DONE!

Due to our baby not being born before 2010 like I'd hoped, I pretty much got my to do list for the baby done. Her room is done, I have all sorts of little cute flowers and props and such for some baby pictures, her closet is filled with diapers and warm clothes, I have diaper rash cream, baby wash clothes, pacifiers, freshly washed bottles, the diaper bag is set out, the car seat is set up.....and I'm not even to my due date yet! Somehow in my head, I'd reasoned and subtracted day after day after day off of her official due date (because Aubrey was born early, because the baby measured big on my ultrasound, because I've been having braxton hicks contractions forever and I didn't with Aubrey). So here I am, not to my due date yet, and feeling like the baby is weeks late! I have no one to blame but myself for allowing myself to set my hopes on anything but her due date. Oh well. I remember hearing from my mom all growing up how I was born 3 days late and I had always thought "So, just 3 days, what's the problem!?" But I'm starting to get the idea. Sorry about those 3 days Mom!
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So here's what I was able to get done with this extra time.
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Doily Banner - very easy, here's a tutorial
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Her name - I bought wooden letters from Hobby Lobby and covered them with leftover fabric and Mod Podge, again easy and very cheap
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Basket Liner - the basket had a purple liner and that was unacceptable for her room! I used this tutorial to make the liner, another easy project
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Ballerina pictures and frames - I've posted here about those frames already, but now they are hung and officially done!


I love how this little project turned out. I spray painted a frame I already had, then did a simple design of an Aubrey Hepburn quote that I loved, had it printed up for a couple dollars, and that was that! The quote says "I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in dancing*, dancing* a lot! I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles." So the asterisks, the real quote says, "I believe in kissing, kissing a lot!" But I changed it to dancing. I just couldn't have a proclamation on my little baby's wall about how she should believe in kissing a lot. And I didn't have room in the frame to fit "I believe in kissing, in a platonic, on the cheek kind of way and only to my family, kissing a lot again in a platonic, on the cheek kind of way and only to my family." It just didn't quote flow!

Photo Board - I had the wood, ribbon, buttons and everything already from past projects and I used leftover fabric from the bedding to cover the board and buttons. So I've reminded Zach how this was a free project over and over. In fact, that's been a theme with all of the room. I keep emphasising how cheap it's been when Zach looks at our credit card statement and it goes "Hobby lobby, Jo-Ann, Gas for car, Hobby Lobby, Jo-Ann, gas for car".....

But after all my scrimping, re-using, coupon clipping, etc, I blew it on this project, "gerber daisy balls to hang from ceiling". I had this incredibly cute vision of what it should look like, and in reality....not so much. I couldn't afford to spend the money on the hundreds of flowers it would take, so I went with 1 gerber daisy ball and 2 other material balls.

First, those Martha Stewart pom pom balls are supposed to be super easy! Why couldn't I do them? After I literally kicked my two attempts across the room, Zach intervened and actually made the pom pom ball pictured here. It was a VAST improvement over what I had done, but still, pretty lopsided and cheap looking. I'm not sure where we went wrong. Here's the tutorial though, maybe you'll have better luck!

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The fabric covered ball is actually really cute. I'm happy with it. It did take almost 2 yards of fabric circles to cover, so use cheap fabric! Here's a tutorial for that one.

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And then the daisy ball....the daisy ball that's going to be chucked in the garbage in a few days...I hope you can picture how it COULD have been cute. But I got impatient and ruined it. First of all, I used THIRTY flowers to cover it and still a good fourth of it is bare, I just couldn't spend any more money on it. Then I used several different colored daises on it because I couldn't find enough in the one color I wanted. So then I decided to spray paint the flowers the necessary color. I don't think fabric in general is meant to be spray painted. Anyways, it looks very tacky, it cost as much as basically all the projects in the room combined (excluding the bedding of course!) and I hate it. I'm not sure why I hung it up, out of stubbornness I suppose. It looks awful in person, believe me.

So there you have it! Which just leaves two questions in my mind....

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Little Girl, we are so ready, so...WHERE...ARE...YOU!?

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and secondly -

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What if this little girl, comes out a little boy!???? I only had one ultrasound....and I based all this work off of one ultrasound tech's opinion?