Being Poor , Wanting to Craft and Other Craziness.

Well first lets start with a pregnancy update. I officially have 8 more weeks left and I am seriously blown away at how fast time is flying by!

Paul and I love feeling that little boy wiggle and kick inside of me. Feeling something move within me is an amazing feeling, yet at the same time it is so strange at the same time! His movements have gotten a lot stronger now, which makes me happy because I know he's well, but at the same time they can hurt and make me feel so uncomfortable. Sleep has become almost a chore these last few weeks. I am so exhausted yet my body doesn't seem to want to let me, not to mention my hips are starting to kill me.
 I have also developed the pregnant woman waddle, and I think because of it a lot of people are thinking I am about to go into labor any moment now. I love it when people ask me when I'm due or talk to me about being ready to have him, the look on their face when they found out I still have two months left. I must look super anxious or something, if not me Paul definitely does. He just can't wait to find out what his little boy will look like.
I'm starting to get Braxton Hicks, they don't hurt but do make me feel uncomfortable and make it hard to breath it seems sometimes. It seems that's what I have too look forward to these next 2 months is being uncomfortable, but it's all worth it right?
Now onto the fun stuff I've been up to lately!
A couple weeks ago my dad finally brought up our second couch and I was so excited to have it our living room. It looks so much more complete now with it.

As you can see we still have quite a bit of space on our walls for decorations which is my next project, but for now I am fine with what I have. That is the price you pay when your poor, going to school and having a baby. However, I did just put that cluster of pictures up. 

 

There's nothing like some black paint and sand paper. The framed "P" was actually from a previous project  I did where I framed individual letters to spell out "PIEPER". I decided I didn't want the rest of the letters and just the P for this project. It was originally painted yellow, so I sanded it down and painted it black then make it look a little distressed by sanding it again, just a little around the edges. The "P" is a wooden letter I found at the local craft store, and the background is a tan colored fabric. I bought the frame from the thrift store (fyi it didn't have any glass when I bought it). I then took the picture out of it and glued the fabric to it, painted the "P" black and glue that to the fabric board. Framing it was kind of a challenge because you had to kind of jam it into the space being a little thicker now with the fabric. 

 Next project was a fun one and I really enjoyed how it turned out. DIY mercury glass.

 You can find the instructions here. I would tell you how I made it but I can't take credit for the instructions I followed, plus it would take too long to write all the directions and the other blog has some nice pictures to follow. 

This is one of my favorite projects I did. This one takes a lot of time I think, but it is definitely worth it!

Again I wish I had taken pictures step by step on how I did this one, but its called a paper dahlia medallion. The easiest instructions I found on it was from this site here.  I used some old books I had bought from the thrift store. The old pages make a nice color and style to it. On her instructions, she said she glued a ribbon on the back of it to create a loop to hang it from. Well I tried that and I don't know what she used to make it stay but the glue was not strong enough so I glued and stapled it, just a good hint for if you try to make one because they can be quite heavy and glue is not going to 

cut it. 

Now I don't know if anyone else has ever had the LDS church's bishop store house food before, but one of the things you can get is granola. Well, I have to say that is probably the best granola I have ever had. It so tasty and it has been on my mind a lot lately. This last week I had been absolutely craving it, and unfortunately I don't think you can buy it, so I decided I needed to make my own granola. 

Well here it is! And you can probably guess already by now that you can find the recipe I followed here! Now the recipe called for hazelnut, but I couldn't find any when I went to the store, and quite frankly I don't even know what hazelnuts taste like, so I decided to do raw pumpkin seeds instead. This recipe turned out so good and it is so easy to do as well, which is a huge plus. Also, I cooked mine a little longer because I like crunchy granola and I think it turned out pretty well. 

Well, not much has been happening lately except for all that. Baby preparations are being made and hopefully the next post I can show you all his room, but for right now it is a disaster! This semester is almost over, we only have 3 more weeks of this semester and then a little one week break until the next so wish us luck as we go into finals soon here!