Custom shelves

We saw these shelves back when we were still brainstorming our room.  My hubby, being the awesome handyman that he is, decided to take a crack at it. We are pretty excited with the result.

The unpainted shelf



The finished, painted shelf! I love it.   You can also get a peek at the lamp that my sister in law made for us.  She is a potter, and special made the Bob-omb for us.  And then some of the plushies that our best friends got for us. 



Oh, and a bump shot. 4 weeks!

Happy Valentine's Day

It's Valentine's day and time for a bump picture.

34 weeks

I had both of my baby showers and we are now swimming in baby items. Below, you can see an assortment of the books and such.

I just love the Wiggler! Just don't knock his hat off. :)

We also got our rocking chair and got the curtains up.

Things are almost done now! Hard to believe that we will have our baby boy in a little over a month.

A blast from the past

Given the pixelated nature of the Mario games, we decided that it would be very easy to do something like today's project. We both used to make these little plastic figures. You know...the ones where you put the plastic beads on a peg board and then iron them so that they melt together. We figured that they would make a good mobile or something, so we got a giant bucket of the beads, printed out inspiration pictures, and set to work. I think they turned out awesome. What do you think?

Working on the green.

Working on the red.

Hubby made the green and I made the red. He got a little iron happy.

The moon!



An assortment of the figures we made. Now to figure out how to use them.

Italian Plumbers Beware

I decided to forge ahead and finish the plant today.  Maybe it doesn't seem like much, but I am going to be having a baby in less than two months. Yikes! I better enlist all the help I can get.

As you can see, the cats are hard at work...supervising?



Outlining...this is one of the most frustrating things for a perfectionist.




Little Mario's closet.









Oh look! Luna cat has decided to wake up and help now.



The final product! What do you think? I love it!

Piranah Plant

Today, I started on the Piranah plant. Loving it much more than the original toadstool.

Wow...it's almost as tall as me.

Mural day 8

What a beautiful, crisp day. A view out of our window this morning.

We decided what to do on this wall. We are going to paint over the toadstool segment. In its place, a yellow pipe and a piranha plant will grace the wall. Below is a good start to the yellow pipe.

We are also putting a Yoshi Berry on the bush.

Here is the finished pipe.

And the finished berry.

Ice Levels

First, a bump picture. 32 weeks. Only 8 to go!


 So, we had a crazy ice storm. It's like one of the ice worlds from Mario out there. Everything is covered in a beautiful layer of ice. It's also slicker than snot, and if you get going to fast, you're likely to fall.  Below are a couple of shots I (VERY carefully) captured in the yard.




 
 
 

Our original plan was to put a toadstool ledge (a la Super Mario 1) on the two walls of this corner. We got as far as you see it below. The whole thing is outlined in pencil, which you can't see very well in the picture. But once we started to paint it in, we both decided that we didn't like it. So we decided to scrap it. But not before we took a picture.



 

 Then it was time for a quick snack. Mmm...brownie sundaes. I brought out the Valentines day sprinkles a bit early.


 

A view of the other side of the room. I put a cloud up, but haven't finished the eyes.  You can also see the crib. It is filling up with goodies from our fantastic friends.