Hello friends! It's official, I'm making a small change to my blog address so you might need to update your RSS Feed and/or blog links to either: http://carlyrobertson.typepad. com/ ~ or ~ ...
Here's a little video share of a song that's been around for awhile, but I'm totally addicted to and needed its comforting words yesterday. Enjoy! ETA: For those that can't see th...
I get a lot of questions about the chair I have in my craft room. The chair is just your basic black office chair like the kind you'd pick up at Office Depot and I just recovered it...well, actu...
Hello friends! So far this month I've spent most of my awake time in my craft room either working on my photography course assignments... or on my crafting assignments. However, I did find some ...
This weekend was Thanksgiving so I thought I'd do a little fall decorating in our dining room. The girls and I went to Michaels on Saturday and found these two bunches of faux flowers and leaves...
I'm nearing the end of my photography course with Maggie and absolutely love all I've learned. The course has been a great overall learning experience and introduced me to so many new thing...
...this amazing poster... ...and this wonderful speach by Steve Jobs. Embrace the day. Live in the moment. Celebrate what you have. Be true to yourself!
Happy Wednesday everyone!
For the next two months life will be very busy for me. Between volunteer work, design assignments, photography classes and just plain life-stuff, I'm going to be pretty crazy. So I just want to ...
I take a lot of pictures, but leaving them on my computer is just no fun! I want to enjoy the photos I've taken so I do one of three things. I will print them for display in one of my two photo ...
Another handy dandy bag I got from invite.L with the felt bag in yesterday's post, is this fabulous little nylon bag. When I'm not carrying my Season Totes SLR purse insert so I can carry ...
It's been just over a week since our poor little Elliot was diagnosed with diabetes and he has been such an amazing patient while I've learned how to treat him at home. My first try at test...
Once I settled on my plan B redesign project for our bedroom pulling everything together was pretty fast. I'm still waiting on my husband to finish the headboard so I can paint and distress it, ...
Hello friends! I have lots to share, but totally ran out of time this week to write up any posts. So what kept me busy this week you ask? Well... The girls and I are just getting into a new routine w...
This weekend I had big plans to work on house stuff, but the weather has been so amazing this week that we've just been having fun outdoors! I guess the house will just have to wait until next w...
My girls are total tomboys; they are sporty, love to get dirty and spend most days in jeans. However, they do love all the Disney princesses with Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella being their most favs....
Today was a big day! My little munchkins went off to their first day of school. They are in the CASA Montessori program at our local elementary school which is similar to a pre-K program and they wer...
This post should probably be titled: "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again!" Remember awhile back I posted my original plan and inspiration board for my bedroom redesign? Well...
I've talked about my love for Photoshop Actions before on my paper crafts blog, but thought I'd share how fun actions are here as well. I have a collection of actions from Florabella, Paint...
We finished it in record time! In just under 3 days we patched, painted, added new baseboard and put in a new organizer in the girls' closet! We never move that fast so I'm so happy we pull...
I've been getting a lot of questions about what type of camera and lenses I use. First, I will say that picking your camera and lens is such a personal choice and really depends on the kind of p...
Since blogging here I have wanted to make a few changes and changing the blog name has been one of the biggies. Perfectly Pretty was a name I came up with for a paper company idea I had many moons ag...
I just started my second online photography course with Maggie Holmes and thought I'd share a few pics from my first assignment. I have such respect for professional photographers. It's on...
I've recently received a number of emails asking if I had any advice on how to tackle a room redesign. Well, since I'm just about to start a room redo myself I thought would I share the ste...
I've never been very successful with meal planning. Perhaps it has more to do with the fact that I'm not a big meal person. I've spent most of my life as a snacker and when my girls we...
Happy Monday morning all! I absolutely love starting my day with a Starbucks tea latte, but I don't often get out to buy one so here's my recipe for making it at home. It tastes just like t...
I hope everyone is off to a great start to the weekend! Over at our home-front we have plenty of projects on the go which I'll share more about this week, however, until then I thought I'd ...
First, I have to say a big thank you to all that visited my blog from I Heart Organizing and Maillardville Manor this week. I was completely blown away by all the beautiful comments and emails! Thank...
A BIG Hello, to all you Perfectly Pretty readers, nope this isn't Carly, although I am a lot like Carly. We decided to do a blog swap today, because like I said we're two of a kind and thou...
...the I Heart Organize feature is only available for viewing for those that subscribe to Jen's blog via Google Reader so I thought I would share part of the post here as well. :-) ETA: Here...
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