More house updates

We're slowly making headway on updating the apartment before our little bundle arrives.  It's actually sorta funny... tonight I have a ton of friends on Facebook who's status update is about "date night," but this is what Ben and I really enjoy doing on OUR date night.

(And no, for the record, I'm not painting... I just sneak in to take pictures while I hold my breath, I swear.

This one is our new Chandelier!  Ben put it on a dimmer switch.  Saving money on electricity, saving energy expenditure, etc.  A green choice AND it's pretty!

 Here's the chandelier at night, while Ben paints the "light" color in our room.  It's sorta an icing color or a robin's egg blue.

And here's the accent wall... a bit darker in the same family.  Hard to tell what color it is in this pic, but I promise it's AWESOME.  We picked these two colors as lighter than and darker than the color of our comforter/sheets that we got for our wedding nearly two years ago now.

DIY baby wipes

So... I suppose I owe at least some of you a status update before I talk about DIY baby products.

We're 22 weeks pregnant today!  I've got a bit of a baby bump going... I mean, I think it's more than a bit.  But everyone at work very kindly says, "oh you ARE showing just a little!!!"  Ben, on the other hand says, "um... did you grow a belly over night?"  :-)  So yes, it's there.  Our little girl is definitely moving around and I can feel her, but she doesn't keep at it long enough for Ben to feel it (or maybe I can only feel it on the inside?).  I can't wait for it to be enough that he can feel it and participate in this excitement.

So this week, along with discovering pinterest.com, I'm thinking a little about ways that we'll DIY life both to make it healthier/more organic but also ways to save money rather than just simplying buying things mindlessly.  One thing that I've come across on my blog hunting is making your own baby wipes.  The top two/easiest "recipes" are here:

Kitchen Stewardship

Homemade Mamas

Of course, it would be more eco-wise to create/use something that isn't disposable, like this:

My Crazy Happy Life

hm... has anyone done this?  I continue to weigh the pros and cons of reusable (which means less landfills) and washable (which means more quarters required for the laundry in my basement... no one factors that in when they say that reusable is "cheaper.")