Tuesday, July 31, 2012

The Pantry

Publix, our local grocery shop, always has buy-one-get-one-free deals going on every week. I get sucked into it…well, every week. I have to admit, I often buy way more groceries than I need. My pantry is filled with boxes of dry pastas, jars of pasta sauce, canned veggies, cake mixes, brownie mixes, all sort of snacks….It is overflowing. So for the next few weeks (or months), I’m going to cook lunch and dinner from whatever we have in the pantry. Sure I’ll buy few things at the grocery store but won’t be as much. And I am thinking probably more fresh veggies to go with what I have in the pantry. Looks like I’ll be eating lots of pasta for the next few weeks!

Speaking of pantry, I need to remodel the pantry at my house. That's going to be a project. Found few inspirations online today. Thought I'd share it here.

from here

from here
from here


Monday, July 30, 2012

My Little Bee's bedroom

I am so excited today. My little Bee is coming home to me this evening. I'll get to spend a whole week with her! I miss her so very much. I couldn't sleep last night thinking about her. Today I took pictures of her bedroom. She loves Hello Kitty and she has about 4-5 Hello Kitty dolls in her bedroom. A couple princess dolls. This is her own bedroom with the toddler bed on the corner. Her room is pink. I painted her bedroom walls Wild Aster from Benjamin Moore. The trims are ivory. I wanted to do a pink curtains but haven't really found "the one" yet. So for now I put those ivory lace curtains from Better Homes and Garden (can be found at Walmart; the ones in her room are the 84" long $8.97 per panel).  They actually go really nice in her room. She loves her bedroom. I need to take picture of the other sides of her bedroom to show the whole thing. The picture below is just a corner. 

I wanted to put an ivory shag rug on her bedroom floor but I thought toddler+ivory rug = bad idea. So, on our last trip to Orlando, we stopped by at Ikea. I got her a gingham pink rug to go in her bedroom. Speaking of decoration, I need to take some stuff out of the garage because I have few of her old stuff that I need to put in her bedroom. I need to remember to buy those ikea frames next time I go to Orlando. All and all, her room looks really darling as of right now. I have some paintings that need to  be hung on the walls. I also need to put a small side table  next to her bed. 

For the longest time she was sleeping with me in my big bed. She loved it. I loved it. But she wouldn't want to go to bed unless I go lay next to her. And I couldn't go to sleep at 8 every night. So I set up her bedroom and got everything ready for her. I remember the day I showed her the new bedroom and I said to her, "Audrey, this is your new bedroom now" She looked at me, gave me a huge grin, then said, "yaayyy." Precious little Bee. 



My little bee is a girly girl. She loves pink. Just like me. I bought her this bright pink dress and bright pink tutu skirt from Target. The skirt was on sale for $3.50 and the dress was $8.00 I believe. She hasn't seen these and I am sure she's going to want to wear them to school on Tuesday!
Aww. My little bee. I miss her. Can't wait to see her tonight! I know she'll be so tired so I am going to take it easy. We'll be chilling. We don't watch TV (I'll talk more about this on another post) so we'll probably be watching some Disney princess movies on her portable dvd player until we fall asleep together.


Sunday, July 29, 2012

Lazy Sunday

from this lovely Etsy shop
from this lovely Etsy shop

I am missing my little bee today. She's been away on a Summer trip with her dad since the last 2 Fridays and I miss her like crazy. She's supposed to be back home today. I am so excited. Since she left, I found myself peeking through her bedroom a lot. Wishing I'd find her playing in there. I miss her chattering and following me everywhere I go like a little bee should. 

While she was gone, I was able to do some works around the house. Finished painting the master bedroom + bathroom, and the little bee's bathroom. The upstairs is almost completely painted. Just need the hallway to be painted and that is it! Hopefully I'll be able to finish painting downstairs areas within a month or so. 

Oh lazy Sunday.... I've been scouring craigslist for some deals. I love bargains. I need to get rugs (need one for my upstairs porch, one for front porch, and one for foyer), daybed (to put in my upstairs porch), and night stands (for my bedroom).  I am thinking also of getting a couple wingback chairs. Budget for all: $500-700. Ok sorry for the ramblings here.... 

Have a wonderful Sunday lovely Bees!!

much love,
Lita

Saturday, July 28, 2012

Welcome...Welcome....

I've wanted to create a new blog for a while now. And yesterday I thought to myself, why not create one now. So I did. And here it is my new blog. The girl and the bee.
I am retiring my old blog and from here forward will be blogging though this one. 

I am so excited. Got lots planned. Many to talk about. Giveaways.
Well friends, I just want to welcome you to my brand new blog. Feel free to follow this blog.
I'll write more tomorrow!

xo
Lita

from this lovely Etsy shop