Appreciating // My lovely friends, who joined me for a mini baby shower yesterday, and especially Erin, who did all the planning and made a diaper cake and some delicious sweets! (This picture collage is stolen from her FB page.) We really don’t need much for baby #2, so they gifted me plenty of diapers, and we all just ate lunch and sat around chatting for a few hours. It was perfect.
Loving // Emma’s enthusiasm about being a big sister soon! We had a fun visit to the hospital on Saturday morning for their siblings class, although she started to lose interest by the ~1 hour mark of the 1.5 hour class. (The class included a hospital tour, which was nice since even though it’s the same hospital that I went to with Emma, it’s been renovated — and I haven’t been there in 3 years so I’d kind of forgotten where things were.) I’m really, really optimistic that Emma’s transition to big sister will go well…and hoping that my optimism translates to reality!
Figuring // Out the curtain plan for baby’s room. I mentioned on Friday that I’m struggling with how to handle the windows, which have an arched portion at the top. The current blinds will stay, and I do plan to buy some sort of fan-shaped blind to cover that part to make sure we can block out the light well enough. That means we probably won’t open/close the curtains regularly, so they’ll be more for decorative purposes than true function.
My first instinct was to put them below the arch, like several others suggested on Friday — but I’m a little worried that might make the room look squat since the ceilings are 11 feet tall. I thought hanging the curtains high like in our living room would make the arch look strange, but there are many examples of it on Pinterest (1, 2, 3 for starters) that make me think it might be ok. The only problem with that is that I then need 108″ or 120″ panels again, which are harder to find.
Grinning // Because 12 people have downloaded my offset stripe quilt pattern from my Craftsy store! (Turns out it tracks that stuff. Neat.) I know it might just be because I made it free, so why not download it? Still, it makes me happy to think that someone else might actually use and/or make their own version.
I think you are right. Hang the longer ones. I will have to remember this if I end up with those in my new abode next year.