First off, did everyone have a nice Thanksgiving? I forgot to take pictures of my beautiful Bacon Wrapped Turkey and Parker House Rolls with herb butter, but they were lovely. But more importantly, I have a lot to be thankful for and it’s wonderful to share this special day with family and friends.

But, back to my lovely random post here…

I don’t know if it’s the babyor just plain stress, or what, but I just haven’t been getting the sleep I need.

Usually around 2:00AM, I wake up and starting thinking and before I know it, it’s 3:00AM and I decide to get up instead of fretting in bed about how I can’t go to sleep.

Please note that this is why I’ve been posting more. All of a sudden I have a good four hours added to my day. Unfortunately, Mr. Sweetie is a light sleeper, so I can’t cook, run the sewing machine or watch TV, but instead just stay hidden in our little office trolling the Internet for stuff or researching things, etc.

This morning, I decided to look for a little vintage lamp for the baby’s room. I don’t know why, I just thought it would be nice to have a little bedside lamp for the kid. But a cheap one. After three different search around vintage children’s lamp, child lamp, children lamp, this gem pops up.

But take a closer gander as this vintage gem. It involves a little girl KNITTING.

And a cute little boy blue playing the guitar–just like Mr. Sweetie! But wait THERE’S MORE…

Your turn the little CAT (mildly similar in color to Minnow and the lamp plays a tune and the girl’s rocking chair moves. Finding this was totally worth going without four hours of sleep last night, since I found it just a half hour before the auction ended. Hurrah!

And the whole thing was cheaper than a small lamp purchased a IKEA.

I love being cheap.

I am going to paint the edge of the base red and possibly the main part of the lamp. So, yeah–that makes it OK to put under baby crafts, right?

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Craft Mom strikes!

And strikes with the best knit baby hat EVER!

Our lovely model here is showing this very clever hat rolled up and worn on a jaunty angle. As much as I love Raggedy, she really doesn’t do the hat justice. It’s the most pluckable, peachy hat in the world. Perfect for our little Peach. I think we have a winner for the hat to bring the baby home in. Hurrah!

Thank you so much Craft Mom! I love it!

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As I start heading into double digits until baby day, my mind turns to all things baby all the time (like at 4:00AM, which is when I’m writing this, since I don’t sleep anymore) and the little decisions you make about how you want* to raise your child.

First off, baby diapers. I am in a constant conundrum over the whole cloth v. plastic diaper shtick.  I know people who have raised babies using solely cloth, solely plastic and even a combo of the two and all of their kids are amazing and are all supermoms. I would never pass judgement on anyone’s decision because I’m finding out–SHOCKER–that there is more than one way to raise a child. Crazy, I know, but true.

But part of me is kinda digging the whole cloth thing. Perhaps it’s my retro love and all but, I must admit, it sounds so super cute.  And have you seen those super cute little diaper covers out there, like this one?  And of course it is supposedly better for the environment, even in drought areas.

While on the Tiny Tots diaper service Website which four of my friends had recommended to me, I saw how they broke down the cost of the diapers with the service–it came down to about 24 cents a diaper. Sweet! I’m totally cheap, so I’m down with that price. And  But then I saw their recommendations for a newborn. EIGHTY DIAPERS A WEEK!!!

Sweet Jesus.

When I read that number I nearly started to hyperventilate. I mean, I’ve heard that babies do nothing but poop, eat, and sleep, but 80 diapers? What the heck have I gotten myself into? I thought I’d change the kid like maybe three times a day. But 80 @#$#(* diapers a week? That just seems a bit insane to me.

So, I’m kinda hedging my bets a bit here.  Picking up a couple of boxes of Huggies newborn baby diapers here and there…. Possibly registering for a diaper genie.

We’ll see where I land.

*Please note that I said “want” instead of will.  Word on the street, babies have a habit of telling you what they want from the get go, so I’m just trying to with the flow, because as delightful as it would be to only serve her organic sugar free food for her entire life, I know I’m going to have to deal with a bitch slap of reality real soon.  I’m not saying chaos will rule, but I’m just trying to be realistic.  But it’s always nice to want. BTW, I really like Babble as we good kiddie Website and highly recommend it to all parents.

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These past two years have been utterly amazing with my Mr. Sweetie. Many many laughs, hugs, and kisses that we now will share with our little girl next year.

And that was a lovely Saturday night. What fun.

Here’s one photo from our night in my $60 vintage wedding dress I bought off of eBay. I am such a cheapskate. But I love the dress.

