Nursery Art

The nursery art is now complete! I'm really pleased with how they all turned out - now we just need to get them hung up!


Images of the prints:

In the frames (excuse the awful BlackBerry photos):

 

New Curtains and Book Ledges

It's coming along! Over the past week, we've:

• Gotten the room straightened up
• Ordered and received the curtain fabric
• Purchased and hung book ledges
• Bought a crap load of baby books!
• Started buying diapers and organized them in the dresser drawers

Check it out!

Excuse the dog tail. They think this is their new room.

Curtains - still need to be ironed and hemmed. 

Dresser drawers - holy crap we actually own diapers, that will go on a baby, in like 9 weeks:

Still finalizing the art for above the crib and a gallery wall for above the dresser...but almost done!

More Nursery Pics!

As I mentioned, the nursery painting was hard. Really hard. Here are some photos to specifically document our painting process:

Don't forget the before shot. 

 Did I mention 5 coats of paint on the trim? 

 Two coats for the gray - love, love, love it!

 Just ignore that huge black spot on the floor. That was a surprise that the former owners covered up with carpet. 

A little bit of a messy shot but here is the new rug (covering up said black spot), a possible ottoman (we'll see how it works with the glider that is coming soon) and other nonsense scattered about. Just keeping it real here, folks. Next pic will be cuter, promise. 

Nursery: Officially IN PROGRESS!

Happy Monday. Hope you all had great weekends...as for Shane and I, we are exhausted. My hands hurt, my feet hurt, my back hurts, I'm sleepy...BUUUUTTTT we kicked some arse in the nursery this weekend so it's worth it. 


Let me remind you of what this space looked like before:

And then this weekend, we decided to get moving and did the following:

• Sanded all of the puttied holes
• Vacuumed the walls and corners - because painting over spiderwebs is gross.
• Spent eight hours painting the trim white. Five coats, people. Five coats. 
• Spent another three hours painting the top Glidden's Pebble Grey. It's a true grey and I LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!
• Then we cleaned the floors again because I got a little slaphappy with the trim paint after about the third coat and got it on the floor. Gasp. 
• And then put the crib and dresser together and voila...THE AFTER:

 The bedding is a custom design from Carousel Designs and I LOVE LOVE LOVE it too! It is so well made and, for a custom order, was reasonably priced and was on my doorstep five days after I ordered it. 

And this is the other side of the room with the always popular IKEA Hemnes dresser. 

And, unfortunately, these are the only pictures I have on my phone - better ones to come soon!

While we still have a lot left to do (e.g., curtains, rug, art, chair, etc.), I'm feeling good that this was SOLID progress. And, it's crazy, I keep just going in this room and looking at the crib...partly because I just so love that bedding and then because I can't believe that in three months a little human is going to be sleeping in there! Is it going to be a boy or a girl? What are they going to look like? Will they have my lips and cheeks? And Shane's eyelashes and toes? Crazy! 

Nursery Progress

I'm excited to announce that we've made some pretty solid progress on Baby Wilson's nursery! 


Here is the nursery before (old picture (holy tube TV to the right) but you get the point):

And here it is after our recent clean out:

 The desk has been moved out, all the shelves and memorabilia taken down and holes patched.

 This is all of Baby Wilson's stuff, so far! (Except the beach chairs that are for an upcoming vacay...but everything else is strictly baby.)

And this is the stuff that we just aren't sure where it's going to go yet...hmmm.

And the boxes that you see in the second picture are actually the crib and dresser! 

 

Serious.Headway. 

Next up, painting! 

Bedding IN ROUTE and First Piece of Equipment!

We've made some pretty big progress on the 'Prepare for Baby' plan! While we still haven't made any progress on the nursery, we are making some small steps on getting somewhere for this little guy/girl to sleep. 

First, we ordered the baby bedding this past weekend! I changed it up a little bit from the nursery inspiration board but here is the final product:

I love it and can't wait to get it so we can start matching paint colors! (I just want to be really sure that the gray in the bedding will match the shade of gray on the walls - you know how gray can look bluish sometimes...)

Second, we purchased our first piece of baby equipment from a friend at work! She had only used it like 10 times, so it was practically brand new and she was selling it for super cheap. We didn't register for one of these but once I saw all that it could do and that it was gender neutral, I was sold. And factor in the iPod connection and Shane was sold for sure. 

This weekend, we started trying to figure out how it worked and plugged in the iPod to see how it sounded (you know, because it's important to us for our child to only hear Bose-quality music). As we're changing the volume and making it vibrate and all that jazz, we realized that we were listening to Nelly's '#1.'...Through the baby swing. Oh my, how things are changing...

Still a lot left to do but we are making progress!!

19 Weeks and Nursery Inspiration

Shocker, but I'm a little behind on my posting...below is my 19 week shot, even though I'll be 21 weeks this Thursday. Oops! 

Now that I'm at my 'half way mark,' I'm feeling some urgency to get started on the nursery, create a registry (which we did a couple of weekends ago), prepare for the arrival of our child, etc. So, some urgency but not too terribly much. 


So, without further ado, below is our inspiration board for Baby Wilson's gender neutral nursery!

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It is very colorful but the walls will be white wainscoting on bottom with light gray paint on the top so I think it will balance well. And, if it's a girl, we'll bring in a little more pink, and, if it's a boy, we'll bring in some more yellow and greens. And, to clarify, the baby picture will be a framed picture of Baby Wilson - not some other random baby. 

So, you like?