Friday night sillies...

Silly survey I saw through Janel's blog...play along and link up!

♥ What are your middle names?

Katherine and Daniel (his first name is John, but he goes by Dan)

♥ How long have you been together?

6 and a half years (woah...)

♥ How did you meet?

We technically met once at a birthday party when I was 15 and he was 16, but we really met at the end of my 2nd Year of University when he sub-letted my roommate's room.

♥ How long did you know each other before you started dating?

We probably were hanging out about a month to 6 weeks before our hook-up.

♥ Who asked who out?

It wasn't that kind of situation, if you catch my drift...

♥ How old are each of you?

I'm 26 and he's 27.

♥ Do you have any children together?

In utero :)

♥ What about pets?

We have had a pet bunny named Pierre, and we now have a cat named Shimi.

♥ Did you go to the same school?

No.

♥ Are you from the same home town?

No.

♥ Who is the smartest?

Dan is more logical than I am, but I would say we are equally smart, but at different things.

♥ Who is the most sensitive?

Me probably, though not always.

♥ Where do you eat out most as a couple?

Umm, McDonald's? :S

♥ Where is the furthest you two have traveled together as a couple?

California.

♥ Who has the worst temper?

I think we are pretty equal, Dan's temper flares up faster than mine though.

♥ Who does the cooking?

Dan does, thankfully!

♥ Who is more social?

Dan probably, but we're both pretty anti-social.

♥ Who is the neat-freak?

Ha, no competition...me.

♥ Who is the more stubborn?

Not sure, neither one of us is that bad.

♥ Who hogs the bed?

I would say he does, he would say I do.

♥ Who wakes up earlier?

I do for sure, Dan's a total night owl.

♥ Where was your first date?

I have no idea.

♥ Who has the bigger family?
Dan does (Irish Catholics!)

♥ Favorite memories?
Probably our wedding, honeymoon and first year anniversary. Also our trip to California, the moment I got back from Spain after being apart for 5 months, and so many little moments over the years.

♥ Do you get flowers often?
Enough I would say, Dan's pretty good about getting them at random times.

♥ How do you spend the holidays?
Visiting both of our families in New Brunswick usually.

♥ Who is more jealous?
Neither is all that jealous, but if a situation came up, I probably would get pretty jealous/insecure.

♥ How long did it take to get serious?
Not very long, we were living together pretty much right from the start, said our I love yous at 2 months, we settled in pretty well right away.

♥ Who eats more?
Dan for sure.

♥ Who does/did the laundry?
Me, 100%

♥ Who’s better with the computer?
If it's a techy thing, Dan, but I'm better using programs and general computer stuff.

♥ Who drives when you are together?
Dan always (he also buys the meat when we do groceries. We're old school.)

♥ Who plays an instrument?
Dan plays lots of instruments, it's one of the things I love about him :)

♥ Do you share the same taste in music?
Not really, he's gotten me into some bands but many of the ones he likes I just can't get on board with.

♥ Who exercises more?
We're both pretty lazy, but I would say I do more walking.

♥ Who eats better?
Me, though not by much!

♥ Who's more romantic?
I'd say we are about the same, which isn't much at all.

♥ Who wears the pants in the relationship?
I like to think that we both do, but I tend to make more decisions...

♥ Who snores loudest?
Neither, but Dan does make little sleeping sounds.

♥ Is there anything you both share/enjoy?
Watching good TV shows, playing Doctor Mario, backrubs, staying home together, just being together, comfortable.

♥ Who takes more pictures?
Me!

♥ Who cries the most?
Me I guess.

Have a great Friday night! We're watching Dexter (of course) and listening to the rain. Busy day coming tomorrow though!

Loves,
G.

This is the reason...

I haven't been around all week...we started watching Dexter last weekend and we're now totally hooked on it. We finished Season 1 and are 4 episodes into Season 2, I imagine we'll be done quite soon and will move on to Season 3 and 4. It's a great show!! It's holding us over now that Mad Men is done (sniff!), and Breaking Bad/LOST haven't started yet. We haven't had a good series to watch since we first got into Mad Men, so it's nice to have a new obsession, even if it's about a serial killer :)

(Oh and PS-I totally love Dexter's clothes, especially his casual thermal/slim/looks-like-he's-going-camping tight shirts with baggier low waisted cargo pants. It's how I love to see Dan dress too, their body types are similar. Just thought I'd mention that, ha!)

