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Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Kicking and Squirming

Just a little baby note: Plenty of kicking and squirming happening the last three days. I was starting to get a bit concerned since I felt the boys as early as 14 weeks! I'm at 18 and there just hasn't been enough movement to really say, yes I feel the baby move. But now I can and I am much relieved...accept with this new movement comes more new movement...I refer to it as the POOCH and POP! I'm not into taking pictures of my "growing body" but let's just say this term refers to the WHOLE anterior. Also the girl who cut my hair this past week asked me if I've ever done the needle test. I tried once but couldn't figure it out. She said she loved doing it and told me before I leave she was getting a needle to try it out...she knows I'm hoping for a girl. So...there were bunches of circles, lines, and mystery movements that she could not distinguish. Neither can I so I can't say the needle test works....because I'm not having like 8 children or somehthing crazy like that. Watch my next and LAST pregnancy will deliver quads and makes me eat my words.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...: Jill's original blog does not exist, but her mountaincreekfoto.blogspot.com is now her working blog (I think that's the link), and you can access the link from my blog. Glad you found me too!!; January 20, 2009 at 7:51 PM
Wendy said...: It's so exciting when you finally feel them. I'm crossing my fingers for a girl!; January 23, 2009 at 2:05 PM
RaCHELLE HuRD said...: the needle, and pendulum, and other "voodoo" tricks as i call them didn't work for me! haha.. probably because i didn't BELIEVE. :) my dr, however did guess that she was a girl after listening to her first heart beat. 50/50 chance, right?; January 26, 2009 at 8:25 AM

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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.