You glow girl!

(Warning, long post!)  Gosh, it's been almost a month since I last posted and it looks like I'm trying to make up for lost time with this one post, lol! 

Time is flying by, but this time it can't go by fast enough for me.  You see, son #2 is expecting his first born middle of November and we're just counting the days waiting for our precious little prince to arrive!

The mini journal you see above was made for my DIL with the thought that she could have something to record her notes in whenever she went to the doctor or to her prenatal classes.   The image I used is called Pregabella by Stamping Bella.  I used copics and prismacolor pencils to color her, the DP is Lost & Found by My Mind's Eye.

Here's a page from the journal.

  The onesie was cut with a Die-namics die from My Favorite Things.

We had a surprise baby shower for our "Miss Pregabella" this past Saturday and DIL #1 did a fabulous job planning and hosting the event.   The theme was baby jungle animals and everything was adorably decorated and color coordinated from the banners on down to even the drinking straws.  Here are some pictures from the shower, I hope you can click on the pics for a closer view:

the deserts and the diaper cake

  

the favors, one for each guest...

25 of them!

...and, if you're still with me, lol, a kleenix box that I made for the baby's room:

The images are Zoo Babies Digital Doodles from KPM Doodles at Etsy.  I colored them with distressed inks.

Things have been quite hectic lately--cleaning up the spare room to turn it into a day-time nursery (I'll be baby sitting full time when mom goes back to work) and then with the shower--so I haven't had much time to craft or visit you in blogland.  And after baby comes, my crafting/blogging days will probably come to a crashing halt, lol!   We shall see...

Thank you so much for staying with me throughout this long post.  Have a safe and Happy Halloween everyone!

Dear Santa,

When I purchased this cute little digi from Make it Crafty a few days ago, I knew just the sentiment I wanted to pair him up with.  I bought this Studio G sentiment from Ben Franklin last year and a few days ago, got me a whole bunch more--they're so cute and inexpensive, it's hard not to buy them all.  

I had such a frustrating time coloring this little guy's hat with my copic pens that after 3 tries, I just gave up and glittered it all up instead.   It actually turned out for the best, lol (now I can laugh about it but at that time grrrr), because I can now enter this in Simon Says Stamp Challenge which is "Sparkle and Bling".   See the smoke coming out of the smokestack? (bottom right, click to see)  That's my bling.  And since it's "Anything Goes" at Papertake Weekly Challenge, I'll be linking this up with their challenge as well to join in on their birthday celebration.  Happy 4th Birthday Papertake Weekly!

The recipe:

Stamp:  Make it Crafty, Zippy Digi; Studio G sentiment

Paper:  Basic Grey - Eskimo Kisses, Manila

Ink:  Memento, Copic

Other:  Prismacolor pencils, Spellbinders and Die-namics dies, Martha Stewart train punch, bakers twine, buttons, adhesive rhinestones, pop dots

Thank you so much for looking and for your lovely comments,

 take care and have a great weekend!