Ta-da! Sweetbean!

My sister had an idea over the summer to start a little business for herself (she's a new mom and working from home), and she wanted to do something that involved baby clothes. She bounced the idea off of me (and bounced, and bounced, AND bounced, LOL!) and we worked on a name and a concept. I'm not too involved with the business (she's the go-getter and one with the huge amounts of motivation -- I'm just the little creative brain that does logos and draws things), but I'm her number one fan so I thought I'd post a little introduction on Sweetbean and let you all see what we've done:

Logo (of course).

And the 'core' Sweetbean family, made up of:

If you need to get your little hands on these for yourself...click the banner over on the right and it will link up to the current Etsy site.
*Oh, and remember, copyrights do apply to these (and other original photos on this blog). Be kind, don't rip them off or copy them and use them for yourselves. And if you do want to post these on your site, we nicely ask you to link to the Sweetbean site. Many thanks! :)

Reno-o-rama

I think we were popping our enthusiastic reno pills over the weekend (Trevor more than me, I was just looking forward to getting a weekend since the previous two were spent working) and we've pounced back on the basement a vengeance. I was on paint duty with doors and moulding, and Trevor spent all his time in the bathroom tiling and we finally have a floor done now! We're very close to purging the vanity and toilet from the master ensuite and moving it downstairs (which means new fancy ensuite!!!).The bathroom floor, grouted and ready for business!

Yesterday I took a semi-day-off from work and saw Dan (long lost Dan...lol!), where I realized that we hadn't seen each other in almost 5 years (last time was at our wedding). Crazy. But it was like old times anyways. I tried to take us to a sushi restaurant that didn't exist (silly new construction) and we hung around Metrotown for most of the afternoon, finishing off the day with a trip to the mini-spa for a leg/foot rubdown (lovelyyyyy).

Here a tulip, there a tulip...

...everywhere a tulip tulip.

That what we did on Saturday (delayed post, I know). We drove down to La Conner (in AMERICA as C's hubby would say, LOL!) with our bikes in the back of the car for a day of adventure. Besides a 90 minute wait at the border and traffic problems through Bellingham (which we knew about by seeing it on the news before we left, go figure), we made it to La Conner via the back route old highways along the coast. Trevor was so directionally confused at one point, he looked out at a large body of water across the street we were on and said 'there's some sort of big lake there!'. *ahem* It was the OCEAN. But no worries, since I am a superior navigator (thanks to our gps TomTom) we were never lost, and got to see some interesting little towns and were witness to the 'biker code' of acknowledging each other (although those little pocket rocket bikers don't count). They wave at each other ALL THE TIME. Little nods, waves, flicks of the wrist, but they all do it.

Once we arrived in La Conner we didn't hang around the town (although Trevor wanted to start biking from the high school there -- I won that battle as it was going to be a boring ride anyways, the tulip fields weren't close). We drove out to some free (and crazy) parking at an area called Roozengarde. The crazy parking came from the bumpy soil we had to drive through to get a spot, it was so up and down (almost like driving a clown car) that I laughed so hard I had tears.

We set up our bikes (which was such a smart thing to bring, we got around way faster than people in cars) and peddled out to the big field. Here's the photos of what we got to see:Tulips.More tulips.More tulips again.Daffodils, the odd ones out.