Nursery

I hesitated putting pictures of the nursery on here just because I've seen some really nice ones out there in the blog world. I didn't really see any point in buying new bedding, although I would have loved to do something new this time around. When we had Cerys we didn't do a nursery since we were living here and we didn't have anything but an old portable crib- plus with renting a house our landlord didn't allow us to paint or hang anything on the walls. So I was really bummed about that the first time around. Then with Bailey, well we had just moved back to Texas and it was all so chaotic that we didn't do a nursery then either, she just slept in the pack-n-play in our room until we moved back here when she was 6 months old.

SO, this time I really wanted to have the chance to actually "do" a nursery, but I would have to use the same bedding my mom had found for us when we had moved back for Cerys' crib. I do like the bedding, but I would have loved to have chosen something newer. But that is just not practical for us right now.

Enough of that- here it is...

Remember our bedrooms are tee-tiny here and no closets- This is the view from the door. I still need to get some ribbon for that dress-me-up mirror (my leftovers from being a SLAH consultant!)

On our holiday in October, I bought these Beatrix Potter pictures and then got the frames at IKEA. These are the frames I was dead set on getting when I had all that pre-term labor action. Ha. I told Marc I was having some pretty regular contractions but I really would like to get these frames first! They go well with the bedding I thought.

I ordered some new sheets and changing pad overs from Babies R Us and had my aunt send them to me because the cribs here are smaller and narrower. I chose the sheets by holding up the bedding to the computer screen to see if they would even slightly match and I am very pleased with how well the work.

You can see the floral sheets a bit better in this picture-

And, thanks to Marc who drew out the shape of the Boppy pillow for me, I finished it this weekend. It's probably a bit smaller than the Boppy, but it will do! Making the pillow was easy, it was the cover that stumped me. Sewing a zipper on a curve was harder than I thought. I had to call my mother -in -law in Africa and get her to explain it to me. Ha.

And there you go...we just need Baby Girl now! I see my midwife tomorrow- at 38 weeks- the appointment she told me I'd probably not ever make it to. Dern. I'm so happy and relieved though to have made it past 37 weeks so I'm going to enjoy being a family of 4 as much as I can. I'm trying to soak up time with the girls before they become "3"- today we played Nail Salon and painted our toes! :)