I, or should I say, my pregnancy brain went back and forth trying to decide wether to make the smallest bedroom in the house into the nursery or to move our 2-year old and create a boy's bedroom for him instead, leaving his old nursery in place for the new baby.  We finally decided to make the little bedroom the nursery.  So before dismantling the old nursery, I wanted to preserve it in pictures. View from doorway (1) Wool Zebra Stripe Rug [Bargains.com] (2) Story Time Rocker [modernnusery.com] (3) Dresser [Ikea] (4) Rocking Horse [Dillards]; White Bins [Target] (5) Ouef Crib [modernnursery.com]; Jonathan Adler bedding re-sewn as crib bedding [Burlington] (6) Ceiling Fan [Lowe's] (7) Aquanauts Poster [meomi] (8) Shelf: Alberto Cerriteno Print; eel [Living Planet Aquarium SLC]; owl [Gymboree]; M [Robert's Craft]; dry cactus in Ikea pot; Orange Suitcases [Land of Nod]; Black & White Blocks [online ?]; Automoblox Car (9) Ikea Window Treatments Other items: Orange do...

I've been spending most of my time sitting around lately. At least it seems that way. Really, it's a lot of feeding the baby, changing the baby, forgetting to change the 2-year old, remembering that I need to go to the bathroom too, making/re-heating meals, driving 5-year old to preschool, sleeping (sort of), going up and down the stairs to get burp cloth, 2-year old's shoes, my sweater, a drink, etc. I only have short periods of time available to do something other than the above but it's hard to start doing anything knowing that I'll have to stop in about fifteen minutes and maybe start again in a half hour or maybe not for several hours. Needless to say, this time around it's a lot different. With my first two babies, I was at home with them by myself for the first three months and then I went back to work and they went to daycare. This time, the whole family is home and it sure feels like a big load of people. My husband (who luckily works at home -for no...

Another Emmeline Apron for a birthday gift.  This is such a great re-usable pattern.  In fact, I've gifted all the ones I've made and I've yet to make one for me.  What's up with that?  I used Heather Bailey 's latest fabric line, Nicey Jane , from my favorite online fabric store, QuiltHome . Hmm, looking at this picture, I realize I may have cut the patterned fabric upside down. Oh well, no matter, I guess.  Also, really wishing I had one of those sewing forms/mannequin things right now or a magic way to lose 24 extra pregnancy, I-ate-whatever-I-wanted, pounds in less than two years. I gave this apron to my sister with this fun and inspiring cookbook from the ridiculously talented  The Pioneer Woman , whose website I found a couple of months ago and absolutely love. -- For a couple of quick sewing tips, see the post on Emmeline Apron 2 , and here is another Emmeline Apron .

A while back I made the Sophia Carry-all bag for my little monkey pants when she had to go to the hospital for surgery. I've been meaning to make another one for my little boy and as I get closer to my due date, the idea surfaced again because he will need a little day bag for his things while I'm in the hospital and he goes to a friends house. Our hospital isn't allowing any children visitors at all due to the H1N1 flu season. Realistically, I didn't really think I would have the determination or stamina required for the Sophia Carry-all and he's really quite small to carry it on his own so I decided on this totally adorable toddler back pack, pattern by Made by Rae . It sews up pretty quickly because it doesn't require any complicated interfacing, nor custom made piping, and it isn't lined, although I had every intention of lining it anyway. When it was done, I was happy enough with the way it was, I didn't line it.  It has padded, adjustable stra...

37+ weeks Although self portraits are not exactly my cup of tea, I thought I'd give it a try. Most came out quite poorly to put it mildly. At least now I can see these maternity pants aren't as flattering as I thought. But since I don't think I've had any photos of this pregnancy and in a little bit of a rush in case I went into labor I took some quick shots. Remind me to clean the mirror; it's not my shirt that's dirty all over, really.

Pattern: Reversible Fingerless Gloves Designer: Cotton & Cloud Materials: Knit Picks Merino Style ; Ella Rae Classic Solid Worsted Amount: (1) 50g ball yellow plus assorted colors; (1/2) 100g ball aqua Needles: US6 and US5 bamboo DPNS Cost: $2.79/ball; $6.50/ball Size: small Start Date: Dec. 21, 2009 Finish Date: Dec. 31, 2009 I finished my last knitted Christmas gift yesterday -another pair of fingerless mittens by Cotton & Cloud. Very cute. The recipient was pretty happy with them which is always a good thing. I paired them up with the first ones I made for her husband. So they have sort of a matching set. I think they will get some use out of them on their daily commutes in New York where they live. I used the smaller US 5 size needles to knit up the aqua Ella Rae wool because it's a worsted weight instead of a DK weight like the rest of the Knit Picks merino wool yarns and that seemed to be the right adjustment to get the stitches to m...