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The baby room is being painted today! Whee! I didn’t think the painters were going to be able to come until next week, which would be after the baby shower.  I was hoping they could do it today, but I hadn’t heard back.  This morning at 9:30 they called and said they could be here in 45 minutes, if I wanted.  So I took the fastest shower ever, and ran down to the paint store and picked up a gallon of Aura Eggshell in Apple Blossom (light green).  

Oh, and today is 32 weeks!

30 weeks

 

The time has come for me to embark on a bigger than bootie knitting project.  No time like the present to start on a baby blanket for our little one.  For some reason I am drawn to the color off-white or cream.  If it didn’t dirty so easily, everything I own would be cream colored.  Our living room shag area rug is cream (and I love it).  Pretty much every time I go to a yarn store I end up leaving with some new and different off-white yarn.

It was not easy to find a baby blanket pattern that I liked.  Most of them are puke-y baby styles with frills and lace or boring stockinette stitch for like 1,000 rows. Often when I look at the accompanying photo to a knitting pattern I have a difficult time getting past the yarn that is used.  I’m guessing many patterns might draw me in if they weren’t photographed in gross pastels or hippie tie dye colors.

The pattern I am using is in a book called Hand Knits For The Home. It has tasteful designs and pretty pictures of things made with pretty yarn.  

The blanket I am making has a repeating star pattern done in seed stitch with a seed stitch border. This will be my first time working off a chart. I’ll let you know how it goes.  😎

No, we didn’t move houses.  We actually now own a real crib, a baby crib.  This is the set that we ended up getting.  Dallas was a good daddy and set it all up the night it arrived.  

The next step in the nursery is to paint the walls.  Yesterday I went down to the paint store and sorted through some color chips.  When I got them all home I realized that none will do.  When I’m at the store the colors start making my eyes wonky and I can’t remember what shade of what color I’m looking for. Soon I’ll go back and tackle the project again. My eyes are watering just thinking about it.

This is what $40 can buy you at the Berkeley Tuesday Farmers Market…

 

– Sungold cherry tomatoes

– Red cherry tomatoes

– Carrots, 2 bunches

– Sweet Corn, 3 ears

– Apricots

– Seascape Strawberries, 3 baskets

– Red Butter Lettuce, 1 large head

– Celery

– Figs, 1 basket

– Garlic, 2 heads

– Yellow Tomato

– Scallions

– Parsley

– Chocolate Pecan Chewy Cookie (not shown)

 

 

 

 

This past weekend Dallas and I were in Philadelphia for my good friend Alisa’s wedding.  It was gorgeous and a lot of fun.  I’m glad were were able to make it out there.  It was neat reuniting with old friends from college.