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Toni (Galet1) is due with her first baby on Feb. 8, 2012!
So I'm hosting a VIRTUAL BABY SHOWER for her.
Here is how it will work:
You join here on the thread -- post to let me know you want to attend.
You make your baby gift for her, TAKE PICS to post here on the night of the shower (NOT BEFORE), and then send the gift directly to her, so that she receives it early January, before January 6th. Be sure to mark the package DO NOT OPEN UNTIL SHOWER clearly so she doesn't peek!!!
HER ADDRESS:
Toni Ankrom
419 Railroad St.
PO Box 58
Unionville Center, OH 43077
PLEASE TRY TO GET HER THE GIFT BY JAN. 6TH BUT AT THE VERY LEAST HAVE YOUR PIC OF IT READY TO POST ON THE 6TH!
We'll be working on an 8"x8" Baby Scrapbook album for her... so if you would like to make some 8x8 pages or scrapbooking accents for her, that would be fabulous, but if you would prefer to send her something else or something with it too, you can always do that!
FYI, Toni and her DH do not know what the sex of the baby is (and don't want to)! I'll post updates here as we learn more:
NURSERY THEME: Nursery is Kidsline Countryside - barn with dog driving a tractor, there's a horse and a cow...all in neutral green/beige. We are country people! ;) To give you an idea: KidsLine Country Side 4 Piece Crib Set
On Friday, January 6, 2012, at 8pm EST we'll all log on here to this thread, and have a virtual baby shower for her!
We'll play some baby shower games and have some fun prizes too, just like a regular shower, and we'll post pics at that time too of the gifts so everyone can "ooooooooooooo" and "ahhhhhhhhhh" over them too.
Christina! How's your little one doing??? I think about ya'll every now and then and hope everythings going well. I try to keep up on the crochet thread...
This is totally unnecessary and I'm truly blessed to have friends such as all of you!!
Be sure to mark the package DO NOT OPEN UNTIL SHOWER clearly so she doesn't peek!!!
FYI, Toni and her DH do not know what the sex of the baby is, and haven't picked out names yet. I'll post any updates here if we find out anymore info before then, such as that or nursery theme, wish lists, etc...
Aw....really?....NO peeking?? That's a bummer... lol!
Nursery is Kidsline Countryside - barn with dog driving a tractor, there's a horse and a cow...all in neutral green/beige. We are country people! ;) To give you an idea: KidsLine Country Side 4 Piece Crib Set
PS - it's driving my MIL CRAZY that we didn't find out what we're having....it's so much fun to mess with her! <insert evil laugh> She's really nice, just drives me nutso sometimes, so it's fun to pick at her with this.
We are 'leaning' toward Wyatt Anthony or Dillon Anthony for a boy...possibly Ryleigh Isabelle if a girl (Anthony for my Dad who I am named for or Isabelle for my maternal grandmother).
Last note! For now DH has nicknamed the baby "peanut" and it has stuck, so that's what we're calling "it" for now!
We want to thank you in advance for providing an excuse for us to all meet up, craft, and thoroughly have a good time... all in your honor of course.
Baby stuff is always fun!!! We want to celebrate with you!
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Christina! How's your little one doing??? I think about ya'll every now and then and hope everythings going well. I try to keep up on the crochet thread...
This is totally unnecessary and I'm truly blessed to have friends such as all of you!!
Aw....really?....NO peeking?? That's a bummer... lol!
Nursery is Kidsline Countryside - barn with dog driving a tractor, there's a horse and a cow...all in neutral green/beige. We are country people! ;) To give you an idea: KidsLine Country Side 4 Piece Crib Set
PS - it's driving my MIL CRAZY that we didn't find out what we're having....it's so much fun to mess with her! <insert evil laugh> She's really nice, just drives me nutso sometimes, so it's fun to pick at her with this.
We are 'leaning' toward Wyatt Anthony or Dillon Anthony for a boy...possibly Ryleigh Isabelle if a girl (Anthony for my Dad who I am named for or Isabelle for my maternal grandmother).
Last note! For now DH has nicknamed the baby "peanut" and it has stuck, so that's what we're calling "it" for now!
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This is such a neat idea! I love it and have to play along! I'm not sure what I will create just quite yet....possibly pages but at least paper piecings for the baby book!
Toni do you live on a farm or just in the country?
