Chelsey Art Photography

My dearest Chelsey. You are THE best. 

If you are in Utah- look this lady up. Her photography is so real and kandid. She's amazing to work with and I promise you'll love her!

www.ChelseyArt.com

 

 

The Jumbo Three Barrell Review

So I met this girl the other day.  And her hair was goooorgeous.  It looked like she had three barreled it but it wasn't super tight so I couldn't tell what she had done.  Of course, I had to ask her.  Because that's the only way to find out peoples secrets!  I'm not ashamed.  HA!

She told me she used a jumbo three barrel.  A jumbo what I said?  Just like a blonde would.  Who knew this was such a thing?  I HAD NO IDEA THEY SOLD JUMBO THREE BARRELS!

How do you like it?

This sucker is HUGE.  It honestly took five minutes to three barrel my entire head of hair- that's how huge this three barrel is.  I spent $35 on it at Sally's Beauty Supply.

Was it worth it?  I don't know... you tell me!  I think it's pretty dang awesome!

If you're curious to know how I styled my bangs, click here.  All it is is a Bohemian Twist.  The video will be private until you buy my ebook... sorry 'bout that.  It's only $4.99 though and it's aaaaahhmazing, sung in my best operatic voice!  Oh and if you're curious, the waves I have in my Bohemian Twist pictures- I used a regular three barrel.  Oh my goodness I love the jumbo.  That's all I have to say.

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Pottery Barn Inspired Spring Banner

CUTE HUH?!  Oh we totally love it!  We got the idea from Our Cozy Nest.  Go check out her blog- she is super crafty and has great tutorials!  If you would like to buy one, let me know.  My sister and I are thinking we'll make a bunch and sell them for $30.  If there's no interest though, no worries!

Ingredients haha:

• 1/2 yard of burlap
• 1/6 yard of 6 coordinating pieces of fabric
• 1/3 yard heavy heat and bond
• 4.5 yards of 1 inch wide cream or white ribbon
• thread
• sewing machine
• iron and ironing board

Step 1:
Make your pennant template
HA.  I put these instructions in here because it took us forever to figure out how to make a triangle out of a piece of paper.  Seriously?!  It sounded easy!  You should have seen us- we were laughing our heads off at how stupid we were!  So, in case you wanted to know! ha ha!!

Step 2:
Use your template to cut out 12 burlap triangles.  We used a pencil to help us trace.


Step 3:

Step 4:

Cut one strip from each piece of fabric that is 1 1/3 inches by 22 inches

Step 5:

Make your bias tape

Step 6:
Sew your bias tape onto your burlap pennants

Hint: tricky point

Step 7:
Print this bad boy out.  Right click and download link.  Then open up in Word or Pages

Courtesy of Our Cozy Nest

Once the heat and bond is ironed onto your fabric, cut the letters out, peel off the paper backing and iron them onto your pennants

Step 8:

Cut out a bunch of these guys.  

I threw this flower into pages/word and using the document rulers sized it to 1 3/4" square.  You should cut out about 7 flowers per fabric.  The easiest way to do it is to fold your material over itself, put the flower template on top and cut them all out and once.  We thought this would take forever, but it only took about 15 minutes.

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Step 9:

Sew the pennants together

Step 10:

Now for the fun part

And then YAAAAY you are all finished.  This is quite an extensive project.  It took us like... oh three or four hours.  But had we not had a needy baby and an even needier toddler running around we could have buckled down and finished it faster.  This project was so worth it though.  The finished product just... well it just makes me so darn happy!

NOTE: The above picture is my sisters banner.  Most of the pictures we took of mine were fuzzy except the second photo at the top.  You'll notice my SPRING letters do not match the pennant material.  We forgot that's how Our Cozy Nest did hers and by the time we remembered, Hayley had already ironed hers on.  Anyway, I think both are cute so whatever you choose- it's totally up to you!

   

Hope you love it!  If you make your own, I'd love to see it!  

Mothers who know, do less

I read a quote this morning.  It totally inspired me.

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"Mothers who know, do less.  They permit less of what will not bear good fruit eternally.  They allow less media in their homes, less distraction, less activity that draws their children away from their home.  Mothers who know are willing to live on less and consume less of the world's goods in order to spend more time with their children - more time eating together, more time working together, more time reading together, more time talking, laughing, singing, and exemplifying.  These mothers choose carefully and do not try to choose it all.  Their goal is to prepare a rising generation of children who will take the gospel of Jesus Christ into the entire world."- Julie B. Beck (click here for entire talk)

I want to be the kind of mother who does less.  All our kids really need and want from us is our time.  They need our time and attention.  And after all, if we're not giving it to them... who and what is? I am probably the worst offender of not giving my children my time.  I'm a stay at home mom.  So I'm with my kids ALL day.  And because of that, it's hard for me to actually sit down and just play with them.  If Boston is happy playing by himself I'm cleaning or doing laundry.  I'm working on crafts, talking on the phone and blah blah blah.  A million things.  I find myself telling Boston "I'll be there in just a second" way too often.    But I stay at home so I can spend time with my kids.  So I can teach them and be with them.  Am I taking advantage of that blessing?  Or am I squandering the hours away with meaningless tasks?

I'm probably doing a little bit of both.  And I am challenging myself and all you other mommas to spend just a little bit more time with your kids.  Time away from the TV, from phones, homework, visiting neighbors and to-do lists.  No regrets.

Let's see if we can be a little more like the mother who does less!

I Heart Naptime

I've got a super duper fun hairstyle for ya today.  Head on over to I Heart Naptime where I'll be dishing the secret!