weekly bean update

and this week according to the bump...

holy naval orange batman!

holding that orange while taking these pictures was kinda surreal. it's so much more substantial then the fruits that came before. i guess that's how it will be from here on out. evan actually asked the other day how i was going to handle it when we got to the week of the watermelon, and honestly i have no idea!

i'm still feeling really good these days, with the exception of passing the heck out at the end of the day. i mean like no recollection of anything after my head hits that pillow. it's intense! the past two days i've been waking up quite a bit during the night though because it's starting to get a little odd figuring out a new favorite sleeping position. i've been a life long stomach sleeper and that is no longer an option. in addition to that i have to start practicing not sleeping on my back as well. i guess once i'm a bit larger there is a chance that your uterus can squish a big ol' artery when you lay on your back. so that leaves me with side sleeping, which is generally ok, but i have to switch sides often. just par for the course i suppose.

i'm kinda big time excited for this weekend. i purchased this little shed for our backyard, and this weekend evan and his bros will be assembling it for me (such an amazing fam i've married into). my plan is turn it into an outdoor workroom so that i can get most of my gear out of the house. i can make quite a mess in here, and with a little one on the way we need all the space we can get right now! annnnd, while the boys are doing that i think i'm going to paint the little beans room!!! i'm so stoked to get started on that, and painting is the necessary evil that must come first. oh and don't worry, i'll be very careful with lots of ventilation, and rest breaks mixed in there too. gotta do everything with extra caution these days :)

so hopefully all these plans will go off without a hitch and i'll have lots to share on monday. have a great weekend friends!!!

365 project

some of you may have already noticed the 365 box over on the sidebar there, but i've never mentioned anything about it. lemme tell you a bit what that's all about! on my birthday this year, march 28th, i started the 365 project. that involves taking one picture, everyday, for a year, to represent your past 365 days alive. today is day 110 and it's already like a blast from the past going back to first 20 or so days and seeing what was going on then. this is, for obvious reasons, a big year for us and i know i'll be so grateful when i've hit day 365 to have this little collection. here are a few of my favorites so far...

1/365- my 32nd birthday. so it begins

10/365- the day we got mirabelle. she was so tiny!!!

20/365- the day i saw my horse hook in Southern Living Magazine!

31/365- the day we found out that we're having a baby! i picked these few little flowers from the yard and just sat the pregnancy test next to them for evan to find when he got home from work. it was pretty exciting, emotional stuff.

71/365- mirabelles first vet visit. that face breaks my heart!

83/365- just a sweet moment with my two favorite boys!

89/365- the day our friends welcomed their twin baby girls into the world!

there are so many other pictures that just remind me exactly what i was doing on that day at that time. it's amazing how much one picture can just bring an entire day of memories right back to you.

anyone else ever do the 365 project? i would love to hear if you did anything special with the pictures afterwards. i'm thinking about getting these printed into a book so i can have my little collection all in one spot.

you can see all the pictures by either clicking the 365 box to the right, or by clicking HERE.

The Big Crafty sum up!

(above photo taken by my crafty bud ashley of this paper ship)

the big crafty was great this year! evan and i originally planned on heading to asheville saturday afternoon, staying over night, and doing the show on sunday. however i got a bit behind schedule with my prep work and decided it would be a better idea for us to just go on sunday morning. it was so much less stressful, and doing that also saved us the cost of a hotel and boarding the dogs for a night, so that kept my profits up. always a good thing!

it was a hot and muggy day, but that certainly didn't keep the shoppers away (hey, that rhymed!). i got to come back home with a lot less then what i went with, and for this preggo, lugging less things was happy news!

we started the day off by dropping off my stuff at the event, and then immediately headed across the street to The Green Sage for a bit of breakfast. evan got some vegan sausage biscuits and i got the vegan breakfast burrito, which by the way was THE BEST breakfast burrito i've ever had!

then with full bellies we headed back across the street to set up. i've used a number of different table setups in the past, but so far this one is easily my favorite. i worked out some of the placing of things the night before, so i got this all up and ready in about 40 mins. not too shabby!

bottle openers are always a big hit at shows i've noticed, so i always to try and stock up before hand. old cigar boxes make the perfect little display cases for them :)

about half an hour before it was pack up time evan hit his wall. i gave my helper permission to catch a few Z's behind my table while i handled the home stretch. by this point we were both exhausted, but he was doing the driving home so he got to score the nap.

we then celebrated my successful day with an amazing dinner at The Laughing Seed Cafe. we've been there for brunch before and it was fabulous, so i had high hopes for the dinner. let me tell you, it did not disappoint. everything is super fresh and absolutely delicious. after that we were ready to get our buns on the road and head on home.

overall it was a great day. i sold lots, ate great, and got to see some crafty friends. i will definitely be applying to this show again next year, and would absolutely recommend it to anyone else in the area for selling or even just some amazing shopping!

weekly bean update

hello second trimester!!!

and this week according to the bump...

lemons are my favorite thing in the whole wide world (well pretty much), so i'm pretty darn stoked to have my little bean being compared to one this week. is it wrong to want to eat your fruit baby? anywho... i've been feeling really great lately. no more morning nausea at all, and the afternoon zombie spells are a thing of the past... well, at least for now.

my belly seems to be feeling bigger by the day. suddenly it's looking like an actual preggo belly! you still wouldn't be able to tell just by looking at me (most of the time), but i think those days are coming to an end and i can't wait! i wanna waddle around, and be able to rub my belly in public and not have people think i'm just a wierdo.

after this weekends out of town craft show, evan and i will be getting down to business here on the home front. we've got a list a mile long of projects we need to finish (or start) before bean gets here. i've got the need to organize constantly and evan's going to be feeling the brunt of it... sorry darlin' :) i figure i have somewhere around 3 months of feeling great so now's the time to get those ducks in a row. i'm so excited to make over the nuggets rooms i could bust. we already know that we're going pretty gender neutral with the decor, and we'll be basing it on the montessori thoughts on children's room design. i'll be documenting that whole process too, so i'll share more about that as we move forward. exciting days ahead indeed!!!

have a great weekend friends!

weekly bean update

and this week according to the bump...

my goodness did this week ever fly by! i guess that's what happens when you spend most of your days out of town hangin' by a pool. man it was a good one!

well the bean is progressing along just lovely. we're at the end of the 1st trimester and now at the peach stage, which is funny because while in atlanta i was eating peaches like they were going out of style. i actually had 3 yesterday! the little nugget is also starting to push it's way forward and become a bit more noticeable these days. i can't wait until i actually look preggo and not just fat and bloated. it's a fine like between looking like you've just had a few too many beers, and looking like you're with child.

last night we went out to dinner with a few of our couple friends who've recently had children and it was comforting to see that people really can still socialize with the living, even after newly becoming parents. it's also really great that so many of our friends are now having kids and that we're not the first in the bunch. i would imagine that that's a hard spot to be in. so it's looking like our little bean will be happily surrounded by buddies, and as one of evans friends put it, kindergarten is going to get a whole lot cooler in about 5 years!