Christina! How's your little one doing??? I think about ya'll every now and then and hope everythings going well. I try to keep up on the crochet thread...
This is totally unnecessary and I'm truly blessed to have friends such as all of you!!
Trust me, kiddo, it's necessary. Heck we GO HUNTING for reasons to have a party. LOL You made it easy to find you :-D
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Hey, Kelly - is your avatar really a pic of a big, burly guy scrapbooking?? Pic is small, so hard to see, but that's so sweet!!
Yep, that big burly guy is my husband, Bob. He's is stamping with our almost 4 yr old granddaughter - Adrian. She loves to stamp and has started her own $1 stamp collection and has her own scrubber LOL
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Aw....really?....NO peeking?? That's a bummer... lol!
Nursery is Kidsline Countryside - barn with dog driving a tractor, there's a horse and a cow...all in neutral green/beige. We are country people! ;) To give you an idea: KidsLine Country Side 4 Piece Crib Set
PS - it's driving my MIL CRAZY that we didn't find out what we're having....it's so much fun to mess with her! <insert evil laugh> She's really nice, just drives me nutso sometimes, so it's fun to pick at her with this.
We are 'leaning' toward Wyatt Anthony or Dillon Anthony for a boy...possibly Ryleigh Isabelle if a girl (Anthony for my Dad who I am named for or Isabelle for my maternal grandmother).
Last note! For now DH has nicknamed the baby "peanut" and it has stuck, so that's what we're calling "it" for now!
I saw on a surprise shower kind of thing (I think on TLC) where they took a Blue and a Pink teddy bear to the sono with them. After they left the room, the technician put whichever color bear matched the sex of the baby in a gift bag. The other was donated to the children's hospital. Then the couple would go to lunch or dinner afterwards with family and friends and open the gift bag to learn the sex. I thought that was kind of cool.
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I saw on a surprise shower kind of thing (I think on TLC) where they took a Blue and a Pink teddy bear to the sono with them. After they left the room, the technician put whichever color bear matched the sex of the baby in a gift bag. The other was donated to the children's hospital. Then the couple would go to lunch or dinner afterwards with family and friends and open the gift bag to learn the sex. I thought that was kind of cool.
She is big and busy and beautiful! I think of you all the time... especially when I have your quilt with me and everyone (and I do mean everyone) asks me about it! So excited for you!
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Christina! How's your little one doing??? I think about ya'll every now and then and hope everythings going well. I try to keep up on the crochet thread...
This is totally unnecessary and I'm truly blessed to have friends such as all of you!!
Ducki - so glad you're joining us!! I WISH we lived on a farm! We have a small house on roughly half acre "in town". But our town is one of those in the middle of nowhere with one business, no red lights, one church and a post office....and our house is on the last street, so we have nothing but farm field across from us - YEA! My Mom lives 2 minutes away on 5 acres with noone around her. I'd love to at least have some chickens, but they're not allowed...
I'm still working on those blankets for your swap in Feb! I have all the material, just trying to find time to sit down and SEW!
Kelly - sounds like you found another of the "good" ones! I bet it's so cute to see him stamping with your GD!! I will *try* to think of a list of like-to-haves...but I'm not very good about asking for things for myself (even though it's really for Peanut!). LOVE that teddy bear story - that sounds so neat!
Christina - send your "girl karma" my way, will ya?? ;) I'm really wishing for a girl so I can stamp with her! Course DH wants a little huntin' buddy....I tried to tell him you can teach a girl to hunt or work on a truck, but you can't dress a little boy up in pink dresses! lol!
Well, thank GOODNESS that Toni made it easy to find a new excuse to have a party... because I am definitely NOT giving us any reasons you know!!!! hahaha
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Trust me, kiddo, it's necessary. Heck we GO HUNTING for reasons to have a party. LOL You made it easy to find you :-D
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Watch what you wish for! I love living on the farm, but not the price tags that go with it! Almost 10,000 for a new tin roof on the barn...ugh! Are you sure you don't live near me? We have no stop light either! We live 2 miles out of "the big town"! lol We live on a 90 acre farm but almost everyone near us does. However, we have one of the biggest barns in our county, and probably the smallest herd of cattle!
What state do you live in? I'm in Nortwestern Pennsylvania.
