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For My Little Sunshine

By Anonymous

Baby girl's nursery is about 85% complete and I'm so happy with it. It's a cheerful, sunny space and I'm so excited for our daughter call it hers.

The walls are "Daisy Spell" yellow and while they turned out quite a bit brighter than I anticipated, I've come to love them. And I have great plans for whenever this room is no longer needed as a nursery and can become a guest room with grey and white bedding and turquoise accents. With a metal bed frame and maybe this chair. That will be fun.

But back to the present. The wall cards and other framed prints are from this etsy shop. I love how her work is creative and colorful without being overly cutesy or looking like it's meant only for a baby. I laminated the wall cards at a teacher store and just used sticky-tack to put them on the wall. The white frames for the 11x14 prints ("You Are My Sunshine" and "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star") were bought on clearance at Michael's.

The butterflies are from Land of Nod, as is the bedding. The furniture is all from Landon's nursery, though we did switch out the plastic Ikea Trofast bins for girlier colors. The curtain rod still needs to be put up, but first we (JP) had to spackle the holes from the old rod and then we (JP) need to paint them yellow and then we (JP) can hang it up, but it's white with cute finials on the ends. The too long, too wide (but inexpensive and the perfect shade of pale medium blue) panel curtain is being hemmed into a single valance that I think will ground a lot of the yellow on that wall.

The butterfly trash can was picked off a clearance rack at Wal-Mart for $3. The wooden shelf is an $8 Hobby Lobby purchase that I was going to paint but then decided the natural wood color looked as good as anything else. My beloved owl sits proudly in the corner, keeping careful watch over the room. The yellow butterfly is also there because he blended a bit too much into the walls and after hanging a butterfly in three of the corners and one over the bed we weren't sure what to do with him. It was also about 11:00 pm and JP looked like he was going to kill me if I suggested he rig another one to the ceiling with fishing line. I'm thinking of nailing the yellow guy straight to the wall at an angle on the corner of the quilt since I'd like to leave some shelf space for a picture frame or two, but I don't want it to look like my high school bug project. The power tools will be removed as soon as the curtain rod is installed.

And then on the back wall you can't see there are two collage picture frames in a pretty cream color that will hold her birth announcement and some pictures of our newly expanded family. There's also a purple butterfly flying overhead. JP and I had several discussions about the angles the butterflies should hang, with me preferring them soaring majestically upward, and him preferring the suicidal looking downward dive. We compromised with three soaring up and one hovering nearly level with the floor. I'd also like to get a little name plate to hang in the area between the room and closet doors.

It's a happy little room and even Landon likes to hang out in there, though I'm sure he's getting very curious about where the heck this baby is hiding and why we won't bring her out to play.

(P.S. New High-Heeled and Pregnant post over at All Kinds of Pretty.)

Full post as published by Lag Liv on March 23, 2010 (boomark / email).