Nursery Progress

It's been quite a while since I've posted and that's partly due to busyness and laziness and partly due to my ability to wrangle the computer away from Jim long enough to have my turn to play. There's lots of other things I would like to post about and hopefully I will get to those soon. But Jim and I are both really excited about the progress that's been made on the nursery.

When last we checked in on this room, we found major work needed to be done to re-frame the windows. So Jim has had fun learning how to do this and trying to make things fit and function.

In fact, here's Jim now... Fitting in pieces of wood to fill the gap between the window and our house. This was also necessary to make the molding work properly.


Our room also got a case of chicken pox and we applied the calamine lotion as necessary.

As you can see, it was quite necessary.

We had to fill all the nooks and crannies with spackle and/or drywall putty. Then the real fun is sanding it all down. That's why the room is covered in plastic. We learned our lesson after doing Jim's office. We covered the furniture with cloth and that was just a joke. Plastic worked much better this time.

The molding was finally put up.

Isn't it pretty?

We custom ordered new blinds from Home Depot. We were really excited about the look and how they could split the blinds to accommodate the way the windows split and open. The first lady that helped us learn about what we could do was SOOOO helpful, I was rather impressed. But when we went back in to place the order she was not there and I was a little leery about the guy taking the order. But incredibly everything worked out.

Jim works hard to hang the blinds.

Ta-Da!
Good job, Jim!

Now we'll watch the other window evolve a little...

Here we have the chicken-pox-pre-molding stage.

Ah, molding and primer. Now we're getting somewhere.

Blinds are up and the painting begins.

I've inherited the painting gene from my mom, so that's always my job.
But I love it.

Jim was very proud of his super-straight line.

This yellow is called Caribbean Sunrise.
My friend Andrea breaks into a Billy Ocean song every time she sees the name.
Can you guess what song?

It was an incredibly hot weekend and it took a lot out of me.

So pretty!
I was worried at first that it was going to be too orange.
But the more I got painted the more I saw it was exactly the color I wanted.

And the windows now look 100 times better being offset by the yellow.
Once again - Good job, Jim!

The biggest recent excitement for me was FINALLY finding fabric for the room. I do not consider myself a decorator in any sense of the word. I have a hard time conceptualizing things. In fact, for my wedding I turned over the design of the aisle thingies (see? smart, eh?) to my mom and bridesmaids. I knew that would stress me out and I wanted nothing to do with it.

But I did have a vague idea of what I was looking for. Any of the packaged bed sets were not appealing to me. I couldn't find anything online. I went to JoAnn's to look at fabrics and practically ended up in tears. (No coincidence that a new batch of hormones seemed to kick in that week causing me to loose all control.)

Natalie, a friend and co-worker suggested a quilting shop to me so my mom and I shot over there on Saturday. Hallelujah!!! Their fabrics were organized by color which helped my feeble mind. It took quite a while of wandering, but long story short I found just what I was looking for!


And just to give you a slight idea of what I'm going for, this is the fun inspiration for the bedding that my mom will work on making.




My mom painted the closet for me this weekend which meant that Jim and I could finally start moving things to places where they belonged. This is how we'll have the dressers set up. The tall one will be the changing table. I'm thinking we'll paint both dressers, but that kinda scares me. Any volunteers?


So, it's taken longer than we wanted, but we have made a lot of progress on the nursery. The next big piece is to go get our crib. We have a pretty good idea of what we want and it's just a matter of finding it. We'll get crackin' on that first thing in August.