details, details...

Since I have gotten many requests on the mommy message board I go to, I am posting about how I created the letters for Presley's name and the bird artwork.

NAME- I got 6 in. wooden circles from Walmart, back in their craft section. Each one was around $1, I think. I painted them light pink. Then I just printed out the letters from word on my computer, cut them out and traced them onto the wood. (You have to resize them to something crazy like 400-ish to make them big enough!) Then painted the actual letter white.

I hot glued the ribbon to the back to hang them. I also put some hot glue on the bow to keep it from pulling out when I hung the letter up. The flower is just cut from foam and hot glued to the top of the nail, after we hung them to cover it up.

ARTWORK- I bought some blank canvases, also from Walmart's craft section. Then painted them which ever color I wanted. The birds are cut from scrapbook paper which I found at Michael's. I used spray adhesive to attach them to the canvases. Then I just added all the details with some puff paint and that's it!

Hope this helps everyone! I was so excited to have all of Presley's artwork be completely custom from her Mommy and Nana! They were all made out of LOVE!

NURSERY!

Well, after 11.5 weeks, Presley FINALLY has a completed nursery! The furniture didn't arrive until after she did. And since we did not know if Sweet Pea was a girl or boy, we didn't really have specific things picked out for the nursery. But when Presley made her debut and was in fact, a GIRL!, I decided to do a "bird/nature" theme. I had so much fun decorating her room for her! Every detail was meticulously planned for Presley! ALL of the artwork, except for the tree and the quote above her crib, was made by me and/or my Mom. We even did the letters for her name! I LOVE everything about this beautiful room!

The Beginnings of a Nursery...after

These are the "after" pics where we painted. The top color is not the same beige, I promise! We are going to put up chair rail molding in the middle, between the two colors. This can kind-of be seen in the top picture. Hopefully we will finish the rest of the molding on Saturday. I think it looks awesome and will look even better when we're done and there is furniture in it.

The Beginnings of a Nursery...before

These are the "before" pictures of the nursery yesterday. The color of the walls were just the ugly beige that the builders painted whole house in.

The best nursery furniture EVER!

This is Sweet Pea's furniture! Aren't the pieces just gorgeous! We absolutely LOVE them! The color is espresso, which is almost like a dark chocolate. We ordered the crib and the dresser to the left and it will have a hutch that goes on top of the dresser. We ordered them from a local baby store in Pensacola and the delivery time is 6-8 weeks after ordering. It's been 3 weeks since then, so....hopefully we will get them in 3-5 more weeks. We will be painting the nursery most likely the weekend after Easter and after that, just waiting on furniture to get here and add the final touches! I really wanted to be completely done with decorating before I got too close to the end and got so uncomfortable, so maybe that can still happen!

The snuggling chair

This is the rocker and ottoman for the nursery. Please ignore the box that's also hogging the picture! We have several empty boxes that are calling the nursery home right now! The chair is the first big item we have in Sweet Pea's future home. It's slipcovered in a beige microfiber fabric and it is comfy! It is so amazing to think that in 14 short weeks, I'll be rocking my sweet baby boy or girl in this very chair! =)

Baby Furniture, part 2

We had already received the crib when we got the dresser and hutch last week. Well, the crib turned out to be a lighter color than expected anyway, and the dresser and hutch were two totally different colors. The crib was a different brand than the dresser and hutch so I should have expected that it wouldn't match. BUT the dresser and hutch were the same brand and still two different colors. It is so frustrating to think that you are done with a really tough decision and low and behold you are not! We decided just to send it all back and completely start over. So I'm back to square one with picking furniture out. Jeremiah says he doesn't care one way or the other, so it's up to me! I don't mind, because at least if something looks bad, I only have myself to blame! I'll post pics of the new furniture as soon a decision is made!

Baby Furniture

So we got the crib we ordered this past Tuesday and just got around to opening it up and looking at it tonight. It is beautiful! I'm so excited to actually get it assembled and put it in the nursery! Well, first things first, we gotta clean out the guest room and make it be the empty room that will turn into the nursery! We are so lucky that we have most of the big ticket items already or at least they are purchased and waiting to ship.

Here is a list of things we already have:
-swing
-papasan seat
-crib bedding
-crib
-rocker/ottoman
-dresser/hutch
-tons of clothes!

Now all I think we need is the car seat, stroller, pack-n-play...oh yeah and a BABY to go along with it!!