Baby's Wall Decor

This week I've been working on decorating Mia's room. I will have it decorated before she turns one. That's my goal at least. A bit pathetic, but hey, she's too little to care! Here are two of the projects, and I have a couple more I'll post about, hopefully soon.First, I've finally gotten around to hanging her name on the wall. I bought various letter from eBay and Etsy, a couple from old theater sign boards (A & I), a letterpress wood block (M), one from a '70s interstate sign that used to hold reflective "coins" (E), and a couple old wall hangings (L & A).I've also hung artwork above the changing table. I love how this turned out as well. I bought different frames from the D.I., prints and artwork from different sellers on Etsy (some cards, some prints, and one or two originals), and there fun little flowers from Target. A couple of my favorite prints are the drawing of the girl with a city in her hair from Paula Zakimi's shop (bottom left), The Neighborhood print from meArtDesign (bottom left of bottom right photo), and Give from ErinJaneShop (top right of bottom right photo). The flowers from Target look as though they are being blown out of their frame towards and out the window on the adjacent wall. Did I mention I love how this looks?

Onesies

I'm still alive! Well, barely. It's been an interesting last couple of months. We moved, and the baby came a month early. Needless to say, the house is a disaster and everything I've been working on has been left unfinished. Someday I'll get back around to it though...eventually.
So, with babies come baby showers, which usually mean games that no one (at least not many of us) wants to play. For the shower my sister-in-law Laura threw me, I found a great alternative. Jordan, from the blog Oh Happy Day which I read just about daily, posted this great idea on the Cookie Magazine blog. Read all about it here. Basically we bought Onsies in different sizes, some really cute fabric quarters, and some iron-on fabric adhesive. The outcome was great, and my little Amelia has about 20 onesies with cute animals on them! Gotta love it.

28 Weeks

It's true. I'm 28 weeks as of today. That's like 6 months and something. Wow. Time flies! So, this isn't the most flattering pic...it's hard to get one of those taking pics of yourself with a camera on a tri-pod in a semi-dark room against a dirty wall wearing a color that just makes you look bigger. Oh, and the shaddow. Didn't want to bother making myself a decent light source....but it really accentuates the belly, no? But hey. When you're pregnant, you get to look big, and you have a reason. And don't ask what I'm looking at. No idea. I probably just didn't get my head turned all the way before the timer ran out. So, because of requests, here's a pic for those of you who are too far away to see the belly.

Still alive....

Alright. It's been....more than a while. As most of you already know, Mike and I are expecting a baby girl in August! So, January, February, and half of my March were spent mostly either near the toilet or in bed. We'll just say I wasn't feeling to well. But, I'm happy to report that now that I'm halfway through the pregnancy, I'm feeling great again and my need to make and do things is in full swing. But, before I get into that, here are a couple pictures:

First, we have the profile showing us a cute little nose, and second, a hand. I like the hand because, as Duppy pointed out during the ultrasound, the baby is signing an L, and it almost looks like "I love you." She was quite excited to think the baby knows sign language. We didn't argue with her.

So, I've been working on lots of different projects, slowly, over the last little while, and hopefully over the next littler while I'll be able to post about them all. For a quick preview, I've been working on organizing and decorating my "space" in the basement, made a poster-ish thingy for Mike, created vinyl patterns for my Ikea Aspviks, deciding how I'm going to decorate Baby's and Duppy's rooms, and starting on making stuff for the rooms. There you have it. That's an update in a nutshell!