Oh yeah I wanted to share that it totally warms my heart that this little one is already so loved and has so many people excited for the arrival. I mainly want to brag on my husband and say how much joy it brings to me to see his excitement with the baby. He is genuinely is just excited to just have a baby that it didn't matter the gender just as long as it was healthy. Now that put it in perspective for me even though I have had a feeling it was a boy since shortly after we found out. He gets all smiley and kind of chuckles seeing my bump grow.... I think he really just wants to see how big it will get. I love it when he occasionally talks to "mini wheat" and rubs the belly, it is really sweat, cute and funny. I can not wait to see Scott interact with the baby. I know this is one loved little one and it is not even born yet.
I have several projects coming up that are exciting and I am looking forward to. The nursery is one and making over my armoire into a changing area for Mini Wheat. I also need to get my grandmothers glider recovered it was out in the rental and once it is not needed in the nursery it will be brought out into the house. I searched for weeks for a fabric that I liked and would be good if I ever needed it an nursery but that would work in other rooms of the house like our den. I found one and of course I had to scoop it up since there was not much left on the bolt. Hopefully there is enough to do the entire glider but I have picked out fabric for the back that will coordinate with the pattern in the front. Here is a sneak peak of my grandmother's glider and fabric that I love it is super comfy & the perfect height for me since she was also vertically challenged. I chose a solid grey linen fabric if needed for the back and sides possibly.
I bought a desk for our/my information center in the house, I may or may not paint it a different color or distress it. I have to pick it up in February sometime from Charlotte. I am excited to organize and make it a true place I can work and keep all our stuff. We needed a central location for stuff plus I love to organize, always had one that was neat and tidy at work. I love good bins and storage for things so we are going to paint the kitchen soon so I get to do my work space while we do that. Oh the wainscoting, dry erase and cork boards, places for mail, bills and cute hooks for keys plus a place to sit in a chair and blog...I can see it now. I would show you a picture of the desk but you will just have to tune in!
I also finally decided on a kitchen table that I wanted, my hubby said he could build it once I showed it to him. I found some a place that had cool reclaimed barn wood, river wood ( sinker logs that come out of the Cape Fear River locally here) they also have tons of other beautiful woods. We went on weekend to look at the barn wood and the river wood since I thought that would be cool to use local wood in the farm table I wanted plus the color in those are so cool. I wanted the look of old vintage wood planks on top and probably be able to paint the legs but wasn't 100% on that. The guys there gave us tons of ideas and well we went the total opposite way of what we went in with. I was excited that me and the hubs were making this cool piece of furniture but the more we talked to them and the choices being made it ends up we are going to have to have them make it for us. They will make the table top for sure with a place for us to put in legs or they may make them option 1- they make wooden legs that are built into the table option 2- they make concrete legs for the table, still debating what to do. I am leaning towards wooden legs although I love the look of wood and concrete together I think that it's to industrial for what I am going for plus the weight of that and the table would be so heavy. We choose the wood pieces they are sitting out in the garage until we are ready to have them build it. The pieces of wood are HUGE, knobby, spaulted and very rustic I LOVE them, I never thought I would say that or think that I would agree when someone said that is hot or sexy referring to a table. Here is a sneak peak of the table pieces it is two different species of the same kind of wood, these are just sections since the planks are so huge weigh at least 100+ pounds each. There are 3 pieces, 2 are bookends of each other. It will be a wide and heavy table that will be a family heirloom one day, I never thought we would pay that much for wood but it will be beautiful rustic, chic one of a kind farm table. I can't wait to get this finished and get some chair so we can finally sit at a table again.
these are the main pieces that are bookend, they will not be painted will have the wood finish one them, they are thicker in most places too
close up of the grain and knots
these are the 3 pieces standing up, this is for the extra planks that will be needed to make it wide enough.
I also have some blogs about pregnancy as this what is currently going on in my life. I will touch on things like our gender reveal, the mishaps with pregnancy and the lovely changes it brings plus a few other topics.
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