Buttons

Christine had a great idea to make awesome, colorful drapes without spending the top dollar that you would expect to pay at the Pottery Barns of the world. We simply bought some white panel drapes at Ikea that cost $40 for all four drapes and sewed colorful buttons onto them for a splash of color. This was a great way to save some money and also get the impact we wanted to achieve. It was time consuming but worth if for our girl.

 

Christine measuring lengths

  She's very precise.

 

 

I even got in to the action.

Christine ironing and hemming.

Button selection is tedious.

The drapes look great! Especially with the awesome "Baby Boo" banner Jana made for us. Thanks Jana! I know Baby Boo will love it.

Things are starting to come together. The crib that Baby Boo's grandma got her is finally put together and looking great. We're getting close now. And good thing, only 5 weeks till the big event!

Christine

I've had a lot of requests for more pics of Christine. Here's a couple to keep you busy.

 Doesn't she look great in front of mountains? I think so.

Christine strutting her stuff while working on Baby Boo's drapes. More to come on that.

Sweet Leaf

Christine came up with one of the coolest idea's for Baby Boo's nursery. We are both big fans of Sweet Leaf Tea's. It's a great product and I'm pretty sure we buy it by the case load. Anyway, under each Sweet Leaf cap is a grannyism. They are clever and fun saying's that pertain to everyday life, like "Go with the Flow." We've been collecting these caps for sometime now to get the right grannyism's that would be appropriate to baby boo's life development. We took the caps and framed them in a shadowbox for her nursery. It looks fantastic and also provides fun and helpful hints to assist her in life choices and to just enjoy life in general.

Nursery update

Sorry it's been so long since the last time I posted anything. We've been soooo busy, but not to busy to do some work on the nursery. We actually had a really productive weekend. We finally refinishing the dresser. We went with a paint color called "Razzle Dazzle." It's every bit as crazy as it sounds. It's basically a hot pink with a touch of raspberry. We also used razzle dazzle to paint some floating shelves that we installed on the wall. Her new cool animal posters found their new home on the wall instead of sadly leaning against the dresser. Christine also started figuring out the drapes to. I don't have any pics of that yet, but everything else I mentioned is in the photo's below. I hope you enjoy them as much as much as us.

 

Constrution of the dresser. I couldn't help using my new wide-angle lens for this shot.

 

The shelves were white, but we went with Razzle Dazzle to add some punch.

 

Another shot of the dresser under construction.

 

Voila!! It's finished.

 

One wall is almost complete.

 

Another angle.

More baby gifts

Baby boo's nursery is really starting to come together. She received the prettiest rug from John and Juanita this weekend. It's from pottery barn kids and in the words of "The Big Lebowski", it really does tie the room together. Thanks so much for the rug. It's beautiful!

We got the light colored one that's on top. It's awesome! I'll post photo's of it in the nursery asap.

Baby gifts

Well it was a big weekend for baby boo. She received some great gifts from family. Pops and Kathy got her a new car seat, stroller and baby swing. They all had very high consumer ratings and reviews. So rest assure, she'll be safe and riding in style. Thanks so much for these great gifts. Baby boo thanks you too.

Kicks

It's been a terribly long week. I'm glad it's coming to an end. I feel like I haven't seen Christine or my baby for a while. I did get to hang with them a little last night. Christine said she felt baby boo kicking so put my hand on her belly and felt nothing. I asked baby boo to give me a good kick, and she did! Looks like she is already a daddy's girl.