We've lived in our home for nearly two years, and we've done plenty: installed a bathroom, tiled said bathroom, tiled the kitchen, painted the kitchen, built an entryway bench, put in a garden, put in a brick sidewalk, and redone Finley's room.
But there are a few rooms we still haven't touched. We dumped the furniture we had (or donated furniture) into the room and called it good.
This has been fine.
Until now.
At precisely five months pregnant, the nesting urge has hit me the way a tornado swoops up a dandelion. I cannot stop seeing projects everywhere I look, and it's like an illness. I'm currently in the middle of five different things (building a table, reupholstering a rocker, painting a room, making a nursery area, and possibly redoing part of our basement).
This must happen to pregnant women because it makes us feel like we have some measure of control over what's to come (but I've had a child before, and I know we don't).
But pretty things! Yay to pretty things.
I found this fabric
And made it into these curtains
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I added black-out fabric to these, which helps with
south-facing windows in a toddler's room. The crib
is mostly just decoration at this point, and it'll be moved soon. |
I couldn't stop there, so I went ahead and got this fabric, too.
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For the baby's nursery. I plan to put my children in one room
as soon as the little one is sleeping through the night and not needing
a diaper change in the wee hours. |
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They look awesome, but for some reason this is the only picture
I got. My seedlings are doing so-so. |
Finley now knows how all the buttons on the sewing machine work. Really. I say, "Push the backward button," and he holds it down while I finish a seam.
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| "Up and down and up and down and up and down..." |
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| Figuring it out with me. I am terrible at sewing. |
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| Cheesing it up. |