My pick on monday: Guess who's crawling?

{Ruari crawling at 9 months}

My baby has finally learned how to crawl. It's a VERY slow wobbly crawl.. but, it is a crawl! So in honor of her learning to crawl:

My pick on Monday:

This cool "Groove Bowl" made out of the Pretenders album: Learning to Crawl. Find more groove bowls from Odd Bob on Etsy. Perfect Christmas gift for the music lover!

{Odd Bob on Etsy}

Don't forget to to check out the Paper my pick on Monday.

Monday's My Pick: Best Buds.

I made the top 20at Made by Heidi. :) I can't tell you which project is mine, but go ahead and pick your favorite!

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Monday's My Pick: Best Friends...

This weeks pick is this sweet little ring from Scape on Etsy. Get one for yourself and one for your best bud! These rings are handcrafted and made to order! Please please check out their shop!

{Heart Ring: Scape}

{Baby, Ruari at 7.5 months, and Coral almost 5 months?}

Don't forget to check out the Paper Mama's Monday's My Pick: FBFF!

Dear Paper Lady Blog...

{Neglected stairs print ... CareyPrimeau}

Dear Paper Lady Blog,

I'm so sorry I've neglected you! It's almost been a week... bad Chelsey! I'm just having so much fun on my Paper Mama blog I run out of time before I get to you! I try to be better. I still love you.

- Chelsey

AND:

My baby's photo is up on Parents.com to be a finalist for the cover. If you think this photo is super cute... then vote for her photo everyday! ;) Here's the photo and here's the link.

{Ruari at 20 weeks}

Monday's My Pick: Chalkboard place mats!

{Chalkboard place mats: Custom Kids}

This weeks Monday My Pick are chalkboard place mats from Custom Kids. Forget for kids, I would love this ;)! They would also be very cute place markers for the holidays or to write a sweet note to your sweetie! Head on over to the shop for some goodies!

Don't forget to check out the paper mama's Monday My Pick!

{Ruari at 19 weeks}

Shhh! ... Thursday's Three!

I LOVE to type in random words into the Etsy search engine

and see what it comes up with! Today I am inspired by all
the noisy things that are trying to wake up my sleeping baby!
The semi turning around on my street, the dog scratching his ear,
and those darn squeaky floors! Shhh I say!

Thursday's Three inspired by Shhh:


{Shhh bunting baby doll: louielouiebebe}


{Shhh... fine art nude: BunnyBelle}


{Shhh it's a Zebra dog outfit: hatz4brats}

Don't forget to check out the Paper Mama's Thursday's Three!

{Ruari at 15 weeks}

the paper mama

Please check out my new mama blog, The Paper Mama. I thought I'd
take all my mooshy and crazy baby moments and put them in a mama
blog. If you like those mooshy gooshy baby moments, please
feel free to check it out! I'd love to have ya!

Well, She's Here!

Wow, what a journey. I am just now getting some sort
of order in my life! I really missed my blog, and am so
happy to be back!

My baby was born WAY back on December 18th, 2009.
She is about to be 15 weeks old!

She was just over 3 weeks early. Her birth did not go the
way I had planned. Maybe I'll tell the story later. So, long story short
I was bleeding internally and the doc's had to get baby out.
The wonderful news is that baby was NEVER in any distress
and I made it and am doing very well.

Now that I am healing emotionally and physically I am ready to
get back to my creative side. I'm so excited to catch up on
everyone's blogs! See you soon!


{photography by, Craig Mitchelldyer}