ruthie & elizabeth

Ruthie and her cousin Elizabeth. Ruthie is heavy-heavier than Elizabeth realizes, she gave up trying to pick her up. E calls her Roofy Woofy.

welcome baby gift set: $30

A "welcome to the world" baby gift set. Notecards, square labels & laminated bag tag. $30. What mama doesn't want to see their new little baby's name on gear!

wedding season!!!

Lots of blushing brides out there & I've been painting their invites! Love wedding season. This one is for a Canton bride, added small beaded detail & I'm stuck on the poppies-they are everywhere.

lacey's verse

Watercolor verse my friend Lacey wanted to be reminded of....And we know that all things work together for good to those who love Him. Romans 8:28

We grew up together in Canton: cheered together, ran together & got ultra motivated pre-kids and ran a half marathon together. And pretty much have not run since. I miss Lacey, she has moved away =(

sister kathleen's 40th

So my big sister (my 2nd mama) turned 40 last week & we had a surprise brunch for her over here. Above is the invite (she would kill if she knew this pic was shown here, she was dressed for an 80's party BTW). But it'll be another 6 mths before she visits the site, so we're good.





I dream about the cupcakes that Kristen at Crumb makes. Delicious and beautiful.



Banner I put together with scrapbook paper, glitter, etc.

Little favors I made-little laminated watercolored tags with her fun friends' names.


Kathleen, me & mama.

About Kathleen, okay-so she had kids before me and passed down all her parenting/pregnancy books. She saved all her hand-me-downs for me & my little sister's kids. (That takes up alot of attic space). She offers to keep my kids when she knows hubby and I haven't a night out in awhile (and she has 3 of her own!). She helped plan my wedding when mom was out of commission, while she was expecting #2. She wore my belted bridesmaid dress with no complaints while she was 6 mths prego. She is the planner of the family, doesn't drink iced tea & loves Prince (and had me singing Little Red Corvette at the age of 10). She's a sucker for organize-it books, but is a complete wannabe. She takes care of me, thinks of the things that sneak up on me. She's so good to me.

labels in action

This are what my labels can do! Kinda late (or real early) post, but these were Christmas gifts jazzed up with the sticker labels.

customized door hanger

The hanger pieces/parts: painted reclaimed wood, acrylic frame with watercolor print, which is customized with the child's name and birth date. Metallic paint & clear glitter detail. The dimensions of the wood is 7"x5"-and a customized one like this is $20. I have a girl version of this as well. Email me if ya like!

Thanks Lauren for the order for this little guy who had a rough start. Always appreciative when someone thinks of me for their special gifts. I know it is easy to order something online in a click-so THANKS to you who email me to place these orders. Babies are such gifts, I love getting to pray for these little ones while I'm glittering or painting it up. And praying for their parents who are going nutty without sleep.

watercolor wedding invite

This one is for a Starkville bride and has tiny silver bead detail. Thanks Meredith for letting me do this for you.

easter magnet-$5 (wrapped & ready to gift)

These acrylic magnets are $5 wrapped & $4 w/o wrapping. The size is 3.25"x 2.25"-perfect happy for those sweet teachers or your easter baskets. I can ship or set these in my front door drop box for pick-up. Email me & I'll set some aside for you! sarahlargen@yahoo.com

little lady is one

We had Ruthie's #1 bday-all about ladybugs. The day was happy and a little sad for me. I wasn't so sentimental with Henry, just don't want Ruthie to get big on me. When I was picking out her bday card in Target, I started tearing up. Goodness, I didn't even cry when my babies were born. You never know when it is going to hit you.

So fun putting the decorations together, I could decorate for kids bdays each week. Used gumballs, bandanna material, artificial sunflowers, & black/red twizzlers. Found some fun lady bug things at Hobby Lobby too.

These were homemade cupcakes with fondant toppers from appleberry attic. So just got the toppers in the mail & stuck them on the tops of the iced cupcakes.

My backyard floral arrangements.
Ruthie's grandmother (Honey) got her this little dress. So cute, she def looked like a little lady in this dress.


Outfit change! I got her little shirt made at simple stitch. Selena has so many
affordable, cute things.
My strawberry Wal-Mart cake that I fancied up with: marshmallows, Dots, black jelly beans, ladybug gummies (all choking hazards, as hubby pointed out).

largen life

matchy pj's-ruthie is smiling at her da-da. she's about to be 1, i'm not ready for my squishy baby to be 1.
this made me laugh-this is hubby's drawing of henry, ruthie & our neighbor's cat. apparently, i didn't put a shirt on ruthie this day & he thinks she looks like a plumber (no offense to all the plumbers who check out dd).

baby gift

This assortment of personalized baby happies was $50: laminated square monogram hanger, square labels, thank you notes & laminated tag. If you ever want to give something like this-just email me. Let me know your price limit & I'll tell you some options.

thanks, jen for your order-you always think of fun projects for me.

mix it up

as the unofficial queen of the mix tape in jr. high, my heart started beating real fast when I saw this.

good books

Above are 2 books that I wanted to pass along. Okay the titles are a little hokey, but get past that. We are studying the Becoming More Than a Good Bible Study Girl in a bible study I'm in and it is one of my favorites so far. The author is very honest, funny, encouraging & 100% relatable. It is hitting me just right. And this author, Lysa Terkeurst, was featured on Oprah for the adoption story of her 2 sons from Africa. We had discussed this powerful episode in our girls group this past fall and just put it together that it is the author of this book we were studying.

And the Busy Mom's devotional book is a good format-my friend Sissy gave it to me after Ruthie came (I think this was the occasion?)-such an appropriate gift regardless. Speaking of, baby girl is waking up from her nap. She knew I was talking about her.

Enjoy!

winter largen life

We got snow today and it was great. What a fun treat. but when you make snowmen (or women) every 5 years-it is hard to remember how to do them. of course hubby figured out the best and most efficient way to do it.

A winter hat a friend's mama made-isn't is so cute. Ruthie almost always has her little tongue out like this.

henry being excited about his new electric train and book. just the other day he got this electric train stuck up in his hair-quite traumatizing. he was in a dora watching trance when it happened.
i wish i could think of a clever caption.

lia kate's paintings

This is Lia Kate's bedding & below are the paintings I did to coordinate with it.


lia kate, I can't wait to meet you in person, sweet girl.

step stool

This is a Target step stool painted up for my Bham sister, Meg's friend-DeAnna. Get all that? Her friends are so sweet to do these long-distance orders from me. Hope Peyton enjoys her step stool for many years to come.

valentines cards

I did these little valentines for Henry's class/teachers & Ruthie's teachers. I laminated the verse & put a magnet on the back. I'm so last-minute with these things. I had my veggie-tale valentines already bought and ready to give and this idea hit me the other day & then i HAVE to do it. I had fun putting them together.

valentines day

so Henry has a valentine & it isn't me. her name is savannah. she loves keeps him in line at Mother's Day Out-telling him to share & hopefully encourage him to potty train. she told her daddy that "she was going to keep henry forever".