My Adventures As An Insomniac

Hey Sister(:

I thought that I would share an adventure that I had tonight.

Apparently I thought that it would be an absolutely brilliant idea to tear my room apart and put it back together at 9 o'clock at night.

Ah, my brilliances stuns you, doesn't it?

The thing is, if I get an idea in my head of something that I want to do, it spins around and around and refuses to let me sleep. 

Additionally, I already have a problem with sleeping, so if I have something spinning around in my head (accompanied by all the other spinny stuff that's already going on) it would just be less effort to just get whatever is bugging me done and go to bed, than to lay in bed twitching. 

Or so I thought. 

Before I get into the story, let me kindly inform you that my room was more trashed than it had been in months before I even started tearing it apart! 

I had about three loads of laundry just staring into my soul.

(Please excuse the books, they're about the only 'untidy' things that I allow to chronically plague my room)

So getting to the point, the point of tearing my room apart was to switch my stuffed animal pile next to my desk (you can't see it in the picture, but I promise you it was there) with my bookshelf in my closet. 

But first I had to move my dresser over.

In order to do that I had to take out the drawers.

This is shame-worthy, but here you go...

The horror! 

(Keep in mind that this is after a really long day, and it's probably 10 o'clock-ish at this point.)

This is around the time I realize that this was a bad idea.

Like, really bad.

Because there is no way that I could sleep amidst that mess.

So I plowed on.

And the results were extremely worth-while.

Ahhh, I love having a clean room!

Except now I can't sleep.

Which is why I am blogging at 1 o'clock in the morning. 

I love ya Sis!

Sincerely, Your Insomniac Sista

How to Make a Nursing/Carseat Cover

I decided to make a HUGE nursing cover because the nursing covers I have (Utter Cover, Munchkin, other name brand covers) do not cover my baby when he is grabbing at the cover and pulling it up. (Not to mention he is 20 pounds!) I know there are a lot of moms out there that don't care about covering up and don't mind flaunting it all. If you are one of those women more power to you! I however, am not. That is why I made this. I made my cover a little bigger than I originally planned, but i still like it and use it. You can adjust the size to your wanting.

Okay, so I started by cutting two different pieces of fabric to the size. This will be the piece of material that covers some of your back starting at your shoulder, so you don't want it too big. I cut these pieces to 34" x 11 1/2"

If you have patterned material you will want to face them in towards each other, so you are able to see the wrong side of the pattern. Sew around three sides and leave one side with an 8" gap to flip the material right side in. As you can see I sewed too far in so I had a couple inch worth of material that I should have cut off. I was too lazy and just cut the corners, haha. Whoops.

Flip your material right side in and sew the gap. Fold the material in so it lines up with what was already sewn.

Now you will be sewing together the piece that will cover the front of you. I cut these pieces 34" x 40" . On one side cut a "y". You will want to lay the material on top of each other, so it lines up when you sew it. This is the part I found tricky. I wish I would have sewed three sides together first so it was easier to line up the material when I cut the y shape, but I didn't. This is the most time consuming part!

Sew one side by the y, and the y itself. Leave the other side open so you can pull the material right side in.

Turn it right side in and fold the material in and sew it so it lines up with everything else.

Now you will connect the two pieces you sewed together!

Lay the small piece on the big piece so the matching material (if you did two different colors) are facing towards each other. Leave the "y" open. Just sew the sides of it. That is where your head will go!

And Wala! There you have it. A carseat cover...

...and a nursing cover!