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| Granddaughter and Grandson - Can't wait to cuddle. |
Today I finished a nice assortment of baby headbands. There are 13 in total varying in size from 14" to 16". The on-line sizing chart suggested 12" for newborn, 13" for 3-6 months and 14" for 6-12 months. Luckily I checked with my daughter before cutting the elastic as this baby started out with a 14" head. I also made a simple banner to be used as a photo prop. I toyed with the idea of adding crochet flowers but decided simple was better.
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| Crochet headbands (4 total) |
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| Assorted elastic headbands (8) and simple banner (sage and grey) |
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| Elastic headband with layered crochet flower |
We went shopping recently and bought a few girly baby clothes. We've also been collecting a nice pile of gifts to take. I have a pink snowsuit from a friend at work, something from GG and other GG and a gift from our neighbour. I brought the large suitcase upstairs today and it's already half filled. There is still plenty of room for my clothes so no worries.
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| Dress with 2 pair of tights |
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| Dresses - so cute |
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| Onesies - 2 different sizes |
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| Sports shirt for our grandson |
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| Snowsuit from friend - never worn |
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| Gifts from GG and Other GG for both kiddies |
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| Gift from our neighbour - Wonder what it is? |
This week I also decided to reduce clutter in the house. I read a few 'simple living' blogs to get motivated and started with clothes. I had collected a couple bags of clothes over the winter and with one more sweep of my closet and my son's closet ended up with three big garbage bags full of items for Goodwill. It felt great to get them out of the house.
I then decided to go through my book cabinet and get rid of books I do not plan to read again. I had four boxes full of books, one box full of paper for recycling plus another box of old text books. Today we took the books to two different used bookstores. The Book Addict and Basically Books went through the boxes, selected what they wanted and paid in cash. At the end of the day, I was down 2 1/2 boxes of books and up $66 cash. In case you're wondering, they give 10% of the cover price listed on the books.
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| Book Purging Party |
There are many, many more books in our library. I plan to go through them and visit a couple other book shops in town before donating the rest at either Goodwill or Value Village. The text books are good for recycling only. We were told to remove the covers and put 'guts' out with our weekly paper collection. My husband is now on board with getting rid of book clutter, although I did have to pry him away from looking at Basically Books. He almost bought a used book on car repair until I reminded him we were there to purge not acquire.
The last thing we cleared out today was an old TV from our son's room. It had been unplugged and piled in our spare room for months. Staples recycles electronics so that's where we dropped it off today. I think there are more electronics in the house that should be gotten rid of but I'll leave those for another day. I am very happy with the progress I've made this week. In fact it feels so wonderful that I'm totally motivated to keep at it.
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| Old TV - finally gone |
Now I just have to come up with my next crochet project. There are so many options, it's tough to pick just one.
You have been busy - cute headbands - shopping for little girls clothes is fun - having already done that, we have to make ourselves walk past that dept.
ReplyDeleteI was tempted at Tommy Hilfiger sales today but decided to wait until I'm with Natalie then she can pick what she likes best.
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