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Newborn Overlay Set Released at a 50% discounted price!

Working on this set (Hush Little Baby) almost gave me baby fever.... ALMOST. :) I'm just saying, that is how cute this overlay set is, when combined with gorgeous photographs of sweet babies! I'm really excited to say that the set has had such a positive response that I'm most definitely going to have to create a second and possibly third set. I definitely have the ideas. :)

Shopify just released a new feature for coupon codes... I can now create discounts on specific products!!! This makes life so much easier for me. :) From now on, every new set I release will be marked down 50% for the first week.

So, this set will be the start of that tradition. You can grab the set HERE for 50% off right now.  Just use code HUSH50 to receive 50% off the overlays. This offer cannot be combined with other codes, and is only valid in my digital shop. 

Suuuper sweet huh?

Okay! I have some clothes that need folding... so I had best get to that. But I hope you have a GREAT weekend planned! :)

I found my old pencil drawings from 1997!!

Wow, it was So neat to come across these pencil drawings I did back in my teenage years. This one I did when I was 15...

this next drawing Isnt dated, because I never really felt it was finished but I remember working on it. I think I may have been 17 at the time...

I drew LOTS of horses, saddles, and western "stuff". :) Finding these has inspired me to pick up my trusty pencil and start drawing more of these four legged beauties. The emerging equine trend makes it as good a time as ever to re-live an old passion of mine. I'm even planning to work in a few of these graceful creatures into our bedroom decor... more on that later!

Today while Journey napped Trin and I started drawing, I was working on a horse drawing:

and Trin took inspiration from my drawing:

I love how she is always inspired to re-create what I do. I encourage her to put her own spin/heart into her drawings, but I still think it is sweet how she likes to be just like mommy. :)

So many memories! I used to sign all my drawings with a gold marker!! So silly of me...

So, right this very minute I'm working on this drawing of the horse.

It is scanned into my computer and I am trying to see just which way to go with it... In keeping with the tradition I think I want to keep it in the pencil/sketched format. :) I'm also going to be doing a simple silhouette of a horse head for our bedroom. FUN FUN!!

I painted the living room!

I'm sorry it has taken me forever and an eternity to post pictures! I was kind of holding out until I have the curtains finished and hung... but I havent even started them yet (I'm planning to paint a set!) so I thought I had better just post the room as is. :) We are also still planning to add white crown molding along the ceiling... and I think that will just really MAKE the room. But until then I am loving how clean and classic the gray looks. :)

We used Glidden's Granite Gray mixed in Behr's paint for the wall, and for the ceiling I believe we used pencil point also in Behr paint. It has really made the living room quite a bit darker, but I'm willing to deal with that, I love the colors too much. :)

Here is a before:

and the after:

I'm so glad Jaydon let me paint the fireplace FINALLY... :) We're planning to get rid of the papasan chair... it just really doesnt work with the space that well. Now that we have more furniture it just takes up way too much space. We still need additional seating of some sort over there... but that will have to wait. :)

I'm planning to paint white curtains with simple horizontal wide stripes. I was kind of undecided if I wanted gray or white stripes. I really wanted gray, just because I thought they looked the best, but really worried it may be too much gray. I'm still kinda concerned about that... But worse case scenario I'll be out 29.00 for the curtain panels. I already have the paint (same color as the walls) and the textile medium that I plan to add to the paint. This has been my inspiration picture:

Via reckless glamour

I think her curtains turned out beautifully, and I am kinda anxious to try myself. :)

I'm hoping to in the next couple of days... we went swimming at my aunt's yesterday:

...and I'm recovering from a painful sunburn today! ugh. :) I hope your weekend was a good one!