Brielle’s Room

I meant to post this before I had the baby, but I never got around to it. So, here are a few pictures of the space we are using for Brielle’s room. It is a sitting area off of our bedroom.

After we got her home we realized she does not love sleeping in the crib. So we borrowed a bassinet from my brother and his girlfriend. We have it right next to our bed and she seems to like that better. Although I will admit after a middle of the night feeding she sometimes just stays in our bed with us.

So here are the pictures, I am pretty proud of how the room turned out. Not to babyish, but still fun.

This is a built in desk area that we are using for storage. The white boxes have all of her current clothes in them. The rest of her wardrobe is hanging in Dan's closet.

I love paper lanterns and I thought a couple pink ones in the corner brightened it up a bit.

This is our glider rocker, we purchased it before we knew if we were having a boy or girl. The blanket on the back was made by my mom. I also have a cool digital picture frame loaded with pics of friends and family.

All of the bedding in the crib was made by my mom and myself. I made the pinwheels for the wall and chose some pictures that mean a lot to Dan and I to hang on the wall. I really love how the room turned out!

20 Days

Last night I received the pictures I ordered from Apple to hang on the babies wall. I decided that since we will be the ones looking at the wall art I would put up family pictures that I really love. So I have those up and now the only thing left to do is hang the curtains between her room and ours. If I did not mention it before, the babies room is actually an adjacent sitting area to our bedroom. It is quite large and perfect for a nursery. The only thing we are worried about is that any light or noise from our room will disturb her. So we purchased some think curtains to at least block out the light from our bedside lamps.

As soon as I get the curtains up I will post pictures of her completed room. I am so pleased with how it turned out!

Crib Bedding

As I mentioned before my mom is visiting for the next 6 weeks. Really she is here to have surgery on her foot and recover. Since she has to be off her foot almost completely she has agreed to help me make the baby bedding.

Obviously, I am not going to buy the fabric until we know boy or girl (1 WEEK FROM TODAY!!!), but I did find a pattern at JoAnn Fabrics last night that I think is so pretty.

I think it will work well, with a couple of minor changes. I will not be putting up a canopy or the little daisies. I cannot wait to choose fabric next week!

On a side note, I have barely sewed in my life. I had to buy a sewing machine for this project. The reason I decided to try this is because I could not find any reasonably priced bedding that I loved.

Did anyone else make their crib bedding?

Crib and Glider Rocker…. Check!!!

We checked two major purchases off of our list this weekend. The crib and the glider rocker. The crib we decided on is the one I posted about last week.

The glider is AMAZING!!! It matches the crib perfectly and the fabric we chose will work well for a boy or girl. Here are some pictures.

This is the fabric and color we chose. It is a very light green.

Up close of the fabric

Ottoman

The entire set.

I just love this chair, I cannot wait until it comes in. They said 4-6 weeks. The crib and mattress were in stock and fit into our Escape, so we were able to bring them home and avoid the $100 delivery fee!

It feels so good to get these two major purchases out of the way!

Amber

We found our crib!

Dan and I went to a little crib boutique store called Cribs 2 Bunks in Tukwila on Saturday. They had a fantastic show room with a ton of gorgeous cribs! After looking around we found one we really like. It is totally different that what I had envisioned, but we both love it!

 

We are getting it in a darker finish and there was a beautiful glider rocker that will match it perfectly. We are heading back next weekend to place the order!

More pretty nursery ideas

I know, I know I write a lot of posts, but part of it is to record different things I stumble across. When the time comes to actually make purchases I do not want to be thinking where did I see that!

So, my new love are these tree prints by an artist on Etsy (if you like handmade things and have never been on Etsy, go there immediatley.)

The artist store site can be found here . His name is TR Mack.

Here are a few of my favorite prints at first glance. I think they would be so pretty in the babies room. Lots of color and lots of different prints that could tie in with any color scheme we choose.

Cribs, why can’t there just be one that is perfect?

I have been looking high and low for the perfect crib for our little baby. For some reason I feel like this is a huge and crucial decision. I am not sure why since the baby would not know the difference between a dresser drawer and a Pottery Barn crib. I think it is because it is the first major purchase for our child and I want it to be good. I also plan to use this crib for all of our children, so it needs to be high quality.

So, here are the cribs I have narrowed it down to.

First, this was my top choice, dream crib. It is from Pottery barn Kids and costs $1100 + shipping and a mattress. At first I thought that seems reasonable until I started looking around. It is in fact quite unreasonable.

So, after figuring out that a crib that costs more than our bed and dressers is probably too much I moved on.

My cousin pointed out some really cute cribs at JC Penney. So I headed over to their website and there was one cute crib after another. Following is my top three. All of the photos link to the pages, so anyone who has purchased a crib and has opinions please let me know!

Crib Number 1

Crib #2

Crib #3

We are definitely going with a dark wood. I am not a fan of  white furniture, and like I said before I want something that will compliment our bedroom furniture which is all dark.

I think crib #3 is the front runner, it is a pretty good replica of the pottery barn crib, and it has a very nice matching dresser.

I would love to hear any thoughts or opinions from people who have purchased cribs!

Amber

Decorating the walls of the baby’s room!

I know, I know, totally to early for this, but I do love gathering up ideas. I like the idea of making things from scratch for the baby’s room. So, I have been gathering craft ideas for some wall hangings. I have been looking for things that are:

1.Cheap-I get bored with things easily, and I imagine a babies taste will also change pretty quickly. So I need things that will not cost to much to make so in a year when we want to change them it is not as if I wasted a ton of money.

2. Easy to make- Although I enjoy making things, I am certainly no Martha Stewart

3. Does not scream this is a babies room- The baby’s room is a large sitting room attached to the master bedroom. So I do not want a theme necessarily. I want a color palette that compliments our bedroom.

So far, I have come across a few things that have really grabbed my attention. Obviously, I cannot do all of them, but these are the ones I like so far.

This is actually an idea for a guest book table at a wedding, but I think it would be gorgeous as a wall decoration. BTW: if we have a boy this is the color scheme I like.

Another wedding decoration, but I think it would be cute hanging over the rocking chair.

This one would be so easy, and a nice way to tie the room together. There is a large entry way between the sitting room and bedroom and I was planning on hanging curtains. If I were to do that I could use some of the same fabric on some of the squares to match it all up.

So, I am getting pretty excited to get started. We just need to find out if this baby is a boy or girl:)

We are going in for an NT ultrasound on Friday. Apparently at this appointment they can determine with about 80-90% accuracy if it is a boy or a girl.

Amber