Lessons from this week + a few nursery pics

1. Bluebell is still my favorite ice cream. #1 - Mocha Madness. #2 - Moolineum Crunch. YUM-O. This is also helping Operation: Get Fatty continue at a successful rate.


2. Water towers are "So Mid-West"  -Mathew Good.   Apparently my husband is an expert on water towers?! I learned all about the difference between water towers and resevours (I can't even spell the silly word)  and why the later is better. I thought every town had water towers? Apparently not.


3. The Hurt Locker won picture of the year due to political reasons not because it's an amazing movie. Good movie - definitely NOT picture of the year. Just my opinion.


4. Sewing machines and B. Good do NOT get along. This is not a new lesson - just reiterated from childhood. After not being able to rethread my stupid needle that wouldn't stay threaded some 37 times this week, I told my mom to take home the stupid sewing machine and not leave it here with me.


5. My mom, on the other hand, continues to dazzle me with her sewing skills. She is amazing. Curtains from scratch - no pattern. Enough said.


6. People like to stare at pregnant women. I often wonder what they are thinking...but I don't think that I really want to know.


Speaking of #4 & 5, here are a few pics of what my mom and I accomplished during spring break. It was pretty much a working break - sun up to sun down each day. In short we painted, shampooed carpets,  rearranged furniture, designed & sewed nursery bedding (including a bumper, dust ruffle, glider cushions, quilt & curtains), embroidered baby blankets, made WAY too many trips to Hobby Lobby and got ready to welcome a baby girl into the Good home. 

new guest bedroom color kind of a butter yellow (suede finish, ralph lauren)

Baby Hope's room - Ready for furniture! 

curtains made from scratch

bumper & dust ruffle

quilt for baby hope - still a work in progress

remember the crackled letters? Here's the final product!