My little bundle of Joy has arrived!

I know I haven't been posting lately, but I am now a proud new mommy! My little Chloe was born March 18th at 9:45am. She was born a healthy 7 pound and 19 inches long.

Crafty and Crazy during Nesting Time

I believe that I may be nesting. I am due with my baby in just a few short weeks (March 20th) and I feel like the energizer bunny has hit me upside the head with a battery or something along that effect. Yesterday I went craft crazy, sewing projects for over 8 hours. Here are some of the projects I made.

I love the Ruffle pillow I made to match Little Chloe's Crib Sheet I made.

Here is the cutest little rabbit! I love how it turned out!

I also Decided to make my own Nursing Cover that was a little different, with my own little flair. I am very happy with how cute and pretty this turned out.

I also made a few more burp clothes to match the nursing cover.

I used this awesome fabric!

I also made this adorable stuffed Owl, since Chloe's (my almost born baby) nursery is owl/nature themed. This is my husbands favorite project I made today.

I do declare that I have fallen in love with making fabric flowers! They are so easy and turn out so freaking cute! Here is the first one I made and turned into a cute headband. I am 9 and half months pregnant...Better pictures of me to come in the following months.

I made all of this yesterday. I think you can now understand why I feel like I am on craft crack. For the past couple of days, I have had this extremely high energy and feeling of needing to have everything completed and put away. My husband thinks its funny, because I have been running circles around him all weekend and usually I am dragging myself around.

I have made many more things, but can not post them just yet. They are gifts that will be given out and those receiving them read my blog.

I will be back soon with more crafts completed.

Chloe's Owl Crib Quilt

Chloe's Baby Crib Quilt

This is the third quilt I have ever made and I am very pleased with how it has turned out. I still have the hand stitching to complete, but that will hopefully take me less than 12 days. I would like to get one owl stitched everyday until completed.

Cloth Diaper Baby

I have always wanted to cloth diaper my baby and when doing my research I found it to be quite expensive and something that would work better if I made them myself. Here are the finished products.

If you want to make them too, I used the Little Comet Cloth Diaper Pattern http://www.kingstondesign.com/optionalsoaker.pdf

I also used the directions to make them on http://makingitlittlebylittle.wordpress.com/category/little-comet-tails/

Preparing the Nursery when your a cheap skate

We are cheap skates. Okay I said it. I love nice things. I actually have expensive taste, but have the hardest time spending high money. I am frugal at heart.

We have only spent $222 on the entire nursery.

If you would like to know how I will share our little secrets.

We found our Pottery Barn Crib on Craigslist and negotiated the guy down to $80.

We were given our dresser and since it was a natural color and needed to be refinished, my husband sanded it down and painted it with a lo-gloss lacquer and Wa-La our dresser matches the crib. We spent $20 at home depot to repaint it and on the Sandpaper.

We hit up Joann's craft superstore (my favorite store!) on a super sale day and loaded up on all the fabric and notions I needed to hand make the cloth baby diapers, some extra swaddle blankets, the bedding and room accents, and some extra fabric for burp clothes, baby towels, and a nursing cover. We spend $112.00 (but saved over $80 because of the sale).

We found some used children's clothing stores on there $5.00 a bag sale. Children's Orchard has a sale every new season where you can fill up a plastic bag and only pay $5.00 for all of it! We bought 2 bags and spent $10.00.

Now we did accept a lot of our stuff from family members and friends. Anybody who offered we accepted. I really wanted to get an expensive stroller, but we couldn't afford the luxury. My cousin actually decided to give me her Quinny Stroller. I pretty much fell over with excitement! I also found many great deals on craigslist. We accepted clothing from friends who had girls, as well as a baby swing and bouncer.

We also received great help from our parents. My husbands family bought us the crib mattress we wanted which was $150 on sale ($30.00 off). My family pulled together the money for the car seat that fits our Quinny Stroller.

The baby shower was awesome. I am having a second one after our little angel is born. I invited everyone I knew. Not only was the advice on becoming a new mommy helpful and the recommendations of other moms extremely helpful, but we received so many clothes, and care items for the baby. Many of the items we needed for the baby were covered by the baby shower.

Overall we have spent so little for just an adorable room. I have a few more things planned to tie it all together, but we are so close to being done and will have only paid under $400 on the entire room together. I am very satisfied with the quality of our nursery. We didn't have to sacrifice style and quality even though we we didn't couldn't spend a whole lot of money.