Getting Ready for Baby

The nesting instinct hit hard this week in two ways. First, I came home one day and really wanted to finish a project I had started about a year ago involving a book shelf. We had gotten some chip board to possibly use for a train layout but decided to use some better wood instead (more on the train layout another time). With this extra wood lying around I decided we could use some more bookshelves and might as well use the chip board since we had it. I made a small TV/night stand with some of it and still had some left over for a medium sized 3 foot tall bookshelf. Once I had build the shelves I went about trying to cover their ugliness. (The shelves looked ok but that chip board was really hideous and somewhat splintery.) I first attempted this by using some left over paint to smother the TV stand with a pale yellow. This worked at cutting down the splinters but it was still pretty hideous. I figured this was good enough for the stand since it is small and covered by TV stuff, but I needed a different plan for the bookshelf. Then it hit me. Upholster it! Brian and I picked out some fabric we both liked and in June, while Brian was on a business trip, I got the fabric when it went on sale. I intended to upholster it during the summer, but lack of tools, starting a new job and getting pregnant put it on hold--until this last week. That nesting instinct really got me. Four hours and 300+ staples later the finished product was glorious! I am very proud of my upholstered Bookshelf!





The second hit of nesting swarmed both Brian and I on President's day--the day that marked 3 weeks to my due date. We realized we didn't have much of what we needed for baby and well, after a day of shopping (a good 6 hours or so) the following was the result.

Let's just say we are ready for baby now :)