My youngest grandson was a month old yesterday, and has made it to 7# finally. He was 5'9" when he was born and I call him tiny peanut! lol
We raised two girls, and neither of them are girly girls. They drive tractor, ride horses, go hunting, enjoy 4-wheelers, and the youngest stamps and scrapbooks with me. You will find dh will just make his daddy's girl a lil tomboy if you have a girl, that's what mine did!
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Ducki - so glad you're joining us!! I WISH we lived on a farm! We have a small house on roughly half acre "in town". But our town is one of those in the middle of nowhere with one business, no red lights, one church and a post office....and our house is on the last street, so we have nothing but farm field across from us - YEA! My Mom lives 2 minutes away on 5 acres with noone around her. I'd love to at least have some chickens, but they're not allowed...
I'm still working on those blankets for your swap in Feb! I have all the material, just trying to find time to sit down and SEW!
Kelly - sounds like you found another of the "good" ones! I bet it's so cute to see him stamping with your GD!! I will *try* to think of a list of like-to-haves...but I'm not very good about asking for things for myself (even though it's really for Peanut!). LOVE that teddy bear story - that sounds so neat!
Christina - send your "girl karma" my way, will ya?? ;) I'm really wishing for a girl so I can stamp with her! Course DH wants a little huntin' buddy....I tried to tell him you can teach a girl to hunt or work on a truck, but you can't dress a little boy up in pink dresses! lol!
My dad scrapbooks. Usually his hunting and fishing pictures and a vacations he goes on. He is constantly taking pictures of more everyday thigns but he puts them on CD's and gives them to the respective children whose ever kids are in the pictures. I was supposed to go to a scrapbooking retreat in February but I am caught up on my albums and would not have enough things to scrap. I have a few older albums I can redo since they are in those LIFT THE SHEET really old albums but not feeling it right now. Still debating on finishing my wedding album just in case my girl wants to have it someday. I got divorced befre I finished the album LOLOLOLOL
Another question for the momma to be...what size scrapbooks do you usually make? 8x8 or 12x12?
Well, I've never actually scrapbooked! I know, I know! I did purchase an 8x8 for a wedding album 'cause it really is something I'd like to do....but it's currently gathering dust waiting for me to reprint some of our photos and get started!!
Wow! I can't believe your lil grandbaby is already a month old! I remember when you were still anxiously waiting his arrival!
Well, even if we did have a farm, I dunno what I'd have on it. DH calls horses "hayburners" and says they have no value and I wouldn't have the heart to run beef cattle.
Oh! I'm in central Ohio - about 20 miles west of Columbus. So we're practically neighbors!
Oh, I know what I'd have if I had a farm...
I'd like to have goats (cheese and lawn mowing), llamas/alpacas, chickens, maybe sheep... I think I'd mostly want a lot of them as babies, they are so cute!
We have talked about sustainability and self-sustenance, long-term, so I'd like to eventually have something small but yet able to sustain ourselves basically. I love gardening and we know we could probably grow enough for our needs year round from that. We could be pretty much vegetarians but would like to raise chickens for the eggs probably, and possibly goats for cheese/milk.
No horses for me... and we probably wouldn't do beef, though we have considered a possible cow for dairy but unlikely since I'm pretty much lactose intolerant anyhow. And then you have to do hay, etc. for the cow...
Ducki - so glad you're joining us!! I WISH we lived on a farm! We have a small house on roughly half acre "in town". But our town is one of those in the middle of nowhere with one business, no red lights, one church and a post office....and our house is on the last street, so we have nothing but farm field across from us - YEA! My Mom lives 2 minutes away on 5 acres with noone around her. I'd love to at least have some chickens, but they're not allowed...
I'm still working on those blankets for your swap in Feb! I have all the material, just trying to find time to sit down and SEW!
Kelly - sounds like you found another of the "good" ones! I bet it's so cute to see him stamping with your GD!! I will *try* to think of a list of like-to-haves...but I'm not very good about asking for things for myself (even though it's really for Peanut!). LOVE that teddy bear story - that sounds so neat!
Christina - send your "girl karma" my way, will ya?? ;) I'm really wishing for a girl so I can stamp with her! Course DH wants a little huntin' buddy....I tried to tell him you can teach a girl to hunt or work on a truck, but you can't dress a little boy up in pink dresses! lol!
Good point!
