DAYfifty – 150 Days of Photos

Tala, Clean up Your Room!

Done, Mom!

Technically I DID tell her to pick everything up off the floor.  LOL.

See you tomorrow for DAYfifty-one!

DAYforty-nine – 150 Days of Photos

So I did flowers in my hair… now I want feathers!

And so a new hobby has been born!

See you tomorrow for DAYfifty!

DAYforty-eight – 150 Days of Photos

We are in midst of another amazing series of Sun, Sun & More Sun!

There’s no better way to spend the day other than outside!  After all this is Rupert and we have got to take the sun when we can get it!

See you tomorrow for DAYforty-nine!

DAYforty-seven – 150 Days of Photos

Today the girls and I joined our adopted family on an epic bus ride to the North Pacific Cannery in Port Edward.  A super duper awesome amazing time was had by all!

Back tomorrow for DAYforty-eight!

DAYforty-six – 150 Days of Photos

Welcome to DAYforty-six of the 150 Days of Photos.

One of the huge benefits of living in a fishing village (and having a fisherman Dad to boot) is an abundance of salmon during the summer months.  My Dear Ole Dad sure delivered the goods last night and we feasted at supper time tonight!

Tala of course right in on the action during supper prep time

See you tomorrow for DAYforty-seven!

DAYforty-five – 150 Days of Photos

An early one today!  The girls woke up in wonderful moods this morning and Tala was very pleased with her brand new must have accessory!

Totally adorable!

See you tomorrow for DAYforty-six (holy moly, almost 1/3 of the way there already!)

DAYforty-four – 150 Days of Photos

After an exceptionally busy 3 days at work all I wanted to do last night was hang around with my little angels.  We had supper, cuddled, read books and talked about our days and our weekend plans.  Then off to bed we went nice and early.  I decided that missing a day wasn’t such a big deal.

Today’s photo is courtesy of Malie the young phenom photographer.  She’s great!

See you tomorrow for DAYforty-five!

Christmas is Right Around the Corner

With Christmas right around the corner I am pleased to announce that the 2nd Annual Christmas Wishlist Extravaganza is coming!  I am currently in the early stages of recruiting, the emails are flowing, the responses are coming back favourable and the excitement is starting to bubble around here!

Potential Sponsors: Have you received an email from the Optimistic Beauty Blog?  This means that I’ve come across your shop or website and been exceptionally impressed with the products that you feature.  Haven’t received an email yet?  Fear not!  As a single Mommy to 2 little girls my computer time isn’t all that it used to be.  While I am diligently searching the web for the creme de la creme some amazing shops are bound to fall through the cracks.  So if you have a product that you would like featured in the Christmas Wishlist Extravaganza email Jaime @ bargainhuntingmommyblog@gmail.com today!

Who can be featured in the Optimistic Family Blog?  Pretty much anyone as long as the item falls within the family friendly category.  I have a diverse group of readers so I strive to find sponsors that appeal to all.

Optimistic Beauty Readers: Mark your calendars for the start date of November 1st.  Each day a new and exciting sponsor will be revealed.  Each giveaway will run for one week, with the winners being announced each Sunday.  You can expect to find a diverse group of sponsors, and great ideas for those hard to shop for people, your little princes and princesses, stocking stuffers, and maybe even something special for yourself (to name a few)!

Is there a product that you would love to see featured in the 2nd Annual Wishlist Extravaganza?  Send me an email or respond to this post with your suggestion.

Have a wonderful weekend!

DAYforty-three – 150 Days of Photos

She’s loved me since she was this small!

Now that’s love!

See you tomorrow for DAYforty-four!

DAYforty-two – 150 Days of Photos

Oh yes I am!

Christmas is rapidly approaching.   Have you started shopping yet?  The girls’ first set of gifts arrived courtesy of Airmiles and Chapters!  All wrapped and ready to go… now can I refrain from giving them early?

See you tomorrow for DAYforty-three!

