It’s been a while since I showed you an update of our tree house. If you are a new reader here, this tree house was a BIG surprise by my husband while we were visiting family this summer.

Originally, it was an idea I designed with cardboard. Yes, just an idea that I never thought would end up as a real house… let alone this big! But since my husband went all out, I thought it was time to decorate and enjoy it while the weather has been super fantastic here in Texas.

Loaded with bags of left over Christmas decorations and fabric, I headed out to the tree house. Mainly to keep my hacking cough away from everyone else in the house. Yes, it’s cold season and guess who’s got one? Cough Cough…

Before

After

One of these days, I’ll figure out what I want to do and decorate it really great with paint and furniture. For now, it will be a fun hide-out to craft and read.

I thought it turned out pretty cute for a make-over by someone with a bad runny nose and cough:-)

For a quick fix, I tacked fabric to the walls for curtains. Yeah, I like doing things the easy way!

Now I need to find a big, cheap rug and some more cough medicine!

What did you do this weekend?

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Our theme this week at I Heart Faces is “Flowers & Faces”. I was happy to capture this shot in the Texas Bluebonnets a few weeks ago. I got a lot of my kids smiling at me that day, but I liked the ones of them ignoring my camera the best. Something they tend to do a lot of now that I always have a camera pointed at them! ha!

I’m one of the co-founders of I Heart Faces and just entering for fun.

I hope you’ll  enter a photo this week!

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As you know, this week my cat knocked over my Mother’s Day flowers and the entire vase of water soaked my new laptop. The bad news is the laptop is fried and will cost $1,200 to replace… which I doubt I’ll be doing. YIKES! The good news is the hard drive did NOT get wet! Thank goodness I am able to get all my photos and work off of it pretty easily.

My friends on Facebook told me I should put my laptop in a big container of rice. Rice is magic and would dry it out. Well, it was probably ruined before I tried the rice, but at least my kids have been enjoying it! Who knew a cake pan full of rice could keep kids entertained for nearly an hour!? Even my 7 year old son is enjoying it.

Give your kids a cake pan full of rice on a rainy day or in my case during a super hot Texas afternoon.

• add wooden spoons and tiny cups
• hide small treasures inside (my daughter used her brother’s Legos and coins from his wallet)
• put cut outs of letters inside and have them find the letters that spell their name
• let them sift the rice through a funnel

Then when your iPhone or computer gets wet, you’ll have a pan already full of rice! ha!

This idea is thanks to my creative daughter. She discovered the pan of rice and did all of this on her own without any of Mommy’s help. Someday, I’ll let her guest post on my blog! Have a great weekend. -Amy

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I ? Faces “Balloon” Photo Challenge

* I’m one of the Co-Founders of I ? Faces and doing this just for fun, no winning for me.*

Confession…

With Halloween and all the craziness that went on at my house this weekend, I totally forgot to get a balloon photo. So I cheated!! hee hee.

Here is my original photo.

I found the perfect balloon shot in the Flickr Creative Commons by josephpetepickle 

How’s that for fun? I love Photoshop! No cheating for you though. Good luck!

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