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Pin for the Wednesday: DIY Magnetic Hair Bow Board

Welcome back to Pin for the Wednesdays! It took a one-week break to celebrate my birthday. But now that’s old news, and this weekend I actually MADE something so I am pretty excited to show you my winning pin!

Since I’ve been working with Girls Crochet Headbands, Sophie has amassed a large collection of hair bows very quickly (I can’t help it! They’re cute and the prices are good! And they had a Labor Day sale! Don’t judge me!) and I needed a way to organize them STAT.  So of course I turned to Pinterest, where I found lots and lots of ideas, and as you might expect, I chose the one that looked the easiest, this one, and made it even easier. Because crafty I’m not and lazy I am!  Here’s the pic from the original pin, of a bow board made of metal that holds the bows on with magnets.

Original pin from themotherhuddle.com

This crafty lady like, cut sheet metal and glued ribbon on and crap. NOT ME! I went the easy route. But it still worked!  I found a magnetic message board at Target for $6.

My super-awesome husband picked me up some strong, round magnets at Harbor Freight – 99 cents for 10! Woohoo!


I got some sticky letters that we already had and put them on some construction paper to spell Sophie’s name, and glued it over top of where the board said “Messages”.

Then, I stuck the metal clips on the backs of the bows to the magnets on the board and arranged them just so:

TA-DA! I am soooooo pleased with myself! The whole thing took me less than 20 minutes! Feel free to leave me a comment and tell me how awesome I am it is.

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Field of Dreams

Saturday was a day I’d been anticipating for a long time – my family’s first time at the Buddy Walk for the Miami Valley Down Syndrome Association.  We came out to walk and support our friends Paul, Jessica, Jay, and Baby Joy. Joy was born this past April with Down Syndrome, and when I found out Paul and Jess were going to form a Buddy Walk team, I knew immediately I should get involved!  With your help, I raised $599 for the people living in my area with Down Syndrome!  And our team, Team Peace, Love, & Joy raised over $3,000! Woooohoooo! We were also the #7 fundraising team for the whole walk! Not bad for a first-year effort, right!?

The Buddy Walk was downtown at our beautiful minor-league baseball stadium, the Dayton Dragons Fifth Third Field. It was a rainy morning so we couldn’t get out on the field, but fortunately it cleared up right before we were set to walk!  So we walked around the concourse and had a great time and a gorgeous day.  We LOVED hanging out with our team!  Here’s Bobby, Jonah and I with Joy Marie, the star of the show!

And here’s me with Joy and her awesome & beautiful mom, Jess:

Here are some more fun pics of our day at the Buddy Walk:

I cannot tell you how proud I was to be a part of Team Peace, Love, & Joy to support this sweet family and all the wonderful families of the Miami Valley Down Syndrome Association! I also wanted to give big props to my friend Jen, whose team in honor of her 5-year-old daughter Emmaline and her niece Kayla, was the #4 top fundraising team! I’ve known Jen and her hubby since high school and Emmaline and Sophie are the same age and used to go to the same speech therapist. I’ve loved watching Emmy grow and learn and just be generally awesome. She has a really awesome mom, dad, big brother and sister, too!

My favorite part about the Buddy Walk was just seeing all the happy, excited families there.  Everyone was so joyful and proud and the mood was just celebratory and fun!  No one was there crying about their lot in life parenting a child with a disability.  Everyone was thrilled to be celebrating their families, raising awareness, and raising money to help get their kiddos the funds they need to reach their full potential.  It was, as I like to say, TOTES awesome.  Totes!  I was super-proud to have my family involved and I can’t wait til next year!

Thanks so much to everyone who supported my fundraising efforts, from my $5 Friends to my $100 Friends, you all made this possible, and I really cannot thank you enough for helping to make a difference in the lives of some pretty rockin’ people right here in my hometown.

THANK YOU!!!

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And then I got old

First of all, let me just say I feel like a tool writing about my birthday. Clearly the topic has been covered ad nauseum, but I’m so tired and I just can’t be sparkling and brilliant right now! Apologies. But anyway, let me tell you having a birthday when you’re a social media whore is fun!  I’m sure you read Emily’s mortifying touching post about my birthday, and my Uncle Paul wrote one as well over at Redneck Latte Ravings.  My Facebook notifications were going cray-cray all day with all the birthday love!  And then, there was twitter and instagram!  So. Many. Wishes!  It was great! Even GOOGLE knew it was my birthday!

But it was also a very normal day.  And that was good. I was in a rush to get to the grocery in the morning because I wanted to get there before the really creepy people that go to my Kroghetto got out of bed (the skeev factor goes up significantly after 11 a.m.) and just after 9, as I was slapping on my final coat of lip gloss, my cell phone rang.  It was my friend Celia and I figured she was calling to tell me HAPPY BIRTHDAY but turns out, she had a flat tire and three kids that needed to get to school! So Jonah and I ran to pick them up and came to the rescue, got the kids off to school, Celia got a tow, and Jonah and I headed off to Kroghetto.

WHERE, I rocked the Mega-Event and saved 43% on my shopping trip! Woot! And then, after I put the groceries in the van and put the cart away, I found someone had left a FREE MICROWAVE in the cart corral!

Happy Birthday to me!

Just kidding, I don’t touch dirty microwaves left in the Kroghetto parking lot.  Even though, my friend Matt told me I could’ve gotten a few bucks for the scrap copper in the motor.  Ummm. Pass.

After Kroghetto, I did some work for my you know, job, took care of Jonah, ate a very unhealthy lunch, and abstained from doing the dishes.  Then when the big kids got home it was homework time.  Just another day in the life.  But it was good!

Since my birthday fell on a Wednesday, it also fell on swimming lessons night for the big kids!  So, Bobby sweetly took all three kids to lessons so that I could go out to dinner with my girl, Cortney.  We had a great time, and when I exited the restaurant, I was greeted by this in the sky:

Birthday rainbow, yo! Rock on!

It was a great day. Here’s to an even better year.  With many more Instagrammed pictures of my face to make Emily’s each and every day complete. You know she secretly loves it!  But just to show her it’s not ALL about my face…I did leave this post mug-free. YOU’RE WELCOME!

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