hob knobbery.

so the furniture situation has not been resolved as far as the money we spent at usa baby, but things have progressed in the acquisition of furniture department.  after we got the letter saying they were going out of business, and after i emailed asking for a refund check and got an automated "contact your bank" reply, and after we read the article in the paper about the sheisty dealings of this place, we foraged craigslist for some gear.  have i mentioned in the past how much i love craigslist?  i really do.  i got my first sewing machine there, our tent for camping, and other stuff; and we've gotten rid of loads of stuff we didn't want and gotten money for it.  it's genius.

anyway...we found a diaper changing table and a chest of drawers thingy on there for a great price, and the people who were selling even offered to deliver them to us.  success!  they dropped them off on saturday afternoon and the stuff is in really great condition.  they had painted the knobs on the bureau pink, and we figured we could find something with a little more personality, so we headed to anthropologie and found 4 different pairs of knobs that i think turned out really cute.

the diaper changing table isn't the most exciting piece of furniture ever, but it's cute and functional.

as for the crib, a woman my mom works with has sooooo generously offered a crib that she has to us.  it's brand new, with a brand new crib mattress, and nibs will be the first baby to sleep in it.  we are really so overwhelmed by how well this has worked out, and how supportive everyone has been.  so now, all that's left is to figure out the glider/rocker situation and keep praying that we get our money back.  but at the end of the day, this is a much smaller problem than what many people face, and it looks like we will have a place for a baby to sleep, which is great news.  it's really helped me to get some perspective and be grateful for how good we have it.  i'll post pictures of the crib after we pick it up this coming weekend.

other than that, we've been busy trying to stay cool in the demon heat of august.  our house doesn't really stay cool when it's in the 100s every day, so falling asleep is kind of annoying for me these days, but i have a feeling the pups are fighting it even more than i am.  ollie has fur like a husky, even though it's shorter than that, and he just lays around waiting for fall.  his most recent spot is in his crate (he and etta share a crate, but he absolutely loves that thing and hangs out in it any chance he gets), upside down.  it's really cute, but i have no idea how he finds it comfortable.

i've also completed another sewing project - 2 throw pillows for our couch.  i had sewn a few last summer but did a pretty shabby job with cheapy fabric, so it was time for a refresher.  these were made from some fabric jb picked out and also included my first ever attempt at putting in zippers (which i taught myself how to do and actually succeeded!).  i think they turned out well, and i'll probably do a couple more in the coming weeks - they are soooo much easier when you have a pillow insert instead of stuffing with the poly-fill stuff.

so i guess that's it for now.  we head off to lafayette for my first baby shower this coming weekend, and we are super pumped.  though louisiana will not offer any respite from the heat, it will be awesome to see family and friends...and i'm sure i'll partake in some delicious food, which never hurts....nibs is moving and shaking these days, especially when we go to the movies.  we're getting super curious about what s/he is going to be like, and especially what gender s/he is.  less than 11 weeks to go!