Here is Baby Eva with her Grandpa Dano, who just met Eva on Thursday night for the first time. Today was a busy one as we are getting the house ready for Eva’s Baptism tomorrow.
We are using the baptismal gown that Great-Grandma Eva was baptized in as well as Allison and her brother Nate (Eva’s godfather). The gown is over 100 years old and had tons of stains but Allison’s friend T.R. gave her a recipe of oxiclean and tide and she soaked the gown and a knit bonnet in the solution for a couple of days and it is almost totally white again. We are very happy to have such a precious heirloom in our family.
Today we cleared everything out of the front room and we now have a dining room again (we had it for 2 days months ago and so already had our first meal int he room.) We also hung all the curtains in the dining and living rooms and gave the place a nice cleaning. Having Dan and Marcia here has been great, they have really helped us and motivated us to get this place ship shape. Now we have to decorate the walls. For a photographer and an artistic wife with tons of photos in frames it is funny that we have next to nothing on the walls yet. Soon, very soon.
Here is another picture of something clean. Baby Eva.
Today I received a package in the mail of products to test out and review. They were from Vat19.com. This site has many great fun items if the three I received were any indication of what they have available. I received some Insta Snow Fake Snow Powder (I am going to save that for a practical joke at work and video that.). I also received some Color Flames Colored Candles that have colored flames. Those look like they will be fun at the next birthday party. I will have to try one of them soon too. Who’s birthday is coming up next. And the third item I received made me thing that maybe I had received some chocolate chip cookies in the mail was 1 Smencils Gourmet Scented Pencil. My Smencil was obviously chocolate scented and I really shouldn’t have used it to write the shopping list for the week as I ended up just listing things like, brownies, chocolate kisses and chocolate chip cookies.
The Smencil is a good idea for a few reasons. First of all they are made from recycled newspapers and one newspaper can make 400 Smencils. The Smencils come in packs of 10, each one in its own tube and they give off more scent when sharpened. there are 10 flavors including Chocolate, Orange, Cherry, Cotton Candy, Grape, Watermelon, Popcorn, Root beer, Very Berry, and Bubble Gum.
An Item that Vat19.com has but I didn’t receive is a USB Xmas Tree. Being the gadget lover I would have truly enjoyed some holiday cheer on my desk at work with this sweet little USB tree. It would totally rock out on my desk at work.
