nursery
The Nursery
I think I said I would write this post a looong time ago, but alas, life with a newborn took over and this was pushed to the back seat. Not to mention that our bedrooms are in the basement so I have a limited window of time where the sunlight streams in and of course I would remember this post when it was too late to get good pics {some women get “pregnancy brain” — I have “mom-brain”}.
This past Saturday morning while my men slept I was able to get these shots. Truth be told, I really didn’t feel the nursery was complete until sweet Will’s newborn hospital pics arrived and I could place one in the scripture frame I got a while ago. So here’s his little room that he has yet to spend the night in ;-)
One significant lesson I learned in this process {and a pretty obvious one}: MEASURE before you buy. Oops! You’ll see my “creative” way of using the space that needed to fit more furniture than the room was really able to handle.
Also, I really HATE painting so I based the color scheme off the existing wall color and the fact that we didn’t know if we were having a boy or a girl. I felt like gender neutral really played in our favor for decorating this room.
We have two bedrooms in our condo so it was important to have a bed in the nursery for guests. In this case we also raised the bed for a trundle to scoot under it.
I tried to stick with gray, white and shades of aqua, turquoise and sea glass green for our color scheme. I also LOVE white so this color scheme was perfectly white friendly :-)
One of my two most favorite pieces in the nursery. The baby pics on the left are Will’s only living great-grandparents, my parents, then me, then Mr. Z and then Grandma and Grandpa Z. I am so thankful to have these pics!
A little close-up of the pillows. I got them at Home Goods and TJ Maxx. I thought they looked as though this I-can’t-sew-a-thing gal actually made them. Love it :-)
We used this birdcage for cards at our wedding and for the longest time I couldn’t find a place to display it. I think it fits just perfectly in this space. I also love that there is a little piece of the day God made us a family in our little one’s room.
I thought gray was the perfect gender-neutral color and when I found the crib bedding I was pretty excited. We’ll have to remove most, if not all the items above the crib when he gets bigger and can stand, but for now I think they look pretty.
My other most favorite item is this picture frame from a blogger I follow. She and her husband are photographers and have an online shop that sells these frames with your scripture of choice. This frame contains the scripture I prayed over Will while I was pregnant. Love it!
So this lovely little thing was supposed to go in the closet but thanks to my measuring skills {or lack there of} it is “hiding” behind the crib. It’ pretty handy to be able to see the contents though.
My “creative” space for the changing table/dresser. We removed the doors from the closet, added a curtain rod and hung simple white curtains. I found these great rope tiebacks on Etsy as well as the alphabet decals. As I mentioned, I hate painting so these decals were the perfect solution to cover up the off-white closet walls. Aren’t they cute?
A little close-up.
So there you have it, the little space for our sweet Will. It was my first big project in a long time and I loved every moment of it. Huge shout out to my mom, dad and husband as I was on bed rest when they helped make my vision a reality. My mom would take her iPhone downstairs and we would Face Time to see if things were looking how I envisioned them. Thank you Apple!
Read More29 Weeks
I don’t know why it has taken this long, but nesting has finally kicked in. The nursery is on its way yet it is a lot more cluttered than I had planned. Therefore, the whole nesting thing has really come in handy to figure out the best way to organize, arrange and situate everything. We live in a two bedroom and really need the nursery to second as a guest room. This means getting creative. Like the dresser/changing table may need to go in the closet and the closet may just need to loose the french doors.
Enter Pinterest {LOVE this thing!} for creative closet arrangements. How’s this for some ideas:
Now to talk through these wonderful ideas I have with Mr. Z :-) This is what happens. Frequently. I brainstorm {or daydream} and come up with what I think is the best solution after I have run 1,000 different scenarios through my head, considered all the pros and cons and just assume Mr. Z will be on the same page as me as soon as I blurt out my well thought out idea. I tend to forget how long it took me to get to the final result ;-)
Interesting things from pregnancy this week:
- Baby has grown so much that it seems almost every movement is a BIG one :-)
- Maternity tops that used to seem really long aren’t so much anymore.
- We {Mr. Z} put the crib together this past weekend!
- I’ll post nursery pics once it’s done :-)
16 weeks
I mentioned last week that I was hoping the belly would show a little more just in time to head to see my family for Thanksigivng. I think it has and I’m just so excited :-) They say you can begin to feel the baby any time between 16 and 20 weeks. They also say that it is less likely to feel the baby as early on when it’s your first pregnancy. So by no means am I expecting to feel the little one anytime soon, but I am excited for when the day comes.
This past weekend we got the second bedroom/office, soon to be nursery, completely purged. Three garbage bags of clothes, one garbage bag of shoes (all at Salvation Army now), one bag of old purses, one or two bags of garbage and one bag of to-be-shredded documents later, we have a room that’s ready to be converted into a nursery. And to top it all off, this adorable little poster I ordred through Zulily came in the mail today:
The heart comes as a sticker so you can place it on the map where the baby is born. Isn’t that just so sweet? I love it.
So we attempted to take a picture with the chalkboard. It came out okay but still a little difficult to see the belly.
Earlier in the evening I was playing with my camera and took this shot that I think shows the little baby bump a little better.
Interesting things from pregnancy this week:
- Cravings have subsided for the most part
- I’m still exercising but am having issues with something called my round ligament… I don’t know much about it, just that it stretches a ton when pregnant. Keeping an eye on things and hoping to keep exercising for as long as possible.
- This may be TMI, but I have a teeny-tiny belly button that is already looking bigger (that’s how small it is normally) and I’m trying not to wig out about it ;-)
DIY: Chalkboard
I did my very first DIY project and it’s for the soon-to-be nursery! Thanks to Pinterest I discovered painting over mirrors with chalkboard paint and since I have had this mirror for years and not ben using it what a perfect little project for Baby Z :-)
First I taped off the edges of the mirror so I wouldn’t get the black paint on the white molding.
I bought the chalkboard paint, foam roller and edging brush from Home Depot. Overall it was a pretty cheap project as well.
Two coats of paint and a few hours later we’ve got a chalkboard!
