I started Aurelia’s baby book. I will soon post photos of the overall setup, too. But here’s one of the layouts I did in the last two days. This is from his second week. Isn’t he so cute?
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 And then both the boys fell asleep while I worked on Aurelia’s baby-book layouts.  Oh, and I came home to a surprise from Linda at Sakura of America. They are wonderful sponsors for creative therapy and I told her how much I loved this week’s prize and here’s what I got in the mail:  Isn’t she awesome? This is a fantastic company and I LOVE these pens. Here’s to a good weekend!
 All in all, an unproductive day today. Not feeling up to doing anything. I decided to allow myself a day of rest so that I can give myself permission not to be productive today. Oh well. At this moment, David’s playing with some of my stickers while the little one sleeps.  And I am working on catching up here while the SSH is still down. ugh.
 Aurelia napped right on my shoulder the whole time. And then we came back home and did our morning routine and then left the house again at 2:30 for David’s first gymnastics class:  He hadn’t taken his nap so he was really tired and I think the class tired him out even more. Though he appeared to be enjoying it, he said he didn’t like it. We agreed to try it for one more week and then see. After the class, we went to pickup our CSA food and came home, all tired. And then Jake came home and we all watched the Team Time Trial on Stage 4 of Tour de France.  And to end our evening, my friends Holly, Peisun, and Nadia from Google came over with pizza, diapers, brownies and gift certificates to Godiva. All in all, the day was long but fantastic. This is inspired by this post by Andrea Scher who reminded me about the amazing book art. Somewhere she said she wished she had books she could arrange this way. This made me realize that I probably had enough books to try this out..  To be fair, I didn’t take the time to do all th shade-sorting he did but I think it still looks quite awesome. I did a few adjustments. All the extra-large and extra-small books went on the bottom two shelves. Each shelf is double-stacked. I got to have 3 whites, 1 yellow, 1 orange, 2 pink/reds, 2 greens, 2 blues, 1 brown, 1 purple and grey, and 3 blacks. I must admit, I love looking at it. See, Cole, it worked! I wanted to put shelves in both kids’ rooms so I could put fun things on them. I have yet to buy more but I already like the way they turned out.  Aurelia’s shelves have a print by Kal Barteski, a drawing by gingerwinks, a few stuffed animals, David’s first pair of shoes, and a lot of books.  David’s shelves have two photos of him that I love, the letter D, a favorite book, some more stuffed animals, and a small pring by Kal. There’s more coming here, but I already love it.  and here’s a sneak into Aurelia’s closet. His clothes are color-coded where orange and pink are 0-3 months and green and blue are 3-6 months. I know it’s a bit obsessive but it makes it easier for me to find stuff. Also the boxes on top are sorted by year for one, two, three and newborn (stuff he’s already grown out of). This is inspired by a wonderful etsy shop item. Ever since I saw this, I wanted to make one for Aurelia’s room. Mine is far inferior to hers but it’s handmade by me. And I love going in Aurelia’s room and seeing it every day.   Doesn’t it look sweet? As we move into our new home, I had some projects I wanted to try out. This is me documenting some of them. When I unpacked all my scrapbooking stuff, here’s how the living room looked:  And then little by little, I put stuff away, so my table ended up like this:  isn’t that much nicer? and here’s everything else:  All those black buckets store a LOT of stuff. And here’s a peek inside the drawers:  Tim Holtz stuff.  More Tim Holtz stuff.  Paint. All of the drawers are organized by categories that make sense to me. I’ve been using them for ten days now and so far the system is working great.  And here is the wall I look at when I work. A wreath from Pottery Barn, a sign I bought from a yard sale, and a beautiful painting by Kelly Rae Roberts. The other wall has a beautiful bird drawing from this etsy shop (which you can see in the “after” photo.) So far, I’m loving this space to bits. Very functional and very tidy.
We started today on a really bad note since aurelia really struggled last night and neither of us slept much. David was kind enough to play in his room as I took a nap while Aurelia slept this morning. But somehow I threw out my back in the process and it’s hurting like crazy. Tomorrow is a really long day for me so I am hoping that it will be better by then (even though it’s likely that it won’t be.)  I also started Aurelia’s book today finally and I think I really like the system I came up with. Let’s see how it looks when it comes together. 
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