Baby Nursery

My project for the last couple of weeks has been getting the baby's room ready. Aside from the rocking chair we'll be getting soon, her room is finished! I feel a huge sense of accomplishment. I never thought I could make anything crafty from scratch and be pleased with it. I actually ventured into the world of Pinterest and took some ideas and made them my own. A lot of these are purely original though, and that makes me even happier with how the room looks!

I decided to go with yellow and lavender for the baby's room. I have nothing against pink, but lavender is so much more calming and beautiful to me. I also wanted to run full force with a bird/birdhouse theme, but let that one kind of be just partially a theme. Here are some pictures!




I took an old picture frame and tore it apart, then painted some wooden birds and hung them with ribbon.



I guess it's no secret what our baby girl's name is going to be... we were going to wait until she was born to decide for sure but we already call her by name. I got a cheap canvas, covered it in yellow fabric, drew a letter J and then covered it in purple buttons. I got a few painful burns on my fingers before I learned to put glue on the little buttons by holding them with tweezers.



When I bought the canvas for the "J" monogram project, it came with an extra one for free. So I decided to use more of those purple buttons and make this. The quote around the heart is from a children's book, "Love You Forever" that my parents used to read to me. I love that quote, and wanted to incorporate it in her room somehow.



This is how they look from across the room.




I wish I had a more straight on view of these little pom poms, but I made these out of tuelle (I have no idea how to spell that!). I folded a bunch of them accordion style and tied them together to make them puff out. They look a lot better in person! I wanted to hang something light above her bed, not a picture because if there was an earthquake it would fall on her. These add a lot of light to the room.



The cute little gnome picture is something I bought at a farmer's market a couple of weeks ago for Jake. He thought it would be perfect for the baby's room, and I agreed! The birdhouse is one I painted, and the "Cute as a button" frame was an idea from Pinterest. I guess I like buttons!



These are her cute crib sheets! I spent waaaaay too long on Amazon trying to find the perfect one.



This is an old Eeyore clock my parents bought me at Disneyland when I was a kid. The birdhouse is from our wedding, painted by my Aunt Rulaine. There are a few diapers in the cabinet. All of her clothes, diapers, bath needs, etc are in the hall closet.



I found this at Summerfest last weekend. I love pigs, had to get it!



Bookshelf with lots of fun books to read! A shelf dedicated to pigs (I didn't know where else to put them...) and more stuffed animals.



Jake's Aunt Regina made this for me, I absolutely love it! It has a little light that shines really bright. The angel was a Christmas gift from a student.






We are SO excited for our little girl to get here. Now I just have to find something else to do with my time for the next 4 1/2 weeks!