Lack of Sleep + No School = Crib Skirt?

Last night was a doozy.

I recognize that in 11 weeks, I may be very, very thankful for a solid 3.5 hours of sleep but this morning my wake-up call came way too early—more accurately, my bedtime was ridiculously way too late!! Such can’t be attributed to a growing belly and uncomfortable sleeping positions. Rather the verdict—I assume—was none other than:

PEPSI!

Now I am not a regular pop drinker overall and haven’t been for a long time, but I do still drink it from time to time. However usually clear pop, or at least caffeine-free pop, is my cola drink of choice. Last night though since Pepsi was cold and Root Beer was not, I went for the caffeine-filled, sugar loaded dark pop way too late in the evening aka after my preferred bedtime.

As Mister and I had pillow talk at about 11:30, I asked him if he was ready to go to sleep as his eyes blinked slower and slower as my mouth moved faster and faster. He said he was when I was ready to be done talking. I decided to be selfless and shut up so at least one of us could sleep. J

Because I was wired wide awake, I logged onto my laptop and began surfing and searching. Catching up on Facebook and reading blogs. After over an hour I decided to head out to the living room as I was afraid the light from the computer would wake my sleeping beauty. I also took advantage of this time by texting my fav lil' bro who was still wide awake raking in the cash at a casino [despite telling him g'night hours prior]!. 

I ended up looking at nursery things and diy blogs and 2 hours and countless browser windows later, I found a few nursery ideas that I really liked. Now I have looked at other sites—and some of the same one’s I looked at last night—many times before, but I finally settled on what I liked for our lil’ Mystery Massie! We’ll see how long this “settledness” lasts and if it gets carried through in the plans!

I did however decide that I for sure wanted to make a crib skirt for the nursery. So after a partial day at school wrapping up loose ends, I headed to Hobby Lobby and JoAnn Fabrics to find the *perfect* fabric to use.  I gazed up and down the aisles at JoAnn’s finding 4 “elephant based” fabrics that I liked but couldn’t decide on—each had parts I liked more than another fabric—and then I decided to just leave. I then headed next door to Hobby Lobby to find it. Well their selection sucked was quite limited. So I bought Heat ‘N Bond and Velcro strips and headed back to JoAnn’s to force myself to decide. Finally I did. And I settled on this pattern:

Huge piece of large colorful animal fabric.

As I drove away from the stores, I was kicking myself for picking this pattern and not one of the others [I was having a self-heated debate as to which fabric would be best to “genderize” after the lil’ one makes its appearance], but now “in the end” I do think it was the best choice! When I got home I immediately laid out the fabric and was ready to cut. On one website last night I found an uber-easy no sew tutorial for a crib skirt and I was ready to go. However I ran into one dilemma: the fabric’s print and the way I was planning on cutting would’ve made the animals all sideways.

Crap.

No fear though. After a few mathematical calculations, and remembering another site I came across last night, I had a solution! Cut in the proper way and put in a panel using leftover fabric from my crib sheet adventure! Sa-weet. Still ahead!

Within an hour or so, after thinking I’d have to go back and buy more fabric, I had a completed a crib skirt, and liked it! J Not a single stitch was made but rather I used Heat ‘N Bond for all the hemming and seams—why did I not know about this before—and then used Velcro to attach it to the crib mattress frame.

Simple Materials.
Fabric, "Panel" Fabric, Heat 'N Bond & Velcro.

The Final Product

Easy-peasy.

Now just to wait and see what Chris thinks of my latest project before I start another one soon! Another reason I love summer break!

Total cost for this project was a bank breaking $11.48 and I still have some leftover Heat ‘N Bond and Velcro! Gotta love coupons! J

Sorry about the sidewaysness. It took
forever to load and I'm not patient enough
tonight to redo it.
Note amount-of-sleep-last-night above.

Until next *project* time!