Showing posts with label decor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label decor. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Pre-Packing Nursery

Hey all!
I promised nursery pictures... and you finally get them. Funny story though... it no longer looks as it will in the photographs.
WE ARE MOVING! To Tooele. In less than a month. So the once adorable (mostly) complete nursery is now fairly bare and has a small pile of boxes instead of cute artwork and books. On the plus side that means I get to put together a nursery again! And who knows... it might be the same or 100% different. But here you go:
                  Jude's dresser was an epic DI find but it's in need of a paint job or a new stain colour. We will decide what colour when we do his new nursery. His name was painted by our good friends and were an AWESOME shower gift. We love them. The tiny shelves were found at SUU. They were giving them away. It's been super useful as diaper storage as well as an awesome holder for all the other baby stuff we need on hand. John, Paul, George and Ringo were are inspiration piece. Jude stares at them all the time when we change his diaper and get him dressed.


The burlap banners on the wall were used at our wedding and say "Just Married" on the other side. I made the grey and white ones to add contrast and now they are used as perfect bow tie storage for our little guy. 
The book shelves were from IKEA... only $4 a piece and the frame was a shower gift. We were so lucky to get so many books from our showers. If you peek you can see Parker's face on our lumberjack storybook about the Great "Jedidiah Parks". The final photo is the bulk of the room. I feel like I live in that rocking chair sometimes. 
I'm so excited to someday be in our own place where we can paint the walls and really make the space our own. I feel like we did a good job with what we had though.
Anyways, much love from my mostly packed up apartment in Cedar!
-Sydney L

Thursday, September 11, 2014

Nursery rEvolution

Hey All!
So as with most things in my life, the more I plan the more things turn out NOT according to plan... and that is A OK. My only concern is that, like a crazy person, I do the same thing over and over expecting a different result. Anyways, thankfully for me this not plan, plan has turned out pretty well and in all reality it's not that big of a deal.
This is about... the nursery. Yep, that room where we will place our sweet little wailing baby in the hopes that he will sleep and not blow out of his diaper. There's something about putting a nursery together that makes this whole bizarre scenario of becoming parents all the more real. Maybe it's because you're actually assembling the cradle and rocking chair that you will use and that you're now assaulted by the sight of changing pads and onsies in dresser drawers when you walk into the once spare bedroom. The totes of fabric and patterns, as well as the golf clubs and Parker's "piles" have been stowed away. I mean it's real. There's a real person in me who's going to be really sleeping in the cradle under the window. It doesn't help that my body has reached house sized proportions and that our little man could show up literally at any time. I'm torn between elation and excitement and terror.

Anyways.... sorry about the mom tangent. Back to cute decor... When we had first talked about getting the room all ready for little Jude, Parker and I had decided on modern neutrals with a woodland kick. We wanted foxes, bears and a tee-pee. So I tailored our registry accordingly and kept an eye out for adorable creatures. Well it turns out that our dear family and friends (despite all of our hopes and dreams) did not use the month and few months since our wedding to learn how to use a gift registry... and so the random concoction of baby paraphernalia piled up and to our lovely family's credit, it's adorable albeit slightly non cohesive.
So as I organized clothes by size and looked at the adorable blankets given to us and made lists of the things still needed, inspiration struck in the form it usually does. As with the naming of our child, John, Paul, George and Ringo came to the rescue. No, there will not be yellow submarines hanging from the ceiling... nor will it resemble an octopus' garden... in the shade or the sun. Unfortunately for you, we aren't quite finished which means no reveal for you yet but pictures will be coming soon. Trust me. It's going to be adorable... almost as adorable as the probably ginger kid in my tummy.
Much love,
Sydney L