Fun Night!

Went out to my friend's house for a craft activity. We learned how to make a Christmas wreath using Christmas ornaments. We had a lot of fun making them. I made a blue and silver one. Blue being my favorite color, and not because I am having a boy, lol. The wreath was really easy to make. All you need is a wire coat hanger, a pliers and lots of cute ornaments. It doesn't take a lot of time to do it either.

Once we were all done, I came back home, and a good surprised was waiting for me. Marc made millionaire squares while I was gone. It was so delicious! Today was a good day. Life is good :).

My wreath!

A little mouse ate a square already :). So yummy!!!

A wonderful surprise!

Last night around 6pm, a man came knocking on my door. He handed me a parcel with our names on. I was quite surprised because first, I didn't know who this man was, and second, I had no idea who has sent us the parcel.
After looking at the parcel for a while, I decided to open it. I found several neatly wrapped presents in the box, accompanied by a nice card. After reading the card, and realising where the parcel had come from, tears was falling down my cheeks. I was wonderfully surprised and touched by the gesture.

We have received clothes and a beautiful blanket for our baby. Marc and I really LOVE the blanket, and of course everything else that came with :). We cannot wait to have our baby use it. The only thing I was sure of, when I first got the parcel in my hand is that, it was something for my baby. Here's why:

I cut the drawings and glued them in the baby journal Marc has started the day we found out that we were pregnant. I also kept the ribbons that came with the presents, and am hoping to use it in my baby's room.

THANK YOU for the wonderful, and beautiful presents. We love them all.

It's done!

My diaper caddy (aka basket) is done. Got buttons at the scrapbook store, the ribbons at walmart, and the basket at work today. Glue things together, and now it's done. It didn't take too much time. I like it! I just have to put some diapers, wipes and all in, and we are good to go, lol.

I didn't make anything extravagant, lol.
Something simple and easy to do :). 

Finally filled the empty place
next to my jumbo giraffe bank :).

New project!

The nursery is coming along really good now. The pictures are hanging on the walls. I just got the dressers at Ikea on Wednesday and bought a few more things to make the room look nice. I have enjoyed making the framed arts, and other crafts, so I decided to do one more project. After looking around town for a diaper caddy (not that you really need one, lol), I thought why not make one myself, at least partly. All I really need is a nice wicker basket, some cute ribbons and maybe buttons, and my favorite glue gun and some creativity. I am sure I could do it, not that I am overly crafty, but, I can try, lol. Crafting somehow has allowed me to feel rested, if that makes any sense at all :). I can't wait to go on a hunt for ribbons and all. I could probably find some nice baskets at work. I like crafting! I would post pictures once it is done, of course :). There's an empty space left on my baby's bookshelf. It would be the perfect spot for my diaper caddy.

Craft Day 2!!!

More framed scrapbook papers :

Craft Day!!!

So, today I decided to do some crafts for my baby's room. On my way home from work, I stopped at the scrapbook store, and got some cute scrapbook papers. I then framed the cute papers in a big frame that I bought at work (today, lol).

After I finished framing :)

On the wall in baby's room. Wall by the windows.

After I was done doing this, which didn't take much time, I decided to make some labels for the baskets in the bookshelf. I used the left overs blue papers I used in the framed art with some card stocks I've already had in my scrapbook drawer. I used some left overs velcro that I had to attach the labels to the baskets. At first, I wanted to use grads. I don't have a label maker yet, so I just hand wrote on the labels myself.

Here's the label for the stuffed animals basket, lol. 

I need to get another wooden toy to fill the empty cube, hihi.
I love wooden toys.

Once that was done, I decided to finally do my baby wreath. I used yarn, and a whole bunch of cardboard animals (and others) decorations that I got at the scrapbook store. The glue gun was really effective for this little project. I didn't buy any foam wreath. What I did is use a foam form that came with the changing pad I got a while ago, then shaped the form to make it look like a wreath, I know I am so cheap, lol. I wrapped the yarn around the wreath and went on  gluing. I used a dotted ribbon to hang the wreath on the door. The back ground paper I used in the framed art has dots on it, so I thought it will all kind of flow together :).

Note: The foam I used wasn't really big around,
so the wreath doesn't really look big and bulky. Maybe I'll get a REAL wreath at Michael's
when we go to Edmonton next week, we'll see!

If you noticed, there are a lot of elephants, monkeys, lions in my crafts. We decided to go with a jungle theme for baby's room.
I still have a few crafts that I want to do for my baby's room. I have to finished the book ends we started to do. Also, I want to frame 3 more artsy craft papers to put on the wall where the crib is. The baby's room has a really warm mood to it, and I thought that I would use colors in the accessories.

Here's a picture of the unfinished book ends. What I did is buy some cheap wooden letters cubes at the dollar store, then glued them together. I just need to buy some MDF to glue the letters on to make the shape of the book ends, so that it would be heavy enough to hold the books.

I have enjoyed my day today :))))