I was doing so well at posting for a while and then [-wham!-] nesting kicked in. Then it puttered, now we're in the mad dash to the finish. Cause my due date is tomorrow. (I'm not officially scheduled until Saturday, but there will be some membrane stripping at tomorrow's appointment to get things going.) So before el nino arrives, I figured I'd at least do the nursery post I've had swirling in my head. The rest of the February-June posts will have to wait.
Since we only had two bedrooms finished when we moved in, it was necessary to finish the rest of the basement. Sam was a little apprehensive, but she's been a trooper about moving down. It helped that she got to decorate her room how she wanted. (Mostly. Jim shot down the initial paint choice of pink.)
The curtains, currently in a puddle on the ledge, still need to be hung, but I figured I'd better take some pics while I could because my daughter is the queen of clutter and this is as clean as the room will ever be. Every picture she draws and every piece of flotsam she finds is a "special treasure" that she needs to incorporate into her decor. Sometimes my inner clean freak has a meltdown, but overall it's fun to see what she does.
Her craft corner. She's got an artistic streak a mile wide, an area where she luckily didn't take after me.
Although the downside of her wanting to draw and "create" all the time is that, other than her bedtime story, she never wants to read. :-( Her poor neglected bookcase/dollhouse.
So with Sam moved out, it was time to start on the nursery. The color Sam had in there worked for a boy and I LOVED it, so we didn't need to repaint. I looked around forever trying to find baby bedding that matched, and can I just say it KILLS me how much baby bedding costs? But unless you want to pay mucho $ for something custom, you're pretty much stuck with pastels. Not that I have a problem with people using pastels, they're just not for me. Luckily on a trip to IKEA I spotted this crib duvet:
$10 and a perfect color match? (Sam's quilt that I picked the paint color from is in the same bedding line.)Winner!!!
I was stumped on the big wall, though. The room has super-high ceilings, so I needed something to take up a lot of space. I stole my idea from one I saw on the interweb.
They're Paul Frank alphabet flash cards, which I put up using poster tack.
Some of my faves...
I love the crab because in the midst of a bunch of Arlos, Shakas, Pufaks, and Clancys, he's just "Steve".
My other fave about the room--the light fixture. I had a awesomely girly chandelier in there for Sam, which had to move with her because a) she loved it and b) it wouldn't work in a boy room. I was worried I wouldn't be able to find something that would be fun without being babyish. Then I remembered one I'd seen when I was looking for dining room lights that had been awesome, but didn't really fit with the dining room style and shot down by Jim as "too funky". So this time I ordered it without telling Jim. :-)
As usual, my pic doesn't really do it justice. But neither does the stock photo.
Picture the color on the stock photo with the size somewhere in between the two.
We still need some finishing touches, but my nesting has been squashed by swelling and an unwieldy belly. So details can wait. Suggestions are welcome, though!
For now the only other thing we need to put in there is a baby!
