Royal Inspiration

No, I wasn't one of those who got up at 3am to watch the Royal wedding, even though the time coincided with when Carlee got me up to eat...I definitely thought sleep to be more important!  But in the morning I did sit and watch the recaps and the live kiss on the balcony - who can resist dreaming as watching a real live princess??

Well, when I received the invitation to an English tea for next week I was inspired by all these royal attendees to make my own fascinator to wear to the event! In about ten minutes and for one dollar I created this:

My supplies included a glue gun, flowers from the dollar store and some tulle(I used a corner of my wedding veil for this).  Simple cut off the stems of the flowers and glue them in whatever arrangement you like on any headband you may have lying around. I trimmed back some of the flowers as well so they weren't so big on top.

And that's it! I think it looks better in person but not bad for a first try I thought!  Should be fun to wear to the tea next week:)

Have yourselves a great weekend!

And of course I'll part with another picture of my cutie!

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Homemade Baby Mobile

So it doesn't twirl on its own or make fun noises like a fancy storebought one, but I couldn't love the whimsical feel of my baby girl's mobile - and now perhaps someday she'll actually notice it as well:)

Remember what it looks like from my last post?

A very simple design - I searched the dollar store to find the top piece...can you guess??? Its a fruit holder turned upside down! Perfect:)  Then I used my fancy new cricket machine and cut out all different sizes and colors of circles of cardstock.  To attach them I stole some fishing line from the hubby and glued the paper around the fishing line. Attach it at the top and voila!

You have yourself a cute mobile for baby to stare at:) Easy as that!


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A little Nursery Reveal

So, yes, I'm still here and alive:)  My dear baby ran into trouble gaining weight since I have Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome which can effect your milk supply - therefore the girl has to take breastmilk and formula to get enough each feeding...Thankfully I have the best baby and she could care less what is going in her mouth, long as its food!  But they had me doing all kinds of crazy pumping and herbs and drugs to try to fix the problem...but that's a story for another day!

TODAYYY, I am finally going to show you the final pictures of her little nursery.  You have seen tidbits of the theme but here's it all put together.  Sorry I don't have a magical camera or much skill but you get the gist:)

Take a look:

And there you have it....my sweet little girl's room...and now she is awake and crying so off I go but I'll leave you with a picture of how she is looking these days:)

All gussied up for her baptism day:

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Announcing....

the arrival of our sweet little girl, Carlee Alexa.

Yes, as you may have guessed based on my long absence, our little girl has arrived and we are now a busy household of three, four if you include my mom staying with us since her arrival:)

On February 23rd, at 12:49 our little girl came in a bit of a rush....arriving at the hospital about 30 minutes before she arrived!  My contractions were all over the place during the night, very irregular and I was unsure this was even the real thing but by 10:30am they were getting pretty intense, even though they were still only about 20-25 seconds long, and we finally asked to have an assessment with the midwife to see how things were progressing.  When we arrived for the assessment I was already 7-8 cm dilated and it was a good thing their office is beside the hospital...we quickly went over and walked right into the delivery room as they told me to try not to push, ha, right!  It took them a bit to get things set up but once I could push she was out within a few contractions and we have our little girl!

Here are some pics of our little sweetie now!

Forgive me as I take some time settling in with our little girl...I look forward to catching up in the blog world soon!

Krista...and Carlee:)

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Ridiculous Railing Redo

Remember back for a moment to those houses in the 70's....what's the worst?  The wood paneling? The ridiculous amount of mustard colored things? The crazy designs on the flooring?

Well, I would suggest that this railing rivals them all:

Ewwwww.

alright, I'll give you the carpet is not that great either but at leasts its not green or plaid like the basement....so we'll deal with that later.

But seriously...what is with that railing? Random splotches of white and gold? How does that even happen?  Well, we agreed that there really was no way to make this railing compliment the room....BUT it could at least try to stop detracting from it, right?

Some white paint and my mom's patience for a few hours and here's what we are left with:)

We settled on.."well, its better, right?"

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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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