Nursery Reveal!

For those of you not following my Baby Blog, I thought I'd just give you a heads up on my nursery reveal if you'd like to see that. It's not perfect yet, but getting there! 

Let me know if you have any questions about where I got stuff or how I made it. 

Teeth Whitener Product Review

Ok, so this is slightly out of my comfort zone, but I'm having a lot of fun with my new camera and have kind of just discovered this whole YouTube community since I've been watching pregnancy vlogs.  It's super fun and I would suggest creating an account if you don't have one. If you like Blogger you'll like YouTube. It's pretty much the same thing only with videos. You don't have to make videos or anything, but you can subscribe to channels, just like following a blog on Blogger and on your wall it'll show you when people upload a new video (I'm sure this is like so ten years ago for you guys, but I really never knew that's how YouTube worked lol) I can make a list of some of the channels that I follow if anyone is interested!

Anyhoo, here's a silly little video that I did after I bought some new products at Walmart one day when I was dealing with some pregnancy blues. It is a review of The Plus White 5 Minute Speed Whitening System (Say that 5 times fast) that I was trying for the first time. I really like it and I normally hate teeth whitening!

The beginning of this video is terrible quality, but if you can stick it out til the "after" part it gets much better ;)

So, I'll post these before and after pictures, but you really can't see a difference from them. In person I can tell though.

BEFORE:

And the dramatically different AFTER:

New {to me} Song!

I LOVE music. And I love discovering new awesome songs for me to listen to way too many times and then get sick of. I heard this song for the first time the other day and loved it.

It's called Your Hands by JJ Heller

I've added it to my playlist above as well! Hope you enjoy it as much as I do. It's really a great thought and perspective on life. 

photo credit

Linked at: http://wholehearted-home.blogspot.com/, http://raisinghomemakers.com/

V-Day Nails

Well, it's almost Valentines day... kind of. I mean close enough so say that, but not close enough for my Valentine nails to stay in tact until then. 

O well. 

So, this really isn't rocket science, but the husband is out of town and I have to find ways of occupying myself. Hence, V-day nail tutorial. 

Before we do anything  - USE THE POTTY. Nothing worse than perfect pretty nails ruined by an ill-timed potty break.

So I started with a base color by Essie: Russian Roulette (My fave red)

2 coats and a clear top layer 

For the heart I used Pale Cashmere by Revlon

Now, I tried this with a Q-tip first and found that a match worked much better. A toothpick wouldn't really work for this technique. Just dip the match in your heart color. Don't get too much or it will be too thick of a dot and run.

Make three dots on your nail for both humps and the bottom

This was my first attempt and I think my dots were too far apart. I ended up doing it on my thumb.

 Make all three dots petty close together and then use the excess nail polish from your dots to connect them! You may need a little extra to fill it all in.

Now just avoid all dish washing until Feb. 14th and don't forget to check out your cute little heart nail whenever you're holding a cup o' joe (that's when it's the cutest).

Short Thought

It's been a while! And I'm sure you've all just been waiting at the edge of your seat for a Kayla post and it's finally here! 

-Sarcasm-

I wasn't planning on posting on here til after baby came, but things keep coming up that I want to share and since my sharing outlet (FB) has been temporarily (or pertinently, I haven't decided yet) terminated I'll share on here. I far prefer it anyway :)

I just had a short thought the other day that's been impressed on my mind lately. I was listening to Pandora, as I do almost 24/7, and a song came on that I've heard 100 times before, but one particular line just really stood out to me this time. 

The song is called  "Here I am to Worship" by Chris Tomlin. It isn't my favorite necessarily, but has some really good lyrics and the particular line that jumped out at me was 

"Humbly you came to the earth you created"

Like I said, I've heard it lots of times, but this time it just really caught my attention and was blowing my mind. Like, just ponder that thought for a minute...


WOW! That is like the ultimate display of humility. Not only did He grace us with His presence on earth, but after living here among us was crucified by those who He Himself created and hung on a tree of which he painted every leaf, all the while, setting aside His power as Lord and Creator by allowing these men to ridicule and kill Him. 

Anyway, I just had never really thought about it quite that way before and makes me love Him even more. Our God is good!

Whole-hearted home Wednedsays

Baby!

Andrew and I are having a baby in May :) Hooray. Until then I'll be updating my baby blog/pregnancy journal that you are welcome to follow (it's in my pages above). I'm really just writing it to keep record for myself and for family and friends that want to follow. It probably won't be especially interesting to the general reader ;) 

Follow Jesus {Printable}

I made this little print out to use for a lesson I'm giving to the 6th grade girls in my church's Wednesday night kid's program and thought I would share. It's 8x10 so as to be easily framed and is free for the downloading!  Let me know if it isn't working. Never done this before :)

Just click the pic and download to your computer!