Here are more wedding photos, should you want to see them.

Oh and Eric is not pinching my boob in the photo, he is holding a napkin.

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Last weekend was my sweetie’s 40th birthday and I concocted a full weekend of surprises that started with a hot towel shave and ended with customized tiki mugs at the Forbidden Island and a Missionary’s Downfall with no downfall for me. But in between surprises and waiting on pins and needles to see the surprises through, I ran errands that needed to be run for months. Is there anything better than doing a task that needed to be done for ages?

One of those errands was a necessary trip to Joann’s for some green fabric. You see, I’m making a quilt. I actually plan to make two quilts before my baby comes in February. Clearly I’m out of mind, right? Well, I plan on cheating. Cheating big time with vintage quilt tops that I bought off of eBay. Like this gorgeous one.

I love it. It reminds me of kissing sea horses. Sigh. I promise a proper post about quilts and my ongoing quilt obsession which of course will feature heavily Craft Mom and the lovely Rosemary, my bestest friend from college. But back to errands.

After long lines and not the right fabric, I left Joann’s feeling rather blue–that I best settle for some pretty hazy green fabric to go along with the other crazy yummy fabric I bought for back of the quilt. I was making my way through a rain-drenched San Francisco to dinner with friends and of course Mr. Sweetie, when I caught out of the corner of my eye a beautiful kimono under a store awning. I immediately went around the corner and found WHIZ BANG FABRICS.

In this cozy nook of a shop, I found vintage patterns framed on the wall, and completely by surprise a wall of the most sought after and hard to find fabrics that cost so much online but in this little oasis were given very reasonable prices. There you are Denyse Schmidt fabrics! And tons of other beauties. All lovingly cared for my the sweetest fabric proprietress, Miss X. Hurrah for independent crafter businesses. Please check it out when you have a chance.

Can you feel the cozy? It was a perfect respite from the rain. Too bad they didn’t have plumpfy chairs or I would have stayed there all day. I must apologize for the photos, but since my camera was in the recently stolen purse, I must settle for phone photos for awhile.

More on my soon to be quilting adventures in upcoming posts…

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It’s hard not to want to take part in history today, so I hope everyone plans to vote today.

If you need a break from refreshing your CNN.com or CBSNews.com Webpage every minute like me for more updates, I highly recommend everyone take a look at Alicia P.’s lovely blog Posie Gets Cozy and read the list of movies people recommended watching for their interiors. It’s about as cozy as making hot chocolate. 

And since this is my blog, I can share my feelings about the election.

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Well, it’s been a good week. I hope everyone out in blogland enjoyed the last extra hours of fall before we hit Daylight Savings Time this Sunday. Here is a wee synopsis of my week. It’s been a really lovely one. Work eased up slightly and I even had time to make chicken soup with homemade broth for lunch this week. Very comforting as I round the corner of my second trimester.

So, here’s this list of some of the best bits of the week:

• Eric put together our lovely vintage high chair. Isn’t it the cutest? It matches our kitchen table. Here it is with our favorite model, Raggedy Anne, who is also known as the OG baby since I’ve had Raggedy in my life since I was one year old.

• A very very dear friend surprised us with the loveliest present–a vintage baby carriage in PRISTINE condition! It is perfect! Eric did some research on it and it turns out that the carriage is from the 1940s/50s and was made in London.

• Getting an average of seven hours of sleep a night. Seriously, this is huge for me! Last week, I was sleeping an average of four hours a night and let’s just say, I wasn’t as charming as I normally am that week. In fact last Sunday, I broke into tears three times during the first two hours I was awake. In summation–Eric deserves an award for dealing with someone so crabby last week…
• HSM3 with Eileen, Melinda and Jody! Yes, it did rip off every musical that has happened since West Side Story, but man, I loved every minute of it. Especially the angry dance and the dancing hobos. And yes, we were the only adults there that weren’t parents supervising their kids’ movie themed birthday party. And yes, we screamed louder than anyone else in the theater. Yeah!
• Caramel apples! The perfect way to say goodbye to eating sugar for awhile! I’ve decided to give sugar the heave ho for awhile since way too many pregnant ladies I know have been diagnosed with gestational diabetes. And besides, I should stay away from white flour products and sugar anyway.

Did everyone have a great Halloween? My sweetie was under the weather, but we saw some super cute costumes out there, such as a Satanic Mechanic, a pirate, a little baby owl, and about a half dozen V’s from “V is for Vendetta”.

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