A Crafty Post

A few days ago I entered that final two weeks of pregnancy that always keeps me guessing which pain is an indication that the "big event" will happen.  I have to say, some days I feel like this baby will arrive any second and other days are filled with panic that I'm not ready. 

We've been spending lots of our time lately packing, getting all our Christmas shopping done, and preparing to move.  Some days I haven't honestly had much time even to think about going into labor!
But I'm feeling really ready today. 

Here's a picture of my sister-in-law and myself that was taken on Thanksgiving Day.  "Best" arrived about 12 hours after the picture . . . now we're waiting on "Friends".

I admit, I've been watching my fair share of Christmas movies to pass some of the time before Baby arrives, but I wanted to share something else that kept me busy for a few days.

Here is a very rare craft - Julia's Christmas present!

Julia has TONS of dolls, doll clothes, and doll supplies - and we're pretty sure she's going to get more for Christmas.  So David had a genius idea.  We would make over a storage container that we already had into a special set of drawers to keep Julia's supplies contained.

I started with this "blah" set of Rubbermaid drawers that have been bouncing around our house for way too long.  I believe they're about $20 or so new from the store.  Then I went to Hobby Lobby and found three coordinating patterns of fabric that also happen to coordinate with a striped fabric I had already purchased for another Julia project.  (that one has yet to be done)

I had an almost-full bottle of Mod Podge as well as brushes, so that didn't cost anything either.  The only other supplies I needed were scissors, a tape measure, a straight edge ruler, and a pencil.

I measured the inside of the drawers and cut fabric to size.  This just shows the front of the drawer, but I ended up doing the sides as well.  Then I spread the Mod Podge on the drawer, smoothed on the fabric with some little scraper thingies David found (see how high tech I am!  very crafty! wink, wink).  Then I covered the outside with a generous coat of Mod Podge as well.

I continued this for all three drawers, and finally for the top. 

All I had to do then was let it dry, which took about 24 hours.  I'm pretty excited about these.  I hope Julia is, too!  Maybe this winter I'll get around to another craft???