4th of July

Need something for your adorable baby girl to wear for The 4th of July?  So did I.  I made this.  It's NO SEW.  It took about 15 minutes minus drying times.  

Here is what you need:

Fabric Glue

Red Grosgrain Ribbon

Blue Grosgrain Ribbon with white dots

Scissors 

Binder Clips

Onesie

 Cut the ribbon to your sizes.  The blue ribbon will be looped.

Here is how to loop the ribbon.  

Binder clip it to stay.  Let it DRY!

Glue all the pieces in place.  Let it dry.  Pictures are worth a thousand words so I feel like it's in no need of much explanation!

Gentry has her 4th outfit ready!

Gentry's Room

This is Gentry.  She is our beautiful daughter.

Welcome to Gentry's gender neutral room.

This is her crib.  Thanks Mom and Dad for her pretty white crib!  My mom made all of her bedding!  Thank you Pinterest for the tissue paper pom poms!  I made the Winnie the Pooh quote for my preschool classroom and once I cleaned it out at the end of the school year I put it in her room!

Mom did her curtain and underneath the window is the missing book sling!  It's being modified.  Thanks Mom for making it and thank you Pinterest for the idea!  The rocking chair was Carl's when he was a boy!

The cool thing to note here is the hat box with the big G.  It was made by Mrs. Billie Tillis!  

Here is my old dresser and her new diaper changing table.  The shiny 'G' is again from Pinterest!  It is amazing how quickly pink infiltrated the "neutral" nursery!

The table used to be my changing table for my baby dolls when I was a kiddo.  I painted it blue.  The rocking chair is the same chair my Mom was rocked in as an infant!  Mom made the blanket and it has animals in all different bright fun colors.  I accented the room with metal.  You can see with her toy bucket and fun lamp.  The picture frame on the left of the lamp has her ultrasound picture (Thanks Andrea and Justin for the frame!)  and the one on the right has the saying from her shower.

I made these animal prints just the other day.  I am pretty proud of myself!

This is another Billie Tillis creation!  It is her hospital wreath!  It received a crazy amounts of compliments!

 Once again here is more Pinterest inspired art.  I just used my Mom's handy dandy Cricut.  The prints on the right I bought from Etsy.com.  Not so much happy with the quality for what I paid for them but I will put them up by the changing table once I go out into the world and buy picture hangers.  

I am pretty proud of Miss Gentry's room!  Now I just can't wait until she sleeps in it!

1 week until June 1st

We are a week away from the big due date!  I can't believe it!  I never thought the day would come and now we are staring at it!  

The last 20 weeks since I've updated have been pretty wonderful.  Sure I still occasionally throw up but in general I am pretty comfortable.  My biggest complaints are big feet and heartburn.  I am still pretty amazed at what is going on inside of my body.  Every jab and turn is pretty amazing.  She is a pretty chill kid.  In fact I've only really felt her moving a lot in the last few weeks.  My Dr. says that's an indication of the type of personality Gentry will be.  I am totally OK with having a laid back kiddo and I am hoping he is right!  


I went to the Dr. today and he said everything looks great.  Gentry is rocking along with a heart rate of 154.  My blood pressure is great.  I have gained about 8lbs for the whole pregnancy and he said most of that is fluid in my legs.  I have been 80% effaced for 3 weeks at least but my cervix hasn't dilated at all.  He did say she is defiantly head down but hasn't dropped at all!  The plan is just to wait until she is ready.  He won't let me go past 41 weeks so it looks like at the latest she will be here in 2 weeks.  I am just praying it's naturally!


Tonight I went on a walk.  I am currently drinking raspberry leaf tea in hopes to coax G out before the Dr. makes her leave!  


In other baby related news, I have not posted any pictures of her nursery because it's not done. I want to wait until it's complete!  My mom did a fabulous job making her crib blanket, bumpers, a diaper holder, a crib organizer and plenty other awesome things like owl taggies and flannel wipes.  I just ordered the art for her room and it's being shipped as we speak!  I am also in the process of making pom poms for her room as an alternative to a mobile.  Her room is pretty gender neutral but all you have to do is open her closet and you know I am having a girl!  She has been so blessed with clothes it's overwhelming!  I plan on changing her every hour for the first 3 months in order to make sure she wears everything!  


It's time for me to have my nightly ice cream!  


We will let you know when Gentry Reaven makes her arrival!  

Counting on Spring to Come Again

My friends Bevin and Dan got married in December and when the reception was over her mom told us to PLEASE take any of the arrangements. The wedding was beautifully decorated in what I would call a rustic Christmas wedding. Burlap squares covered the tables and I gathered them up not wanting them to go to waste. I didn't know what I was going to do with them until I stumbled upon this blog.

I thought..."Hey, I can do that." So I did. Just in my style. I bought a straw wreath to cover (3.99) and I used fabric I already had. This wreath cost me 4 dollars! I love it and can't wait until spring to put on my front door!