For his information I just took a picture of a 14 year old girl on Sunday who'd killed a doe during youth hunt season. Dad admitted he'd been raised that women didn't go hunting. But the day came when his little girl asked if she could go and he couldn't tell her now. :-) Now he's wife's been asking to go.
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Lol, Susan! Sounds like we read the same books/magazines! We would love to be able to sustain ourselves as much as possible here, too. It will be a work in process. One thing at a time. Like mentioned above it comes with costs and tons of work. I'm like you, vegetables, fruit trees/vines, chickens for eggs and keeping bugs out of garden. Alpacas would be purely because I love them and yarn! I could go on, but it would really be nonsense. I know we can't do all that!
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Well, I've never actually scrapbooked! I know, I know! I did purchase an 8x8 for a wedding album 'cause it really is something I'd like to do....but it's currently gathering dust waiting for me to reprint some of our photos and get started!!
Wow! I can't believe your lil grandbaby is already a month old! I remember when you were still anxiously waiting his arrival!
Well, even if we did have a farm, I dunno what I'd have on it. DH calls horses "hayburners" and says they have no value and I wouldn't have the heart to run beef cattle.
Oh! I'm in central Ohio - about 20 miles west of Columbus. So we're practically neighbors!
You're about 5-5 1/2 hours from me then. It took me 4 1/2 to 5 hrs to go get my older brother at DeVry in Columbus for the weekends, depending on traffic.
Actually grandson 1 was born Sept 22nd, and grandson 2 was born Oct 7th so both boys are over a month old, and Kaylee turns 1 on Nov. 23rd, which is my birthday, and my MIL's. I'm an old grandma now! lol
We just brought home another horse tonight. Dh also says they are hayburners, but he's a softy for the kids and grandkids. He drove abt 5 hrs the end of August to get the 2 minis I got for the grandbaby's to ride as they grew up. It's not that I couldn't have found one within 10 miles of our place, but these 2 had so much in common with other horses my dd has had that it was a sign to me they had to come here. The lady couldn't afford to feed them anymore and wanted them to go to a good home, and the price was very reasonable. However, dh was a good sport since it cost $250 in gas round trip in his Dodge Big Horn! I do love them very much and so does Kaylee! Right now she has full control of both cause the boys are way to little!! lol Charli found Stormy (which was Sandy until about 4 hours ago when we picked her up) an Appy/Shire cross on the internet about 30 mins from us, and she was bought for a 5 year old that was riding minis to move up to as he grew, but he was scared of her. She's beautiful gray with dark black feet and mane. She's only 13 or 14 hands, but looks a lot like the Shire (drafthorse breed) just smaller.
I have belted galloway cows (oreo cookie cows) down at the cattle barn, and I love them too, but only when they are little! Once they get big they are dh's problem to take care of! :lol:
Okay ladies, it looks like we are going to have to send some fabulous work so Toni just has to get that wedding album out and do it! lol
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Oh, I know what I'd have if I had a farm...
I'd like to have goats (cheese and lawn mowing), llamas/alpacas, chickens, maybe sheep... I think I'd mostly want a lot of them as babies, they are so cute!
We have talked about sustainability and self-sustenance, long-term, so I'd like to eventually have something small but yet able to sustain ourselves basically. I love gardening and we know we could probably grow enough for our needs year round from that. We could be pretty much vegetarians but would like to raise chickens for the eggs probably, and possibly goats for cheese/milk.
No horses for me... and we probably wouldn't do beef, though we have considered a possible cow for dairy but unlikely since I'm pretty much lactose intolerant anyhow. And then you have to do hay, etc. for the cow...
Actually, a lot of people are lactose intolerant, such as dh, but can drink the fresh cow's milk without trouble. Other's can drink goat's milk without trouble. Dh knows dairy cows come with divorce papers! So far he hasn't bought any so I know he still loves me! :lol:
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Alpacas are so cute I would love to have some, but they spit when they get nervous or excited and I don't want covered in Alpaca spit! :lol:
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Lol, Susan! Sounds like we read the same books/magazines! We would love to be able to sustain ourselves as much as possible here, too. It will be a work in process. One thing at a time. Like mentioned above it comes with costs and tons of work. I'm like you, vegetables, fruit trees/vines, chickens for eggs and keeping bugs out of garden. Alpacas would be purely because I love them and yarn! I could go on, but it would really be nonsense. I know we can't do all that!
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