Ruffles Guest Bedroom with Twin Beds

This weekend I re-did our guest bedroom. I was fortunate enough to inherit my Grandmother's 1930's solid maple wood twin beds and matching dresser.

The dresser was actually given to me as a child and I grew up with it. My grandma had painted it white and in my early 20's I had painted it black to match my décor at the time. Now its a teal! I finished it with Cece Caldwell's Thomasville Teal. If you don't know about Cece Caldwell's paints I would urge you to check out their website and find a retailer near you. They are amazing paints to work with and endless options on finishing and looks you can achieve with these paints. Plus they are eco-friendly and all natural.

I wanted this room to have a lot of ruffles and feel girly while not over using pink or purple, the traditional "girl colors". The dresser in teal was my main pop of color, I used more muted blue tones on the accent pillows on the beds to draw more blues into the room.

 

 

 

I found the accents pillows (both the white ruffles and the muted robin's egg blue ruffle trimmed pillows) at Home Sense! The white ruffle comforters are Bella Lux from Home Sense.

 

 

The chair in the corner of the room is also an antique. It also belonged to my grandmother. It's from the 60's. I love the shape of this chair so much! The mouse is Kent and I picked him up in Paris this past February. I absolutely fell in love with him and his fur vest and grey suspender trousers! He fits perfectly into this room.

 

 

 

 

The two floating shelves I picked up a couple years ago from Land of Nod for my son's nursery. I have these shelves styled with (from top left to bottom right):

 

1. "Peony Bottle" print from Indigo/Chapters. I lucked out on it as it was majorly reduced on price. Regular $46, marked down to $11.50. I love it because the teal blue of the bottle matches the room perfectly. Peonies are my favorite flower and the light blue around ties in the rest of the color scheme.

 

2. Pink frog. This pink jacketed frog, my mom purchased for me on our travels to London when I was just 9 years old at Harrods. I'm so thankful she kept him for me. Next to him are a couple of childhood books. The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher and The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter. Classics. Enough said!

 

3. Vintage milk vases with a peach floral.

 

4. Another vintage children's book set of classic nursery rhymes.

 

5. "I'm over the Moon for you" print (also from Chapter's - however it is no longer available).

 

6. 3 door knob hooks, to hang towels or sweaters.

 

7. "K" this wooden silver K is from our wedding. We used it on a large bird cage for our card box.

 

8. Another vintage milk vase with a small ceramic bird.

 

9. Underwater Babies by Seth Casteel.

 

10. King crown.



 

This book though. Okay I have to admit I bought it because it's just so cute and adorable AND happens to match my color scheme. But after I read the intro I loved it even more. This book is intended to draw awareness to water safety and the potential dangers of swimming pools.

Child drowning is the number 1 cause of accidental death for kids age 5 and under. This book is intended to raise awareness of the potential dangers of swimming pools and to generate awareness about water safety for children. Participation in formal swimming lessons can reduce risk of drowning by 88 percent for children under age 5!

 

 

 

 

 

It seemed to be purchased at the perfect time since my son's swimming lessons start back up today.

 

That's all on the new room, I hope you enjoyed the blog post on it. I absolutely adore this room and have been spending time reading in here, or playing with my son.

 

 

Happy Monday,

 

Xo

L

 



 

Bachelor Chris Barn Proposal

Okay first off, it's been a while since I have blogged. phew, okay now that that's off my chest. Let's get into the Bachelor. This show is so my guilty pleasure. I love reading Reality Steve to find out all the details before they happen and then watch along to see it all unfold!

I am a wedding planner so this show goes well with my profession. So with that said I'm going to start blogging more style, design related posts. I'm also a wife and a mommy to a 2 and a half year old boy so I may blog about him from time to time too.

This post though, is about Bachelor Chris and his barn proposal to Whitney!




  



I was personally loving all the décor elements. The beautiful chandeliers they had strung up, the stain glass windows, the lanterns. It was a very glam barn! Clearly not how life on the farm typically is!

