A day of thrifting, playing and sewing!
Had a wonderfully fulfilling today - both as a mother and a shopper! After a wonderful start to the day with breakfast in our favorite restaurant at 8am, Josh and I dropped Maddy and Jay back at the house and went out for a few hours of flea markets and thrift shops!
I picked up the most amazing bargain of my whole life! A Pottery Barn Kids Rug for Maddy's room - this monster of a rug is just beautiful and is a whopping 8x10 feet (No chance of taking it back to England with us - I think thats the dimensions of our whole house!) I have been searching for a rug for Maddy's room for months and months - our little angel seems to manage to always spill her juice on her bedroom floor - and add this to the other less savory things that have ended up on the carpet when she has been poorly - I desperately needed a rug to cover her floor (especially in a rented house!)
So I saw this heavenly creature a few days ago in a thrift store and left it there - came home and searched on the net how much it would have been new - when I discovered Pottery Barn Kids was no inadequate make and it would have been $600 I promptly went back and got it today (when they also knocked off another 25% of an already bargain price - I think it was just my lucky day!) So anyways, enough ramblings!
I have also had a bit of an inspiring few hours of sewing whilst the kids were napping/in bed..I managed to get done loads of gifts including a baby set for a very special girls first birthday - note the cute little vintage apron!
Some scarves for gifts and a crayon roll for Maddy for the plane on an imminent trip back to England.
A sock monkey set for Joshy
And most importantly - a realization that I never knew, before having children, how much one little action (that of Joshua bobbing up and down whilst hearing music) could warm your heart until you thought you were going to burst...and sharing that moment with Maddy who also saw Joshy dancing and giggled her little heart out...My babes and my hubby light my life more than I can ever describe.
