Labor Day provided ample time to accomplish some much needed catching up around the house, as I'm sure it did for many of you. Tim has been on a mission all summer to get every piece of trim and doors painted from the difficult-to-work-with taupe to a nice crisp white. While this has not been fully completed, the light is at the end of the tunnel. He was momentarily side railed by his now third trimester ridden wife to get nursery furniture painted. We are reusing a book case and chest of drawers that have been around since the beginning of, well, me. The chest of drawers has been a few different colors but my wonderful husband sanded and puttied and beautifully restored it to the sweet off-white of my childhood. Here is the finished product along with the beginnings of some nursery decor:
You may reasonably ask , "Well, what are you doing during all of this?" To that, I will answer simply, "Home improvement!" Either by way of shopping or craft projects of my own. I'm sure many of you are as obsessed with the website
Pinterest as I am and know that you can quickly become inspired and sucked into all the good intentions you have for your home/life/vacations/etc. While collecting ideas and decor for the nursery, I have also been searching the just-the-right-thing to decorate the rest of the house. The holidays always stump me because I struggle in my picky-ness to find things like wreathes and such to hang on the front door. I was recently inspired by something on
Pinterest and created one for our front door this weekend as well. Tim has very little interest in these things so you now will have to endure any craft projects this nesting mama insists taking on!
In other, much bigger (literally and figuratively) news, I am now officially in the third and LAST trimester of B.B.'s gestation! So far, the greatest excitement has been the changing of my internal organs from life-supporting organs to boxing bags and/or trampolines for our LO to enjoy. He/She really put on a show Monday night at around 1:30 am. Training...I know!
