spend your day is an indication of how your year will be. So rather than doing a super complicated recipe with tonnes of ingredients and hours of prep work and decorating, I thought I’d share something that’s simple, elegant, delicious and easy: Raspberry Jelly Roll Cake. You must have something yummy to celebrate with, but who’s got time to be baking all day when there are hairdos to set, winged liner to master, and a fabulous red lip awaiting tonight’s festivities…
Christmas Candy House Tour…It’s Christmas Eve! We have a new house and I decided to decorate our exterior as a Christmas Candy Gingerbread House. We are the only ones in our neighborhood with a theme like this, it really looks fantastic! It’s especially satisfying hearing kids outside squealing “it’s real candy!”
Frozen Winter Wonderland Party…My baby girl just turned three, and since her birthday falls in winter, and since she loves Disney’s Frozen, we threw her a Frozen Winter Wonderland Third Birthday Party! It was a huge hit, she was so excited to see all the decorations and the Christmas tree when she woke up. And bonus for me, half my holiday decorations were done for the season! Check out the pics, and scroll down to the bottom for an extra special announcement…
How To Look Sexy When You Feel Frumpy…It’s hard being a new mom. Strike that, it’s hard being a mom, period! So many demands, so much to do, so many people to please and mouths to feed and things to clean. Last on the list is making yourself feel like the beautiful woman who got the attention of your man and began this whole motherhood thing in the first place. Days go by without doing your hair, or putting on makeup, stretching out with yoga, or even just getting dressed…