DAYforty-one – 150 Days of Photos

Borrowing a picture that I took yesterday, but didn’t use for the Photo of the Day. The girls had so much fun modelling in their new dance outfits.

I love how they are both looking up in the same direction, and I have no idea what they were looking at!

See you tomorrow for DAYforty-two!

DAYforty - 150 Days Of Photos

Super Dancer Miss Malie Cat! Absolutely adorable and so proud of her new dance costume courtesy of Celena. She is so excited to take dance classes this September, she's been super busy showing me and Tala all her awesome dance moves in preparation.

See you tomorrow for DAYforty-one!

DAYthirty-nine – 150 Days of Photos

I cannot believe that today is the 39th day of photos!  Absolutely amazing!

Malie actually looks upset in this picture.  In reality she’s concentrating hard as she practices for her future career as an Olympian in Shot Put!  Go Malie Go!

See you tomorrow for DAYforty!

DAYthirty-eight – 150 Days of Photos

Beautiful Summer Day here today.. but I’ve taken care of that… 4 spiders and 1 beetle down… all bases covered – rain should be arriving any minute!  LOL.

  See you tomorrow for DAYthirty-nine!

DAYthirty-seven – 150 Days of Photos

Today we have the mother of all Photo Gifts.  Artscow never seems to disappoint, but yet I was a tad apprehensive when I ordered the Fleece Blanket currently on special for $14.99 US (shipped).  I had no idea what to actually expect.  I’ve always been exceptionally impressed with the quality of the products we received, but would the blanket be up to par?

My goodness is it ever.  As expected Miss Malie (my blankie girl) has claimed the blanket for herself, and loves having pictures of us all on her blanket.

Cute or what?  The clarity is absolutely amazing, and I love the added details I was able to add.  The butterflies for one, there’s also a heart pattern added in.  I used 9 photos in total.

  See you tomorrow for DAYthirty-eight!

DAYthirty-six – 150 Days of Photos

2 adorable girls on the big comfy chair!

See you tomorrow for DAYthirty-seven!

DAYthirty-five – 150 Days of Photos

Yee haw for DAYthirty-five!

Tala got a brand new dress from Please Mum today!  She promptly informed me that she’s never taking it off!  Could have my very own Smelly Socks (by Robert Munsch and totally amazing book) on my hands!

DAYthirty-six coming tomorrow!

DAYthirty-four – 150 days of Photos

Can it be so?  A day without a picture or two (or three) of my kids?  It was bound to happen eventually!

We’ve been having very unusual weather lately (well okay, its not really unusual for Rupert – though it is more extreme) and that has resulted in some amazing cloud formations in the sky.

See you tomorrow for DAYthirty-five!

DAYthirty-three – 150 Days of Photos

Okay.  So perhaps I am getting a little over-gung-ho on the 150 Days of Photos.  My motivation is evidently here in full force and I’ve been sneaking in extra pictures!  Egad!  However, I must say that it is far preferable to the alternative… not getting enough great pictures in!

Today turned out to be a pretty awesome day so we headed out to Diana Lake for a supper time picnic with resident cuties in tow.  The girls had a blast in the freezing cold (oh my goodness was it cold) water.  I absolutely love this picture of the 3 of them flying into the water together.

Back tomorrow for DAYthirty-four!

Found… Creativity

I have always left the creative stuff up to other people.  Sure I could probably take the award of Craft Mommy with ease, but I usually let the kids have all the craft fun, and do the clean up afterwards.  Until now that is.

In my younger days I destroyed quite the many tshirt creating new and exciting designs.  But that got away from me as I grew older.  When the girls received invites to a Rock Star Party I awoke the morning of inspired to create a Punk Rock shirt for Miss Malie. The finished punk rock version of Miss Malie!  Insert totally proud Mommy here!  The kids at the party all had their hair sprayed with coloured hairspray, and got rock star makeup done.  Plus tattoos galore!

She was absolutely livid with me when I first started cutting, but quickly came around.  Yay!

