http://www.becoming-home.com A tale of first time homeowners Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:26:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I just posted the nursery tour on Becoming-Mom.. hope you like it! Click here for Nursery Tour... P.S. I would have posted it here, but I wanted to try this nifty new simple viewer/flicrk gallery plug-in and I was afraid it would conflict with another plug-in I have installed. If you use wordpress ... http://www.becoming-home.com/2008/07/29/nursery-tour/ Finally! Unfortunately, the pictures are quite bad.  Jeff's nesting instinct kicked into high gear yesterday as fear of the baby coming home to a filthy house motivated him to do a top to bottom cleaning.  By the time he was done and had a second to hang the mobile, the beautiful ... http://www.becoming-home.com/2008/07/28/feltie-mobile-finished/ From the files Friday started when I bought a new computer that came with a little widget to the right of my screen that searches for any image on the hard drive and displays it in a slideshow. Every so often it unearths an image that has been burried so ... http://www.becoming-home.com/2008/07/25/from-the-files-friday-our-old-florida-apartment/ It arrived yesterday, (yay!) and almost made me husbandless. See, I hadn't told Jeff I was ordering it - not because I was trying to hide it, but just because it didn't come up.. so he wasn't happy when he saw the link to it at the bottom of my ... http://www.becoming-home.com/2008/07/24/my-new-portrait-lens/ The Canon Digital Rebel xsi that is (aka the new love of my life). Yes, after years of lusting after a dslr of my very own, I finally bit the bullet and spent the big bucks to get a REAL camera that arrived yesterday! (BTW, I decided to buy it from an ... http://www.becoming-home.com/2008/07/23/gotta-love-a-rebel/ From the files Friday started when I bought a new computer that came with a little widget to the right of my screen that searches for any image on the hard drive and displays it in a slideshow. Every so often it unearths an image that has been burried so ... http://www.becoming-home.com/2008/07/11/from-the-files-friday-july-4th-2003/ Well, our little detour into non-nursery land was rather short lived... But only because the Dwell Studio Zebra Rug we registered for (given to us as a  shower gift from our uber stylish family friend Renee- no, seriously, she is a movie wardrobe stylist) arrived last night! I LOVE this rug ... http://www.becoming-home.com/2008/07/10/dwell-studio-nursery-rug-arrives/ Lest you all think I am completely incapable of a sentence or thought that doesn't contain the words "baby" or "nursery", today's post is about our porch. Or the lighting on the porch to be precise. Currently, we have the ubiquitous and unimaginative boob light that came with the house. I ... http://www.becoming-home.com/2008/07/09/cottage-porch-light/ This weekend was all about baby as both of our nesting instincts kicked into full gear. Aside from purchasing everything we still needed from our registry and taking our first childbirth preparation class on Sunday, we also did some work on the nursery and I washed, folded & put away every ... http://www.becoming-home.com/2008/07/07/knut-oliver-et-al-take-residence/ We've made some more, albeit slow, progress in the nursery. The shelf went up: As did all of the Roman Shades: (Yes, that is a very bright shade of lime green!) We didn't get much that we registered from at our amazing Shower this past weekend, but one of the things we did ... http://www.becoming-home.com/2008/07/02/the-home-stretch/