I've also been a bit MIA because for the past 3 days or so Dan has been feeling pretty sick, he took 2 days off work (very unlike him), and has just been lazing around mostly. It might be H1N1 since a guy at his work (and his daughter) had it last week, but it's nothing serious so far so hopefully he'll soon recover. But that has meant early nights in bed for us and very little getting done except for watching TV and a bit of Internet surfing. He's gone in to work today though and we're supposed to do groceries tonight, so I'm hoping things will be back to normal soon.

This weekend I need to get working on some Christmas gifts for far away friends and family, since in order for them to receive their gifts by the 25th, I have to ship them off in about 2 weeks! Today it's 5 WEEKS 'TIL CHRISTMAS, oh my word!! So much to do. I'm going to a co-worker's house this weekend for some crafti-ness (and eating), so I hope to get at least 2 gifts done then, and I may do a bit of shopping this weekend as well, though I'm trying to keep the purchasing to a minimum this year, what with little bébé soon on his way...

(Another side note: I've gone through over 250 pages of baby names this week from a book I bought 2nd hand on Monday and I still haven't found anything that I'm in love with...this baby is going to be known as "bébé" forever I think! Did anyone else have this much trouble naming their child?!)

Ok, enough rambling, I really hope to be back this weekend to share my felt wreath (like I promised), a new belly shot, and if I'm lucky my December Daily (which is mostly done, I just need the numbers to arrive in the mail!)

Happy Friday and weekend everyone!
Loves,
G.

Chilly? Need some warmth?

In anticipation of the Christmas season, Heather and I are listing everything in our shop at 25% off! So if you're looking for some cute knits or a great Christmas gift, be sure to check out our shop!

(That green scarf is my personal fav, I may have tried it on a few times and swooned over its loveliness...)

Today it's rainy and grey, but I'm heading to Michael's (again) to get some more Christmas gift supplies, then hopefully this afternoon I'll pull out my sewing machine to attempt a few projects, I really need to learn to not be afraid of it, but I'm such a newbie when it comes to sewing that if my mom isn't around for support, I get kind of freaked out. And don't even get me started on stitching by hand!

Tonight Dan and I are going to see Billy Bragg. I can't say that I'm the hugest fan but it's always fun to have a night out with the husband, so I'm sure I'll enjoy myself.

I'm also almost done by December Daily, I'm just waiting for the Vintage number tags to show up in the mail so that I can add them, along with a few other embellies that I might purchase today, but the bones are done and I'm very happy and excited to start filling it starting in 2 weeks (seriously, where is November going?!)

I'll be back tomorrow to post my felted sweater wreath that I mentioned last time, I just need to add a bow and it'll be ready for presenting :)

What's on your plate this lovely Sunday?

Now I know I'm biased...

...but that is one cute little baby! Big smile and a thumbs up for his Mama :)

Have a great weekend everyone, I have Monday off so I'll be back to blog more soon!

Prego catch up...

Just a quick post to show off the quickly growing belly in front of me (it's still shocking to see how quickly it's happening), and share my V-log for Weeks 14-20 (recorded 3 weeks late...) I'm trying to take a shot every 2 weeks now and record a video for every 6 weeks, hopefully I can keep it up until the end!

Weeks 14-20_Nov 11, 2009 from Genevieve Flynn on Vimeo.

(Sorry the video is dark and quiet, the webcam isn't the best thing for this but it's all we have at the moment...)

Tomorrow is my echocardiogram, wish me luck!

I'll be back later this week to post a crafty project I did today :)

Happy Wednesday

Question and Answers

Since about February I have been sporadically participating in Emily Falconbridge's 52Q: A Year of Mini Art journaling. Basically she provides a question every week and we scrap the answers, (supposedly on just a little tag, but I've been doing 5.5X7.5 cards). It's a fun idea, and I like having the little prompts. It's my go-to scrap project when I don't have anything 'big' to scrap (literally, when I'm not feeling like doing a 12X12 or 8.5X11). I'm also trying to use up just scraps/old Stash for this project, no new supplies allowed, which has been fun...sometimes the pages aren't my 'usual style' since I'm using older stuff, but I'm enjoying the challenge of making dated scrap stuff look cool again :)

Some of the questions are a bit tough, I really don't have photos or answers for them (and I have a super hard time scrapping something without a photo), but I'm determined to get them all done before the baby is born next March. I'm not doing them in any particular order, I just choose whaever question inspires me, but I thought it would be fun to share some of my most recent ones (I think that I have about 21 done out of 42, so I still have lots of catching up to do!) My goal is to get 10 done this month and I've done 5 already, so halfway there!

