tonight's gonna be a

**i'm on maternity blog leave! i've scheduled a couple posts to keep my little blog home alive in my absence. this is one of them. enjoy!**
 well, i've been a faithful picnik user for all my photo editing needs for a couple years now. i was a little sad when i found out they were shutting down TODAY...see, i'm not a fancy blogger. i don't have photoshop and wouldn't have the teeniest clue how to use it if i did have it (so why spend the $$?). i don't even think my cheapo walmart laptop could handle photoshop! i'm ok with it, though. i'm not a photographer or graphic designer; i'm just a weirdo with a fashion blog.
ANYWAYS...i spent a while looking around for something comparable to picnik and finally stumbled upon PicMonkey.com. so far, i think the monkey and i will be a good match. we spent our first afternoon together playing with effects on pictures from my last evening alone before baby. i like effects. they're fun and make me feel like i have an ounce of the rad-factor that smartphone users have via instagram (yeah, not only do i have a cheapo laptop and no photoshop, i'm still using a dumbphone! aah! still be my friend even though i'm stuck in 2005?)
david headed to utah one night a little while ago to buy a dirt bike. he was nervous leaving me, being 9.5 months pregnant and all, but i was so excited for him to get that dirt bike i assured him i'd be just fine and urged him to go. it makes me happy when david does things that make him happy. and dirt bikes make him happy.

i spent my evening making myself a whole stack of these little guys. for reals, i sewed for about four hours straight, probably watched 10,000 episodes of parks & rec., and ended up with 10 sets of reusable nursing pads. for $5. BAM.

...i also built up a massive scrap fabric pile.
too bad i don't have a cat to crazy with all that scrap fabric business.

i also enjoyed all my favorite pregnancy cravings at once: brown minute rice cups, cheese sticks, apple juice, and enjoy life's snickerdoodles. i didn't have a single craving until the end of my third trimester...is that abnormal? i don't know. i've never been in a third trimester before.

 and finally, i looked in the mirror and was like, "BIG MAMA IN THE HOUSE!"i also marveled at how this skirt is my new favorite item of clothing and it's not even maternity. and how my belly button is a shape shifter depending on how breech little junior is pushing on it.and i made sure my hair wasn't in this picture because i actually answered the door with it looking all bananas and probably scared the pizza delivery girl half to death. so yeah, it was a pretty good night, even though david wasn't there to enjoy it with me.