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Week 16

So I missed a week. Not much has changed in two weeks anyhow.
I had another visit with the Dr this week and it was uneventful, which I think is what you want when carrying your first child.
The bad news: I still haven't heard the baby's heart beat. This is due to the fact that my Dr doesn't have the proper equipment for hearing the heartbeat so early. She does tell me you can hear it with a stethoscope at 20 weeks. So next time we go in I will get to hear it!

Hopefully by that time I will have been in for my first ultrasound which she is in the process of scheduling for me now. This excites me to no end. Seeing as we haven't heard the heartbeat, are we really sure there's a baby there? (Well actually yes because I can't lie on my stomach anymore for the fact that it is hard and uncomfortable, and to top that off if I roll over on to my tummy when I am sleeping, I wake up immediately because I need to pee.)
Some other exciting things we did this time, was she measured the size of my belly. It measures 13" now and my uterus is sitting directly under my belly button. I have also gained about 4lbs since my first visit which means there is some major growing going on.
I have signed us up for our first class and that is where they will sign us up for our "actual" pre-natal classes. I have also been "assigned/referred" to a baby Dr whom I will see in the near future and if all is well I will only have to go back to him when I get to 36 weeks.
I cannot believe how fast this is all happening and before I know it there will be an actual baby here and that will be it, for life as we know it. What an exciting journey.

Week 14

Baby is starting to show this week. I'm not completely happy with the way the photos are turning out, but B&W is always a good way to go when you don't like a photo.

I think we look a little more pregnant here because Stephen was taking the photos and I started to fool around a make faces, but it was cute so I went with it.
I still haven't felt anything or heard a heartbeat, I'm hoping perhaps the next Dr. visit which is in two more weeks. I'll keep you posted if I feel any rumblings!

Happy Birthday Brenty!!!

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Week 13

Did you know? I'm 13 weeks along now. I'll keep you posted!

This baby is a no show yet, but give him a couple more weeks.

Canada Day 2009

We spent the afternoon out in Black Point somewhere.
We hiked out to a point off a little beach there, I can't
remember the name of the beach, but boy was it beautiful.

Here are some of our finds along the hike. I'm pretty sure
these places are making love, but we'll just leave them be.

The beach had to be shared with the seaguls, but we didn't mind.

Peek-a-boo... we're getting some practice in for childhood games.

Delicious! I have never tried a wild Strawberry, but boy was this yummy.
I only wished there were more.

The path was a little rocky, I was happy I wore my sneakers.

That's my man, I love him!
And one last, image, because I can't leave photoshop alone.

Here is the photo I took, and with a few PW actions, I turned it into this.

in *l o v e *

http://www.kee-ka.com/Merchant2/sfnt.html

Rebekah is 1

Happy Birthday Little One! You have the key to my heart!

today...

I love the photoshop actions that PW has created. I use her seventies one on almost everything I do these days. All the images in the last few posts use that one including my banner.
Just a little inspiration for today that I found while reading my copy of "Love Life" by Kal

chuck

I went shopping yesterday with Correen, I went to FootLocker for THESE!

I don't know what it was about them, but from the moment I saw them (three or four months ago) I knew I HAD to have them! They remind me of my childhood. I don't know if my memories are real or imaginary, but I THINK I had two pairs of them as a kid, and they were different colours and just for fun I used to mix them up and wear one of each. (Mom please correct me if I'm wrong, this may have been my imagination?)

But these cute little suckers are two colours in one and I am in love with them. I can't wait to wear them outside today on this beautiful sunny day!
So excited about my Chuck Taylors!

