Passing time and a Baby bump

I have been feeling a bit anxious lately. I am fortunate enough to not have to deal with anxiety on a regular basis. For some reason pregnancy, especially the third trimester brings it on for me. I can only describe the feeling as needing to be somewhere and I am running late, only I have nowhere to be. Kind of a crawling out of my skin type feeling.

So I have to find ways(projects) to pass this feeling by. After cleaning the house top to bottom my "project" of the day today was taking the couch covers off the cushions and washing them along with the couch pillows. While I was at it I vacuumed under the cushions which is a chore that gets done far less than it should. I guess some of this could be considered nesting, but I'm thinking I need to learn yoga or something to get rid of this anxiousness I have got going on.

Since I haven't really posted any belly pictures yet, here ya go....

I am at 30 weeks now and can't believe how fast time is flying by me.



Some more of my projects have included this little baby car seat cover. I am thinking for never sewing in my life until this year, I have really got use out of my black Friday sewing machine deal. I'm not going to pretend that if you look close your not going to find imperfections, but I am happy with it and plus it was made with love.I decided to recover my kitchen chairs. These were some of the beauty's that I inherited when I married Jay. Since we were on the "older" side according to Utah standards when we got married, we had quite the collection of furniture and other house hold goods. Soon after we got married and I came home from living in Boise we decided that we didn't need double of everything. All my stuff was poor college student quality and hand me downs, so we had ourselves a yard sale and dumped all my stuff.

Back to the chairs. This is the second time I have recovered them. And when I say I what I really mean to say is WE. I couldn't do it without Jays help. The handheld staple guns thing is a little heavy duty for me to operate, mostly it just hurts my hand. So I cut the material and pull while he staples. I went with red the first time because my kitchen needed a little color. I liked the color that they added. But this time around the only thing I was going on is the price of the material, it was a great price.

Since Brylee is a big girl and gets to eat at the table with us every meal, these chairs have really taken a beating. In other words there were spills and food stains on all of them because Brylee likes to switch where she sits everyday. Lets just say, now with the new covers she has a designated seat and it is always covered with a towel.
I don't necessarily think they look ground breakingly better, but I do know that they feel much newer/cleaner and it is a nice update.


Brylee has been doing some projects of her own. Lets call them art projects and they make me extremely proud of her when she comes to show them to me. She has learned how to draw circles and can even draw mickey mouse by herself. I really need a new place to store the pens, because this obviously isn't working out for me.

My Halloween wreath. I was introduced to the beautiful life of yard sales at the end of the summer. I am in love with it and can't wait to do it again next season. You can't imagine the deals that you can come across at a yard sale. I highly recommend it. So I got a bunch of wreaths for 50 cents a piece. Spray painted them black and added a few sticks from the yard. A trip to the dollar store and you got yourself a holiday wreath. If nothing else, it was fun making it.Brylee and I made the sugar cookie recipe that I grew up making with my mom. Most of the time was spent eating the dough for her, but I let her because that is what I remember doing when I was "helping" my mom too. I think she loved it and I know that I did.

It's a little late but I will post some Halloween pictures anyway. My cute little cowgirl had a great time trick or treating this year. She got lots of treats and looked really adorable doing it
One last project was this fun little pregnancy shirt. I saw it on a friends blog(thanks again KW!) a few years ago and loved the idea. If you have never used freezer paper as a stencil, google it. It is way easy and much cheaper than if I would have purchased the shirt online. Oh and I can't forget the beautiful pregnant girl beside of me, my sister in law Candice and I are about 4 or 5 weeks apart. She is also expecting a little girl and I am way excited that they will be so close growing up.
My mom took us girls and the Grands to Disney on Ice. It was really fun and Brylee really enjoyed it. She got a little ancy at the end but considering it was her nap time she did really good.

I got her home, took her shoes off and she was literally out. What a fun day!