Crafty Weekend

Last week found me getting extremely restless. Even though I am exhausted everytime I spent more than 30 minutes on my feet, I'm no longer content sitting on the couch watching TV. I suspect that this can be attributed to what the baby books call "nesting", but I think it's just a cute way of spinning the fact that women are freaking TIRED of pregnancy by this point. We too big to be comfortable, but the end is still too far to count down to without driving ourselves nuts.

So, I took a trip to Michael's and made a few purchases. I've been looking at the wooden/fabric/paper letters that they seem to sell at every children's store to decorate the half-nursery we have going on (I say half-nursery because it still has a queen bed in it, so it's half-guestroom, half-nursery), and the only letters that I liked the M, I, and the A were from Anthropologie, and (you guessed it) ridiculously expensive. So, I purchased some blank wooden letters, a few squeeze bottles of acrylic paint that coordinate with our Pottery Barn Penelope bedding, and got to work. I also bought some 20 cent wooden butterflies knowing that the 3 letters wouldn't keep me busy for long. I haven't put up the butterflies yet, but those are all done in the same colors, just with varying patterns.  Here is the result:

Preppy designs

Coordinates with the crib, mobile, and bird wall-decals. You can't see the bedding, but I assure you that it works.

Also, I purchased a new knitting book. After looking for a few patterns online for stuffed animals that I could knit myself, I decided that I would buy a whole book so that I could have a few to make, and so that I could make some for other people's babies and kids in the future. To start, I decided on the one called "Flat Ted Teddy". It seemed like one of the easiest, and only required 2 different colors of yarn. I've already finished knitting all the individual pieces, but have yet to put it all together. Pics next time, since I don't want to show an arm-less Teddy bear.

Flat Ted Teddy is the second picture in the left-hand column. Mine is yellow and whilte rather than pink and white.

There are quite a few super cute toys in there, and once I am done with Mia's Teddy bear, I will make Tyler one of the less cutesy grown up ones (like the snake on the cover, or the Bunny in time for Easter!).

Most women do focus their energies during the last few months on doing productive things getting ready for the baby, and I've done my share of it. If I were you, I wouldn't ask Brian how many times I've changed my mind about the stroller we should have. I actually thought about writing a post exclusively about the different types of strollers and asking for opinions, but since nobody comments on this blog (I'm telling myself that doesn't necessarily mean nobody is reading...), that wouldn't be particularly productive (or entertaining to anyone but me).

So that you don't think that I'm trying to give off the image of being productive all the time, I'll leave you with how I spent last Saturday morning, when it was 90 degrees. I even spent all of 5 minutes in the freezing water, despite the baby making plain her feelings on being submerged in the cold water by kicking me vigorously the whole time. She's fine, it was glorious once we got out.

Non-swollen ankles, but I am sparing you (and me) a picture of myself in the maternity swimsuit that I did end up purchasing. My neighbors were not so lucky.