Homework center for the new year ahead!

Life in our home is about the change...our little girl is entering the school system, five days a week, from 8:00 AM to 11:30 AM. INSANE!!! And our little guy is entering nursery school. He will be playing, learning and making new friends two times a week, every week. It is such a bittersweet time right now. We are so excited that they are going to have these new challenges and opportunities. But, at the same time, we are realizing that our babies are becoming kids...and not our babies anymore. Thankfully we have our youngest still in diapers, so we still have someone to baby for right now!   

We have been working on site words, numbers, ABC's and name writing in preparation for this big, amazing change of life. 

In all of the summer commotion I realized that we do not have a true homework area for our kids. A place that we can have them work on homework, arts and crafts and learning that does not disturb the dining room table. 

Thankfully Pinterest is around to give me some amazing ideas for a homework/craft area for the kids. And by amazing ideas, there are so many I am on overload. But here below are some of my favorites that I hope to incorporate into an area my children can go to learn, feel comfortable to challenge themselves and let us help them out with this new adventure.

 

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So there are some thoughts...Hope to have a concepts layed out before school starts in a week!!!

Check back next week!!!

New to the Shop!!!

Hello there!!! Long time no see in blog land! Many wonderful and fabulous things have happened since winter time...new baby (5 months now), celebrated a 5 year old and 3 year old's birthday (detail to come), and doing our best to keep all in order and enjoy the last summer before big kid school starts for our oldest!!! 

Great things are coming to the shop Everything Modern Designs...so be sure to go and check it out and let me know what you think! Wanted to share these two cute chevron party invitation designs that I worked on this weekend...

Modern Chevron

Rainbow Chevron

They are currently available to be printed and shipped and will hopefully later this week be available for immediate download and customization (so you can purchase them at midnight and print them from your home computer and have them in the mail the next day!). How awesome would that be???

I am going to do my best to post here at least one time a week. I have so many ideas that I want to share and things that I have found helpful as a mom, wife, designer and party planner!!! 

Have a wonderful week and check back next week!!! 

Amanda 

Exciting News....

So excited to share some news!!!

We will be expecting our third little bundle of joy in early February!!!

We are so excited, overwhelmed and giddy to be able to welcome another child, a little girl into our family. We look forward to our continuing exciting adventure being parents to our little ones.

With that said...we have TONS of project we need to complete before the little one arrives. Shifting rooms and sleeping arrangements around to make room for number three is going to be fun, stressful and in the end hopefully make us more organized.

Hope to share some of these little DIY project and room renovations in the upcoming months...

No Whining....

Image via Pinterest

LOVING these (in my opinion) words of wisdom from a blog post over at Kind Over Matter from awhile back. Loving everything about this image - the colors, the rustic look and the words that seem to be speaking to me everyday right now!!! What words of wisdom inspire you???

Working on some logo love and marketing package fun this week! Hopefully I can share some of the projects with you soon!

Happy Tuesday!!!

So...it has been awhile

It is crazy to think that I have not posted on here since early May. I have been feeling a little guilty lately not posting anything on the blog, but have also realized that there are number of things that have been going on around here and blogging has just not been one of them. I do, however, feel that blogging is a creative expression and something that I should do weekly, just to get the wiggles out, share something that is amazing, or hopefully share a tutorial now and then. I love to look at  blogs - so what not put some creativity in my own?

This first post back is dedicated to what has been going on family and business wise. What the home looks like is a completely different post, since I am still in the process of figuring out what I am doing around the house...

We had birthdays for our little ones - celebrating our little girl turning 4 and our little man turning 2. We enjoyed time at the beach for the little mans birthday on top of the in town celebrations - which was a much needed get away for our little family.

Karis, 4 years old

Tyler, 2 years old

I still find it simply amazing that we have two children. I am amazed that they are learning something new everyday and teaching me something new everyday too. I am amazed that my little girl is going to preschool in a few weeks and Tyler is no longer a baby, but a toddler.

We have had dance classes and swim lessons to keep us going. We have had stay at home vacation days to just hang out and have been loving the Olympics has been on for the past week.

Side job work has been busy. So busy that I decided to take the month off from making hair accessories in July to try and get some things done around that house white the kiddos were napping. I got a few walls painted and choose to play with kids the rest of the time.

Karis Kisses Boutique

The side job work of graphic design for logos has been pretty intense as well. I think I took the time from closing down my hair accessory shop to work on logos for clients and get a little house painting in on the side.

Everything Modern Designs

Although it seems from this post that there has been a lot going on, and there has, there have also been days where it is considered a Jammy Day...which tend to be my favorite!

So my goal for the week to work up a new blog post and hopefully it will continue for weeks to come!

Happy Monday all!

Amanda

May Color Fun for Graphics and Life!!!

Crushing on these colors right now!!! And succulents for that matter!!!

Photo of the succulent bouquet found on The Perfect Palette. Colors that were selected from their site are beautiful and inspiring. But what I inspired me from their photo and palette were the turquoise, avocado and butter tones.

 

Everything Modern Design color fun for May

These compliment each other so nicely and work together graphically and in art prints. Not mention I am seeing these color everywhere from clothing, wedding and interiors.

 These are the colors that I hope to bring into my graphic designs this month!!!

What colors are you crushing on right now?

~Amanda

Weekend Goodness

This weekend was one of those weekends you love and wish would NEVER END...Weather was wonderful, sunny and warm. We were busy, but not too busy to take a nap...and we were able to get a little bit of housework done around the house. It was such a nice weekend that I did not even find time to get out my camera and take photos of it until last night after we had a picnic on the grass.

This is K and T watering the lawn in their muck boots. T is quite stylish in a polo and diaper...which is becoming the only way to play in the backyard these days!!! 

What did we do that was so fabby???

 

Happy Monday!!! 

May you have a fabulous week and wonderful weekend!!!