Nesting

Mommy has been hard at work getting stuff done for Ro's room. We are moving the month before he is born so obviously I won't paint the walls of the room we're collecting his things on right now. But just imagine the walls painted a pretty light gray color. Very neutral (cause I like color and with all the color that will be in his room, colorful walls might be taking it overboard). Here's his crib full of the art work that is going on his walls. that I have collected (and painted) And of course his lovely lady giraffe who does not have a name yet. She is my favorite thing in his room. She was purchased for $69.99 on Amazon.com with free shipping (In stores I found her for $100.... elluva deal if I do say so myself).


And here is his glider and a dresser I've had forever that will be used as a changing table. I am taking the decopauge off of the drawers and I will either replace it with gray and white chevron print or just gray but the dresser will remain turquoise. The colors of Ro's room are of course gray, turquoise, yellow and some blue. Oh and that's Ollie-gator he came back with us from Washington.


These are pretty awesome. I want most of his clothes to be hanging, precisely because I made these cool size dividers. I wanna be able to reach in and grab his outfit knowing it's the size I need. SO I made newborn, 0-3, 3-6, 6-9 and 9-12 months and on the back these say 12-18, 18-24, 2t, 3t and 4t so when he gets bigger I can just flip them over and voila! got all the door hangers/scrapbook paper/stickers for around $5.



I love this R. I bought a cardboard R from hobby lobby, painted the sides blue and the front and back turquoise then I cut out a smaller R in giraffe print with a exacto knife and mod podged it to the R. (Mom, aren't you so proud of your crafty daughter?) All this I got for around $5.



These are another of my favorites. These are 8X10s that will go above his crib. I googled "giraffe silhouette", "elephant silhouette", and "Crocodile silhouette" and printed them out at the size I wanted. I then used a trusty exacto knife and cute the shapes out of the color cardstock paper I desired (yellow gray and aqua) and stuck em in a frame! suuuuuper cheap project! (just the cardstock paper which is about .44 a sheet and the frames which i bought for half price at hobby lobby for about $10 a piece)


Canvases, paint and electrical tape made these super cute chevron prints.


This cross I handpainted. Did not follow a design, just freehanded the giraffe print.



There's much more where that came from. Here's a sneak peak of what I designed on babybedding.com. I hope we get this as a gift at our shower. If not, we will order it. I was going to attempt to make it all buuuuut... I don't think I wanna tackle that considering I'm pretty new at the sewing stuff and this fabric is about as expensive at getting it made on this website.

I have many more projects ahead of me but I will definitely keep updating the blog! Toodles!