Nesting

I think I have finally started nesting!  With 10 weeks left to go, I have such a huge urge to get everything set up and ready top go!  I guess this started about two weeks ago when I started panicking that we didn't have a crib yet.  The price of cribs, not unlike changing tables, is kind of ridiculous!  I refuse to pay $300 for a crib!  Originally I had planned on getting the crib for free using swag bucks and other savings sites with gift cards I had accumulated, but when I realized what else that money could go for, I decided to try good old Craigslist.

Wouldn't you know that I found a perfect, white sleigh crib that matches the rest of the furniture in the nursery perfectly!  I am so happy with it and it only cost us a mere $50.  So in total in the nursery we have spent $80 on nursery furniture.  I would say that is quite a steal since many people I know have spent hundreds and honestly, our stuff is just as nice (I'm a picky bargain hunter!!)

While getting everything ready upstairs it inspired me to look downstairs in the basement for things that may not have gotten unpacked.  While I was down there I found a cute little wooden table that would be just perfect for the nursery and perfect for next to my rocker to set a drink on!  I grabbed a can of purple spray paint that I used to make letters for baby girl's dresser and set to work painting the table.  Then I found a wicker shelving unit that we had in a bathroom in our old house that would be perfect to hold some everyday items in the baby's room.  I grabbed some white spray paint and set to work on that!  The only problem is that it was once black so it is going to take a few coats of spray paint to get it white and looking good enough to hang up.  That means that nothing else is needed in the nursery... no tables, no shelves, we have everything (well, minus all the stuff we registered for that we hope to get at the baby shower!)


All in all, I think it was another winning day in this bargain hunters quest to not spend money and still have great stuff!

Wasting away again on invitations....

Have you ever been in a situation where you have to decide between two things and you really have no idea which way to go?

Yeah, I was so there the other day.  I was working on baby shower invitations for my upcoming shower and I couldn't decide whether to order these really cute ones on Etsy or should I design them myself?  Both gave me the option to print from my own computer so printing wasn't even a consideration.  I needed to choose whether or not to spend $15 on having them done for me or spend hours at the computer messing around with my design programs to get them to be what I wanted.

Ultimately, I picked designing them myself.  I went with a VERY simple starfish invite and printed them on colored cardstock.  I do admit, they looked pretty nice.  I also included a nice poem insert about bringing a new or used book instead of a card and addressed and sealed all 48 invitations.  

I hand-delivered them to my office co-workers to save on postage and was all set to buy stamps on my way home to mail the rest. That's when it all went downhill.  My boss came in and was asking me about the shower and casually asked where I was registered.  I found this a little odd, since there was a registry card in with the invitation.

That's when I had my OMG moment.  I totally meant to go to my car and include those registry cards before I sealed the invite.  FAIL.  Major FAIL!  To make it all worse, I took off the part on the invite that stated where I was registered RIGHT before I hit print because I had those handy little inserts.

So here I sit, on my day off, opening, re-addressing and re-stuffing the envelopes and mailing out the invites that were already done.  Maybe I should have saved all the time designing them and spent the money to order them... at least I wouldn't have wasted hours and hours doing this and instead only wasted a few hours re-doing the envelopes.

I guess the silver lining is that I never got around to putting those stamps on the ruined envelopes....