Giving up on the Weekends..haha

I wrote this 2 weeks ago and never posted it...oops!!!

The past couple of months have been sooooo crazy and I have no idea when I have done what so we will be giving up on the "Weekend" Titles.

I can't believe that I am already 35 weeks along in this pregnancy. I kind of have been in this haze of life and I feel like I just woke up thinking...WHOA...this baby is coming soon...and I have nothing done!!!!! And don't even mention the fact that sometimes babies come early...because I might hyperventilate! So much has happened in the past month or so....here are some highlights:


Some time in August, Keith's family got together for dinner because his Aunt Cary was in town. After dinner, Aunt Cary asked Keith if he would tell baby girl's name...He looked at me and said..."You can tell them if you want to"...after making sure he was serious I told the whole family...Lynn(Grandma), Randy(Peepaw), Gran & Papa (Keith's g-parents), Aunt Cary & Uncle Jimmy, Jackson & Cooper (cousins), Lauren & Seth(Auntie and possible Uncle)and Rebecca (Auntie)...I think that was everybody!

Since we had told the Reasons in person...I wanted to be able to tell my Family in a special way since we wouldn't be seeing them until October. I asked the possible..maybe in the future Uncle Seth if he would make me two t-shirts for my parents. Once made he even mailed them for me to my brother's house...where everybody was since my new niece had arrived...and that is how I told my family what baby girl's name was going to be!




Since you may not be able to see in the picture what her name is I will tell you.. Her name is.... Margaret Lynn Reasons...going to be called Maggie Lynn...This name is extra special because she is to be named after her Grandmothers...My mom's name is Margaret (goes by Maggie) and Keith's mom is named Lynn. We are super excited about her name and I know our moms are too!

Weekend Six and Seven (Sept. 3- 12th)

Weekend Six and Seven were spent on the beach with my awesome co-workers!
Every year we go to San Destin for a Dental Seminar around the Labor Day Holiday! It is super awesome even if we do have to sit in a classroom on some days!! I look ridiculous in a bathing suit so there are no pictures..sorry!

Weekend Five (August 27th-29th)

Well I cannot believe that I haven't posted in a month...over a month..that is crazy and I am terribly sorry for keeping you all in suspense..haha!

Weekend five I can hardly remember it was so long ago..so I am going on a crazy pregnant woman's brain memory trip..haha

I finally decided on the dresser/chest to go in baby girls room, so we decided to buy it before I changed my mind! We got this dresser/chest at Babies R Us and we used a $50 off coupon so we were pretty pumped up!!








The same day I decided to make up my mind about the swivel glider to go in baby's room..so we headed around the parking lot to Haverty's furniture. I debated and debated on what kind of glider to get and this one just kept popping up in my head. My wonderful mom and dad bought us this beautiful chair for us rock and nurse our baby and future babies in...I love it and sit in it often!

Weekend Four ( August 20th- August 22nd)

After the weekend I had before, I started this project with some hesitation! I got started late in the afternoon on Friday and was concerned that I didn't have it in me to have another disaster!

This project was the Bumper for the crib! I felt like this should be pretty easy everything was square or rectangular with no rounded corners...so I got started! It was tedious work from the 5 yards of fabric cut into 6 inch strips to make the ruffles to all the different fabric choices that made up the bumper. The fabric included the same gingham fabric from the bassinet for the ruffles, brown and cream toile, shrimp toast "inspiree" fabric, and some brown minky dot. I found a bumper on Poshtots.com that I just loved and decided to use it as my pattern for my bumper..I tried to post a link but it did not work so go to Poshtots.com and look at baby girl bedding and the name is Ainsley!

Here is a link that you can copy and paste hopefully since I cannot get the link to work on this blog thing...haha

http://www.poshtots.com/Bedding/Baby-Bedding/Girls-Baby-Bedding/Ainsley-Baby-Bedding/15/221/1329/21018/PoshProductDetail.aspx


I did not have any measurements for their bumper so I made up one...and I think it works fine. I sewed all night on Friday, all morning on Saturday and finished up on Saturday night. In between morning and night on Saturday, Keith and I had a good afternoon just playing around in town. We did purchase baby girl's dresser and an awesome glider for her room while out and about!

