Superfluously Sabro

My little guy is 5 months old today! Full of laughter and smiles! He does this funny rocking with his body when he up on all fours. I've been told the next step is crawling!!! I am so not ready for that. The weather here has been unseasonably warm! High 70's & 80's for October?! Unheard off! But I'm not complaining! We spent the day at our favorite Apple Orchard\Pumpkin Patch. This was E's second year going. Since last year he was in my belly. 2 feet tall! Only 3 more feet and he will be as tall as me! (no that is not Grizzly Adams holding my son. It's his father who refuses to shave.) (today he came into the living room and said, "If you walked into your 8th grade student's conferences and saw me what would you think?" I said, "I would walk out ... please go shave!") I am so excited to make continual trips to the apple orchard year after year. Of course I'm not looking forward to the year when E says, "Apple Orchards are ...

My absolute favorite store of all time is Anthropologie !!! I seriously could go into that store and buy one of everything... if i was RICH! But alas I am not, and can only afford a few little things here and there. Bless your heart Anthro, but sometimes the things you are trying to sell at the price you are selling them at are truly truly outrageous! Recently, I was looking at mirrors online at Anthro and I saw this really cute one that I loved. Very simple and just what I was looking for. But with a price tag of $168, there was no way I was buying it. Maybe I couldn't afford it, but I could try and make my own version of it! They used pretty tiles, and those I didn't have. But I had pretty scrap book paper, so why not use those?! (that is not a reflection of garbage in the mirror, just a lot of books in need of a book shelf and a whole mess of craft projects n' stuff that needed to be organized!) Things I had on hand: Mirror Mod Podge Sponges Strong Glue Scrapbook Paper ...