Postcards plus T-shirts equals Easy Little Man Room Decor

My loverly friends and fam who followed me when this was more just a family blog, this will look familiar. Just before I had our third baby, almost a year ago ( I can't believe it), we moved our two older boys into a room together. 

After a lot of debating back and forth with myself, I landed on the superhero theme. At the time Pottery Barn had some ah-mazing stuff, but alas my budget just couldn't swing it. So I had to think outside of the box. 

These are some of the decorations I came up with--

Super hero postcards from USPS for a whole $10, put inside these cheap IKEA picture frames. Instant wall art.

Isn't Superman dreamy? Anyone remember Dean Cain?

I scavenged for cheap superhero t-shirts to make into pillows.  Sewing with jersey is never fun, but with a little patience and a little looking the other way when your seams aren't perfect, you will have a perfect throw pillow for your little superhero's bed.

Throwing this in just for kicks and giggles...

I found these tins at a flea market and grabbed 'em quick. The dresser below was a Kmart special that we painted red. Easy peasy.

I have learned that when you are decorating a room on a budget that once you have your theme or colors, you just have to be on the look our for anything that can be used  and then get creative.

I FINISHED!

This week I had a lot of homemade gifts to finish...now before you go applauding me or doing the whole "There she goes again Martha, Martha, Martha"...the baby girl presents and the love birds family tree were actually supposed to be Christmas presents...oops...haha. 

I am so glad that I finally finished them, as I am sure are the recipients!

I love how this girlie blankie turned out.

How sweet is this little headband. I just love the colors and the big fabric flower. I had so much fun making it. I will be doing a tutorial for this head band on Tuesday, so come back to check it out.

This week is the first time I have sewed anything girlie. It was pretty fun.

BUT since I only have boys, I had to get my boy quota sewing in too.

I made this bunch of Little Man Ties for my friends soon-to-come little man. I will be sharing with you next week a revision of the little man tie tutorial, since now I have fabric measurements instead of just using an old place mat, after all it can be hard to find cute manly place mats.

In between getting all my projects done this week, the SUN CAME OUT.

Spring is coming and we love spring.

Just Another Fabulous Blog Friday

Today I am giving a shout out to Design Intervention. Not only does she have tons of cool projects, but she is a pretty awesome reupholster-er...totally a word!  I mean really look at some of the stuff she does...get ready to be ah-mazed--

I have been wanting to learn how to reupholster for years, but always lacked the initiative/courage.

Well Amy just wrapped up a little Reupholstery 101 week.

She leads you step by step, picture by picture of a starting reupholstery project. She even hinted that she might do a reupholstery 201 week. I better hurry and get started on a project. 


I keep chanting to myself, "I can do it...I can do it...be a brave little toaster."


To top off her awesomeness...she is a wifey to a currently deployed hubby. With my brother deployed and my sweet sister-in-law being a wifey to a deployed hubby...I am reminded of how awesome these wives and husbands of our deployed military men and women are...not to mention the service men and women themselves.


Go check out her blog. Give her some blog love and support. 


AND say a little prayer...okay a big prayer for our service men and women.

Brother--I love you!

Shredded Bajio Chicken with Homemade Tortillas

My food savy (aka enjoys a good restaurant) brother has regaled the restaurant Bajios. Alas, my poor deprived palate has never been there.  The other day  I found a recipe on the blog Kara's Kitchen Creations (go and check her site out it has some great recipes) and decided to give it a go. I made some minor changes to fit with things I had and portions that would fit our family. It was SUPER delicious and made me want to go and try the real thing.


Shredded Bajio Chicken
serves our family of 4 + some leftovers


2 chicken breasts
1/4 cup regular mild salsa
2 tsp of cumin
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 can of diced chiles
1/3 can of 7 up

Combine everything in a crockpot. This can either cook on high for 4 hours or cook on low for 5-6. In this instance I cooked on high because, well I procrastinated and didn't have it ready in time to do the long cooking time.

Remove chicken and shred and then put back into the pot for an hour on low.

Serve with warm tortillas, cheese, lettuce, black beans (we didn't have these on hand), and sour cream. We also love to serve tacos with a side of Taco/Mexican rice. There are several great rice packets out there... OPINION-- Do not get the Old El Paso microwave rice packets, we tried two different kinds and YUCK! Sorry OEP the truth has to be said!

We also have been experimenting with different homemade tortilla recipes. So far we are 0 for 2. The first ones were a little bland and really rubbery. The second recipe was a little tastier, but pretty floury in texture and not nearly as malleable as we like our tortillas to be. I guess they looked pretty enough, right??? We are still on the hunt. 


I would love, love, love any recipes for homemade tortillas that you have used and liked. I will try it pretty much immediately, since we like ourselves some Mexican food, and then I will give you a little blog shout out for answering our distress call. 

Happy recipe Thursday!

Pardon My Dust...

Currently I am trying to beautify this blog-o-mine.

It is taking 1 mee-ll-ion years.

So pardon my dust whilst I figure it out!

Thanks, loves ya'all.