I started with a t-shirt that I had ordered from Rainbow Swirlz.  I had ordered 2.  One with a tree (as shown below) and the other with a Morning Monster Logo.  The girls fought over the Tree one but neither wanted to take ownership of the scary monster.  So its been sitting since before Christmas time. An example of the shirt I used for this project … its the exact same shirt just with a different design on the front.

I took my scissors to the sleeves first, and then Malie picked out her bead choices.  Got em threaded, and then I decided to cut the neck off.  So off it came.

My initial thought was that it would an off the shoulder t-shirt, but I didn’t like the finished look of it.  So I ended up cutting it a little bit wider, and then I created straps out of the discarded shirt collar.  Sewed the straps on with red thread to keep with the whole Punk Rock image.

The t-shirt still didn’t look quite finished.  So I took my scissors to the shirt again and cut about 8 inches up each side of the shirt.  I then tied the sides of the shirt together to make it more cropped, and fitted. Malie absolutely adores her shirt and I’m sure it will become a staple in her wardrobe!  She had a blast modelling the shirt for me this morning, and especially when she realized that swirling around would make beads flare out around her. And so I guess that I do have a creative side to me, just waiting to claw its way out!

A huge thank you to Rainbow Swirlz who’s awesome design made my creation all that much more amazing.  The Morning Monster Shirt was absolutely perfect!

DAYthirty-two – 150 Days of Photos

Revisiting yesterday’s topic as I just had to get a better picture this morning.  I wanted to get a full on great view of Malie’s Punk Rock shirt that we created yesterday morning.  She absolutely adores her shirt – hooray!She had a blast modeling her shirt this morning.  And had a blast twirling around to make the beads splay all around.  See you tomorrow for DAYthirty-three!

DAYthirty-one – 150 Days of Photos

Today (Saturday the 4th) was the girls’ friend’s 4th birthday party.  The theme was Rock Star and we all had a blast getting ready for the party, and then getting the kids all Punk Rock’d.

There was coloured hairspray, face paint, and oodles and oodles of Rock themed crafts for the kiddos.

Like Malie’s shirt?  I made it myself this morning.  We used an old shirt that neither girl was impressed with and made an absolutely amazing Punk Rocker creation.  Very proud am I!

Malie was pretty upset with me when I first started cutting, but quickly came around.  She adores the shirt, and it looked super adorable!

Tala was just as adorably punk’d out today.

See you tomorrow for DAYthirty-two!

DAYthirty – 150 Days of Photos

Front page Baby! The girls along with their best buddies made the front page of the newspaper today. Very exciting for our little Canada Day Celebrators!

**pssstttt…. this is DAYthirty posted after 9pm est even through technically it is still DAYtwenty-nine on the Pacific Coast. C’est la vie!**

See you tomorrow (or really the day after tomorrow, or perhaps after 9pm est again tomorrow for DAYthirty-one.

Now off to raid the local Newspaper boxes for more copies to send family!

DAYtwenty-nine – 150 Days of Photos

Welcome to DAYtwenty-nine!

I absolutely adore this picture of Miss Tala modelling her Eleven Collection Shoes!  She is a huge Eleven Collection fanatic :O)

See you tomorrow for DAYthirty!

DAYtwenty-eight – 150 Days of Photos

Every single item that comes into the house these days is classified as School Clothing by Miss Tala.  Today an adorable sweater arrived from Please Mum that is no exception to this rule of thumb.  Its so absolutely adorable that I can’t help but wonder how long that proclamation will last.

See you tomorrow for DAYtwenty-nine!

DAYtwenty-seven – 150 Days of Photos

Today is Canada Day.  We headed downtown to take part in the celebrations with our friends.  It was a dark, dreary day, made so much brighter by our companions, and the general excitement around town.  Say what you will about Prince Rupert weather, but you cannot deny that the people in town make the best of anything Mother Earth dishes out for us.

I absolutely adore this picture of Miss Malie.  She looks so grown up.  She’s growing up right before my eyes.  She had a blast today, and played herself right to sleep.

See you tomorrow for DAYtwenty-eight!