Homemade Nursery Art

I have so much to write about regarding the nursery...so stay tuned.

Today I wanted to show off some homemade art I created last night. I made these using Microsoft Word. I know, not very fancy, but it got the job done. Then I saved them as a PDF file and printed them on regular computer paper. I'll be putting these in frames that we already own and hanging them around the room. All of this art is made for 8.5 x 11 frames.

Do you want to know my secret? These prints aren't completely original. What I mean is that I didn't think up the design all on my own. I had some help. You can find all these prints being sold online. If you were to buy them online, you would probably get a nicer quality ink on higher quality paper, but it can quickly get pricey. So instead, I try to see if I can recreate a print that I like, using Microsoft Word. And I'd call last night a success!

The best part about making my own art is that I don't feel guilty when I want to switch it out for something different, because I didn't spend any money on them. This is also a great way for me to exercise the creative part of my brain. Try it sometime! :)

Nursery Crib

The crib is here! And it looks great! Baby's great-grandparents bought her the crib and I know she's going to love it.  The white looks great against the gray walls, and the pink striped crib skirt just pops against it as well.

Here's a close up of the crib skirt. It has dark pink and light pink stripes, which I really love. I'm loving the darker pink color in the room. It looks really great!

And we're not the only ones anxiously awaiting Baby's arrival...

Baby's Mobile

Last weekend at the shower, we had everyone decorate cards with encouraging words and verses. Then we had tons of embellishments for people to use to make them pretty. They turned out amazing! Everyone did such a great job!

I tied the cards together using thin, gray yarn. And then I hung them from a yellow embroidery hoop that my mom found at Hobby Lobby. Then I spruced up the hoop with some left over embellishments.


I absolutely LOVE how the mobile turned out! We actually have enough cards to make two mobiles so I'll be constructing another one soon. I think I'll hang them next to each other above the dresser where the changing pad will be. That way Baby will have something pretty to look at (or be distracted by) while she's getting changed.

Nursery Painting

The nursery is painted! Oh I am so excited! It looks absolutely fabulous. We went with "Friendly Gray" in eggshell from Sherwin Williams. It's a light, soft gray that I think will look really great as a back drop for Baby's furniture.

In our condo, we have 3 bedrooms...the master bedroom, the guest bedroom, and the other bedroom. The other bedroom has been many things to us over the past 3 years. It started as a junk room, a place to put all our stuff as we were moving in and trying to figure out what the heck we were doing.

Next, John convinced me to transform the room into a Man Cave. You can read more about that here. Yep, we painted the walls a dark blue and set up a place where he could hang out and do manly stuff.

Then, for about 6 months, John's sister moved into the other bedroom and John's cousin moved into the guest bedroom. I don't have any pics, but the walls stayed blue and we just moved all of John's stuff to other parts of the house while his sister was staying with us.

John's sister and cousin moved out in June 2011. Since June was the month that we decided to start trying to expand our family, we decided to leave the room empty in hopes that one day in the not-so-distant future it would become a nursery.

Since you already know that I'm pregnant, it shouldn't come as a surprise to find out that that's exactly what happened. So this past week, we got the ball rolling by hiring Jorge to come in and paint the nursery.

Jorge was a total rockstar and knocked it all out in one evening! He used one coat of primer and then two coats of paint on the walls. On the trim he used "White Dove" by Benjamin Moore (just some leftover white paint we had).

Now that the room is painted we can starting putting the furniture together and creating a nice space for Baby. It's so exciting! :)