You could tell Chris was shocked when he walked in! He's probably never seen so much décor anywhere, let alone in a barn!

What about the ring though?


I have to say I was vibbin on the rose gold with pink diamonds number that Neil Lane was showing Chris. But not shocked he stuck with a safe, simple choice. It's OBV gorgeous and MASSIVE! But it didn't blow me away. But I mean it is a total of 4 carats so I guess I'd take it if it was offered to me too. lol

Okay now what are your thoughts on two bachelorettes? Everyone is going crazy over this. I personally love it. I have a girl crush on Britt. She's SOOO hot! Kaitlyn is hilarious and also Canadian (me too girl!) so I think its great. Change it up. Let the guys decide night one or heck keep them both around for the entire season? Let them fight over the guys and the guys fight over them!? It'd make for great TV.



I loved that Kaitlyn was being REAL on her reaction to having to share the lime light with Britt. I can appreciate her honesty but I thought it was a little sad and somewhat self deprecating. Like be confident girl! Britt was playing it perfectly, being grateful to the network for the opportunity. Maybe she knows that given the choice the guys will pick her...and she's probably right.

Either way I can't wait to see how this plays out!

That's all for today folks!

XOX
L

Ectopic Pregnancy

Losing a child a any gestational age is not easy... On February 2nd we lost our 2nd baby.

I want to share and educate women about ectopic pregnancies through sharing my very recent and painful story. If it hadn't been for another woman sharing her story with me very recently, I never would've guessed that that's what could be happening to me.

An ectopic pregnancy is when the baby implants into the Fallopian tube (or sometimes elsewhere) rather than the uterus. It occurs only once in every 50 pregnancies. And in my case there was no reason as to why this happened, I didn't have scar tissue in the tube that the baby attached to (which can be a reason for ectopic pregnancy) or any of the other "risk factors." It was just a flukey unfortunate thing...

The pain started as a dull ache in my lower left quadrant. It was a tolerable pain and I thought maybe this is just implantation cramping. That night I was violently sick, vomiting more than 15 times. Again I thought maybe this is just extreme morning sickness. The next day the dull ache intensified and went straight through to the same spot in my lower back. When I couldn't take the pain any longer we rushed to the RGH emergency.

From there the ER doctor didn't suspect ectopic pregnancy. In fact he never brought it up, I did. He suspected that it was in fact normal pregnancy symptoms as I "wasn't in enough pain" for it to be an ectopic. We were almost sent home.

Thankfully the pain intensified even more while I was still in the hospital and we were finally sent for an ultrasound and a consult with a gyne. It was determined that the best route was to go in for surgery and check things out. It was discovered that I did in fact have an ectopic pregnancy in my left Fallopian tube and it had ruptured through the back wall of the tube. The baby was 4cm and I had internal bleeding.

The good news out of this, and yes there is good news, is that this does not affect fertility. It does NOT cut fertility in half like you may think. In fact the right tube will over compensate and can even pull eggs from the left ovary. The other good news is that I'm still here, alive and well for my first born and the love of my life.

Every baby on this earth is a blessing and I'm sure squeezing my baby Smith a little bit tighter, since I can't hold the one I lost...

Birth Story

I am so thrilled to welcome our son Smith Jon Glenn to the world.

Our birth story is a crazy one. As my last post indicated my last day of work was September 7th. That night the hubby and I went for dinner at Teppanyaki a japanese style restaurant where they cook the food in front of you. It was our celebratory date night - last day of work!

On Saturday September 8th we had a busy day planned, we had to go over to our condo (our rental investment property) and do some paint touch ups. Here I am 9 months pregnant rolling paint! We got home and decided to give our house a full cleaning. I was even washing windows! Hubby was having a few guys over for some pre-drinks before the K9 cabaret and so I was in the kitchen getting some appies ready. Everyone was supposed to be over at 5pm, it was 5:15 and hubb told me the boys would be here in 15 minutes. I was just about to turn the oven on and boom, I feel a gush of fluid and I think to myself... did I just pee myself? I go to the bathroom and check, nope that's definitely clear fluid. And the gush never stopped! I ran to the back door, to find hubby having a beer and I yelled "MY water just BROKE!" He did not believe me at first - he said "shut up!" and I said yaaa, its gushing! WHAT DO I DO! He said K lets go to the hospital! Get your bag!

