Olive's Birth Announcement

Right before Olive turned three months old I was talking on the phone with my mom and I asked her, "Is it too late to send a birth announcement for Olive?" She didn't think so, and said, "Anyone who cares to see it doesn't care how late it comes!" She also joked that I should do two pictures-- a "then and now." That got the wheels turning in my head and I ended up doing a "highlights of my first three months" themed announcement. It works well as a belated birth announcement and everyone liked seeing pictures of her, too!

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Photo Bookmark Tutorial

I recently did a tutorial on how to create a printable photo book mark on the Scrap Girls blog. You can check it out here. I used a picture of Olive and made it like a birth announcement. I like how here little face peeks up over the top of the page.

(ps. this isn't Olive's "official" birth announcement... I just designed those last week and should be getting them in the mail from the printer this week, so check back soon! I am really excited to share them!)

Silhouette Frames

I was catching up on my blog reading, when I came across this scrapbook page on the Silhouette blog. It uses a lot of my sketch frame designs that I did a while ago, and I think it's adorable!

Olive and Her Grandma Ruth

On Christmas Eve in Utah, we took Olive to meet her Great-Great-Grandma Ruth. With almost 100 years in age difference, it was cool to be able to capture a few of the moments they spent together on film. I am sure these are pictures that Olive will cherish when she is grown.

Olive's Baby Nursery

It took pretty much the whole 9 months, but JB and I finally finished the baby's room, and I snapped a couple of photographs a few days ago. I am really happy with how it turned out. Almost everything in the room is DIY or upcycled, so we were able to put the room together very inexpensively.

I would have to say that my favorite thing in the room (when the baby isn't in there of course... ha) is my "rocking throne," as I like to refer to it in my head. We picked it up off of craigslist and it has this green-70's fabric on the cushions, so I recovered them in the red, and at that time it also wasn't a rocking chair. So handyman JB went to work and built rockers and attached them to the bottom-- cool, huh? then we painted it white. JB also built the front facing book shelves under the window.

I know it's hard to see the artwork, but there is an ABC embroidery that I made a few months ago, as well as two prints from Persimmon and Pink's Etsy shop. The wall hanging is a vintage gift from my friend Katy-- her great aunt made it and hand appliqued all those pockets for her when she had her first baby!


I sewed the crib skirt and also had an afternoon of paper-mache fun when I made the mobile. We decided that they kind of look like beehives, but I like them anyway ;)

The pictures on this wall are simply pages framed from "The Little Red Hen" which was my favorite children's story when I was little.

And now three weeks...

...she has grown so much already! I promise not to overload my blog with too many photos of Olive for the next 18 years, but for now she is just so new and precious I can't help it :)


See my cute front facing book shelves in my nursery (in the background)? I promise I will post photos of the whole nursery soon.



When JB saw this photo he said, "Excellent!" (Think Montgomery Burns)