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How to curl your hair with a sock! No heat

I’m always looking for new ways to do my hair, maybe now that I know my hour hair curling sessions will be eliminated in a month or two with all my morning time now dedicated to playing with an adorably cute and distracting baby... So now i’m looking for ways to get that cute hair with little time and effort - when I came across this: using a sock to curl your hair! Not only easy and quick, but as a bonus it’s totally heat free! Love it!

Surfing

Surfing

So truth be told, I love to surf. No, not water surf, but internet surf. Just start at a point, and keep on clicking and searching for new topics each time something cute presents itself or an idea branch starts to grow in my head.

Today was a particularly meaty day as far as surfing content so I thought I’d document it for future use/share it with whoever actually reads this....

1. Toilet Paper Wall Art

So I know I’ve seen this before, but I really like it, and I might be changing my plans for the wall above the crib in our little baby’s nursery.... How easy would this be? And SO cute! And SO cheap! I only will have to start saving toilet paper rolls, and probably people to start doing the same since our little girl’s arrival date is quickly approaching....

2. When I first saw this picture I was like, WHAT IS UP WITH THAT KETCHUP?!?!?! But then reading further I realized, it's an empty and thoroughly cleaned out ketchup bottle, filled with pancake batter for easy dispensing!!

What a great idea! I’m always trying to get that perfect mickey mouse, or heart, or stupidly attempting something even more artistic like writing my name in the pan - and with this it’s not only totally possible, but soooo easy!

How do you say awesome mom?: .........How about Pancake shape connoisseur.

3. Felt foods.

How adorable and touchable is this banana? I love to create things, and especially like the idea of creating awesome playthings for my little girl that she can play with, suck on and have zero-choking hazard.

The beauty of hand sewing is that nothing is perfect, and nothing is duplicatable. So each piece comes out unique and fun.. AND this is just felt food, so it’s not like it going down the runway in France or Spain or some fancypants place. This is just a toy to be enjoyed by a drooling toddler.....

Crunch time?

9 weeks to go and I'm starting to get all "EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE PERFECT AND READY" - bless Chris for being so calm and understanding every time (which is basically everyday) I come up with something new that has to get done asap or my baby getting ready world might collapse in on itself....

We've gotten quite a bit ready for our little girl's nursery... a crib is set up (minus a mattress yet), a cute little bookcase with cubbies for some extra storage, a chair and ottoman are in there, and a carpet (which has yet to be rolled out)... Hopefully this weekend I'll get the dresser that I sanded, painted a very pale green color {called: Turtl

e Dove? love it!} and found THE most adorable and perfect knobs for at Pier 1:

Ok well, this is the product picture of them from the Pier 1 website, but the color of the glass on the knobs is actually a pale light pink, not this dirty coffee mug brown. Man. Makes me think twice about ordering anything straight off the web from them now....

Anyhoo... Pillows have been made now, it was my first time using piping, and thanks to the positive reinforcement from my dear mom - they totally worked out and look so much less a.13.yr.old.homec.student.barley.made.me then all my pillows usually turn out! yay!

Since this dresser isn't in the room yet, everything that is going in the dresser is just in bags all over the floor, and in her crib - so the nursery as of right now looks completely disheveled, and not at all ready and it's driving me crazy!

You know when you are doing a massive cleaning of your house, or even just a room? And you take everything out to clean it, or organize it... and 50% of the way through it just looks like you created a much bigger mess and didn't even accomplish anything?

Thats kind of how I feel about the nursery right now - I'm just on the brink of being able to put things away and FINALLY start to do the little decorating things I have been leaving for my waddling, tired-easily, 7.5 month pregnant self...

Except for a quilt.

Yeah - a quilt. I fell in love with the idea of a quilt made with lots of pastely and vintagey tones, tossed over the edge of the crib like in these pictures:

With the hopes that I could find one at a decent price (yeah right) I've been waiting and waiting on making one... and now it's come down to the wire what with weddings I have booked and the time I need to spend editing photos from those too!

Now with this adorably amazing quilt fantasy in my head, memories of EVERY SINGLE OTHER QUILT i've ever made are coming screaming back... including mostly hating every single one by the time I finished it. One time, I had to take a 6 month break from the making of one quilt otherwise it would have probably ended up in shreds in the dumpster behind our apartment.

So my mind is jumping back and forth deciding on whether or not to make a quilt for the nursery. It wouldn't be a regular size one, just a baby sized one.... which is somewhat comforting.

but thats it. thats the only comforting thing in my head right now. I KNOW it'll take me like 5X the normal amount of time to sew all those freaking squares together with my big belly hindering my regular movements. I KNOW by the end I'll probably crap out with some part of it, take a shortcut somewhere and then I might not like it anymore.

But I also KNOW that the nursery in my head definitely has this quilt. sitting it all its precisely placed glory hanging effortlessly over the edge of the crib until my baby needs the extra warmth - which will also definitely occur since she's going to be born in November.

ARG. what to do what to do.....