From the Daisy Patch

Our September kit, “Brighter Skies,” will be available at midnight on the 1st.  You’ll love the crisp reds, greens, blues and yellows of this kit that is the perfect way to usher in the fall and the start of school! 

This month we have the very talented Jody Ferlaak is our September Guest Designer and you can check out all of her gorgeous layouts  here. 

And don’t miss out on all our own Daisy Divas’ designs — this month’s gallery will definitely keep you inspired!  Here are a few of my favorites!

We are happily settled in our new home in Colorado.  The kids are loving their new school and are making lots of new friends.  Jack has lost both his top front teeth this week so has a whole new look.  Alice is now riding a two wheeler — bye-bye training wheels!  And fortunately all is well with our little wee one.  Right before leaving Oregon we had an ultrasound at OHSU and everything is fine with the baby.  They had initially thought one of the ventricles in the baby’s brain was enlarged.  The doctor who literally wrote the book on reading fetal brain ultrasounds did our scan and said that all was fine with the baby.  It was a HUGE relief! 

I’ll be back shortly with photos of a toothless grin, a very happy bike rider and some photos of the new house (I’ve been avoiding those as I hate to have the place look less than perfect and that’s certainly where we still are!).    I hope you enjoyed your weekend and are ready to dive into September this week!

This summer has been so crazy for us that I’ve just had to accept there was no way to keep up on the blog along with everything else. 

If you haven’t yet received the news, there will NOT be an August kit.  We are relocating to Colorado and we came to the conclusion that it was better to not issue a kit rather than not issue it well.  This week that decision has seem even wiser than I originally thought.  My fiather-in-law has been battling lung cancer and we lost him on Tuesday.  Although we’ve know that this was coming, nonetheless, it’s difficult to know that he is gone from our lives.  Fortunately Alice is still too young to really comprehend the significance of this but poor Jack stood there sobbing when he hear the news.  It breaks your heart to see your child in that sort of pain. 

Our packers were scheduled to come on Wednesday but to allow for Scott to make it home to New Hampshire for the funeral, at the last minute, we postponed our move until next week.  I can’t even begin to imagine how we would have made all of that work and have tried to get a kit out at the same time. 

Everything will be back to normal for September with the kits.  And… we have a beautiful kit planned for you for next month.  I hope you are able to take this month to get caught up with your past supplies and be even more ready for something fun to hit your mailbox in September!

Building a house from afar has turned out to be a less than an ideal situation but somehow it all came together beautifully.   I haven’t yet seen the house (my last view of it was at the drywall stage) and I am dying to get to Ft. Collins to see it!  Scott has been great with sending frequent updates of the builder’s progress.  However, this is the only photo I have of a completed room.  Once we are in I’ll be sure to post more.

This is the finished kitchen.  I am so in love with how it turned out and I am dying to see the rest of the house in its finished state!!!  As you can see I am a huge fan of white, light and bright….

And here are pictures of the other little project we’ve been working on…

IT’S A BOY!!!

For the moment we are still searching for a name.  Jack and Alice were named literally YEARS before they were born.  But, somehow my repetoire of baby names did not extend beyond one for each sex.   I’m sure we’ll come up with something before this little guy makes his arrival around the 1st of January.  It’s been a rough week and adding to all the “fun” on Tuesday, the day Scott’s father died, we also discovered that there are potential issues with our ultrasound results.  On Monday I go for a level II ultrasound and an amnio up at OHSU in Portland.  Keep your fingers crossed for us!  And… I hope to never again have an anniversary like ours this past Tuesday.

I hope you have a good weekend!  Oh, and if you are looking for a house in the Corvallis area, our realtor is holding an open house this weekend!

For all of you who are anxiously awaiting your July kit pre-orders, we received our last shipment on Friday and have been busy packing kits all weekend.  We will have all the orders out the door by tomorrow at the latest. 

I hope you enjoy the kit and the class with Big Picture Scrapbooking!

Cocoa Daisy and Big Picture Scrapbooking are bring something very fun your way! 

You are invited to a FREE festival packed full of big ideas at Big Picture Scrapbooking this August! Join BPS for 13 fun-filled days featuring 13 talented instructors. Each instructor will share 3 project ideas with you – that’s 39 projects, all for free!

Each instructor will be using the July Cocoa Daisy kit and showing you tons of different ways you can play with product! 

Here are a couple of sneaks peeks of some of the cute layouts you’ll create in the classes!

Oh, and don’t forget the fun daily challenges and amazing giveaways!

You won’t want to miss this summer extravaganza! Registration is completely FREE, and you’ll have forever access to the materials in class!

Don’t forget to check out all of BPS other fun classes!  I think I’m definitely going to have to take their class with Claudine Helmuth, “@Home with Claudine.”  I just love everything she does!

I’m almost 13 weeks pregnant and some days still can’t believe we are going for baby number 3!   Both kids will be in school full time in the fall, it’s easy to travel with them, it’s easy to do things with them.  We can go out to dinner without food flying all over and children screaming (ok, most of the time).  They can both get themselves dressed (still working on that shoe tying thing) and make their beds.  They can get a bowl of cereal or a snack.  No bottoms need to be wiped.  Life was getting on a smooth footing. 

But… I just felt like something was missing and there were all these little frozen embryos sitting in Portland that we just couldn’t decide what we should do with them.  So here we are with #3 on the way and I couldn’t be happier!  According to Alice the baby will be either Thomas or Olivia.  Jack is going for Max; he has no girl name as he is certain it will be a boy. 

I’m looking forward to going back to that amazing chaos and maybe even appreciating it even more this time.   I think I’ll be looking at it with a different perspective as I know this WILL be the last and I know that it really does go too quickly.   The kids are looking forward to being a big brother or sister and are old enough to really understand what is going on.  Scott is looking forward to another 4 years of college tuition and possibly another wedding to pay for. 

Baby at 11.5 weeks

And don’t forget – if you are in the Northwest, come join us for our warehouse sale this weekend!  For more information email mailbox@cocoadaisy.com