The End of the Belly

Yes, I am 8 days overdue.  No, I will not be taking any more pregnancy pictures!  haha  For those of you that don't use Facebook, here are the pictures from the end of my pregnancy.  I'm really looking forward to not having this huge belly anymore!  :)

The Blue Dress

So, here we are, 2 days past my due date and no baby.  What have I done with my time?  Well, lots of being lazy, some productivity around the house, and even a little crafting.  I had enough blue fabric and thread left over from the lamp shade, curtains, and crib skirt to make a little blue dress.  :)  It really didn't take that long.  I was able to finish it in two sittings.  I'm sure an experienced sewer could finish it in one.  I'm proud of myself!  It's the first time I ever had to sew a curved line and I think it came out well!

The free pattern and tutorial can be found here.

  I think it'll go really well with the sweater set that I made her, don't you?  

The Finished Nursery

I finally finished the nursery!  I finished my last project last night, 3 days before my due date.  I'm still kind of shocked that I'm done.  I was convinced that I'd never get all the sewing done.  I'm still new at sewing and pretty slow...  BUT I finished.  :)  Yay!

I've known for a long time that her nursery would be in peacock colors.  I took the following picture last year at the San Francisco Zoo and it has been the inspiration for my plans.

So I'll show you the room in general, then go into details about what all I did.

From the doorway.

From the closet.  **Updated on 7.10.13 so that you can see her initial!**

Standing by the crib.  (Yes, there is a big coffee stain on the Winnie the Pooh book.  My dad did that a long time ago.  haha)

The first thing I finished was arranging the peacock feathers in the vase.  I bought the feathers at Michael's.

I love peacock feathers!

My first sewing project was the lamp shade.  I found this one on Pinterest.  She used pre-ruffled ribbon.  I wasn't going to find anything in the colors I wanted, so I made my own ruffles....  LOTS of cutting, pressing, hemming, and ruffling.  I then glued the strips onto the lamp shade (with Travis' help).

I also found curtain inspiration on Pinterest.  I found several cute curtain ideas, but this one was my favorite.  She makes it sound super easy and like it was whipped together, but it took me FOREVER.  Again, LOTS of cutting, pressing, hemming, and ruffling.  I eventually finished it.

While I worked on the curtains, I figured out what to hang on the wall by the dresser.  I crocheted a couple of flowers to glue onto her initial (instructions for these flowers can be found here), and glued on a peacock feather.  I also printed and framed the following two pictures.

This picture was found online here.

I made this on Photoshop.

**Update: 7.10.13 - This picture has been added so you can see her initial!**

The last project I had was to sew a crib skirt.  I wanted to do a ruffly one similar to the lamp shade, but the way our crib is made, not all of the colors would have shown.  So I made up my own crib skirt.  I think it turned out pretty well!

From the front.

From the side.

  So there you go!  What do you think?  :)  Now all we're waiting for is the baby to decide to show up...