Happy Halloween!

My Ninja turtle will be having a large time tonight at the Halloween carnival here in town. Train rides, skits, candy, games and so much more. I can’t wait to see his face when he sees it all!

Hope your day is filled with CANDY, SMILES and lot’s of FUN!

XoXo,

Tiffany

The mountains were calling…

Hey everyone! HAPPY MONDAY!

Just a quick post for today.

Jax and I had an AWESOME weekend with my family.

We went to Big Bend National Park.

Many…many…many more photos to come!

 

Have a BLESSED Monday!
XoXo,

Tiffany

Halloween orange treats…

It’s me! Can you believe? I am again sorry for not keeping in touch with you guys lately. To say I am swamped, overwhelmed and exhausted is an complete understatement. But we are trudging though…and so BLESSED!

Tomorrow is my day to prepare the hot meal for Jaxon’s class. His Montessori school does Hot Meal Friday’s in which one parent volunteers to make the class lunch. Tomorrow is my day…and I just finished cooking. I wanted to be done…so I’m not in panic mode in the morning.

On the menu:

♥Spaghetti

♥Baby carrots + ranch dressing

♥Mandarin oranges

 

At first I couldn’t think of what to make for a sweet treat. Sugary desserts aren’t allowed in Jaxon’s class so I almost just did a fruit salad. I wanted to make something Halloweenish…but was stumped.

Thanks to Pinterest…I found the idea to use a Sharpie marker and decorate mandarin orange bowls. LOVE IT!

I just put them in a pumpkin candy thingy…and they will be PERFECT!

And by the way….20 mandarin cups fit in this bowl.

I love how cute they are! I love that they were so easy mostly!!

Whew!!

I’m off to wash dishes…clean my kitchen….and do homework!
Have a BLESSED day!!

XoXo,

Tiffany

My Fall wreath…

So I need to mention that I it is Midterm week.

Yes. That means tests, essays and zero time for blogging or fun stuff.

Well sort of.

I had to take a stress break…and craft something.

So….I finally made a Fall wreath. Well sort of.

It’s not totally Fallish…but for me…it is just what I had in mind.

I had a lot of vintage fabric sitting on a shelf waiting to be brought to life and so I used it for the majority of the construction.

I actually used pipe insulation for the body. I just duct taped it together and it worked great.

As for the jazzies…I just used what I had in my craft stock pile.

 

Jax and I also painted our pumpkins this week. I don’t know if we will ever carve pumpkins again…painting is so much more fun. And less slimy and messy.

Jaxon loved painting his. He wanted more to paint actually.

Hope you guys had a BLESSED week!! We will catch up next week…when Midterms are LONG GONE!

XoXo,

Tiffany

Happy Monday!

Hey y’all! How’s it going?

Is it really half way through October?

Oh my goodness!

Did you have a great weekend?

We sure did! We went hiking at McKittrick canyon with my sweet parents and enjoyed the Fall foliage.

This was Jaxon’s second year to hike this trail. He did so awesome!

It was so nice to be away from everything…no cell phone service…no Facebook…no email. Just peace and quiet.

And now it’s back to reality. Work…homework…editing photos…and all the things we do to make our lives go round and round!

Happy BLESSED Monday!
XoXo,

Tiffany

Dandelions....

Hey y'all!
Just thought you might want to know we are around! Haven't been here lately in blog world...but we are around! LOL!
Oh my word!! Is it as busy in your world as it is here? Who am I kidding...of course it is!!

I had two senior sessions this weekend...thought I would share a few goodies from the shoots.

 

We had SO MUCH FUN!

While we were finding a perfect spot in the pasture of flowers I saw this precious dandelion covered in raindrops. This pictures makes me smile everytime I look at it.

 

 

Don't you just love all the little orbs of happiness rain?? I am so random...I always find crazy things like this to capture. Lol.

Hope you are having a SUPAH blessed week!
XoXo,
Tiffany

Monday Home Blessing Hour and Zone Cleaning

Happy Monday! Hope you guys had a WONDERFUL weekend! Where did it go? In a blink, it’s Monday all over again.

