BRB

It's official, I am taking a week off from blogging. I have not taken a whole week off in well over a year, even while on vacation- so its needed, especially after this weekend. Let me give you a little insight into my last four days. I have done as many facials in these past fours days as a I usually do in about a month {crazy busy at work!!}. I am not complaining, because I want to work hard while I can, but man that is a lot! On Saturday I knew it was going to be an extremely long day at work so I made myself a juice that was supposed to give me tons of great energy for the day. Well, I had never made this juice before and apparently my body hated it. I was throwing up in between clients for the first three hours at work..fun times. Between working so much, and being sick that morning, it then lead me to my first experiences with Braxton Hicks contractions. Thank goodness they were not more than 4 in an hour, so definitely not pre-term labor, but scary nonetheless. Then, this morning before work I wanted to treat myself to Starbucks to celebrate that I made it through the weekend...the drive didn't go so well. A guy came within an inch of crashing in to me, and didn't even get out of his car or apologize for the near accident. What a way to start your morning right?! SO- with another really busy week coming up this week at work again, I am taking a week off from blogging. I will be back here next Monday with some great inspiration, and projects later on in the week. Hope you all have a fabulous week! See you soon

Instagram Friends?

Tell me friends, are you on Instagram? I have had this app downloaded on my iPhone for a long time now, and really just started using it this week. For a long time I would simply use it to edit a photo here and there- not even realizing other people could see my photos {whoops}. Now however, I love it! I take a million photos daily, usually most on my phone, so its a fun way to have them all gathered together, and sometimes get funny feedback on them. 
If you want to follow me and see a million and one photos of my pups, food, and random life inspiration then search "Dreambookdesign" click on it, and start Following! I would love to have some new friends on there, and follow you back as well:) 
I'll give you little peek into what this week has been for me, naturally just starting out I will take photos of the things nearest and dearest to me..food, pups, and sweet cards from J;)

Im sure I will be posting a ton of photos of the nursery projects as they get underway too! So follow along if you want, and I look forward to see some of you on there:) Happy weekend

26 Weeks!

How far along: 26 weeks!Total weight gain: gained 13 lbs totalMaternity clothes: Still just the work pants, although I did just buy a bunch of cheap maternity clothes from Old Navy! Jeans require the hair-tie trick. I love that trick:) Although I did find one pair of jeans that still fit me! Woohoo!Stretch marks: Just the ones from Christmas Eve on my chest, but still using the amazing tummy stretch mark oil {here} and the chest cream {here}Sleep: Still getting up every night to go pee. Best moment of this week: Our good friends wedding this weekend and celebrating Valentines day<3Miss anything: being able to eat without having acid reflux an heartburn..fun times guys!Movement: His movements are so crazy now. I seriously feel like sometimes he is shoving his whole butt against my belly button, it looks super creepy, yet totally amazing!Food cravings: The natural golden grahams cereal craving has taken over, and olives of course. Through this whole pregnancy I have had to force myself to eat meat, which is weird because I am a total meat girl..Anything making you queasy or sick: nope!Have you started to show yet: Foorrr suureeGender: Boy!!Labor signs: none, it will be crazy when I say yes to this.Belly button in or out: The top half of my belly button is out, bottom half is kinda flat- it cracks me up!Wedding rings on or off: On, on the days that I actually wear them..which I am trying to do more these days so I don't look a hussy;)Happy or moody most of the time: So happyLooking forward to: my doctors apt. today! Hoping everything is looking perfect:)

Leather For The Nursery Rocker

Hope everyone had a fantastic Valentines day. Mine included a beautiful run, doughnuts {those totally go together right?!}, a yummy steak/potato/asparagus dinner, and time with my J. We also got to go down to Tandy Leather Factory and pick out the leather hide for the nursery rocker!! I had never been to Tandy before and it was so incredible! Imagine beautiful leathers, cow hide rugs, leather kits, etc. sprawled out over a huge warehouse room. Better yet, see for yourself:

Here is the table of all of the upholstery hides {minus the table that had the more expensive ones, we didn't even want to look at those for fear of temptation!}:

Except J just had to grab a quick peek, and then he ran back to the better priced table! He met me there on his lunch break, how stinking handsome is he in his business clothes?!

So heres how it all went down. We were debating between two hides. One had a more black undertone, and one had a more red undertone. I loved the one with the red, so we went with it! There was a sale going on of the table we were at, so all the hides were on sale for $2.99/sq.ft. instead of $5.99. AND if you bought the yearly membership for $35, you got it down to $2.50/sq.ft. Our hide that we got was 42.5 sq.ft.. We ideally wanted one a little larger, so that we would for sure have enough to cover the rocker and an ottoman {we dont have one yet, but have high hopes!} but all the larger ones up to 50sq.ft. had small holes in them here and there, so we took a chance with the smaller but perfect one. 

• TIP: always fully open up any hide you are buying to check for holes, damage,etc. Each hide is unique, and you don't want to be surprised when you get home to huge holes in the middle!

If you aren't being too picky and are down to have some funky colors for your hides, you can always shop in the clearance section:

Overall it was really fun to be able to look through about 10 different hides and finally choose our favorite. In real life it is a beautiful chocolate brown, with a little red undertone:

We are getting it reupholstered by an incredible guy that our friends over at Modern Manor use, and I cannot wait until it gets done! Just one more thing checked off the list! Hooray for nursery progress. In case you forgot, this is the rocker we are using. We got it at an auction for only $25 bones! Needs a little work, don't you think?!

What do you think? Loving the hide? Hope so:)