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Jenni is a blogger and marketing professional in Portland, Oregon. A Well Crafted Party is a blog about all the little things to celebrate in life. Follow Jenni or A Well Crafted Party with BlogLovin, RSS feed, Facebook, Instagram, or Pinterest.
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{Mommy Monday} 38 Week Quick Update

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First off, THANK YOU 
to all of you who commented on my last {Mommy Monday} post!
I loved reading each and every comment and birth story.
*It warmed my heart.*
It was refreshing to see how different, yet similar, every story is… 
and it reminded me yet again that the main goal in all of this is to see a healthy baby boy in the end!  
I’ve been super busy this past week. 
  • We finished our birthing classes (pretty much awesome) and feel so much more confident about birth and bringing home a newborn. Our class was taught by a Portland area Doula. Check out her website if you are interested in talking with/hiring a Doula in the area because she was seriously awesome, informative and comforting.
  • We finalized our birth plan… and, my midwife said it was the best she’s seen so far! (Toot my own horn a bit here!) I feel so much more comfortable about our options.
  • I had my last day at work for the next three months. This is both a blessing and a bit of a stress because I will not have my income for a while and this is something of a concern for us as a family. I’m trusting that things come together and I am working on cutting back and crunching numbers. But, it is a blessing for me physically… I just can’t handle 7+ hours a day on my feet anymore!
  • I started working on a set of freezer meals for the week or so after delivery. Each night while I cook dinner I make a second batch for the freezer. If anyone is interested in recipes/tutorials regarding this then please let me know and I’ll put it on the blog!
  • We took maternity photos! This was a lot of fun… because of me not working we really couldn’t afford to hire a professional photographer. The money just really needs to go towards the necessities right now… but, I really wanted some fun photographs of us in this time and of course I’ll want some of the baby when he is born. Thankfully I have very talented (and generous) friends. So, we spent yesterday having our photograph taken in various Portland locations. I was lucky enough to receive a sneak peek of one or two of the photos that my friend Ryan took and am looking forward to seeing the photos from my friend Joan. I can’t wait and can’t thank my lovely friends enough!
38 Weeks!
He will be a dad soon!
We already love the little guy.
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{Friday Finds} Organizational Items I Need

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Okay, so it isn’t Friday. As a matter of fact… It is Sunday. 
And, in this past Friday’s post I wrote, 
“Come back later today for a new {Friday Finds}”
and then I didn’t write it. 
So, today’s {Friday Finds} is all about organization.
My Next Project: Free Printable
from Perideau Designs
Looking for a good way to organize each and everyone of the projects you have on your plate? 
Right now I have a rotating set of notebooks that I use and I could sure use something else to organize my projects more clearly. I love this free printable and plan to fill a binder with it very shortly!
Source: Perideau Designs
Blog Organization
I found two different and awesome ways to organize the blog. I’m currently trying to decide which will work best for me and my blog or if I need to design some of my own. Check these out:
Free Blog Organization Printables 
featured on My Girl Thursday
Source: My Girl Thursday
  Adorable…right? The designs were done for My Girl Thursday by draw!Pilgrim and I think they are just beautiful. I’d want to sit down and plan things out for the blog if it all was in a neat little package like this!
 Free Blog Editorial Calendar Printables
Screen Shot of Amy Bayliss Blog Editorial Calendar Printable
Okay, I’m all about lists and calendars so this simple, but cute, printable fits my organizational style perfectly. Amy Bayliss provides them for her readers for free! She also has a great Personal Assistant sheet that includes editable lists for weekly routines, daily routines and the weekly menu.
I hope to have a few of these in use by the end of the week! 
Other Organizational “Finds” You Might Like:
  • I don’t need this quite yet, but will totally make use of it fairly soon… A Baby Sit Kit Printable! These are not free, but they are inexpensive. And, the coolest part!?! Have a kid that is a babysitter or wants to begin babysitting? The kit comes with fabulous resources for a baby sitter to begin a really organized and reputable little business! Oh, and currently Infarrantly Creative is giving away 5 free printable copies. I’m not sure how long the giveaway lasts so enter now!
  • “Life…your way” has an AMAZING assortment of FREE organizational printables. And, I mean AMAZING. The site has FREE printables for everything including: Birthday Party Planner, Thanksgiving Planners, Christmas Planners, Home Maintenance, Weekly Chores, Track Your Spending Worksheet, Menu Planning… the list goes on and on. 

 

   I hope you found something fun in these {Friday Finds}!
Do you have any organizational tips or finds to share? 
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Fill in the Blank Friday

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I’m not sure if I’ve posted about this little site before… but, I’m sort of a blog stalker of 
Love it.
Well, every Friday, Lauren posts a list of blanks for people to fill in on their own blogs and link up to her site. I love it. I love clicking through to see what other people have answered as well. But, because I have always tried to have a {Friday Finds} post on Fridays I have never linked up my own Fill in the Blank Friday. But, this week I thought… why not do both? So, there you have it. Check back later today for the {Friday Finds} of this week and please enjoy my version of Fill in the Blank Friday… 
(Oh, and check out Lauren’s original as well!)
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1.   My favorite color is purple. I would say grey because that is the majority of my closet and a color I always gravitate to…but, that is Lauren’s favorite and I didn’t want to copy on the very first question! I do however really love the color purple. You might have noticed in the blog’s design! 😉
2.  My travel destination of choice is  anywhere I haven’t yet been. I love going to new places. I wish I could travel more… most of my travel consists of going back home to see family (which I of course love doing) but, sometimes I wish I could go see family in new and awesome destinations. Hey, family out there… what do you say?

3.  My favorite  food is bread. Any kind of bread really… I like them all. It is a dangerous love, my love of bread.

4.  My happy place is cuddled up against my husband’s chest. Sounds super sappy… but, for a non-hugger like me it is quite amazing that this is the one place I can always go to feel happy and calm. Although, my new nursery is also becoming quite the happy place… sometimes I just walk in and stand for a moment. 

5.  My favorite saying is… this one stumps me a bit. But, here are a couple of my favorites that I’ve been seeing on Pinterest and that I just had to “pin.” 
 — “Done is better than Perfect” — “You’re my Favorite Reason to Lose Sleep” —”My life has a superb cast but I can’t figure out the plot” — “I have so much to do that I am going to bed!”

6.  My dirty little secret is that while I am a BIG control freak and GREAT at organizing my room is a DISASTER area. We just shut the door… Oh, and while I am at it I’ll add on another “dirty” little secret: We often throw parties and invite people over just to motivate us to clean our house. I’m hoping that this is not a habit I bring into motherhood!
7.  Something friends might say about me is that I  am a planner (sometimes to a fault). I am also kind (sometimes to a fault). I’m also quite hard on myself. And, I have an annoying southern accent at times. Of course… my friends are kinder to me than I am to myself. 😉 
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