Oh, Baby, Baby

The end of my pregnancy draweth nigh.

Whoo-Hoo!!

So, good news from my doctor this morning. He hopes to induce me on Wednesday! Oh yeah! Unfortunately I have to call my hospital on Wednesday morning to see if they have any beds available for me...so it's still a little bit up in the air. (Is that normal??)

I don't know what makes me more excited: A) Holding my new little girl or B) Getting my ankles back.

And, I don't know what makes me more nervous: A) The pain or B) That I can't eat after midnight the night before.

I've got a lot to think about.

But, at least the baby's room is pretty much put together. That makes me feel very relieved. I spent late Saturday night and a little bit yesterday getting it all done. The only thing I have left on my list is to clear out the drawers in the dresser. Right now I'm repainting a dresser for our room because that was the dresser we had been using up until now. Another blog on that later...I know you can't wait.

Here's a general overview of the room. It's pretty basic. It took a lot of work, though. The wardrobe was once an ugly yellow color. We bought it in Germany for Maryn's room...I'm glad we moved it with us, I almost didn't. But the tiny closet in this room is already packed full of linens, crafts and medicines, so the wardrobe comes in pretty handy.

The curtains I made. I couldn't find anything that I even liked, and my mom gave me the idea to use black out curtain liner. I'm so glad I did. After I made the curtains here, I had some black out liner left over. I sewed some scraps together and every night I Velcro it up on Maryn's window. Our mornings no longer start at 6:00 am. The curtains I made, eh, they are ok. I wasn't too impressed with my skills, but they will do. The panel on the left I messed up pretty badly (it was the first one I made) and I had to spend about 3 hours extra patching up my mistake. Oh, well, they got done. I do love the curtain rod and pull backs. I found those at Target, and pretty much I think they are super cute.

I got my bedding off of a clearance rack. I really wanted to do pink and chocolate together. It must be a fad. Probably in 10 years I will regret it. Even her scrapbook is chocolate and pink. A little part of me really really hopes she doesn't have red hair--otherwise she will clash with her bed.

Now, I'm about to preview to you the pictures that I made for the wall. But, they come with a warning...This is an example of serious plagiarism. When I started out I decided that I wanted to do 3 long, skinny picture frames. I just didn't know what. Maryn's room was already done in flowers/butterflies. I couldn't redo that. So I decided to do little birds. I tried sketching something of my own, but apparently I don't have a knack for making things up on my own. However, I'm great a copying other people! So I googled pictures of birds and found this girl's blog that does the most creative pictures for baby rooms. They were SO cute and I loved the style of the bird picture. I took her little bird and made it my own. I'll give you her website so you can view her really cute products (someday when I have $$ and can afford to pay someone to do my hard work, I will for sure buy her pictures), as long as no one rats me out. I really don't want to get sued. http://emmiedoodlesdesigns.blogspot.com/

And a close up of one of the little birds. I did them all in fabric (which took way longer than it should have) then stitched in the eyes, legs, and notes with embroidery floss.My little birds aren't quite as cute as emmiedoodles (who was smart enough to do them in paper), but I think I like them. It's one of those projects that I wouldn't do over again, but I'm really glad that I did it.

That's the baby room overview. Perhaps I will have a little person to occupy the room by the end of the week...wish me luck!