Side note: because I was carrying a breech baby I was told if my water were to break to get to the hospital right away.

So I grab a towel and shove it in my lulu lemon pants and off we go! Now the flow of water didn't stop, by the time we go to the hospital 10 minutes later I'd soaked through the towel and the seat of my car was soaked.

Hubby dropped me at the emergency room door and went to park. After what felt like an eternity we got checked in (the women working the front desk was rude and I actually started to cry - when I got up to the front I said "my water broke and I have breech baby so I need to get in for a c section right away. And she said something like "well I can't do that for you" with such a rude attitude. I wanted to say YA I KNOW LADY, get me admitted so I can get up to Labour and delivery.) Anyway after a couple minutes we got escorted up to labour and delivery!

Once we got there I told them the situation and they said they would just check to make sure my water did break. They asked me to sit in the chair to go over my information. When I stood up - that chair was soaked too. The nurse said "ok yes you're water is broken!" haha yes thanks tips!

We got into an assessment room, hooked up to the fetal heart rate machine and saw a couple nurses to go over our situation. We were told the OBGYN on duty was currently in another section and we'd be next. However the last time I ate was 4pm (a small snack) and normally they want 8 hours with no food or water before they operate.  We saw the OBGYN - they confirmed baby was still breech and the section would go ahead.  Because I didn't eat much they said we'd be in the OR for a 10pm section. Around 6pm my contractions started and they were coming over 3-5 minutes. They honestly felt exactly like my period cramps (note: I have the worst cramps ever, debilitating really - I've had to leave work or not go into work because they've been so bad.) At about 9pm we were asked to leave the assessment room and go sit in the waiting room of labour and delivery until 9:45pm - when we were told my hubby needed to be suited up and ready to go into the OR. 9:45pm came and went and my contractions were coming on stronger and closer together. Probably about every 1-2 minutes. Oh and the water never stopped gushing! I had to go to the bathroom and change the pads every half hour. The worst part about it was I was labouring with 4 other women. I couldn't get any drugs because we were waiting to get into the OR to get my spinal. Finally at 11:30pm we found our nurse and she did bring some "gas" it helped a little but I probably only used it for a few contractions because a few minutes later we were able to go into the OR.

In the OR I needed to get my spinal and catheter before hubby could come in. My anesthesiologist was not kind... he shoved the needle in my back without any warning and I jumped! Then he tells me not to move! Well too late, so now I'm panicking my head that I'm going to be paralyzed! They lay me down on the table and start to put the catheter in and I can still feel my legs and feel them touching me so then I'm panicking that I'm going to feel the cut. I tell them I can feel and the anesthesiologist takes a needle and pokes my stomach says tell me when you feel pain. I tell him that I can feel all of that. He was SO rude and says oh that's painful? And I said no, its not painful but I can feel it. And he says you will feel it but it won't be painful. So I'm thinking, how am I going to feel this yet it's not going to be painful?? Finally they bring my hubby in, and I'm in tears. He's so pumped that we are about to finally meet our son! All I could say is "I'm scared, I'm scared" over and over. No less than 20 minutes later our son was born! And no, I didn't feel the cut...but I did feel them digging around in my belly to get Smith out.

They called my hubby over to take photos and cut the cord! After that they needed to take Smith off to the nursery for some checks, they brought him to my face. I couldnt hold him since my arms were stretched out on the table and i was being sewn up. But I nuzzled him with my nose and gave him butterfly kisses!!

By 2am, Daddy had brought Smith into recovery and I was nursing my sweet baby boy!

Today Smith is 2 months old, I can't believe how fast time is flying!!