A baby in October!

Instead of November! Well, my baby had a mind of it's own and decided to enter the world a few weeks early (about 5 weeks). Early last Thursday morning (just before 3 am) I woke up as my water broke and we rushed to the hospital. I was supposed to have a planned c-section so we did not hang around and wait for my contractions to start. 3 hours later my baby boy was born. He's in NICU now, trying to gain weight and control his body temperature. I got out of the hospital on Sunday, could have gone home on Saturday, that's how great my recovery has been. I'm doing good as long as I take it slow. I spend about 4 hours a day at NICU with my son, even if he's just sleeping, I just want to be there, I just bring my knitting with me.

Enough of the chit chat, here are a couple of pics of my little prince, Theodor Jesse

This one was taken during the weekend, he had pulled his oxygen out and pulled his hat off.

This pic was taken on Monday. Had pulled his IV of the back of his hand and the nurse put it on his head instead. Here he's off the oxygen.

He's so tiny, he weighed 5 lbs. (2260 gr) at birth and was 19 inches long (48.5 cm).

We don't know when he gets to come home to us, it all depends on how good he eats and if he can keep himself warm.

I'll post a Christmas card here sometime in the next few days...if my brain allows me....today I started pumping for milk and forgot to attach a bottle to the pump! *lol*

TFL!

Christmas in October 1

Magnolia Christmas

This card is made with Basic Grey scraps I had in my stash and Stampin'Up card stock. The image is colored with my Stampin'Up ink and the dress is paper pieced.


Again I've used my SU ink to color in the image. The pattered paper is partly from Basic Grey and partly "unknown"....something from my stash.

Here I'm using patterned paper from My Mind's Eye.
The little girl's dress is so perfect for paper piecing. The stamp is from Magnolia and I think it's so cute.
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My pregnancy is going pretty good. I've got gestational diabetes so I get check-ups every week. The baby seems to be growing normally and I'm able to keep my blood sugar numbers pretty good so right now I don't need any medicin or insulin. Hopefully I can keep it that way until the baby's out. My biggest problem at the moment is finding pants that fit and are comfortable...I just feel like wearing my jammies all day ;)

Anyways...hope you're having a good week!

TFL

Happy World Card Making Day!

And of course I've got a couple of cards to show you today.

I'm still working on using up my scrap pile. The stamp is from Stampin'Up. I used my Nestabilities to cut the circle and the scallop circle. Pretty simple, no glitter....just a simple boy card.


And I actually made a Halloween card. I never make those. I think this is the only Halloween stamp I have actually. Not that I'm against Halloween, I just didn't grow up celebrating it. All the card stock is from Stampin'Up and I used my Stampin'Up markers to color in the image....and put glitter on it of course. I got out my Cuttlebug embossing folders instead of buying Halloween patterned paper.
I hope you're having a great day. We've got some sunshine here :)

TFL

Christmas in September 4

Elegant Christmas

I was trying to come up with some elegant Christmas cards. Most of my Christmas stamps would not fall in that category so I had to put on my thinking cap.
I got out my gold card stock from Stampin'Up and dry embossed it in my Cuttlebug. I then cut it into triangles to make Christmas trees. I remembered I had the designer paper with the gold swirls somewhere in my stash and dug it out. I used my Nestabilities scallop circle dies on my first card but pkept the next two cards even simpler.

This last card I actually made for a challenge over at Moxie Fab World the first week of September.

TFL

Christmas in September 3

Magnolia Christmas

I had the image (Magnolia) all ready from last Christmas. Just had to look for paper in my stash to match the image. I used old Christmas paper from BoBunny. I used a border punch from Martha Stewart and the green ribbon is from Stampin'Up.

TFL

Autumn Gretel

This card is made for the challenge over at "A Spoon Full of Sugar".

The challenge was to make fall inspired projects. I think the colors in this card make good fall colors. The designer paper is from My Mind's Eye and the stamp is Gretel from C.C. Designs. I paperpieced her clothes and loaded them with glitter.
I hope you're all having a good weekend!

TFL

Christmas in September 2

Inkadinkado Christmas birdie.

I got this image ready around last Christmas, but didn't use it at the time (obviously). I stamped the image in Versamark and covered it with black embossing powder. I then heat embossed it. I brayered the image with Soft Sky and then sponged Night of Navy around the edges. Sanded the edges and used a white Signo gel pen to color in some of the snowflakes. I then covered the whole image with Versamark and covered it with Iridescent Ice glitter embossing powder and heat embossed it. The big chipboard snowflake is from Bazill and I just covered it with Crystal Effects and Martha Stewart glitter.

I really like how it turned out, looks pretty simple and clean.

TFL