Rock-a-bye Baby

 The nursery is in that - almost finished but just needs few final touches - stage and then the reveal!  One of those missing pieces was a chair of some sort for the late nights....then this rocker found us for 10 bucks at the local second-hand store- PERFECT!


















Alright, maybe a bit dated, faded, and not much left to the padding...not so comfortable! But, with paint on hand and a trip to the store for some fabric and foam.....and of course a hand staple gun....

It became this!

(ignore sleeping husband in background and pile of new clothes for the little one - Oma bought her five new coats, all for a dollar! Good deals...)

 Simple steps:
Remove seats from base and the material from the board, actually a pain in the butt with all the staples!
Cut foam to fit
Wrap new material around
Staple to the board and for looks you can also glue a piece of material to the back to cover up your mess.
Glue the seats back to the base and voila!!






 Now she looks oh so cozy in the nursery and with a pillow to be made to match, nice and comfy:)

Take a look at the Linky Parties to see other people's great project's this week too!! I'm all linked up:) 


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Uncle & Aunt times Three!!

 On Saturday my sister in law finally had her little boy via C-section since the little guy had no interest in coming out on his own apparently....at a whopping 9.10 lbs, we don't know where she had him stuffed since she is so tiny! 

But man, is the little guy cute!! Just look at him there with the little yawn, even Ian seemed to enjoy holding this one since the pinkie in the mouth quieted him easily!

Well, welcome to the world Ethan David! Try to stay little as long as you can:)
 

















And countdown update...we are five weeks to go as of yesterday!! And the baby room should be done by end of today thanks to the hard work of my mom, sister and a friend! Can't wait to show you!

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34.5 weeks!

Your baby now weighs more than 4.7 pounds / 2.2 kilograms and is 18 inches / over 45 centimetres from top to toe. She's filling out and getting rounder -- she'll need her fat layers later to regulate her body temperature. 

If you don't already talk to your baby, this is a good time to start -- at 35 weeks her hearing is fully developed. Don't feel ridiculous if you're already chatting in baby talk. Some evidence shows that newborns pay closer attention to high-pitched tones. 

If you've been nervous about going into premature labour, you'll be happy to know that 99 per cent of babies born at week 35 can survive outside the womb -- and most have no major problems. Although your baby's central nervous system is still maturing, her lungs are nearly fully developed by now. 

Baby DQ is growing and being crazy active during the day, thankfully letting me sleep decently though...on occasion on my back even!  She responds to voices and kicks back if i try and bother her, unfortunately mostly at work so daddio misses out on the fun for the most part right now.  And Oma and Tante Andi come to visit to do some house renos and finish up the baby room for the big reveal to come!  So stay tuned:) 


Five weeks and counting people, let's go! 

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My husband is better than your husband....

Don't you just love when you leave your house one way and you come home to find something new done??? And cleaned up....even vacuumed! That was my day yesterday, I have THE best hubby:)

Some friends were to come over and help him take out our half way and put it back together...they weren't able to come by so he took things into his own hands and took that wall out himself!  We still have to wait on people to come help us put it back together now, but my dining room/living room is now definitely open concept!!

Here is the before:


And the after!  Sorry, no staging...this is just how the house looks for now, deal with it;)

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Holiday Wishes

 Hello all you blog-land friends! I pray you all have had a very blessed Christmas and enjoy your New Years' Celebration to come this weekend! We have been very busy settling in and spending time with family and friends.  I can't wait to return in the new year to show you the projects completed and on the go in our new home!  And maybe a little progress on the belly:)

Krista

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Moving on up....to the

The last few days have been a blur of getting the keys, cleaning all the cupboards, sleeping on the ground(airbeds  suck!), priming and painting the cupboards(needs another coat yet), and moving everything in!  Thankfully my wonderful mother in law put her amazing cleaning skills(seriously, you should see her house, I"m in awe...) to work and the upstairs is spotless for all our things:) And while I had to go to work, many people came to help and some even assembled furniture so all I had to do was crawl into bed when I got home....now that is service people!

Here are some pics of our kitchen transformation in progress as of last night.  Dated stain and handles to new Labrador brown and eventually new hardware!

No turning back now!!!

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DQ's Room Additions!

 Remember how my fantastic mom came and got a couple of things ready for baby? Well, here is the a couple of the pieces with absolutely no before pictures:(   But you can imagine right?

The dresser came from Salvation Army for 25 bucks or so and had paint like drizzled all over the top...I think it was supposed to be artisitic.

It wasn't.

So a touch of sanding and a little paint, tada!!!! The green is to match the green from the material.  I debated over doing each drawer a different color but when done, I love this!
Also went back and forth about the handles, but once white they are actually kinda cute!

So, we'll add a change station on the top of this little one and be good to go! The drawers are already full of sweet little onesies and such from Oma (aka my mom).

 Now, for this one...I've had this one lying around for a while.  A little history is that back in the day my mom was all up on the tole painting fad that was EVERYWHERE about ten years or so ago. You know, like this:

 

 











And she did a beautiful flower on this guy and painted it a nice blue to match my room. Very nice right? Well, ten years later...not so much:) So a little paint and new hardware annnndddd, now we have this! 
















 Crap, now your trying to see the fantastic pictures going on in there right? Well, they will be changed out to baby eventually but for now I'll show you this special little one of my first birthday!!














Don't you just want to reach in there and squeeze the little touche? No? Well you gotta admit the outfit is classic;)

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