The Christmas Story

Praying that you all experience and enjoy God's gift of love in a new and real way! Merry Christmas!

xox m.

Oh Holy Night

Always love this song, and Carrie Underwood does is well!

xox m.

List Is Getting Shorter

So does that means the baby is coming soon then? Actually I am just on a kick to get things done and ready for the big day.

There are now 44 items (up from 40) on the list and items have been getting crossed off left and right.

1. paint nursery - thanks MIL!

2. hang crown molding

6. make crib bedding - thanks again to the MIL for that one ;)
7. Find a crib that we like.
8. Make Christmas Tree skirt If you missed it, check it out here!
10. decorated house for Christmas
14. find a rug for the babies room - You can view here.
16. Power wash the side of the house.
32. create Christmas card and send out - WahoO! I didn't think I would make it in time, but I did! Here are a few photos that my brother took from Thanksgiving. He is an amazing photographer and I am so happy he took these for us. Also if you did not get a x-mas card from us, I apologize. Let me know if you would like one next year and I would be MORE than happy to send you one from the Bach's (family of 3+one fur puppy!)

40. Make baby sleepers.

And the most recent check off was #33. Make 2010 Christmas Card Book. I even made this years 2011, so I am on top of my game!

Next up on the list? Figuring out the nursery lighting, closet organizer and possibly even starting on the baby book! EAK! :)

xox m.

It's Looking Like Christmas

Over the weekend we....

• Had our family Christmas photos taken by my awesome brother who was in town for Thanksgiving.
• Steve hung Christmas lights and we put up our first 'savings' Christmas tree (paired with the tree skirt and all!)
• And Steve hung the crown molding in the nursery. :)

Why do I call it a 'savings' tree? Well one day we want to get a nice 12 foot tree that fits right in front of our window. Being that these huge trees cost a pretty penny we opted out to purchasing one this year, and will wait till our wee one can get excited about Christmas to get the real deal. So last year about 2 weeks after Christmas I purchased this tree from Walmart for a crisp $5 bill. Then I went shopping for more deals on ornaments, tree topper and lights from places like Michales, Hobby Lobby and Meijer. We weren't sure how it was all going to look put together, but we think it fits perfectly for us this year.

xo m.

Pinterest

Have you heard about Pinterst? Do you Pin?

This is my Pinterest

Well for those of you who have yet to hear of Pinterest....

Pinterest is a virtual pinboard. Pinterest lets you organize and share all the beautiful things you find on the web. I used to see a photo on the web and I would save it to a folder on my computer, but I could never remember where I found that photo. Well Pinterest lets you remember where you found the image so you always give credit and have a reference. Love that!

So one of my pinboards is dedicated to DYI crafts and ideas that I would like to test out one day. I always say I need to cut out time to actually try one of this 'pins' and guess what.... I did it!! And I am really excited about it.

So here is the photo I 'pinned' to my DYI someday board.



And then I found that the girl who originally pinned this image had a tutorial on her blog, The Johnstons, on how to make one (which was awesome - and this girl is simply adorable to top it off!). Then I found the original version from HGTV, and kind of mixed the two tutorials to create my own skirt!

Here was my trial:

I had left over fabric (muslin) and crossed my fingers I had enough by the end of the skirt.
Then I purchased a $5 Christmas tree skirt from Meijer (plain white with red/white trim).
I had glue gun & sticks, mat board, and rotary cutter.


Time to start!

I cut 3 inch strips of my muslin until I had a fairly good stack. (In the end I actually only needed to cut out 7 more strips - hows that for luck!)

Then I started hot gluing the fabric to the outside of the skirt, while adding the ruffle fold every so often. I really didn't measure the distance or the width of the ruffle.... I just did what I felt was fair.

This was a pretty $5 tree skirt right? HA!

Then I just kept gluing and folding, gluing and folding....until I got to the top of the skirt.

By the end of the skirt I had just enough fabric left from my last strip and make 3 ties to connect the skirt when it goes around the tree. 

And WAHM.....

Folks, I made a Christmas Tree Skirt from my DYI pinboard from Pinterest, and I think it turned out pretty well! (insert very big smile face here - and a check off my to do list before the baby comes).

Interested in pinning to your own boards? Let me know and I'll send you an invite and then we can follow each others pins!! :)





xox m.

A Child is Born

xox m.

A Social Network Christmas

Found this video via Facebook.... you should watch it. It's pretty awesome!


xox m.