High Five for Friday!

1. We celebrated my birthday (a week early) at the Melting Pot! As always, it was amazing! But I think the best part was being able to have a night out without Charlotte (my parents watched her).
2. As usual, I did a lot of embroidery this week. I made Charlotte's 5 month outfit, a bib, and some sorority legacy bloomers. 
3. My mom had a member/guest tournament last week and she asked me to be her guest! The other half of our foursome was another friend of mine and her guest. The theme was Pretty in Pink - 80s style, so of course we had to go all out! 
4. No week would be complete without a fun Charlotte picture. We had a fun but busy weekend with family and friends enjoying the amazing weather!
5. Friday after work, my mother-in-law came in to town and we went the The Winery at Bull Run for the first time. Everyone else had the same idea, but once we were able to fight the crowd to get our bottle of wine, we found an ice picnic table and enjoyed the company!

Linking up with Lauren Elizabeth for H54F!

My Latest Obsession - Fabric Bows

If I'm not at work or spending time with my family, you will find me in my craft nook working on my latest creations. I will either be making dresses for myself or Charlotte, embroidering shirts, or my latest obsession; making fabric hair bows (you can check them out in my Etsy shop)!

One night I was looking at all the piles and piles of extra fabric that I have from various embroidery/applique projects and decided I needed to put it to use. If I were my mom, I would get creative and come up with an awesome quilt design, but quilting isn't my thing (at least not yet anyway). Then it came to me...bows! In the past I made ribbon bows, but every time I got a new idea for one I would have to go out and buy $5 worth of ribbon. However, the fabric bows required no trips to the store because I had tons of leftover fabric to experiment with.

And that is exactly what I did. I had an example of a fabric bow I had bought a while back, so after some careful studying and lots of trial and error, I had it mastered!

Then I couldn't stop. Any scrap fabric I had that was big enough, quickly turned into a bow.

What I like most about these is that they aren't just for girls. You can adhere them to shirts and onsies and just like that, you have a bowtie!

 

Fabric bows are my new favorite item to make, so if you are looking for a custom bow, let me know! I think my next project will be to add a monogram to them for that perfect personal touch!

My First Lilly Pants - WIWW

The warm weather is here to stay, which can only mean one thing...it's Lilly season! In case you are new here, let me fill you in, I LOVE Lilly Pulitzer. And now that I'm not pregnant (Lilly really needs a maternity line), it means I can wear Lilly all day everyday, right?! If only it were that simple.

 

As I was dusting off my Lilly's that haven't seen the light of day in nearly two years, I notice something; all the tags seem to have really small numbers written on them. Oh yeah, two years ago I was a much smaller person and didn't just have a baby. What's a Lilly lovin' girl to do?!

 

To the sale racks! Or should I say discount sites? Rue La La saves the day and has an epic Lilly sale just in the nick of time. When I saw these pants I new it was meant to be, then I saw the only ones left were in my (post baby) size and it was fate.

 

 

I'm still a long ways away from being comfortable doing outfit posts with my new post partum body, which explains why some weeks I don't even post an one. Even though I see so many things I want to change in these pictures, I'm posting it anyway because I can't keep these amazing pants to myself.

Outfit Details:

Shirt//Target

Cardigan//Target

Pants//Lilly Pulitzer

Shoes//Jack Rogers

 

 

My favorite thing about these pants is that they are made of denim and not that stretchy cotton that tends to show every flaw, bump and line. Can we also talk about the cute little added detail of the zipper at the ankle? Yeah, so basically these are my new favorite pants. If only they were a little more inconspicuous, I would wear them at least once a week!

Let's not forget, Charlotte has the matching bow, so getting these pants was definitely a must!

I may or may not have already borrowed it.

Linking up with Lindsey @ The Pleated Poppy for WIWW

Charlotte's Five Month Update

How has another month come and gone already?! I know I sound like such a cliché, but seriously, can time stop flying by please? On one hand I look forward to Charlotte getting older so we can experience all the new and exciting things as parents, but on another, I don't think I'm ready to move from infant to baby then baby to little girl. I have a feeling next month will hit me hard...

Eating - We finally started solids (I guess that's what they call it even though there is nothing solid about watered down oatmeal) and she LOVES it! I thought it would instantly replace a bottle, but she still wants about 3 ounces after she eats her "big girl" food. We are trying to cut back on the formula after I was told by the pediatrician that she can't have more than 36 ounces a day....ooops. We were giving her exactly that, so now we try to only do 30 ounces. Nothing else has majorly changed with her eating. She still spits up a good amount, but we are used to it by now. Hopefully with the solids, we will start to see less of that.

