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

why i create

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sometimes i forget why i create. i look at a layout after i'm done with it and i think it just looks like poop and i want to rip it up and start again.

do you ever do that? i do it with photos of myself too. most times i see myself in a picture i instantly decide i don't like it and want to delete it from the camera. then when i go back to my past photos i think -my hair looked pretty like that or those jeans looked goooood. but at the time i NEVER think that!

what i remember about the past are the good things like how it was so fun when we used to go for 2 hr lunches every day in high school and buy a latte and a bagel every day for lunch and how when we were in university how what i was going to wear to the bar that night was a really critical decision in my day. or just sitting and talking for hours. about nothing. about everything.

when i look to the future i do the same thing, i anticipate all the good that will come like how it will be so fun when we all have kids and can all do holidays together or how it will be so great when we dont' have to work 12 hr days and we can go on vacations to faraway places.

when i think about the now i always have something pressing that i'm worried about ....so that's one of the reasons i create.

it helps me focus on the now and appreciate it. and that's really why i scrapbook.

sometimes i get so overwhelmed by all the stuff.

by all the people that are SO good

by the thought that i'll never get it all down on paper

but i won't

there's just no way - life is too full for that

life is too busy for that and life also too big for pieces of paper

but in the pieces of paper i can show pieces of my life

and that's why i create.

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!

AC Goodies

Pin It Now! I have been bad at documenting my craftiness latley but I have been getting my scrap on pretty regularly these days.

Here is a little project I made using the AC Dear Lizzy line:

Wanted to capture all the foods I'm craving wtih this pregnancy:

Finally this pic of my girlfriends - I have scrapped this one before (or one very similar b/c we got about 500 in this "shoot" haha) but it's one of my all time faves!

Have a fabulous day!

Growing

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bigger by the day!

one little word revisited

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back in december i chose my one little word for 2010.

create.

i didn't at the time know that we would be expecting in early 2010 - but now the word has taken on a whole new meaning.

i am still loving creating a little something every day, a card, trying out a new meal (like this one - a new fave....watermelon, feta and basil salad...yummy!) - but this new adventure we are on gives the word a whole new meaning.

i have had time to absorb what this pregnancy means and the only words i can really use to describe it are awe and wonder - it is such a gift we have been given and i'm so greatful - have felt the first little flutters of movement and that is just SO cool

i have also had to remind myself to take a step back and breathe. to relax. to trust that i'm not in control of this but that that's ok

got this print from etsy to remind me to just take it moment by moment and enjoy each one..

Finally - loving this site for funny week by week chronicles of pregnancy.

After a long hiatus

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I am FINALLY back.

i do have a good reason for being so MIA the last few months.

i am the worst secret keeper - in the world.

i fully had to avoid people because

a- am worst at lying

b- would never say no to a glass of wine

a + b = couldn't make plans with ANYONE for the longest time.....because i'm pregnant!

finally being able to tell was so so fun.

there were a few people that we told before we were at 3 months....

those that offered me wine ;)

aside from that we did pretty good at keeping it a secret.

but thank goodness the gig (or jig) is up - we are thrilled.

k. is so cute - already has the room partially ready (think he had this done when i was still in my "i'm just going to take another pregnancy test just to see" phase).

and then telling my friends was the best.

i waited to tell most in person.

then right before i felt silly that i waited and got nervous about telling them - but then i saw them and i knew it was fine and it was one of those moment's i'll never forget.

first i told lindsay - her cute preggo belly hugged mine and it just came out.

then i told em - who of course heard something going on from a mile away and made a beeline over - and i love her for it.

next was whit - she was so so happy.

then meag. then she said me too. and we are a week apart. and i think i nearly fainted and i don't really even know what i said except for maybe "no way" or "shut up".

then i turned really prego dumb for a few minutes and tried to figure out her due date and even though she told me she was a week apart from me (in november) i thought it was in september..ah ha (also on topic of actually losing my mind tried to make change a few weeks for a cabbie from a $20 and literally couldn't do it. had to get a girl that works with me to do it. i am guessing i will have a really really smart baby and its just borrowing some of my brain power for a while ;))

so that is that. 3 of the 6 of us are preggies at the same time. to think that i have known these girls for 16 years. over half my life. telling them was like when i first saw kirk. was just this vivid happy memory that i'll always have.