Why did Tigger look in the toilet....?

To find Pooh, silly... And that is just what we did.  Find Pooh, not look in the toilet.  We decided on having some Winnie the Pooh themed decor in the nursery (is it weird that I think it's weird to say nursery and just want to say the baby's room?).  But we didn't just want Pooh, we wanted Pooh having fun.  And lucky for us, we found really nice wall decals that are easy to remove down the road when Miss Marley is over Pooh.

Hubbs did an excellent job of putting up most of the wall decals while I was at my second (and last) prenatal yoga class (I'll expand on that later).

So here we have Tigger swinging Pooh from a tree.

Then in the middle we have a Christopher Robin quote.

Then we have Piglet waving from the other tree.

And that is the whole wall.  As you may be able to see, the crib is not full of a mattress or sheets, but clothes needing to be washed any my baby scrapbook.  We think the wall turned out quite lovely.


On Sunday, I went to a friend's baby shower.  She is having a little baby boy in October.  And I decided to make her (well, him) a baby blanket to go along with his gift.  So Hubbs and I went off to Joann's and picked out some fabric.  I was lucky to find some that semi matched their jungle animals theme and a blue (or turquoise if you ask the old lady in Joann who told Hubbs that her whole house is that color) that matched perfectly. 

So first I laid the animal one down with the print facing OUT.  Then laid the blue on top.  Then cut to match, more or less.  Then I did some fancy measuring and marking and cut strips into each side.  I then tied to the two fabrics together.  Easy peasy.  And this is what turned out:

And here is a not so good shot of the basket...

Things have been happening....

As the title of this post may tell you, things have been happening.  Lots and lots of things.  I have regained the land of the living pretty much fully.  Though I am still taking my no-puke drugs.  And to be honest, I may just keep taking them.  Why stop what is working, right?  We have been taking a ton of "week" photos, but I won't post them all.  But last week's was pretty interesting....

Yes, we are having a little girl.  Hubbs initial response:  Now I have to buy a gun.  He's so funny.  But yes, there will probably be at some point a gun in the house.  But that's not what this post is about.  This post is about all the OTHER things that are happening.  Like getting the nursery all ready.  The crib, dresser, and block shelving is all put together and currently in it's place (or so we hope - we are waiting on chair to determine final placement).  And this past weekend, we made lamps, and I started making curtains.

I won't detail the whoooole process but here is the lamp pattern....

The curtain fabric is in the background.  And here is the finished lamp!  We made two and love them.  Somehow we decided on pink and green (sageish) as colors and it's working nicely.

Due to a family emergency I was only able to finish one curtain panel.  But I did it and that makes me proud.  Eventually we will have four.  But here is the first one.

I added a close up so you can see the colors.  The day wasn't very bright so it's kind of hard to tell but it's white, brown, green, and pink stripes in varying hues.  I like it and think they go great with the lamps.

We also took a new week photo.  But I'll show you the board for that one.  I wasn't looking so hot.

Isn't hubbs talented?  I'd like to say that I wrote and drew all the pictures but chalk and I don't mix.  Also, something big happened last night!  Hubbs felt the baby move for the first time!  He was very excited.  I guess baby likes bulgoki (korean fire beef).

We are settling on a name (sorry we won't share) but we like it.  The only person I've told is my dad.  But well, he gets to know everything.  Yay for little babies.  I know everyone gets emotional about their kids but this song really gets me going right now...hmmm I wonder why?

Isn't She Lovely by Stevie Wonder

In with the new, out with the ugly...

When we moved into the house, the previous owners were nice enough to leave some window dressings (I've always thought it weird that they were called dressings...like a window has a shirt or something...).  Some of them we love.  One in particular I hated with the fire of a thousand burning suns.  Yes.  It was that bad.  I would have a picture but I don't even want to post the hideousness.  Just imagine country kitchen with apples.  And old lace.  Over the kitchen sink window.  So you have to stare at it all the time.  I loathed it.  So, after I got a lovely sewing machine for X-mas a few years ago, I finally was able to rectify this horrible sight.  (Apologies, I should have taken pictures - I suck at this blogging thing)

First I had to buy the fabric.  And with all things house, hubs wanted a say.  Which is okay on this because he helped me pick out a gauzy type fabric (that hides imperfections).  It's very nice.

Then I had to find the time to do this.  So after a few weeks of the fabric sitting in a bag, I found a free day to sit down at my trusty sewing machine.  I measured and cut (on the floor, with a ruler).  My home ec teachers would be horrified.  I'm not even sure the cut was straight.  But the beauty of the fabric is that it hides these things.

Then I made curtains.  If I had pictures I would show you all the steps, but for now, just be impressed with my first (after a looooong time) sewing accomplishment!!

(Please ignore the plants that hubs swears he is finding a home for)