Sleeping - We have been so lucky from the beginning with a baby that sleeps. Some nights she will fall asleep after eating around 6:30or 7 and stay asleep until 6am. Other nights, if she wakes up from her nap, we will give her another bottle around 9:30 and put her down in her crib where she will sleep until 6 or 7am. Only twice since her first tooth started coming in has she woken up in pain, but easily went back down after a little consoling. We try to have a nighttime routine that consists of feeding her in her room with story time, but sometimes she falls asleep earlier than expected and we just let her sleep until we go to bed. She seems to enjoy going with the flow for now.

Charlotte is still a HUGE Daddy's girl and will find him as long as he's in the room. She loves to "talk" to her hands and Wubbanub right before falling asleep. We say she is telling them all about her day. She's not a fan of teething, but who is? Every now and again she will scream in pain, but it only lasts a few seconds. We are finding that chewing on her pacifier helps; she's not big into teething toys just yet.

And just when I thought she was warming up to Minnie, she still seems confused as to why there is a life-sized mouse sitting next to her month after month.

Check out her other month updates here:

1 Month

2 Months

3 Months

4 Months

Linking up with Molly for Funday Monday!

High Five for Friday

WARNING: Baby spam!

1. Charlotte started cereal this week and LOVES it. Hopefully we can cut back on some of her bottles!
2. I got these super sweet Lilly Pulitzer pants from last week's Rue La La sale and am obsessed! This is my first pair of Lilly pants and I had no idea if I would like them or even if they would fit, turns out yes and yes!
3. Poor Milo has started to feel the effects of being neglected now that he has a little sister. I thought he needed some extra love so I made sure to include him this week. 
4. We went to our local winery last week for an impromptu "wine down" start to the weekend. Of course, Charlotte and I rocked our chambray, but she was cooler because she had some Lilly flair.
5. My mom took Charlotte and I to a Nationals game on Saturday and we had such a great time. Charlotte was all decked out (thanks to my friend, Keri, for letting us borrow some of Lucy's accessories). She was so good and spent the day resting in the shade in the Bjorn.

That's all for now! Time to get back to my Etsy orders....monograms, bows, and more monograms!

Charlotte's First Baseball Game

My mom has been wanting to take me to a Washington Nationals game all season and we finally settled on a date; last Saturday. Originally I wasn't going to bring Charlotte, but after being away from her for a whole week, I wanted to spend as much time as possible, plus it gave my husband the afternoon off of "Daddy Duty".

We couldn't have asked for a better day. The weather was PERFECT with not a cloud in the sky, upper 70s for the temperature and a light breeze. We got to the stadium early so we could walk around and get Charlotte fed and settled before the game started.

 

While we were walking around we took advantage of all the photo opportunities we could find: picture with the George, obligatory stadium picture, and a few others of Charlotte's amazing outfit!

 

When we took this picture, a MLB social media representative asked if he could take a shot as well and told us it might be posted to the MLB Instagram account. Well sure enough, a few hours later there we were!

 

So there you have it, Charlotte's first MLB game and the Nats won, great company, perfect weather AND she was a mini celebrity! Not to mention she was so well mannered! We couldn't have asked for more.

Venus Snap VoxBox Review

I have really enjoyed being a part of the Influenster program. It has been almost a year and I've been lucky enough to receive three VoxBox's! This one was a little different than the usual VoxBox that has five different items to review, there was just one item. To be honest, I liked receiving one product over five because I felt like I could give a more thorough review since all the focus was on just one item.

 

The Venus Snap razor could not have come at a better time. My husband kept stealing mine from the shower (I think it's time we buy some replacement blades for his own razor) and then when I would go to shave my legs it wouldn't be there. There is nothing more frustrating than getting out of a hot shower, dripping wet and running to the other side of the bathroom to retrieve said stolen razor!

 

 At first, the size of the handle had me skeptical, but I quickly converted and became a believer. The grip makes it so that it fits perfectly between your thumb and first two fingers and before long, you've forgotten all about that long handle!

So why not have a long handle on your razor? After all, they've made them that way for years. There is no need for it, especially when traveling. You see, the handle takes up unnecessary space in your ditty bag (doc kit, cosmetic case, whatever you choose to call it) but you need to put it in something so you don't have a razor floating around your bag. Well, that's where the Venus Snap razor comes into play.

 

It's small which makes it perfect for travel AND it comes with a protective case. To me the case sells it. I no longer have to reach into my bags with fear of slicing open my finger. Not to mention the case has holes in the bottom to allow the water to stay out. Best. Design. Ever!

Don't let its size fool you. This little razor will give you a close and smooth shave. It uses the same blades as the standard Venus razor so you don't have to stock multiple different blades if you use a regular Venus for everyday and this one for travel.

Speaking of blades, I haven't used a Venus product in a while because I always hate buying the replacement blades (such an investment), but lucky for me inside the box was a coupon for $4 off more blades. You better believe I will be keeping this little razor around for a while, not just because it !

 "I received these products complimentary from Influenster for testing purposes."