Our Spot: Today's the BIG DAY!

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Today's the BIG DAY!

1:30 today we take a little peek at baby #3! First and foremost we hope this little baby's body is healthy and functioning properly, at least as far as the Dr. can tell. Secondly, we hope we can tell if it's a boy or girl. Cross your finger's that baby is up for a cooperative photo shoot. Thirdly, we hope it's a girl. But if it's a boy I've mentally prepared my pros vs. cons and know there will be many up side's to another boy, I'll just need the next four months to get over the dissapointment. Sad but true, I'm only human. At this very moment 8:54 am I am most nervous about my response in the Dr. office if it is a boy. I hope I don't fall apart right in front of everyone. Wish us LUCK! ;)

2 comments:

Michelle said...: How fun. We have our ultrasound appointment today too, at 1. I'll be sending girl vibes your way and crossing my fingers! Good luck with everything. We're excited to see pics of the cute baby.; February 3, 2009 at 9:17 AM
kg said...: Good luck! No matter what it will be wonderful!!! A tiny snuggly baby in your arms so very soon!!! I'm crossing my fingers for all of what you mentioned!; February 3, 2009 at 9:26 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.