A Stamp A Day...: Creative Nesting

Friday, August 19, 2011

Creative Nesting

I think I must be going through some kind of creative nesting instinct--this is the second morning in a row that I've woken up in the middle of the night with a card idea in my head that I just had to make first thing in the morning! I decided to use Karen Giron's Sweet Sunday sketch for the main layout, and had the idea of trying to make paper poppies out of the butterfly punch. I looked up a photo of a poppy and thought it would work fine, and it did! I'm pretty pleased with how the card came out--it is pretty close to the vision I had in my head. I even used Poppy Parade for my cardstock color--perfect!!

In other news, today is Transfiguration on our calendar, so we spent this morning in church. My boys were up at 5:00 a.m. this morning, so our sleep is all kinds of messed up today. My toddler fell asleep on the way home, and then climbed onto the couch first thing and went right back to sleep when we got home (a never-before occurance with him). I'm hoping M will take another nap as his 40 minutes in the car isn't going to cut it until bedtime. I keep hoping that their sleep schedules will get better; since we put them together in a room, sleep has been a rare and precious commodity around here and I dread adding the night time wakings of a newborn into that mess. On the other hand, today would be an excellent day to have a baby! We are going into the weekend, my husband is creating work for himself to stay busy, we are a few weeks out from preschool starting, which would give us time to make some of the transitions before school starts, but these things happen on their own schedule, I know. I'm just impatient. And huge. And achy. Mostly just ready to have my body back and meet this new little one.