Monthly Archives: May 2010

Here are the willing participants:

Shirts that are just a little low cut and require a cami to be worn underneath.

Here is the problem:

Houston summers + pregnancy = I-don’t-want-to-wear-one-more-layer-than-necessary attitude

Here are the tools:

Scissors, pins, lace, part of an old white tee shirt, and a package of stitch witchery.(not shown: an iron, ironing board, and damp cloth)

Here is the process:

I knew I wanted to make “fake” cami inserts and put them in the shirts. So I tried them on and pinned it in place. The blue shirt got a piece of old white tee shirt to look like a plain white cami.

The green shirt got some black lace

And the pink shirt got white lace

Then I just followed the package directions. You basically put the stitch witchery, which is a like a thin tape of adhesive, between the two layers. Then you cover with a damp cloth and press with the iron for 10 seconds. Then you flip it over and repeat. Let cool. Then you are done! It was awesome! No stitches to try to hide or get right!

Then later I remembered that I had a pair of black maternity pants that shrunk up too short and so I used some stitch witchery to turn them into capris, which I have already worn once and really enjoyed the new cooler length!

So there is my instructional post. I would recommend it!

I love the trend of bright colored necklaces! Especially to give  “pop” of color, as Stacey and Clinton and Kasey Berry say. (They are all my fashion experts.) But it is hard to store these in the hanging jewelry box that I have. So I created this storage system:

It is just push pins on a bulletin board, but I love it! It looks pretty and I can quickly see and choose from my necklaces.

The boys took us to a Mother’s Day lunch at a place called “Hog’s Breath” and I had a fantabulous BBQ sandwich. (My first Mother’s Day present, so sweet!)

Lydia and I wanted to work on our tan (although we put on a lot of sunscreen because we didn’t want to be miserably burnt all week, and ended up staying fairly white) but it is hard to lay on your tummy when you are preggo, so Lydia decided we should make “belly bowls” to lay down in.

It worked great!

Jon smoked us in putt-putt, with his two holes-in-one! It was a kinda bad course though, in that we all kept getting 5′s because it would roll around the rims.

We made a sand castle. Lydia made a owl.

My parents came down the last two days of the trip. We went out to eat at the Crab Trap and  went shopping and hung out on the beach.

It was a great trip!

If you have not tried Blue Bell’s new flavor, Happy Tracks, you totally should! I have always wondered why Blue Bell never did a peanut butter cup ice cream flavor, and now they have. Yum!

Before I was pregnant, I bought this skirt from Target:

It is kinda hard to tell, but it is just a jersey skirt, with a fold down top. It has turned out to be great, because it is a good maternity skirt too since it is so stretchy!  I also have a pair of these jersey gauchos in brown:

and the same is true of them since they are all stretch. Really anything that is stretchy at the top could potentially make the transition into maternity gear. I have this blue skirt that I have had for about 4 years

and it still works great because the entire top is elastic. So I would recommend buying these type items if you are pregnant, or not yet but maybe soon to be, because you will get a lot of use out of them!

We had a great “babymoon” in Destin last week!

I am going to post a few pictures at a time instead of one big post.

Here is the view out our patio! There was some of the softest grass imaginable, a little landscaping, a sidewalk, a small two lane road, and then you go through that little white arbor to stairs down to the beach! It was awesome! If you go on a beach vacation, I highly recommend staying within viewing and walking distance of the beach. Then there is no lugging gear and sandy feet into a car to drive to a beach.

We stayed in a first floor condo of a place called Beach Retreat which was to the east of the main busy part of Destin. It was really nice that it was on the first floor because you could just walk out of the patio and go to the beach. There was also a pool which was nice.

Here is the patio.

We rented a two bedroom and our wonderful friends Jon and Lydia came and stayed with us most of the week, and then my sweet parents stayed with us the last two nights. (This particular place we had to rent for a week, but most places offer it by the night too. We found it on homeaway.com. It ended up being cheaper to rent a condo than a hotel, and when you cook some of your own meals in the kitchen, your food budget is cheaper too than eating out every meal.) We even got a beach umbrella and two chairs with the rental. You can see the Beach Retreat building in the background to the left.

And here is a fun pic of four of our six member party!

More vacation pics here!