June 1st is finally here!

Well... today is our "offical" due date!

Each morning, the first thing my husband does is change the date on this little wooden calendar. A few years ago, I brought my husband with me on an Amsterdam layover over Valentine's Day weekend. The hotel we stayed at was in The Hauge and we took a train to Delft and this was the souvenir we brought home.


I thought I'd share some of the "completed" nursery pictures, too. All we need to add now is our little one!


This is the adorable fingerprint tree that my sister made for my shower in California. I had my NY friends and family add their fingerprints to it at my NY shower. I LOVE it!



This lavender sachet was a gift from my sister years ago, and it matches the baby's room so well!



I found this stuffed horse at HomeGoods. I plan to use it in the monthly pictures of the baby to see how quick the little one is growing. Since my husband works in the horse racing industry and all... I found it very fitting. Stay tuned for future posts... I just may have to make little outfits for each month, too!



Here's a good close up of the bumpers I made.


My mom knitted the baby a blanket, hat, and duckie... too cute, right??


I love all of the natural lighting this room gets. However, I did sew a heavy duty blackout curtain lining to the back of the Roman shade I made. We also have a pull down blackout roller shade behind it, too. The sun won't be what wakes up this little one, that's for sure!!



And... last but not least... this was taken this morning. Fourty weeks pregnant! Honestly, as sick as I was the first, hmmmm, five months of this pregnancy I feel pretty good!



Happy June! Looking forward to meeting our little JuneBug soon!
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Coming Home Outfits

I finally finished the coming home outfits for our little one! Since we continue to be on "team green" naturally, I had to make two outfits!

I also decided to follow this tutorial to make matching little diaper covers. They took longer than I expected, but now that I'm 37 weeks pregnant, most things are taking longer than I expect! (Practice for how much longer things will be taking once the little one is actually here, I'm sure!)

Here's our "boy" set:





And the girl set:





I will be putting my etsy shop on "Vacation Mode" when I get closer to my due date (June 1st) but for now I'm feeling great and enjoying having energy to get things done!

Have a great weekend!

Tooth Fairy Pillows

I know I have been a really bad blogger these past few months. Sorry!

I've been getting quite a few requests lately for tooth fairy pillows, and just recently acquired a new design set from Just For U Embroidery at ETSY. I have been making tooth fairy pillow for quite some time, but didn't have a cute little tooth fairy design to go on them, until now.

This is a closeup of my favorite design. {Thanks to my sister for taking the pictures, as I was in a hurry to get it in the mail to my niece before she lost her first tooth!}



And this is the pillow hanging from the bedpost of her bunkbed.



My niece has fair skin and blond hair... here's another pillow for a brunette with olive skin.



These pillows were done a while ago, but just wanted to share them, too.









Aren't they a cute way to customize the tooth losing experience for each child? If you are interested, visit my ETSY shop to purchase your own custom tooth fairy pillow!

Sweet Shower

Last weekend, two of my closest girlfriends from college hosted my baby shower in California. They are both incredibly talented and creative women who love to plan parties and events. The day was absolutely perfect!






Before the shower, my sister had emailed everyone asking them to bring a photo of them with their kids (or a picture of themselves with me, if they weren't a mom) and she is putting together a little scrapbook with these photos and each woman's "advice on motherhood". This picture shows my mom and her friend along with my girlfriends working on their individual scrapbook pages. It is going to be such a wonderful keepsake for me and the baby!


My sister also put this fingerprint/wall hanging tree together. Each guest put their fingerprint on one of the branches as a "leaf" and then she added their name around the fingerprint. (I'm planning to pick up a few more shades of green ink, and do this again at my NY shower in a few weeks!)


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These were seriously the BEST cupcakes!


Again, a HUGE Thank You to Michelle & Christa for honoring me and the baby with such a beautiful shower! It was such an intimate and special day. Living 3000 miles away from my family and childhood & college friends can definitely be tough, but I am so blessed to still have such close relationships with so many wonderful women!

Nursery Beginnings...

After tons of research I decided on this set, named Bella, from JCPenneys. I really fell in love with it.





We had it shipped to the store for free and picked it up this afternoon. Let me tell you, the boxes were HUGE! I drive a mid-sized SUV, and there's no way anything would have fit into my car! Fortunately one of my husband's buddies had been over at the house helping us with a few other projects, and I asked if he could give us a hand, and the use of his mini-van. The store was about 3 miles away from the house, and I figured between our two cars it would be a quick trip! Boy was I wrong!!

The box for the changing table appeared to have some damage but I didn't think that it looked like it was in an area that could have caused harm to the item. Well... again, proved wrong! Once home, the changing table was pretty banged up! One of the drawers was actually shoved further inside than it should have been, and a few screws seemed to have popped out. Not to mention the nicks and scratches on each of the drawers and one corner of the top. I immediately called the store, and the manager is supposed to call me back on Monday. I am hoping that they do the right thing and have it picked up and ship me a new one to my home. I can't imagine having to lug the damaged one back to the store and wait until the new one comes in and going through finding someone to help us get it back to the house, again!

Fingers crossed that JCPenneys customer service steps up and corrects the problem!

The dresser and changing table both came fully assembled, all we had to do was move the drawer pulls from the inside to the outside.

I'm planning on sewing my own bedding, and am waiting for one of my fabrics to come in, but I promise to show my progress as I go.

My husband and I also are doing the crown moulding ourselves in the baby's room. Neither of us have ever done this before, so it should be a fun project! :)
I have been searching and searching for good tutorials to help with this project, I may try to put together a user friendly one. (If we both survive in one piece!) I know I've mentioned it before, but many of the walls in our house, built in 1928, are covered in plaster. Needless to say we are sure to be getting very friendly with painters caulk because of the lovely "english muffin" texture on the walls! I love the character it adds to our home, but painting it proved a challenge. I can only imagine what fun the moulding will be.

Once we have the moulding project is complete, we'll be putting the crib together. It's currently sitting in it's (undamaged) box in the middle of the family room.

I can't wait to see the room all put together! I do feel like it's all happening so fast, but when we (my mom) first placed the order, the set was supposed to be on backorder until the end of February! I guess it's better for it to be here sooner rather than later, while I still have energy and can help.

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

Love... and marriage through the years {framed}

This picture was taken at my wedding in November of 2006. I had framed wedding photos on display of our parents and grandparents. My two Aunts that traveled from London for my wedding are also captured in this picture, making the memory extra special.

For years, these photos have been collecting dust in my basement. I knew I wanted to display them, but wasn't quite sure how.

I used photoshop to retouch the older prints, and added the names and wedding dates. {Wish I'd had photoshop when I got married, would have been great to have added the names and dates then!}

I bought a large frame at Michaels, and instead of using a paper background or mat, I found a great chocolate brown damask fabric. I covered the cardboard insert and basically wrapped the corners like a present. I used hotglue and my staple gun to keep everything taught.






I then used cream cardstock to mount each photo and then used glue dots to attach the mounted photos to the fabric.




I also got my cricut into the action. I cut out in cream vinyl the words "I Do" and flourishes in a mirror image, and adhered them to the inside of the glass.

And... the finished product hanging on the wall in our family room!




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