WP DT Projects... and Other Stuff!

For the past few weeks, it has become my mission to prematurely embrace my nesting instinct and get to work preparing the house for bub's arrival. At this stage, bub has no bedroom because the spare room has long been my scrap room. This equals untold mess, piles of product and half-done projects, and, well, just lots of crap!!! So I have been sorting, ditching, tidying, and cleaning like a mad woman so that I might somehow manage to cram my current stash into a couple of cupboards in one corner of our lounge room. So far I consider myself to be doing quite well... I think I might actually accomplish the task at hand, despite EVERYONE thinking it an impossible feat!!!

The nesting doesn't stop there... I have been to Ikea three times in two weeks to buy furniture for the scrap area and for the baby's room, I have bullied DH into renovating the hideous blue mess that is the previous owner's idea of painting a loungeroom, and I have begun packing my hospital bag. Once DH has done the loungeroom his next task will be to renovate the spare room, ie. ripping out 2 wardrobes, stripping paint and then re-painting, and carpeting. Poor guy... I reckon this nesting thing is harder for him than for me!!! LOL!

No doubt my crazy tendencies are only going to worsten over the next few weeks once I finish up at work (less than 2 weeks left) and the REAL nesting instinct kicks in. I am not a big fan of cleaning, so when the bleach comes out, you know bub isn't far away! LOL!

Between now and then, I have my baby shower this Sunday and then I am off to retreat with work the following Friday. I hope to do at least one page on retreat. I doubt that I'll get much more done because I'll also be working at the shop.

Anyway, onto more exciting things... I have scrapped!!! I know, I know... pick yourself up off the floor! I have actually stuck paper and photos down onto a page! Given I've made less than half a dozen layouts so far this year, this is quite an achievement! It's all thanks to Karen and Tam at Wicked Princesses who have promoted me to their Scrap DT. I am no longer on the Card DT, but instead I will each month be crafting with one of WP's new, better-than-ever layout or OTP kits. This month I got given the Pied Piper "Little Sprout" kit. This is what I created;

And some detail;

I'm in two minds about the squirrel die-cut, but otherwise I'm very happy with my first attempt at scrapping in a long while. Might just just make some time to do a bit more before bub arrives.

I'll also take this opportunity to share two cards that I made forever ago for Wicked Princess' 7 Deadly Sins challenge. The first was for the 6th week, Gluttony;

... and the second example was for the final week, Lust;

I have made one other card recently, but it has been accepted for publication in Scrapbook Creations so I cannot share it with you just yet.

That's it from me for now. I'm off to have a much needed nap.