Etsy and some rules

I posted about a little family rules project that Ryan and I did a few months back. It was originally intended to be subway art, which I had been wanting, created by my 'oh so talented resident designer', while incorporating some family rules in a style and design that would fit our home. Well, since that post we have gotten emails, letters, phone calls, telegrams from hundreds of people willing to do whatever they had to do to get their hands on a copy of those family rules.

Or maybe just two people.

But that's neither here nor there.

So for those hundreds of two people, we introduce to you our Etsy store.

Alexander Creative on Etsy

Currently we have these two items for sale:



The kinks are still being worked out, but we are having fun learning the ins and outs of running an Etsy store and are excited about the potential. So, thanks for your interest, and stayed tuned for more items that will be posted soon!

Family Rules

well, here they are. the rules of our family, also known as family rules.

I have been admiring the subway art that seems to be very popular right now, but not so much the subway art price tags. This little project has been floating around in my mind for quite some time, and I thought it would be a chance to attempt some 'on the cheap' subway art and incorporate some family rules.

And this past weekend I finally got resident designer on board. I love it when he gets on board! I like to think of us as a team. You know, the two's of us coming up with an idea, figuring out the best way to execute said idea, and then, voila! a masterpiece is born.

I can't be certain but I think his version is, I have a wild hair, I tell/nag him about it, and then he does all of the work. Either way, it's a beautiful thing.



And for the record, I am pretty certain every single rule was broken before the mod podge had time to dry.

And yet another craft...

Peyt and I made this for her teacher over the weekend. And by made I mean, we took the label off of a bottle of hand sanitizer and Valentined this little guy like no tomorrow. I think it turned out super cute! And best of all, it is a craft for even the craft-challenged like myself.

Words for your walls — part two

So, the next room on the wall words agenda was Maser's room. His room is still the same colors as we originally painted it before he was born, and he has a fantastic design around the top of the room that resident graphic designer hubz created and painted for him. So I was on the hunt to find something somewhat minimal that would not compete with what is already going on in there, as well as something that suits Mas and his little self. So I present to you the finished product …

And can I just say, there is currently not a more accurate statement on planet earth. Hubz put these on M's wall on Thursday night, and on Saturday afternoon when the little terror was supposed to be taking a nap, I go in to check on him, and instead of the cuteness that was on his wall it now says--M is for ief

Case and point on why these words are perfect for his room.

Words for your walls also know as wall words.

So, I have been aspiring to join the many who are currently decorating their homes in these super cute little sayings and captions with vinyl letters and characters that stick onto your walls. As we have established I am not artsy, (although, thanks for the vote Casey) but I thought if I can just tell someone, and by someone I mean ML, what I want, and then get that someone to print what I want for me, and then bribe hubz into placing them on the wall for me, it's virtually fool proof right? And boy was I right!

We will start with the master bedroom. This room has been the catch-all, eye sore, cave-like, close the door when you have people over room since we have lived here. I was so over it and hubz promised for my birthday and Christmas...and Valentines Day, President's Day, Groundhog Day, etc. that he would be a willing participant in a master bedroom makeover for me. So, over Christmas vacation we, scratch that, he painted the moldings, the walls, two walls in the bathroom, and, AND laid new flooring too! It is a gorgeous blue that hubz picked out and I just love it! It brings a smile to my face every day!
We have big plans for the walls in there, including but not limited to a monogram over our dresser and a big black and white pic of Whales Head Beach where we were engaged, but for now I was concentrating on the area above our closet doors. So after searching high and low I finally decided on what I wanted to put up there and then enlisted the help of ML and her cricut. And here is the finished project...


I am in love people! With hubz and my new words for my walls.

Stay tuned for the next installment of words for your walls--two more rooms to come.

Artsy....or not.

Okay, for those of you that know me, you know that arts and crafts projects are so not my thing. I aspire to be artsy or craftsy and we might as well thrown in picture takery, but who are we kidding, I am SO none of the above. I guess my adding y to the end of all of the aforementioned words is my attempt to somehow take the sting out of my nonartistic reality.

Well, today I am presenting you with my latest botched attempt at a craft project. Please, try and contain your excitement...


This is actually the second frame I made in my feeble attempt at creativity. The first one I do not have a picture of because my pal ML is putting it in a some dark, recessed corner of her house out of sheer pity on me, I'm sure.

I see these things on blogs and on websites that I think are so stinkin' cute and therein begins the cycle. I then think..."I need that for my house", and then that thought is followed with..."I can so do that"..."I'm going to make that." So ridiculous. Seriously, put down the brush and step away from the Mod Podge.

M