Our Spot: Holiday Greetings

Friday, December 19, 2008

Holiday Greetings

I had a good doctor's apointment two weeks ago (yes I am that behind on things). The baby measured between 12w 2d and 12w 4 days bumping my due date up to the mid june range. Our doctor explained that the baby is developed enough that you could almost do the complete anatomical exam, he pointed out the four chambers of the heart, the halves of the brain, the organs, bladder...I know he also looked for gender but said nothing and I am not ready to hear what it is yet anyway so I didn't ask. THAT apointment is February 3rd. I checked the Chinese birth chart, out of curiosity, it said it'll be a girl. Blow on the dice everybody, "Come on girl!"

6 comments:

kg said...: Aren't Chinese birth charts always right? :) Either way we sure know he/she will be VERY cute!!!; December 19, 2008 at 2:02 PM
Wendy said...: First of all, love the family pictures! Second, both of my girls were correct on the chinese birth chart, so hopefully it's right with you. I'll keep my fingers crossed for a girl.; December 19, 2008 at 2:08 PM
Michelle said...: Congratulations! That's exciting news Amy and Lans! Cute cute profile of the babe.; December 19, 2008 at 2:14 PM
Ambrose Ambush said...: 1st... I love the pics!!! and 2nd A girl would look very nice in your already beautiful family!; December 19, 2008 at 9:15 PM
Tendra said...: Congratulations Amy! I love your family pics.; December 21, 2008 at 10:42 PM
RaCHELLE HuRD said...: i will think happy girl thoughts for you!!! they worked for me. ;) of course three little boys would be a BLAST!; January 15, 2009 at 8:52 PM

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Fall Felt Flower Wreath
Try this tutorial site for how to make the felt flower.
http://junepfaffdaley.blogspot.com/2009/09/sweet-sweater-rosettes.html (I changed part of this method, see below)

Items Needed:
12" Styrofoam wreath
20 - 24 felt sheets from the craft store
fabric scissors
glue gun (with plenty of sticks)
berry sprigs, garland, whatever you can find for cheep

Note on flowers: After cutting the spiral I rolled my flower up with out glueing. I added a dab of hot-melt at the end. I did not put a felt circle bottom on the flower either. I just went with gusto on the glue and stuck it to the wreath ;) That's crafting my way.

Method: First I cut two and a half of my felt sheets into one inch strips. Spiraling the strips around my wreath I glued them to the styrofoam surface. Next I went to work on the flowers.

For the Three largest flowers I simply cut the spiral and then loosily "swirled" it and added hot-melt wherever needed. I cut three sizes of flowers (5 in, 4in, and 2 in) That made something like 8 large, 12 medium, and a gazillion small flowers (don't worry you'll need them). After making all my flowers I went about arranging them. That's the hardest part for me. AND the nice part for you since you can put them anywhere you want. In the end I decided I wanted My focal spot to be the bottom right "corner" of the wreath.

I started with gluing the three large flowers first. I then snipped off a few berry's and glued them in the centers. Then I just worked out from there, using the 5in flowers to get me going out away from the focal flowers. Because I used five colors in my wreath (sage green, berry, tan, chocolate, and mustard) I tried to not only work with the right size where I needed it but also tried not to have the same color ever touching. With five colors it was easier to accomplish this than I thought. One thing I learned was to periodically lift my project up to make sure I was covering enough surface area that I didn't see the skin of on the inside or the outside of the wreath.

Voila! Ready to hang.