In the Water: Part 2

This time we made sure the weather was warmer, as well as the water, and we put a towel down to make it harder for Colby to slip...much more successful!

First DIY Project

It's been a LONG time since I've done anything artsy-craftsy, but having spent a good three months on Pinterest, I guess it was only a matter of time...  

When I first joined Pinterest, I saw this pin of a chrysanthemum mirror made of plastic spoon heads, and it wedged itself in my brain.  I knew I would make something like it eventually, I just hadn't decided on a color, or where to put it.  I've only recently decided that I'm going to do our bedroom in dark grey and lime green, so I finally had a color - lime green.  It took weeks and weeks to buy everything I'd need to do this.  A trip to Michael's to get the frames and mirror, SEVERAL trips to HEB to get the spoons - you need a LOT of them, and then a trip to Lowe's for primer.  But I finally had the supplies and the time and the will power to get this done!

I was not very far into it before I realized the lady who initially wrote this "how-to" is full of it.  She put all of the spoons onto the frames and THEN primed them and THEN painted each spspoon individually?!?!  I could never do that without getting all sorts of paint in all sorts of places it isn't meant to be.  So I laid out each individual spoon and primed their front, then flipped them and primed the back, and THEN I painted each ever-loving spoon head the 7 different colors that this mirror requires...

I honestly don't know how you would do it any other way...

It took what felt like forever, but it was really only about 3 hours for 2 days.  1 day to paint, then dry over night, then 1 day to assemble.  And it turned out GREAT!  I can definitely see the imperfections; I'm certainly not that precise, but I love it!

What the lady also failed to mention is that you should mount the mirror to the FRONT of the frames, not behind the frames.  The mirror is too big and would have to be mounted behind the spoon handles, and then you can see not only the back of the spoons, but also the back of the frames and it doesn't look good.  So I think I'm going to hang it over our bed sans mirror, and put a "C" in the middle of it, for our monogram...what do you think?

In the water

Since Colby is now able to sit up by himself, pretty consistently, I decided that this weekend (today) would be the first time to try him out in the "pool."  Since our pediatrician is adamant about keeping Colby away from all of the chlorine and germs in a public pool until he's at least a year old,  we used a blow-up pool that Robert's cousin gave us.  

I was so excited to finally get my baby into the water; I was thinking: he's going to love it, he's going to want to spend hours just splashing around in it, and this is going to be the activity of choice on the weekends.  Wrong.

We filled the pool up with water around 9 am, before the sun got too hot, but the water was COLD.  So when we put Colby in, he immediately started shivering and his skin marbled.  The plastic was so slippery that every time he tried to move, he'd slip and fall backward or forward.  He kept trying to crawl out of the pool while we kept putting him back so I could get some pictures.  

I think the best pictures I got were him naked on the grass.  Ah well, try again in a few weeks.  

But we ARE going to transition him to the tub for bathtime...at least there we can make sure the water is warmer.