Fall Fashion List

These are on my list of must-haves this fall!
mint pants!

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brown riding boots
I havent found a pair the pair yet, but here is something like what I want

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boot socks!

head scarfs

wrap scarfs

I am totally obsessed with this look!!

Wish List

Here’s a new item on my wish list (at least my photography wish list) lol

Asian Lettuce Wraps

These are one of our favorite meals during the week!! It is super simple and very yummy. The recipe can be found here at Eating Well.com

Speaking of Hobbies

Okay, enough blog business. Here’s a fun post!
Back in March I received this old bookshelf from my husband’s grandmother’s house. She passed away and so we were able to go through and find things that we wanted. I spotted this shelf and knew it had some potential!

It really didn’t need much work. Just a little putty to fill some holes and a little sanding here and there.

She got to become a beautiful green color with some new knobs and I modge podged the drawers with some print paper.

Unfortunately, I can’t put anything on the shelves yet since little hands can reach it but it will one day have some pictures and nick-knacks on it

Blog makeover

Now that I am back, I needed an overhaul on my look. Do you like it? I do. I am loving teal these days and the gray background is simply clean and crisp (in my opinion anyways).
I’ve also deleted and added a few things on the sidebar. I took off all of the couponing sites. Unfortunately I don’t do that anymore. It was fun when I did but it is utterly consuming of all time and I HAVE to learn to pick and choose these days.
As you can see by my new title picture, I have several hobbies and I can’t pick my favorite! I think I could be a thousand times better at photography, or painting, or sewing, or design, or crafting… etc if I would just focus on one. Maybe it’s a form of ADD, I don’t know, but I get all pumped and into one project then get bored with that media and jump to another. Oh well, that’s just me, I am coming to grips with the fact that I will be okay or good at several things rather than excellent at just one. Maybe that will change one day, but for now, I will continue to dabble in all sorts of hobbies to keep my mind and creative side engaged!
Hope you enjoy the new blog!! :)

JGPhotography Shop on Etsy!!!

I opened an etsy shop a few weeks ago and I am so excited about it. I absolutely adore Etsy so I am thrilled to be a part of it. Now, if only I can get some sales!! lol
Click here to visit my shop!

Home made Pizza

YUMMMM!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE pizza! Why I have not made my own pizza dough before today, I do not know, but it is so stinking easy and so good! I got the recipe from Food Network’s Making it Easy cook book. I simply added some Italian seasoning to the dough just for a little something extra.
Normally, I am a cheese and pepperoni only kinda gal but I decided to venture out and get fancy tonight. I put just a little sauce, chopped tomato, fresh mozzarella cheese crumbles, prosciutto, and then sprinkled some basil on once it was done cooking. Wow! was it good. I am not sure if I will be able to wait for dinner tomorrow to eat my left overs

Hello Out there!!

Is anyone still listening??

I doubt it.

Despite the fact I have probably lost all of my readers (as if I really had any..) I have begun to feel the itch to get back into blogging. I used to love it! Why I lost my groove over the past year, I can’t really put my finger on it, but I think it has to do with one main factor:

I don’t really always feel like I can live up to the title of my blog, “Suzie Home-maker”. I feel like that name has such a precedent associated with it that I can’t keep up with. I fail miserably as a house wife daily. Our house is a wreck continuously, I don’t cook often enough or as healthy as I would like, I don’t get to spend enough time in the craft room as I would like…. When I realized I was trying harder to keep up with the stigma behind my blog name than focusing on my precious babies and actually doing some of those things rather than blogging about them, the blogging got put on the back burner. Now that Norah is a bit older and sleeps so much better I feel better about spending a few minutes at night talking about what’s going on over here.

Anyways, I hope that I can regain a few readers trust that I will do my best to keep my blog going as long as my girls allow me to

New Camera Lens

OOOOohhhhh I want this camera lens SOOOO BAD!

http://www.nikonusa.com/Nikon-Products/Product/Camera-Lenses/2137/AF-NIKKOR-50mm-f%252F1.8D.html

Nikkor 50mm f/1.8

From all of the reviews I have read, its one of those just simple basic lenses that you need and would fall in love. It’s really fast so it is supposed to be great for low light and it stops all the way from f/1.8 to f/22 so it will have great depth-of-field control.

For only $135 (cheaper at some sites) it’s a steal in camera lens terms (especially since some of the specialty ones that I would like are closer to $1000!)… but alas, its still $135! We have been trying so hard to stay on budget this month but its not even half over and we’re close to busting due to all of the stuff going on these days. Plus, with Avery’s birthday coming I may have to wait a little longer. . So, I will have to wait till we have a month with some extra cash. Oh well, such is life (especially with kids and one on a super duper fancy formula for digestive issues).

Oh! and I have an old canon film camera that I learned photography on that was my dad’s in college that he learned on. Turns out, the lens that is on it is this exact one! Too bad I don’t have a canon camera!

Ill keep you posted on when I get it!

Mmm, I like it!