A Little Refashion + 16 Weeks

Hey, guess what? We are having a baby! 

Back in early July (of 2013) Robert and I were pleasantly surprised when we saw the second little faint line on the pregnancy test! I definitely had a few days of panic-okay, maybe it was a few weeks of panic. By the time I got to about week 9 (3 weeks later) I was feeling over the panic and embraced the fact that we were having a baby and the panic grew to excitement. March was sure to be a great month! We told our families when I hit 13 weeks; a week later I had some pretty bad cramping, started to bleed and devastatingly the pregnancy ended in miscarriage. A hospital stay and a big fat hospital bill later, things were getting much better around these parts. 

During the first few weeks of that pregnancy I was perusing around Pinterest and fell in LOVE with the idea of doing a weekly maternity series. Everyone I had talked to that had done one loved doing it, and highly recommended it. I had seen the classic chalkboard series, but it just wasn't me and I wasn't completely in love with it. Plus, I wasn't about to spend an hour writing on a chalkboard for a picture. However; I did find this series and loved the idea of wearing the same dress through the whole thing!

I bought two of the same striped maternity shirts (one in size up than I normally wear). I took out the rouching in the larger one, chopped it off below the arm pits, sewed the two together, and waaallah a new maternity dress. 

Long story short, come November Robert and I had another little surprise! This time we waited a little longer to tell people (for obvious reasons), and are thrilled to add another little addition to our family. I also got to pull this lovely dress out of the back of my closet. 

I take the pictures myself, and right about week 15 I finally figured out how I wanted the self-portait to look.(How zoomed I should be, my stance, in the middle or off to the side, etc) So, sorry for the inconsistency in the first 3 pictures. 

I am technically currently 17 weeks, but since we find out the gender on Friday (TWO DAYS!!), I wanted to wait to take my picture then. Also, I am secretly hoping I will actually have a bump by then. Right now I am going through the "Is she pregnant or getting fat?" stage; and looking at these pictures I sure do feel like I am documenting myself getting fat! ha, hopefully in a few weeks it wont feel like that.

July 22nd couldn't come sooner!

Big Bow- Bow Tie

A few months ago my sister introduced me to the Say Yes to Hoboken blog, and I have been hooked ever since. I was perusing a few days ago and stumbled across this bow pillow and fell in love. Yesterday was the first day in a while where I had time to tackle a little project (and a little project it didn't turn out to be). The few instructions she gave on the blog was far from what I would consider a tutorial. I had to patch together some fabric at my mom's house, but it so happened she had fabric that matched our room, and that I loved.

Anyway- here is the final product:

Although it took me about five hours to put together, I thought it turned out quite lovely.  I now have all the little tricks worked out, and plan on making about ten more for our apartment before we move! (Okay, it's a little too cutesy for Robert's taste, so I don't think I could get away with having one in every room)

Happy Weekend! :)

I'll Star your Wars

Last week my cute little nephew Caleb turned 7! Un-real.

We had a fun little family party at Laser Quest (My little sister's code name was "your mom". I can't even tell you how funny it was to hear people yell, "who the heck is your mom!?" whenever they got hit. hilarious.) If you don't know Caleb (which most of you don't, lets be honest), it would help to know that he is incredibly taken with anything that has to do with people fighting with long things; It could be knights with swords, or people on a space ship who's weapon of choice lights up and looks plastic. In more practical terms, his whole room is Star Wars.

For said little boys birthday, my older sister Micah decided to get her craft on (which she usually does, because she is just off the heezey). In all of her crafty genius-ness, she whipped up this wall art:

Sorry, not the best picture quality. Blame the iPhone.

Antiqued painted Pez dispensers, mounted on cloth and put in a frame. Geinus. 

FYI:  if any of you are feeling the need to do this for a girl, my sister informed me (in all of her Pez knowledge) that your local Dollar Tree now carries Disney princess Pez dispensers.