Nursery!

Ohhhh, the nursery...

It's been quite the fun and time consuming project, let me tell you.

It started as an "office" complete with lots of books, stacks of old mail and plastic drawers filled with random craft supplies, cards, ribbon, tissue paper and everything else that just needed to go somewhere. I'm sure you have a room like this? I hope so. You can see part of it in the below picture that we took on our 3rd anniversary back on October 6th. (We take a picture on every anniversary so we can remember where we were and what we were doing.) This 3rd anniversary happened to be the night we announced our baby news to the world of Facebook - and had cereal for dinner. It was very romantic.

We cleared it out. Moved a dresser that was in the guest bedroom down to the basement that now stores craft stuff, ribbon, tissue paper and DVDs/CDs. Moved the books and book shelf (after donating a large stack of them - I didn't think I needed to continue holding on to books about dating) to the guest bedroom. Bought a computer armoire off craigs list and moved the computer equipment and TV down to the formal living room (which we are looooving). After deciding on the perfect bedding, it was time to pick out the paint color (after much research about no VOC paint), tape and get started painting! 

Good-bye grayish/blueish paint!

After trips to USA Baby (we were there for 3 hours...), Babies R Us and looking online for hours, we went with Baby Bargains A rated Ikea's Gulliver crib. It was a breeze to put together using only two small tools. My parents came up that particular weekend and we packed my dad's pick-up full of nursery supplies. It was so nice to not have to make multiple trips, because as you may know, that place is CRAZY.

The Ikea Mandal dresser was a different story. Lots of pieces and parts.

It's a good thing Tom can fit in small spaces. His smile was very fake. He was at a very crucial point in the dresser's construction, and the parts weren't going in correctly. He persevered though. I love that about him.

Hurdle #2: hanging the curtain rod.

Who would have thought? Not me.

Can you see the six large holes in my newly painted nursery wall? *tear.

Thankfully they healed well, and we were finally able to buy the right anchors to make it work.

It was a mess in there for weeks. And if you know me, I don't like messes so we just kept the door closed at all times. What you can't see won't hurt you.

There isn't a ceiling light so we bought Ikea wall sconces. I love the unique lighting.

Ready for this?!

Two months in the making....

 and a lot of effort and hard work on my sweet husband's part....

All furniture, rug, lights, curtain rod and curtains from Ikea.

Wall anchors from Ace Hardware *smile.

Bedding from diapers.com.

Glider and ottoman from craigs list. 

Tree decals from etsy.

Paint from Sherwin Williams.

Tree picture was wedding gift from Liz with the perfect verse on it for the nursery...

For the LORD is good and his love endures forever;
   his faithfulness continues through all generations.

Psalm 100:5

Now it's time to tackle the closet, and fill the drawers with cute baby clothes and tiny diapers!