The bumper worked out just fine..the only hiccup is that I put the ribbons on wrong and I am going to fix that this weekend along with starting the next project!

Here is the almost finished bumper....what do you think?

Weekend Three ( August 13th- August 15th)

Boy oh Boy did I need the whole weekend on this one!!!

This weekends challenge was to make the liner/bumper for baby girl's bassinet. I decided to start with this sewing project because I knew it would be super difficult and I was saving the best for last!

The reason it was difficult was three fold:
* the bassinet is rounded (oval)
* the bottom of the bassinet is smaller than the top of the bassinet
* the fabric was thick and I don't have the best sewing machine for thick fabrics

I started by measuring and re-measuring. I got all the measurements and cut out my fabric. My fabric includes...brown and cream gingham and a quilted padded liner to give the bassinet some padding and give the gingham some substance. (this is why the fabric was thick) My first meltdown was 30 min into sewing! My bobbin on my machine was not cooperating and I totally had to cry about it...haha...this hopefully is due the extra hormones while being preggo...haha After crying about it for at least 30 minutes (totally ridiculous..haha) I got my sewing machine going and was off!! It took the rest of the afternoon but I got it all sewed together! The ruffle looks fabulous and the sides and bottom look just as I want them to...time to go test it out in the bassinet!!!

IT DOES NOT FIT!!!! WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well...we had company coming over for dinner in about an hour and I had no time to fix it because my house was an absolute disaster. I of course was heartbroken and in an immediate bad mood...I got the house as clean as it was gonna get, started dinner and my company was here...bad timing for a bad mood huh...sorry Nick, Sheri, Madison and Tucker...:( They endured my bad mood and I tried to be good but all I could think about was that silly bassinet and how in the world I was gonna fix it.

The next morning I investigated the situation and tried to come up with a plan. The problem is...the bottom is bigger than the top when it should be the other way around...how this happened I do not know. All my measurements were right, I thought I sewed it together right, and I had been testing is out after each finished stitch. What oh what was I gonna do...there was way to much fabric at the bottom and the top didn't even touch the sides. I decided that I would rip it apart and start over...but no more work on it today. Somehow even after enduring my horrible mood the night before...Sheri still wanted to hang out with me...wow, what a friend! But what she wanted to do with me was to for sure put me in a great mood!!! We went to REGISTER!!! We decided to start at Target! We had a good time...after what felt like 12 hours we decided one store was enough for one day!

I got home and was in a good mood and decided not to ruin it by working on the bassinet anymore.

On Sunday afternoon, I decided to try one more thing before giving up and waiting till my mom came into town to fix it! The plan was to add a triangle piece of fabric on one side of the curved bassinet, small point at the bottom and large piece at the top, and to add darts at the bottom of the other curve. I worked at it all afternoon...not even a nap!

It worked!!!! YAY!!!!!!

And I must say it looks pretty good...considering the mess that it looks like..haha That night I added some ribbon to tie on the basket handles and called it quits. Here are some pictures of the "finished product" I added quotation marks because Keith still needs to paint it...it will be a creamy white!







Remember: I am not a professional...so do not...I repeat...do not...look to closely!!

Weekned Two (August 6th- August 8th)

On Friday the 6th...My good friend and coworker, Malissa, brought out the baby's crib and changing table that we bought from her. I was so excited to get it in baby girl's room! These two items had been hanging out in her attic and she reluctantly sold them to me for an awesome price. Thanks Malissa!!

Since they had been in the attic they both needed a good cleaning and to be polished! This is what I did for the remaining time during the weekend. Who knew it would take so long!

These four pictures show the finished product of all my polishing labor..haha

Weekend ONE (July 30th-August 1st)

Painting....Painting....Painting!!

Keith was such a good dad and hubby and "volunteered" to paint baby girls room!

In case you don't remember...We chose the ooohhh so cute paint color "Shrimp Toast"

It could not be any more awesome...here are some pictures of my hubby while painting!

Doing some "cutting in"...(sorry you have to turn your head)



Doing some Rolling...( and again with turning your head)


Second coat:


I somehow failed to take a finished picture but it is okay cause you will see it in the next post about the next weekend!