Night Shift

The night shift. I've never worked late at night before and you know, it is not so bad if you go to bed early. I just relieved Dear Hubby from his shift which started around 9pm last night. It is 2:30 am now. Dear Bebe is sound asleep. She will probably wake up now since I decided to try a blog update. If so, I am ready. This is one of the lessons I've learned. What I need or want, not important right now. I always knew this but you just don't LEARN it until you are the parent.

Here is a sweet sign I made for her room while I was in the "good phase" of pregnancy, you know months 5 and 6. It is an old barn board Dear Hubby had salvaged from an area demolition. I have to admit, I saw one on another gal's website called the Bella Cottage (BEAUTIFUL THINGS!) and I decided to try my own version in colors to match the nursery. I think it turned out ok! "My Sweet Baby" couldn't have turned out more true. Well, except we aren't French.

And I also wanted to point out that the polka dot border is not paper...it is handpainted by Dear Hubs. YES, he splotched each one on by hand...using a shoe shine kit sponge!

I got really lucky and found a little porcelain tea set which mimics Momma's LuRay dinnerware. I posted about it back in June but never led on to why I wanted it so badly!

Here's my chandelier project I kept working on. I still haven't trimmed the lampshades...sigh. I guess at this point I never will????

I also like this hat rack...it was in our laundry room/ half bath and was dark brown. During our redecoration this summer we decided it worked well in the nursery as a little "let's play dress up" area. Okay, so it's mostly for me to look at right now...but I just love it. Dear Hubby came home with the little dress from a store that was going out of business. Right now she is too tiny to fit into it but I'm sure many more late night feedings will help her to grow quickly.

And my dark circles will be almost permanent by then. But, it's all worth it.