Nursery!

Yep. I am still pregnant.

Here are pics of the nursery though! I was waiting for my glider cushions to get recovered (thanks Doug!!) until I did the BIG reveal! So happy with it all.. would be happier if I had a wee one to sit in there with though!

View from the doorway.. the bookshelf in the corner used to be Mikes, made by his father when he was around Ben's age. I gave it a mini-facelift and painted it white.

Artwork I made... a nice chubby wren!

My favourite part — the dresser. This one matches the one I have for Ben (that was mine from when I was born!) that I painted white. If I have a girl, she will get both matching dressers eventually.

And the dresser/changetable combo I rigged up.

There you have it! Now we sit and wait for the baby!

The Nursery!

Things are FINALLY starting to come together with the nursery. Before Christmas, we were hard at work to get it cleared out, and Mike did a great job sorting and putting a bunch of un-needed stuff (larger stuff for when the baby gets older) into the crawlspace.

Last weekend I went through Ben's old clothes and separated all the gender-neutral stuff. Just need to wash it and put it away!

I got the paint this morning.. a wonderful light fresh minty-seafoam green call Spirea. Relaxing and cozy.. I love it :D

The armchair and ottoman (Thank K & T!) is currently getting a new slipcover made out of creamy white chenille. So soft! I have the dresser, have the paint, just gotta paint it! I think I will start on that next weekend. Mike has cleared out space in the shop so I might get him to move it out there, start a fire in the stove so it's not freezing and paint away! Want it to be able to cure for a while so it's good and durable. That will be painted a creamy white like Ben's dresser, called Pot of Cream.

The fabrics.. my favourite part! I am making a pillow for the chair (and perhaps something else) out of this awesome striped fabric:


Then perhaps a valance or detail of some sort for the drapes/curtains out of this cool cottonwood branch fabric. This area always stumps me. We have a blackout roller blind already for in there, and some white drapes that tie at the top. Want a bit more colour there though. I am trying to think of a way of using a painted piece of wood/branch as the actual curtain rod, similar to what I saw in a magazine once. I already have the perfect branches from the summer when our hazelnut trees got trimmed! Can't find a pic online, so you'll have to wait and see.


And this is the funky fabric I am going to make some artwork with.. I'll leave it at that :)


Will post pics of the room as it progresses more...

15 weeks

Week 15: Naval orange. Average fetus — 10.1 cm, 70 grams. Continuing the march towards normal proportions, baby's legs now outmeasure the arms.
And, finally, all four limbs have functional joints. Your baby is squirming
and wiggling like crazy down in the womb, though you probably still can't
feel the movements.

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One more week and I am 4 months along! Been feeling okay, but been sick a couple times this week and hope I am not now getting morning sickness in my second trimester! Let's hope for the best :D

Getting started on the spare room, slowly, which of course will be the new baby room! Got to get a lot of stuff moved into the crawlspace (Ben's old toddler bed, etc) and re-organize the closet. Of course a lot of it has to wait until we find out what we are having, in terms of going through the clothes. Got the crib, getting a dresser from my Aunt which we will convert into a changing station and also getting a lovely dresser from the family that goes with Ben's dresser (which used to be mine when I was born!). This one matches it, and has a gorgeous mirror on the top. Would sure look fab in a girls room!!