November 28 — Family — 5 min read

Family Traditions

I don’t know if it’s the fact that we are having our first child or that Christmas season is here but I am all about family traditions.

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I’m McKenzie and I make stuff like it’s my job. More specifically, I design brands & develop websites for people that want to share their amazing ideas with the world! I also love to do personal projects. Whether it’s through design, photography, knitting, calligraphy, cooking, crafting — I’ll try just about anything! My motto is: Why be a master in one thing when you can be great at dozens of things...

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Baby — Letters to my Child — 2 min read

Dear Baby | Trimester Two

As we get closer and closer to meeting you, I keep thinking about who you will be. Will you be an artist like me or a smartie like your dad? Will you have my dimples or his bright blue eyes? I hope you get his spunk for life and his ability to make everyone around him laugh and smile. You sure do love to kick so I think we’ll have our hands full! We found out this trimester that you are a girl and I already know you’ll have daddy wrapped around your finger.

We received so much love this trimester with two baby showers and tons of gifts for you. Dad was so excited that he set up your crib and surprised me when I returned home! He loves that you have a lot of swan items and I already know you’re going to be a daddy’s girl for sure.

It has been amazing to see my body grow and change to home your growing body. It’s a little weird to see the scale hit numbers I never have before and my belly button slowly disappear but I’ve been waiting for you for so long and I am really loving being pregnant! I have had it so easy and am grateful for a smooth pregnancy so far. We are so excited to meet you very soon!

Love, Mom

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Autumn Random Nine

A preview of my Pinterest pins lately includes a lot of baby toys and the cutest little girl outfits. I love the weavings with beads and I’ve recently found some beautiful hand-cut paper to inspire me as I work on my Crafter’s Box project!

I plan on knitting that little sweater, the drop back and open embellishment is just so adorable. And you can be sure I will buy that lamb set as well as the matching bear and elephant set for my nursery. I can’t get enough of this store lately!

Baby — Letters to my Child — 2 min read

Dear Baby | Trimester One

I have always imagined myself writing a letter to my child and it’s finally happening! I can’t even tell you how much we’ve been longing to have you join our family little one. You are so loved and so many people are rooting for you to join our family too. All the years of waiting for you will feel like nothing, I know it.

I’m not gonna lie, I have been anxious this whole trimester. Not sure if this is the real deal, if I will get to hold you in my arms or if you’ll slip through just like last time. Once we made it past 9 weeks and every time I checked my doppler and heard your strong heartbeat I felt better and better. I didn’t want to get my hopes up so I didn’t take many pictures, kept your ultrasound hidden in our drawer, and we didn’t announce to anyone until 10 weeks (which felt like forever!). But I feel confident you’re here to stay.

I just can’t wait to meet you, do all these things I’ve been waiting for since I was barely a teenager. We think you are a girl but we will be happy either way! It was so exciting to finally announce to the world that we were expecting, you have so many people that love you but no one loves you more than your dad and I. Weird to write out dad like that like it’s nothing. We are excited to bond more with you the next couple months and meet you in no time.

Love, Mom

Baby — Motherhood

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July 27 — 6 min read

We’re finally having a baby!

Can you believe it, we’re finally having a baby! It’s been a whirl of excitement, lots of anxiety, and pure happiness over at the Rucker household lately! Also, a lot of little white lies to family and friends as we decided to keep this one a secret until we were farther along. We found out on Memorial Day while visiting family in IL! A few weeks prior we had had an appointment to start IUI. I kept putting it off after our miscarriage

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Waiting for Spring

Starting a number of new mini post series, one of them including little moodboards of 9 random things, mostly from Pinterest. I totally use Pinterest for personal reasons even though it’s heavily suggested to use it for your business. But for now, I just like it to find inspiring images. And currently, my Pinterest boards are filling up with all kinds of cute Spring-related inspiration.

1 | I am loving this lemon pattern dress, it is one for sure I will make for a little girl one day.
2 | This embroidery of this dandelion weeds scream spring!
3 | The colors in this photo I’m totally feeling.
4 | Pink flowers and teal doors are what dreams are made of!
5 | Isn’t this idea just the cutest! You can get the cutouts here.
6 | Spring always makes me want to still my favorite to date.
7 | Not sure what these flowers are but that yellow is so great.
8 | A raspberry sherbert drink is definitely my favorite thing to sip.
9 | Just recently have been a hat person and this pink one is so cute!

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March 22 — 5 min read

Our Hawaii Trip

We were planning our Spring Break trip to California to visit Ryan’s parents and realized it was way way expensive. We planned on telling them we couldn’t come and that day my mother-in-law called me and asked,…
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Knitting Baby Inspiration

If you follow me on Pinterest, you’ll notice a lot of cute baby knitting outfits filling up my account. I just can’t get enough of them!

1 | The mustard and cream is so adorable, I love everything in this photo!
2 | I already plan on making this romper. Love the little  v or mini heart!
3 | This seems a little hard but creating a bear earred outfit would be a dream.
4 | I have a sweater I created that has this bubble texture so having a matching one for my babe would be so adorable.
5 | Navy and stripes are always a thumbs up for me.
6 | This isn’t knitting but I just have to add it because I just love it that much.
7 | Love the little dots and really want to make this one too. The pattern is actually here!
8 | A little hat is always adorable, love this musty pink color.
9 | A snowflake pattern would be so cute on a little kid sweater!

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