Laura Vegas

today is someone’s birthday! and she wanted everyone to know. funny how alyssa was too embarrased to wear this shirt on her birthday … but sarah was all over it. lol!

and i just noticed it looks like sarah has no right arm in this picture … which she does indeed have a right arm. lol! and on a funny note … i love the look of light photos. and i always try and lighten up the pictures of the girls. but my girls are dark. sarah really is a chocolate brown color … which means she looks nothing like me. lol!

and the birthday girl loves her new look in her room. i think these cute ladybug pillows i found were her favorite!

and here’s a few pics of the room as promised. my mom came over yesterday and painted … the bottom third of the walls used to be a bright pink … so i just had her paint it all the green. she also came by this morning and put up the hardware for the window treatments … i can do those kind of things, but it seems to take me forever. lol!

then i got ady down for a nap and got down to business. changed all the bedding … which i washed last night and had hiding in the dryer. hung up the paper lanterns … which i love, but do need a few more because the colors in the one corner don’t look right to me (love the orange, but it just doesn’t look right without some extra pink). put out my few frames and canvases that i made. new lamp and rug. moved most of the stuffed animals to the closet. tried to make her shelving above her bed a little more decorative. and overall cleaning and making the room pretty. got all this done in 2 hours … along with getting rid of all the old stuff. just in time for ady to wake up from her nap … and to get the older girls from school (darn early day! lol!).

i added all the pictures in an album so as not to hog my blog space … so check here to see more of sarah’s room. i love the way it turned out … so colorful and fun! and she loves it. let me know if you have any questions about any of it … i’m too tired to post all my details. lol!

and one last think i was thinking about today as i was going through these pictures. i was reading a  discussion yesterday about tilting your photos. some people swear by it … some people do it on occasion … and some people don’t like the tilt. i realized that i love tilting my photos. i guess you can do this in photoshop as you’re editing … but i do it as i frame my photo. but someone made a comment about how some people see it and think you’ve just taken a lopsided picture … while some see the artistic part of it. like when my mom asked why i cut off the top part of my girls heads in a lot of pictures. lol! which really does look good. i started wondering if some people see my photos and think i’m strange because i can’t shoot a straight picture. lol! i took a few of these photos of sarah’s room straight on … but they just looked plain and boring. so i embraced the tilt. i’m all about the tilt!

so just wondering if anyone else had any thoughts on this boring/interesting topic. lol! how i mixed that in with a birthday post i have no idea! lol! hope you all have a good one!