Redecorating for baby

Yesterday Ross, Dave, and Gail's husband Kevin painted Kae's room.

Her beach scene from before her birth is gone, swallowed by "celery stick" glidden. Personally I love it. It's bright, and neutral, and much closer to what I would have done originally.

The bed, nightstand, and dresser are moved to make space for the crib, I also finished kae's Flower Faerie Garland for her "tinker bell" part of the room. It's my knit I-cord garland base with fake flowers safety pinned to it. This way if the flowers wear out and fade, or she changes her favorite color, I can just snap some new ones up there.

I need to get a frame for her tinker bell poster from Jen, and some matching bedding. The crib needs to be put together and I need to sew his bedding, plus I want to find some bugs to put on the closet door.

In 5 weeks....

Lion Country Safari

We went to Lion Country for Ross' birthday with Grandma Pam.

It was fun, the lions were SUPER active and we saw a baby Rhino.

It tired me out, but Ross and Kaeley had so much fun it was worth it!

New Year's Resolutions

This year I will knit almost entirely from stash. I will only purchase yarn for my birthday or mother's day presents to myself.

I will knit myself a sweater

I will spend 30 minutes a day exercising (after baby is born)

I will work on being a better housewife, clean more, meal plan more effectively, clip coupons and sale shop.

I will finish my longest standing wip (10 stitch blanket)

I will work on moving, we need to get away from my brother really badly

I will purge more junk from the closet and our dressers to donate to charity.

I will keep up with my children and not let myself get depressed over things I can't change, and do whatever I can to change what is within my ability

December Reading List

I read 3 books in December, bringing my total up to 119 for the year. I'd hoped to get to 150, but baby killed my mojo

All three books were about re-entering the workforce after being a stay at home mom, or about finding a job that doesn't require a 4 year degree.

Let's say while interesting, they're not really worth listing to me. Same authors for all three, same lists in each book, nothing terribly useful. /shrug

Picture Frames

A few months ago I found a tute over in CraftGossip.com for twig picture frames.

It's bundles of twigs tied together with ribbon to make a square and organza ribbon to hold the picture in the middle. Totally not sturdy enough for my peeps.

So I McGyvered my own.

Dollar store picture frames, hot glue gun and refills, twigs and to be different, a bucket of freshly picked acorns!

Kae had a great time finding sticks and filling a bucket with acorns. I'm still debating clear spray paint over the acorns, they don't seem to want to stay.....

Knitting Ornaments

I got two packages of clear glass ornament balls from Pam.

Stuffed with mini skeins of yarn ranging from lace to worsted. I found worsted actually worked best.

The knitting needles are toothpicks topped with beads.

Hopefully I'll get to go to knitting next Wednesday to give them out /sigh

I hate my husbands car...

Tile Coasters

I made these little gems for my mom, MIL and FIL. I am debating getting more tiles and paper to make a set for my dad.

It's just a 4x4 bath tile with scrapbooking paper decoupaged to it (makes them water proof!) and little felt squares hot glued to the backs.