Happy Pre-Valentines Day!  From Bella

Valentine Onesies

I made a couple valentine onesies for our baby girl.  The LOVE and red heart onesie are made with felt and the leggings are from Target socks that I cut the ends off of and sewed.  Can't wait for her to wear these soon!  Happy crafting!

New addition to the fam

So I've been busy with nursing school and now 3 wks later our baby girl Isabella.  Hopefully during Decembers intercession I will have some time to do some quick crafts for you guys!  In the meantime I took some photos of our little girl and man it's harder than it seems.  You think they are content and sleeping the whole time but not our girl.  She freaked out each time I put her in a basket or table or some other random place to take pics.  Poor Bella!  I think I will print these with tissue paper and put on the canvas like I did for my friend earlier in the year. 

New flooring and nursery update!

So I'm now 7 months preggo and decided to put in a laminate wood flooring before baby comes to this world.  It was fairly easy to put in once we got going.  Here's a pic of the new flooring.  Great color in the room....rustic and won't show scratches.
I put the crib up in the nursery/office so I'm almost done.  I redid the closet so it's a changing area and storage.  I had an old bookshelf that I painted and then bought some Martha Stewart cubes for storage at Home Depot.  I just bought a dresser from Walmart so I'm going to put that together soon.  Almost done!

I think our "kids" will share the crib once baby arrives!  :)

Before/After flooring

We finished the flooring in the office/nursery.  I will post pics of the finished nursery/office this weekend.  My in laws are coming to help paint and put in a shed (thank you!).  I can't wait for all this stuff to have a permanent place to be instead of garage and hall. 

Hubby sanded the funky painted floors.  Thank you hubby!

Stained with a Minwax water based stain that was in a tube....fast and easy!  The floor looks better than in this pic.

Flower Tower

I painted 4 different sized pots and just piled them up on top of each other.  They look great by our door.  It brings color to the front porch for the spring/summer!

animal canvases

So we are expecting in October and don't want to know the sex so I needed to come up with some colors that were unisex.  I have been nesting big time before I start my nursing program in June so I ripped the carpet up (wood floors under it) in the office, now office/nursery and will have it sanded and stained.  I made some animal canvases that I think will look great in the nursery/office when done.  My hubby will be painting the room grey.  I was told I can't do any painting, hard labor (except in Oct) and anything I love to do but I will be patient until the baby is here.  :)  These canvases were done with acrylic paint so no harm done.  The rhino needed to be painted a 2nd coat.   Done.  Next on my list....painting curtains.  Again acrylic paint so no harm done.  I will post that once it's done.

OK OK the floor looks like crap right now but when my hubby is done sanding and staining it (with nontoxic stain) it will look really good!  Now that may take days, months, years for my hubby to finish, but once it's done I will post a pic.  :)

I free handed these once I saw some ideas on Pinterest.