Bright and sunny & a RAK giveaway

Pin It Now! The weather here has been all over the map the last few days - from snow to thunderstorms to hot and humid yesterday - bizzaro!  I'm really looking forward to the summer weather especially now that I can take the little guy for walks in the stroller - this layout was inspired by one by Jen Jockish - if you scrapbook and you aren't already familiar with her work go to her blog and check it out, she does beautiful work, lots of little pieces and always so colourful.

I used my Studio Calico February kit along with some playing cards by My Minds Eye.

And just for fun a little RAK giveaway today - I'm not much of a stamper so haven't been able to put this stamp to good use - if you are interested leave a comment with what you are most looking forward to about spring and I'll do a drawing on Thursday

Happy Tuesday!

Paper banners

Pin It Now! I'm a big fan of paper banners - they are really "in" right now with scrappers - I saw this great tutorial for a paper banner on Nicole Harpers blog - I have a similar punch only larger so decided to try it out and I loved how it turned out:

We are enjoying our weekend - I got my nails shellac'ed with a french manicure that will last for 2 weeks this morning - heavenly!  J is working on rolling over - he's almost there.  So cute.

Happy Saturday!

b is for boy!

Pin It Now! at first we thought for sure we'd find out if we were having a girl or a boy. then i spoke to a few people who hadn't and wasn't as convinced. in the end we did find out and my gut was right - i knew we were expecting a boy.

in retrospect i'm so glad we did find out for sure - for me this entire pregnancy has finally sunk in but for the longest time i was in a bit of denial so for me knowing has been a great way to be able to bond with the baby and i can't imagine at this point not knowing.

i can't wait to meet our little man and see him for the first time. there is so much i'm looking forward to about becoming a mom.

here are baby's first layouts:
from the first ultrasound -


this is the day we found out he's a boy - he's pseudo waving to us in the top shot - so funny!

and is it just me or is this the world's hottest summer!? Try to stay cool today have a great day xoxo

Nesting

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I think i am in full fledged nesting mode - this morning I was up at 5am and HAD to steam mop the entire floor (even though it had been done yesterday), then i had to clean under the sink, i felt like Magda from Something about Mary

....I also made these magnolia bakery cupcakes today for my cousins who are coming over shortly for lunch.

i had tried them once before and didn't think they were as moist as they should be so this time around I added a vanilla snack pack to the recipe and i think it did the trick! the icing was a bit runny - too much milk i think, next time i'll put in less or do a blend of butter and shortening to stiffen it up a bit (thanks J for that suggestion!)

the humidity has finally broke here so i think we are going to be able to enjoy lunch outside!

have a great day

xoxo

Nursery plans

Pin It Now! When we found out we were expecting one of the first things we did was decide what room would be the baby's room and then get beanboard almost to the ceiling. I'm glad we did it so long ago becuase it still smells a bit woody in the room and it's been a few months!


We also got the closet done in that room to have drawers and low hanging space becuase it's not a huge room and we didn't want to have to get tons of furniture.

We painted the beanboard white and the upper trim (about a foot or so) cream and ordered a simple white crib and dresser. Essentially what we had created for ourselves was a blank slate - we did all of these before we knew it was a boy (even though I knew!) but this way we have a gender neutral nursery that we'll be able to use again.

Then we decided to go shopping for bedding and other "decor stuff" for the room. There were all these "baby bed in a bag kits" and although I don't know much (yet) I was pretty sure you didn't need a giant duvet for a baby (i checked with my neighbour and i was right). Then whenever we would go into baby stores to ask what we would need the clerk asked us what our "theme" was. I panicked a bit (b/c we clearly didn't have a theme) and told our our theme was "baby" (ha - i thought this was very clever....I don't think the lady in the store agreed) but then felt silly becuase i realized i should have said "Ducks" or "Airplanes' or something.... as we went to more and more stores i felt more pressure to do a "theme" - boats, construction, whales, lambs, themes were everywhere.....we settled on lambs - b/c it matched the rest of our nursery (creams, whites, browns) but i was never really sold on the lambs. K. liked them the most out of the stuff we saw so I went with it but when we got them home i just felt these particular lambs were a bit fugly. I like lambs normally and no offence to those that do love lambs but I just couldn't picture myself spending that much time in a room with an animal drawing that I would be constantly critiquing (I could just picture myself up at 3am nursing the baby staring at the lambs thinking I KNOW could draw a better lamb!)

then i stumbled upon this site and i realized that baby doesn't really = boring, and it doesn't really need to be all about the baby either - heck i'll be spending a lot of time in there too and frankly he won't even really remember what it looked like. Once I had that revelation I became a lot more "into" the baby's room.


so without further ado here is what the baby's room WILL have:

This cute owl from Etsy
this cute print inspired from this nursery post

this manhattan poster and this brooklyn poster from 3 potato 4 (i ordered these a while ago but felt it was kind of mean to put something in the babies room that he wouldn't really love - but then i realized who am i kidding myself, just b/c the kid wont' be able to read the prints doesn't mean he won't like the colors and frankly i doubt having a picture of a monkey on the wall would have made him any happier anyway)

a custom quilt from this lovely shop on etsy (in turquoise, grey, white, yellow and a bit of orange)

and then i'm planning on moving some of the prints i already have scattered around into the baby's room (again not "baby" prints but they'll work).

so that is that - i'll update with a tour de nursery once we get rolling.

on a seperate note i can't beleive i've got just 3 months to go!