Feelin' Crafty and Nesty

This first bit of info is pretty unimportant but I feel the need to document it. If nothing else, so my husband doesn't try to weasel out of it. Not that he would do that or anything, but you know. Insurance.

We've lived in our house for almost 8 years. I've been ready to move out of it for about 6 years. It's not that there's anything wrong with our house. It's just small. And as people are prone to doing, we've managed to accumulate enough stuff to totally fill it up. David assures me that if we had a 5000 square foot house, we'd have enough stuff to fill it up too. I doubt that. If nothing else, just because we can't afford a 5000 square foot house and the stuff to fill it... unless we started hoarding our used toilet paper or something. Just saying. But, I digress...

Sometime last year we looked over the budget and decided that this spring/summer would be a good time to take the plunge and move. That was before things like babies and new cars to haul babies around. So now, that's not exactly the plan anymore. We've compromised by deciding to take a smaller plunge and put some money into remodeling things around the house-- specifically the kitchen and bathroom. We'll also hire a handyman to take care of little things but that list of "little things" is quite large. Last, and possibly most importantly, we'll invest in some good storage solutions. It's all stuff that we could do on our own but honestly, we just don't want to.

And the reason for that little story is because I've also decided that I'll go ahead and paint/decorate the baby's room. I've been saying that I wasn't going to paint it because "we'll be moving soon." I'm not sure who I was kidding. And everyone would tell me what a terrible mom I'm going to be because I was planning on leaving his room gray. How dare I!?!

So, I've been checking out colors and haven't really come up with anything yet. I'm a huge fan of blue in general but that just seems a little too obvious. I guess I'm just looking for the "right" blue. I've also been looking at artwork. I found a bunch of stuff on etsy that was way cute. Very homemade looking. And that's when I started thinking, "Why would I pay $20 for that? I can totally make it myself!" I did a trial version over the weekend.

Tower of Turtles



Birds on a Wire



The backgrounds look gray but they're actually white. You'd think I'd be able to use a little white balance in my photo editing software, but you'd think wrong. I'm way too lazy for that today. I blame the pregnancy. I want to spend some time in the scrapbooking isle (*love*) picking out the best matching main prints for the real version of these. I also want to make two more so I can put them four across the wall behind the crib in white frames. I can't decide what other animals are easy enough to make for the other two. Fish, maybe? Any ideas?

I also played with the two below. I think I'll put one on either side of the window. I definitely need a better brown-- it's oddly shiny and David says I need yellower eyes for this first one.

 

LARS (which I might write top to bottom under the whiskers)

LAIKA (I think I'll write this along the curve of her back)

Also, I had an appointment on Monday. The heartbeat is normal, the uterus is growing, nothing else.

We had our tour/orientation at the hospital tonight. It was great. I'm so happy about the practice that I've chosen and now I'm feeling the same way about my hospital.