With that chapter coming to a close (I expect to have my grades within the next week, and I'll be graduating May 14), I am, of course, THRILLED to move on to the next chapter: motherhood!
As you know, I've been highly anticipating getting to work on the nursery. It's FAR from finished -- Mom is coming to help me with a few sewing projects not this weekend but next -- but progress has been made!
Brad found himself with a free night last Tuesday and decided to paint the nursery. What a guy. He had not painted a room in about 8 years, but he kept reading articles about how babies and pregnant women are exposed to too many household chemicals, including the VOCs in paint, so he insisted he tackle that project. Almost six hours later, during most of which I was at class, the room was painted.
The crib was delivered the next day, and he assembled that in no time. HOORAY!
Ceiling fans... What can I say about them? NEED them in Texas -- plus babies should have good ventilation in their rooms because of SIDS concerns -- but man, are they ugly. I decided to try to make the ceiling fan in the baby's room disappear as much as possible by spray-painting the fan blades white (don't worry, I used a mask). I took before and after pictures but I can't find them on my camera... Oops! Trust me, it's a subtle improvement.
I also made over a little bookcase that my grandmother had used for cookbooks for years. It's a great size and shape - nice and narrow for small spaces - but it has probably seen better days. I decided to paint it celery green (low odor/low VOC paint) last weekend, then distress it and apply a sort-of aging glaze.
Before:
After:
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| It looks yellow in this picture, but it really is sort of a bright, spring green. |
Right now it has mostly childbirth/child-raising/breastfeeding books on it (ha!), but soon I will get some more baby-appropriate reading material, as well as a cute basket, and stage it nicely.
Finally, we randomly bought a chair on Saturday... I moved the dark brown chair and ottoman from our living room into the baby's room, leaving a giant furniture void in that corner of our most lived-in room. I had a $150 Groupon to a furniture store in North Dallas, so Brad and I headed up there just to see what was available. They had a pretty reasonably priced, neutral arm chair, so we pulled the trigger and bought it. Once we got it home, however, we realized it was GIANT and made our couch look really dinky. So, another switcheroo, and now that chair is in the nursery and the brown chair is back where it was in the first place.
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| Pillows subject to change. I like both of these pillows, but not necessarily together. |
More soon! I can't wait for the sewing to commence. I am putting myself on a spending freeze this month, so it may be a while before there is much more to show. I've got an IKEA shopping list at the ready...
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