Baby Room feedback

I have been enjoying the creativity that comes with planning our baby girl's room. There is something about gathering all the elements that is really fun for me. I FINALLY found a rug that I love when I was in Wichita last weekend. It fit the 'look' I was going for perfectly. The only things we don't have on hand so far are the glider and other accent pieces which we will probably get closer to when baby comes. I love that most of our furniture is from family...gives the room a sentimental touch. The chifforobe (fancy word that means a dresser than has drawers and a place to hang things) was my mothers, and mine, now will be our daughters. It has been in many garages and been revived many times. It was yellow before my dad and I refinished it to the current color many years ago. The crib was at B's mothers house for when she watched her grandchildren. We inherited it a few years back. So many memories, spring from these material things. I love thinking that when I am rocking our little girl that I will look around the room and history might speak. Maybe I will even pray some of the same prayers that mothers and grandmothers prayed. There is one element that I need help with, paint color: What color should we paint the room? Do you like the blue, pink or yellow version? Or do you have another idea I can try? I worked up these inspiration boards to lay everything out visually. I have been having fun with photoshop elements and learning a lot in the process.

Baby update

Baby Watson. She is really growing. I am feeling her move like crazy and the ultrasound tech had a hard time getting her into the right position. We really love this little one and are getting excited to prepare a room for her. Here are some sono pics as well as the first belly shot. I really have done a horrible job of keeping up on this. Thanks C for the shirt. Oh and I am pretty sure we have a name (at least that we have been trying out and sticking with for the past 2-3 weeks). If you want to know email me or facebook message me or something. We aren't keeping it a secret, just not quite ready to post it here.

Baby at 21 weeks

Me at 21.5 weeks
(for some reason feeling insecure/awkward about posting this 'body shot')

Lessons through creativity

Yesterday I had a TON of creative energy. I have had ideas for all sorts of things for the last couple of weeks. I had some time yesterday and pulled out the sewing machine. I think the last time I blogged about sewing I whined about it being in need of repair. I was really determined to try and see if I could see what the problem was, fix it, and start my sewing projects. The machine was doing the same thing (the top thread was just looping too many times and left a mess on the underside of the fabric). My poor hubby was working from home and heard all of my verbal frustrations...."why am I being thwarted in my creativity?, I just want to sew something!, No, not again!" You get the idea. My hubby came out made sure I was okay asked if he could help. I was not wanting help, I had done all that was to be done and things were still not working perfectly. He slowly walked back to his office. I was unstoppable in wanting to create something. I wanted to have something to show for energy within, the time spent fiddling with the silly machine. I kept going knowing that the product would have flaws, knowing I could have completed much more with a functional tool. I did complete the 2 things that I had wanted to make for our sweet baby girl. I think they are sweet and she will enjoy playing with them. I just don't like that the positive creative energy that started the whole process turned negative when things did not work right. I think it is fair to say that I feel that a lot in life as well. I feel really positive toward ____ and when things don't seem to be going according to plan, if there is proverbial repair that needs to be made I get discouraged, negative thinking creeps in, I don't believe the best about myself and others. I really need God's help in this area of my life. I need to be willing to ask for help. I need to quit sometimes, to step back to get things 'repaired' to yield a better end result. On a practical level, I will be taking the sewing machine to get repaired soon.