Here's what I've done just this month (you can see the rest of the cards in my Mini Love set on Flickr), perhaps when I'm done them all I'll post them together here.

Question 15: What makes me ME?

Question 25: Have I had a hug today?

Question 32: What is something I never want to forget?

Question 36: Why did I do that?

Question 39: What brings me joy?

In other scrappy news, I have my December Daily started. I'm going with a 6X6 chipboard album, which will be the bulk of my pages/days, but I'm also using some envelopes/transparencies for a few of the days as well to mix it up (I want stuff sticking out of it all over the place, as usual.) So I have my chipboard and papers all cut, I just need some spray glue to adhere the pages to the chipboard. I'm using mostly 'traditional/nostalgic' papers and patterns (BG Boxer and K&Co), since I'm a sucker for a good ole' fashioned red/green/silver/brown country Christmas. Not sure how that will work with my daily photos, but we shall see. I want to keep it fairly simple so that when the times comes to journal/place my photos, I'll be able to do it easily. I'll post some sneaks of it tomorrow since I have the day off, woo!

What scrappy projects have you been working on?

Happy Tuesday all!

G.

Nursery Thoughts

So, as I've mentioned before, Dan and I are planning on moving home to NB either about a month before the baby is born or shortly after (depending on what the doctors tell me), so this has caused a somewhat major issue when it comes to starting/decorating a nursery. I will either have very little time to get one ready, or worse yet, I won't have one for the first few months at all and will have to wait until we are more settled to get one ready. It all depends on where we live (we may be 'roughing' it for the first few months...more on that later though.) Because of all this, I'm quite unable to get started on any serious thinking about what we need for the baby and how to decorate his space, which is driving me nuts, being the [obsessive] planner that I am.

The other day while surfing around, however, I discovered a colour combo that I really loved, and decided immediately that it would be our little boy's room colours, whenever that happened to come to be. Behold:

Teal/bright blue, white, apple/pear green and chocolate brown. Oh yes. Boyish but not just blues, bright but not too bright, just perfect I think. Once this combination got into my head, I was able to begin thinking of a 'dream' nursery. My initial reaction was to have everything in white (even the floors if I could pull it off), then have bright accessories/furniture in the other 3 colours. Scandinavian or Ikea-ish. Something like this:

But then I started seeing different rooms full of colour on the wall and I fell equally in love with those, so now I'm on the fence as to what I want to do. Here are a few wonderful examples (I found all of these simply by googling 'nursery decor', so I'm sorry I don't have creds.)

I think that the last brown one is my favourite, so gorgeous! So I suppose it's lucky that I have some time to decide on the colour of the room, since I'm still not sure and it will depend on many different things.

As far as the decor goes, I know that I want lots and lots of art, cute pillows, a comfortable chair/glider, floating shelves (or an Ikea Expedite-type shelf like above), a whimsical mobile, and lots of little vintage and handmade touches here and there, made by me :) I don't want it to be too cutesy or cartooney (none of that store bought, movie-based decor), but I'm thinking that if I had to choose a 'theme', it would be "woodland wonderland" (I absolsutely love all the little tree and fox and owl and deer decorations they have for kid's rooms these days!) Mainly I just want it to be functional, fun, and a place where I will want to spend lots of time ('cause let's face it, the boy won't care, if ever, what his room looks like, lol.)

Here are a few cute things I've had saved in my Favs on Etsy that would go well with the colour combo/concept I've picked out (check out my Favs-bottom left sidebar-for the shop credits):

(I just like this because it's in French) :)

(A little reminder for me and for him)

And a few random pictures I've found along the way (the wall collage is by Rachel, I had no idea that her little guy's room had the exact same colour combo!)

So that's that, we'll see how everything turns out, but this is my current dream and train of thought. I suppose I should focus more on the basics like getting a crib and furniture before I start worrying about the colour of the walls and what art to put up, but that's just not how my mind works I suppose. Now that I have my colours though, things will move along much better I think.

This weekend I'm planning on doing some shopping for a few things I've been needing/wanting for awhile (including some maternity pants! also some more baby stuff), finishing up a little bit of scrapping and doing lots of research for the Christmas projects/gifts I'd like to attempt this year. It SNOWED (!!) this morning and it really got me in the holiday mood (I'm listening to Christmas music as I type), so I hope that my motivation will stay this high all weekend.

Be back soon to share some scrappies (and hopefully some non-baby related thoughts! lol)

Happy Weekend!
G
xox