I'll come up for air soon... I think this affair has gone on too long...

so busy living life! lovin' the sunshine and the warmer weather... xo

where i come from

These are the hands of many of the women whom I belong to. The oldest one belonging to my Great Aunt Maxine. I am named for my great aunt and Great she was.
An artist, my earliest memories are of her coming to my grandmothers house with her projector and closing the curtains in the living room to show us some of her latest work.
She is in her late nineties now. When this photo was taken she couldn't quite place me. Her daughter Brenda is directly to the right of her. She is the one who made this beautiful jewelery. Of course Aunt Maxine had no problem remembering who she was. Next to Brenda is my mother, then me, (I took the photo). My Auntie Beth is next to me and my Auntie Barb is on the opposite side of Aunt Maxine. This was the part that confused Aunt Mackie, you see, she new her brother Don had three girls (mom, Beth, Barb). But she couldn't get past the part where I fit in, I was not one of Don's children, but I was one of his grandchildren.
Shortly after this visit, my Aunt Brenda came to NS with a small package of things for me. I spent hours going through a Wolfville shopping bag filled with correspondence, sketches, notes, books and many other exciting things that belonged to my Aunt Maxine. I didn't know until the moment I received this bag of goodies that my Aunt had done a correspondence Design course. What a treat for me to not only share my name with this amazing woman, but to also share some of our academics.
The books I was provided with are filled with design ideas from the 30's and 40's. What an opportunity for me to look back and perhaps borrow some of these amazing ideas and be able to share them with the future!

Art Canvas ( i love therefor i...)

For those of you in bookclub I warn you this is the beginning of my homework, forgive me if you see it before the date, however I couldn't wait to post. There are tons of photos so bear with me!
Here step by step I show you my creative process.

Usually I begin with the 'stuff'. Here is a creative kit provided by Two Much Fun at the barn, as I have been chosen as one of this months designers!

After I compile the stuff, I look through books and mags to find some inspiration for my layout. This one was easy I didn't even have to open the book.

I chose each of my words for the 9 blocks on the layout and I wanted this to be real. "i love therefore i... " as you can see I have used black stickers to make this word and inked the edges of the paper with black. There was so much pink and red I needed a contrasting colour.

This block was created with a sticker from Making Memories and I covered the whole square with the sticker and cropped it to fit the size I was looking for. I also inked the edges on this one with red.

This was created with these cute little tags (provided in the kit). Inked the edges of the paper with black and used a 7 Gypsies stamp in the b/g and stapled the Love tag to the paper. Edges of tag are inked in pink.

Again I inked the edges of this paper with pink and the tag with black. I also included a piece of ribbon in the b/g of the tag, again stapled to the paper.

Here I cut my paper flower to fit in the corner of the square and stuck one of the buttons (provided in the kit) directly to the flower. The edges of this one were inked in pink and black.

Here I sanded the edges of the paper to get the white look, and used the stickers to spell out the word desire. I loved these little stickers, they are so cute I want to use them on everything else I make until they are gone!

Instead of using a word in every block I decided to use a photo that symbolized love to me. It's a wedding photo of myself and my husband, one of the only kissing ones that looks natural. I cropped it down to size and then sanded the edges (I find if you ink photos they sometimes take too long to dry and I wanted to get this together and on the wall).

Pink and red were used to ink the edges of these two pieces. And to tie all of the tags together I again stapled this one to the block.

This "flirt" tab was part of another kit I had lying around and to get rid of the tabs (that connect it to the sheet it comes on) I sanded down all of the edges. So cute eh? I also used another piece of ribbon on this block.

Here is the front of the canvas I put a brad through the back with wire attached so it could be hung easily on the wall, I did this first because I knew I would be covering the front of the canvas and there was no fear of seeing it on the finished piece.

Here is the back of the canvas with the wire attached and you can see both brads measured so the canvas would hang evenly.

Here is the very bottom piece of paper on the canvas inked in black because of the contrast against the pink edge of canvas.

I used acrylic paints (red and white) as well as some white water colour to create the paint for the canvas, I wanted it to be soft so I used the water colour paint and lots of water to keep it thin.

Here is how much of the canvas I painted, I didn't need too much paint as I said I kept it pretty watery.

I used glue stick to adhere the background piece to the canvas (no word yet on how well it holds, will update if it doesn't work).

Regular photo tape to adhear the rest of the paper to paper, it is still my favorite adhesive.

The title is created using the cute little doodle bug letters/shapes included in the kit. I wasn't sure how I was going to like them but they seem to adhear really well, so far, so good!

I used a strip of the tickets in the kit to run along the bottom of the canvas, just for a little dimension, and I really loved the words on them, thought it would look groovy.

The final piece, I found a spot for it right away hanging in the bedroom, what better place for all the things I love!