As promised, I am giving you my list of cleaning for the week including today’s Weekly Home Blessing Hour cleaning and this week’s Zone Cleaning. All of these are from Fly Lady’s cleaning system and to learn more you can go HERE.

When I get home from work today I will spend one hour doing the Weekly Home Blessing cleaning list. FlyLady says you should look at cleaning as blessing your home and family. Pretty awesome right?

The Weekly Home Blessing will have your home sparkling and you will have a clean house to start the week off with.

Ready to bless your home in one hour?
Here’s how:
1. Vacuum (every room)
2. Dust (every room)
3. Mop (every room)
4. Polish Mirrors and Doors
5. Purge magazines
6. Change Sheets
7. Empty all trash
Each task should take 10 minutes or less, and when you are done your casa is clean and ready to go for another week! I don’t have any magazines to purge so I eliminate that from my list. You can change it up for what works for you. It’s probably a little clean-Mamma-dorky but I love Monday Weekly Home Blessing time. It something I can get done quickly and it makes a huge impact!

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Okay so after you bless your home, this week is Zone #1 for detailed cleaning. Zone #1 includes: The Entrance, Front Porch and Dining Room. I do not have a dining room and my entrance is my living room so I will adjust these to fit how my home is set up. The key to zone cleaning is you spend 15 minutes a day detailed cleaning in that zone. Here are the detailed cleaning lists for each area.

Entrance Detailed Cleaning List
Start at the ceiling and work your way down to the floor.
1. Clean cobwebs
2. Dust window sills and front door
3. Clean switch plate of hand prints and walls if needed
4. Put plants in to the shower and give them a good rinse. Let them set there until you are finished.
5. Dust furniture
6. Dust baseboards
7. Straighten the coat closest
8. Sweep vacuum or mop the floor
9. Put back the plants.
10. Add your own personal touches to make it more welcoming.

Dining Room Detailed Cleaning List
Start at the ceiling and work your way down to the floor.
1. Clean the cobwebs
2. Dust window sills
3. Clean the window
4. Clean doors of china cabinet after you straighten dishes if they need done. Dust.
5. Clean and straighten any drawer
6. Clean off top of dining table and polish
7. Rinse plants in the shower
8. Dust the bottoms of the chairs.
9. Dust the baseboards
10. Move furniture and vacuum underneath.
11. (Add your own personal touches to the table (table cloth, pretty bowl, flowers)


((that’s my porch…it’s very wittle…but it’s CLEAN!))

Front Porch Detailed cleaning
1. Sweep down cobweb and spider webs (
2. Sweep off porch furniture.
3. Sweep the porch.
4. Throw away any dead plants.
5. Prune back unruly bushes from the entrance.
6. Repot planters if necessary (in summer)
7. Refill bird feeders.
8. Wipe off tables, banisters, and light fixtures.
9. Get rid of unwanted items.
10. Add your own personal touches to welcome friends and family (wreath, welcome mat, bell)
Find more info about Zone Cleaning HERE.

The entire concept behind Zone Cleaning throughout the month is so you never have to Spring/Deep clean again. Your house will stay clean year-round using this system. And it’s not overwhelming. Whew!

So sometime today I will work on at least one item from the list for my porch. I was able to work on my yard Friday of last week so I’ve already had a little time to clean off my windows, door and sweep the porch. I also conquered mowing my yard last week so I can mark that off of my Fall to-do list as well. Here’s my backyard and studio…freshly mowed. If you only knew how tall my weeds were before last week! Oh my word!! And it flooded again this weekend so I will be doing yet another mowing soon. ☺

You may not feel like adding another 15 minutes to your cleaning today and that’s okay! Tomorrow see what you can get done in 15 minutes. By the end of the week you will have a clean and shiny entrance, dining room and front porch! It’s a great time to go ahead and get your Fall yard/porch decorations out too!


Have a GREAT and BLESSED day!
XoXo,
Tiffany