by Claire on January 9, 2010
Thursday night, my youngest (the mommy to be) and I went up to my oldest daughter’s house and we got the party favors ready for the baby shower. What a fun time that was. When my first grandson was born, we spent time at my house making candles. I remember my son-in-law and daughter working hard in the kitchen actually melting the wax, adding the scents and coloring, and pouring into something like 4o little candle jars with lids. My house smelled great for days.
Since that was such a hit, we did something similar for this daughter’s shower. I was looking everywhere for pink candles and even with all the Valentine’s stuff out, I couldn’t find what I wanted at a cheap price. We found these boxes of vanilla-ish candles in packs of 12 for $7.99. Gotta love that. Cheaper than the $1.00 ones I was hoping to find at Wally World (aka WalMart). Then my oldest and I decided that we’d tie tulle and ribbon around them. She tested it out of Friday. Fail. We also didn’t have a hot glue gun, so we tried crafter glue – fail. We tried puffy paint – fail. Everything we had on hand, nothing worked.
So, my sweet son-in-law headed out to Fred Meyer and picked us up a hot glue gun. Now we were in biz. Sweet!
All the ribbon and charms prepped, waiting for the glue gun.
A close-up of the candle and charms.
The mommy-to-be stamping cards for the party.
Some of the party favors all wrapped up.
And the final favors all set out at the shower.
(More shower info to come in my next post.)
And just some fun family pics. Me and my oldest grandson.
The boys eating their dinner at the “kids table” because we took over the main dining table with our craftiness.
What a cute little impish look. His newest thing is sticking his tongue halfway out at me. Stinker!
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party favors,
pregnancy
by Claire on October 28, 2009
I love Twitter and Facebook because it gives me a chance to blurt out whatever it is I’m thinking about at that very moment. Great for my ADD. Lousy for blog writing. So, since I like alliteration (the writer in me) I came up with this title to tell y’all what’s on my mind.
Got to see baby Laila through an ultrasound yesterday at the perinatologist. My daughter’s pregnancy is now coming along just fine and so far, the earlier worries of her pregnancy have dissipated. Baby is progressing “perfectly” according to the doctor, heartbeat is strong, weight is good, and everything is looking right on cue for 21 weeks. We tried hard to get some good 3D pictures, but Laila was moving a LOT and it was difficult. Now, this picture may look strange to many, but to me, she looks totally adorable. I can see the button nose, can’t you?
My favorite part was when the ultrasound tech said “You gotta be quick to catch her.” You think maybe that was a prophetic statement for when she starts crawling or walking?
It still feels funny around here not to have our kitty Merlin. My daughter is understandably still distraught, but it’s easing somewhat. The other two cats have been velcro kitties toward me. I look around different places in the home and I expect to see Merlin sprawled out somewhere and he’s not, and when I remember what happened I get this little catch in my heart and a twinge of sadness. I suspect that will take a long time – if ever – to go away.
My oldest daughter is crocheting up a storm and I’m so proud of her. She’s become this cute little crafter with ideas popping up all over the place, just like her mommy. Yup, I’m prouder than proud. And she does a great job too – she’s going to be selling her creations to make some extra pocket money. (And if you’re interested in something, just let me know – I’ll hook you right up with her. She’ll be getting a website as soon as she comes up with a name for her little business.)
(Child’s hat)
(Set of 3 washcloths)
Saturday is Halloween and I have no costume. No time to sew one, and I’m not going to pay $40 for a store-bought one. I do have a beautiful black velvet cape, a feather boa, and a black witch hat. Any ideas?
I’m ticked off at myself for getting lax with my Weight Watchers program. This week I gained 2 pounds. The same 2 pounds I’ve been losing and gaining for the last 2 months. This is seriously irritating me and I’m stubborn enough to not let it go further. So I’m back focused, tracking, and mostly picking up my activity level. I’m going to be training for another run in December – I’ll tell you about that in a separate post – and hopefully this will melt the weight off faster and I’ll hit goal by the end of the year. My biggest obstacle right now is fatigue. I’m just tired all the time. Some of this is fibromyalgia, some is stress, and some is just plain not enough sleep. So I’m working on that too.
Finally, I’m grateful to have a job. I’m grateful for a lot of things in my life, but primarily that. My new manager on this contract – who I’ve worked with before – sent me a message yesterday that she was going to assign me some work and wanted to let me know in advance so I wouldn’t freak out. I guaranteed her it takes a lot more than a work assignment to freak me out. If she asked me to come in and wash her windows or get her her coffee, I’d do it. No joke. I’m happy to have the income and when I see my friends who have been unemployed for a year, I am doubly grateful.
Happy Wednesday everyone!
Tagged as:
crafts,
crochet,
employment,
Halloween,
holidays,
pregnancy,
ultrasounds,
unemployment,
weight gain,
Weight Watchers
(More shower info to come in my next post.) 
What a cute little impish look. His newest thing is sticking his tongue halfway out at me. Stinker! 
