Some Nursery Pictures

I finshed painting the nursery this week!

Actually, we never intended on painting the nursery at all. It was already this pretty light blue color when we bought the house--a nice color for a boy or a girl. But the previous owners had patched some nail holes, leaving white splotches over the pretty blue field. We thought it would be no problem to cover them, since the owners had also left us the can of paint.

However, when we went to cover the patches, we found that the paint can had rusted on the inside, spoiling the color.

I was disappointed to have to paint again, especially since I liked the light blue and planned to paint it the same color again. How boring!

My friend Kim, the same one who warned me about the squirrels, suggested that I turn the patches into clouds. I thought it was a nice idea, but reminded her that my theme was going to be Pooh and didn't know how clouds would fit in. So she suggested painting a mural of the pooh characters floating through the sky, holding onto balloons. I really liked the idea, so I stareted work a few days later! I modeled the characters and wildlife after the Classic Pooh sheets we received as gifts.


Here's a close-up of Tigger, trying to greet a butterfly while his balloon pulls him away.

The picture on the wall is a cross-stitch made by my Great Aunt Pat. It reads:

"Cleaning and scrubbing can wait till tomorrow, because babies grow up, we've learned to our sorrow. So quiet down cobwebs, dust go to sleep. I'm rocking my baby, and babies don't keep."


Here is piglet, the only one to acutally be holding onto his balloon. Believe it or not, he was the most difficult for me to draw. To his right is a honey-bee and below the window is a dragonfly.

You can also see the Pooh rug I bought on eBay a while back. Because I have this rug, as well as a cross-stich of Pooh that my mom made us, I decided not to paint a Pooh mural. Plus, I ran out of wall space!

I'm still deciding on curtains for the room. I think I might just get a Roman shade.




Here you can see the crib we were able to purchase with the Target gift cards that people gave us. We had to pay for the shipping only! We had a lot of fun putting it together last weekend. It can convert to a toddler day bed, and then someday a twin bedframe. I'll post a close-up when we get the mattress and it's all set up.











the third wall, with the cross-stitch of Pooh my mom made us. I bought the glider from craigslist when we were still in Philly.

I'm going to use the built-in shelves (built by a previous owner to cover the hump from the stairs) as a changing table.






Here are the shelves, stocked and ready to go. The basket on the top shelf holds booties, shoes, and hats. On the second shelf, the wide basket has our newborn onesies (we have 14 in all, and that's just the onesies!) . The middle basket will hold the cloth diapers, when they arrive. The small basket will be for wipes.

And finally, here is the closet, with newborn through 12 mos outfits, waiting for their turn!