Last Touches

We finally completed the last canvas for Ainsley's room.  I think Fred liked this one most of all - we used a couple of 2010 pennies for the dragonfly's eyes.  It's been fun to do something different for the nursery and have most of the pieces on the wall have more of a personal, handmade touch since all of us contributed some time to them.  Here's the last one:

 

Hopefully we'll get all four canvases  plus a clock and a few miscellaneous items hung in the nursery today, and then we won't have anything to do but sit around and wait for the big debut.  (Actually, there's a lot to be said for the distraction of things still on the to do list!)

We received a lovely, special handmade blanket in the mail last week from Ruth Ann Anderson:

It's definitely one of those special keepsakes.  Sophie loves hers - I will have to get a picture of both girls with their blankets to post. 

Six - ten more days until our actual due date, but I'm still thinking the 20th - 23rd range is appealing.  Also, that way I won't have to exchange this cute little necklace I picked up for a different birth month!

I hope when I post next Ainsley will be here, and of course I'll be stunningly skinny!  :)

Wagers?

We technically have 16 - 22 (ish) days to go until our due date, although I'm angling for more like five or six.  Any wagers? 

Our neighbor was due about a week ago and is still hanging in there.  Heard yesterday about a few folks who went two to three weeks early during a blue moon night.  Unfortunately, the next full moon is not until 9/23, and I'm a fan of sooner rather than later!

Sophie was almost two weeks early, so we'll keep crossing our fingers and toes.  Not quite ready to result to castor oil, but spicy food is absolutely not out of the question. 

We added a couple more homemade pieces of art to the nursery last weekend...

 

... and we have one left to finish, hopefully this weekend.  Most of our chores and preparation are complete, so now it's just the waiting game!

By the way, this picture by Sophie made me laugh:

I asked her if that was the baby in my tummy or just a smiley face shirt, and she said it was just a smiley face shirt.  Good to know.  :)

The Nursery

I took lots of pictures of baby Sonya's nursery while visiting Dave & Siobhan Piechowski in Seattle in July, and then we copied them with our own DIY versions!

We loved their gorgeous Dwell canvas bird print:

So Sophie and I made our own collage version:

Last but not least, I snapped a pic of their cute name wall hanging:

And we shamelessly copied it as well:

 Thanks for all the inspiration, Piechowskis!  Next up: three more canvases with tulips, a dragonfly and a special big sister/little sister photo.