last details in the nursery in pictures...

The ottoman I settled on.  Now I can stretch out and sleep on that chair in the middle of the night ;)

 A better shot of the blanket I sewed for baby girl Schafer

 And this picture shows a cover up of a place I used the iron way too hot for synthetic material; it made the fabric scratchy to the touch.  Nothing a bunch of bows and crochet flowers can't fix right ? ;)

And lastly, a just because picture of a few cut peonies from my first ever year they bloomed.  Last year was way too dry, so all I got was dried up starts to a bloom that never made it.  YAY for flowers-they make me so so happy. :)

nursery update in pictures...

I learned how to navigate tight corners with double pointed needles.  It's easier to crochet little things, like a baby sweater sleeve, than to knit them (I think anyway).  It is more simple to count knit stitches than crochet though since they are all lined up on the needle.  This may explain why I've never been able to follow a pattern while crocheting. :)

 And...I got all the way to the top...almost finished and..........ran out of yarn.  So annoying.  But it's basically done and I'm very thrilled with the brain stimulation of learning something new and having a little sweater as a result.  Psssst-Don't tell Luke, but I just ordered some silk yarn to make a six month sized one.  Don't worry, I'll post less pictures of the progress of that project. ;)

I got a little golden branch spray painted and hung with pretties above the crib.

 The standard nursery chair-I still need to find an ottoman that doesn't cramp this small room.  I fell for the grey and while bold pattern for accent throw pillows. 

The crib pictured is a "mini crib" and those crates on the shelves hold all the baby clothes.  There is a closet in this room, but it's really Luke's office space and won't be used as a nursery long term.  So-I'm only claiming two corners and trying not to move too many things. ;)  That's not a good picture of the blanket on the crib.  It's white on the other side and has dusty rose silk ties on the corners that aren't visible.

 Normally, I'm not a huge stuffed animal fan.  but this little bunny got to me.  So she's in the crib just hanging out, making herself at home. ;)

the end of nursery update ;)

unraveled yarn but gaining ground...

It took 30+ weeks to get here...(Kaitlin snapped this after her session-thanks Kait!) :)

It took several hours of miscounted rows to get here...what a mess...started to figure it out toward the top as you may notice a change into orderly forming rows from chaos...

 it took about 2 minutes to unravel above work back to a ball of yarn again...sigh...and you thought knitting was a waste of time before. ;)

 Now I'm moving much faster on the other side of the learning curve...and using hash marks to keep count since interruptions are inevitable and I apparently can't remember counts just winging it.

Kaitlin's baby bump :)

 She smiles more when Sam is around ;) ;)

The sleep sack is done...

Turns out...I've got loads of time sitting on the couch to work on my projects when Adrian does his school.  He can slip outside without making a sound if I even so much as turn my head for a second. :)  I can relate...it's what I did as a 2nd grader too when it was time for writing.

The bottom part is knit, the rest is crochet.  And that's an overlay not a giant ruffle right?  For some reason, I couldn't quite do a simple Little Mermaide looking ruffle...it looked too uniform to me.

Creighton baby

Life in pictures...

(teeeeheeee)

"Adrian is very annoying.  He is also funny in a very annoying way.  He burps every time I see him.  He also plays the piano.  Adrian and I don't exactly see eye to eye.  He is eight years old which is younger than me as I am nine.  And to top it all off he owns a Samsung phone and radio."

I mean, the fact that he burps on every meeting is almost fine...but a Samsung phone seems to be what really pushes Adrian over the annoying edge.  It's an old phone of Luke's with no plan just for clarification and the radio was a freebee from continental airlines when they used to give away things like that.  Adrian mostly listens to Jazz and classical music with it perched on his shoulder while he walks around the house. :)  It can be kind of annoying depending on the volume. ;)

 and this friends...is supposed to turn into...

This darling sweater...stupid pinterest.  I was quite happy with not being able to click needles until I saw this picture.  Now I have visions of my near future...a line between my eyebrows ripping out misplaced stitches.  Joy.

And just because I don't want to devote a whole post to it...I read the Hunger Games series.  Oh yes I did.  The boys are at Grandma Gigi's house and I stayed up until 2 am reading the last one.  Because when else can I do that right?  I wasn't reading them to be critical, but the biggest glaring detail I find still pesters me is:

are you so curious?  You're not?  Oh            okay ;)

So if you've read them (or haven't, this isn't a spoiler) did you question this?  I can't figure out why the careers don't go get their night vision gear (or have it on them already since they like to night hunt) the first time miss Everdeen (oh so close to evergreen...it must have been tempting) is up a tree and it starts getting dark...and if the reason is Glimmer can't use a bow well...I don't know why she would be lugging it around with full access to all the other weapons.  And even without night vision gear...didn't one of them have a flashlight for spotlighting her?  It's not because they can't think clearly either, they have food, water and it's only the first few days in...but it's fiction and a pretty good trilogy read none the less.  If you can get over the fact that the kids don't all wonder around waiting to be killed by the game makers instead of killing each other that is.  That, and the classic love triangle lingers on and on, I kept thinking Gale would die any time now, but he lingers on as the third side for a while.  It must be fun for Hollywood to make movies based on books made for television format and production from the start.  I found the first movie more distasteful than reading the first book-I think it was actually seeing the kids so young being violent.  I would not let my children view this film but keep hearing younger kids talk about seeing it.  And it's not mature conversations (because they are kids) it's comments like "I think I would be pretty good in the games."  Um...I don't think that's what the author was getting at...but okay...it does support her view of thinking it's possible for culture to get this extreme.  As far as good verses evil goes, these books do stay in line with base line biblical right and wrong (ie-drunkeness is painful to watch, sexual abuse/slavery is considered appalling in book two, murder painfully life changing and drug abuse steals people's lives away).  The same can't be said for the Twilight series (which I haven't read and probably won't...my sorries to said fans).