We spent this past weekend doing home improvement projects for our babies. My Mom & I spent about three hours, one evening, at a local fabric store called My Sewing Room. We were looking at cute fabrics and trying to piece together a theme and colour idea. (The wall paint colour depended upon our choices.) We ended up buying a bunch of things, and like always I over estimated and we got so much fabric that we could likely outfit two rooms with it all! The main fabric we chose is called Newton's Dream, which has little cartoon animals on it - primarily a sheep called Newton, and then some bears, frogs and what I think may be hedgehogs but I am not completely certain. To go with it, we picked out some basic star fabrics and some beautiful turquoise blue fabric.
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| Our room fabrics - Selected by my Mom & myself. |
As previously mentioned, my Mom has generously offered to make us the entire bedroom set for our little cubs. She has already started cutting the fabrics for a quilt for the babies' crib. She also will sew a matching crib skirt and window valance. Lastly we picked out some lighter fabric (not shown) that she will magically turn into crib sheets. For my own contributions, I have bought a crib mobile, which I plan to disassemble and cover with the same room fabrics. I had hoped to find a remote controlled mobile, but no luck. I plan to hang some matching handmade characters from the mobile, which I found on Etsy and will post photos once it comes together. I am also planning to make a custom a lamp shade and just need to find a nice little lamp. My last project is to find a suitable cloth hamper and customize the outside in some fashion. I really look forward to seeing it all together. In the meantime I am crocheting another baby blanket to match a blue one, with white trim, which I crafted a few years ago in a fluffy wool. The one currently underway is the same wool in pink, with white trim.
Our nursery is now painted, thanks to DH and my Dad, and it looks fabulous! It's a teal blue colour with a darker teal feature wall, where the crib (or cribs, eventually, if there is enough room) will be placed. I think the cherry furniture will look great in front of the wall colour. Hoping it will arrive sooner than later. For now I just love to sit in our freshly painted nursery and admire the future.
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| Our nursery - Vibrant Teal Blue. The Photo doesn't do it justice. |
This upcoming weekend we will be working on starting the basement. A long overdue project to give us some extra living space. Currently it is a concrete floor with insulated walls - not conducive to babies or baby living space. DH is planning to frame out the dividing walls and possibly get a start on the electrical work. This will be a winter project to get it all finished, and he wants to have it suitable for our cubs. The home renos continue..and the list never seems to get any shorter!
Yet again, a weekly photo update of my belly. I like watching it grow. It lets me know that all must be well if it is getting larger. Also, this is likely one of the few times in my life when I'll be able to have a nice big round belly and not worry in the least about if people think I'm "just fat". Plus - yes it gets better - I can eat what I please (within reason) and say things like "It's our babies who are hungry, not me." I get a lot of yummy things this way - almost all guilt free..
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| 20 weeks along |
Later this week I should be able to post some 3D ultrasound photos from our scan on Friday. Perhaps even a video - if blogger allows it. Now I'm off to bed to listen to our cubs' heartbeats before getting a full night's sleep! (Yes, I shall enjoy it while I can..)
