Whew! What a week! We just said good-bye yesterday to the contractors we hired for the baby’s room after a week of them working to complete the space. The nursery has been seamlessly added to our upstairs, and it looks terrific! I didn’t accomplish as much on my list this week as I had hoped…
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Hello, everyone! My name is Amy, and my blogging home is known as Positively Splendid, a place where I share about my passion for all things creative. As a wife and mother of three (with our fourth due in the fall), I find pursuing creative endeavors to be the thing that preserves my own unique identity. I…
Face Painting the Easy Way with Silhouette Tattoos
Do you have a party involving kiddos coming up? Face painting is always a hit with little ones, but any mother who has dealt with stained clothes and smudged, sticky faces can attest that it isn’t the tidiest party activity out there. So when I saw that the June Silhouette promo was all about their…
Pottery Barn Inspired Cable Art Display Tutorial
I’m sure many of you have seen the cable art displays in the pages of your Pottery Barn Kids catalogs. There are various cable art systems like this one available through the Pottery Barn Kids catalog, but they all have one thing in common: a nearly $40 price tag. I am finally getting around to wrapping…
Happy Fathers’ Day
Here’s to the dads who……snuggle sleeping babies. …brave long nights in hospital delivery rooms sleeping in chairs that are way too small. Here’s to dads who… …read bedtime stories. …come home after a long day of work with a smile on their face. …take time out of a busy day to read to their children…
Saturday Seven (No. 16)
Hello, friends! And hello, Saturday! If you’re new to Positively Splendid, each Saturday I take some time to shine the spotlight on seven projects that have wowed me the most over the course of the last seven days. Be it a project, a recipe, an event, or something else entirely, if I love it, you can…
More Nursery Planning + Pinterest Love
If you follow on Facebook and/or Twitter, you’ve seen me share that this week my home has been invaded by contractors turning our loft bonus into a room for Baby Cuatro. I am so thrilled that so much progress has been made! At almost 25 weeks along, I am clamoring to get started making that…
Faux Silver Leaf Tutorial from The Ivy Cottage Blog
We’ve got another terrific feature this week: a truly ingenious project step-by-step compliments of Amanda from The Ivy Cottage Blog!***Hello Positively Splendid readers! This is Amanda from The Ivy Cottage Blog. I am totally psyched to be guest posting on one of the most inspiring blogs out there in blog land! Hopefully, my tutorial inspires…
We spend so much time in vehicles with our youngest children, (often with the dogs also). It never fails – when we eat in the car there is always an issue with kids not being able to handle their food and drink. Some if not all ends up on the floor (hopefully not on the…
Thirty Before Thirty
via So….It’s T-minus one month and counting (give or take) before I hit a very big milestone in my adult life.The Big. Three. Oh!Wow. Despite my ever-increasing patch of grey and the fact that pregnancy-induced sciatica has reduced me to walking like a woman three times my age, I really am feeling okay with this. Much…