Adria's Crib Mobile

So I mentioned a few days ago that there remained a few projects that I had hoped to finish up for Adria's nursery and I am super excited to be done one of them!! :)  Found some inspiration from etsy/pinterest and came up with owls and flowers to match her color scheme and tie in with the tree mural behind her bed. l had all the felt already so it cost me NOTHING and she is thus far completely infatuated with it so I'm happy!  The little owls took me longer than I thought they would - but that seems to be the case with most things these days!  

Have a great day! :)

Fabric Baskets

For several months I have had very good intentions of trying a fabric basket.  I finally put my intentions to action and found a great pattern on Sew4Home and gave 'er a try!  LOVED it!  It was super easy and I only had to pull apart one of six so for this amateur sewer I'm pretty proud of those stats. :)  I tried a few different weights of fabric - from cotton to outdoor canvas, and really liked the more 'tumbled' look of the canvas, but the cotton worked out just as well with the firm interfacing.  I did two for Adria's nursery with some scraps left over from her quilt for diapers and socks, 

a couple for my laundry room to bring in a little more color in to the room in progress, one for my guest room - just cause I had some scraps in that fabric and I was on a roll, 

and another random canvas one - which is my personal favorite, and might find its way into my sewing cupboard or I could always give it away....cause then I could make MORE!    

Yeah, got a little excited about the fabric baskets.  Actually had to stop myself.  

the baby needs a room.

In anticipation of our baby's arrival, which may or may not have occurred about four months ago, (but really who's keeping track of my blogging delinquency right, ahem,...Trina....) we did prepare a new little nursery for her.  I, probably a little too confident in my belief that it was a girl, went ahead with a color scheme that could have proved to be a little problematic had my 'gut feeling' been off,...but it all worked out perfect! :)  

The tree mural was an addition to the room started to pass the time because she was late and I was bored.  BUT, it turned out super cute and I'm really happy I took the plunge.  It also gave me a place to hang some cute black and white pictures of her little newborn fingers and toes which I love!   

The quilt was a super sweet gift of love from my mom.  I picked out fabric and a pattern online and had them sent to her  and she graciously sewed the countless - (well - 'countless' to me because I didn't have to do it!) pieces together.  ;)  But it turned out so beautiful and I am so happy with it!  Something I definitely could not have pulled off!

So - this is where our princess hangs out.  There are a few more projects I would like to add to it, but we're happy with it for now.  I don't think I've ever had a room "done" so why start now right??

A Room for Our Princess

So here's the first glimpse of Claire's Room!  We finally put some things up today - still a few more to go up and need to fill the frames with pictures but,...that could be months and well...haven't done anything else I can brag about so gotta use what I have! :)  Unless you want to hear about the left-overs I tried to pass off as dinner tonight or how convincingly I talked myself out of cleaning the house today (to be honest, it wasn't that hard - so it probably isn't that impressive of a tale anyway...).

Before 

(Given I always use the before pics with the previous owners stuff -and well,....the doily count is a little high - but that just makes the the transformation between the before and after all the more I guess!)

After

My friend Barb brought over a old pine shelf she had taken down at her place.  So out came the can of white paint and my much loved and used paint rollers...and it definitely helped fill the space above Claire's dresser.  Gotta love white paint!  And free furniture! 

Hopefully, soon I can show you the other side of the room too!

Have a great night! :)