Easy DIY Art

Again, more of a post for myself to collect ideas. I think this art could easily be DIY'd with any shape you want. For the little girl, maybe I could do this with birds or butterflies on different scrapbook paper glued to a foam board. Cut out and then put on heavy duty card stock, frame it and voila!

Found on ohdeedoh

Rethinking the Green

So, I remember saying that the baby girl's room was going to be green to match the currently existing bumper. But then I saw this from Ohdeedoh and I am in love:

If you recall, we did tone on tone stripes for our guest bathroom and loved the way it turned out. So it doesn't surprise me that I love this as well. I also love the pops of yellow and think it the green (pear colored) bumper we currently have would look really nice against this light Tiffany blue striped wall. And, the pop of yellow we already have! Our glider is a nice sunny yellow which you can see in this picture

I was even planning on doing those paper dahlias as a mobile, just like they have in the picture. I thought about doing it in pink and yellow. I don't know, I'm really leaning towards this room. It just speaks to me. I love the color and feel like I have been drawn to the turquoise/pear green palette as I've been looking for bedding for both kids and have felt that it is really "fresh" feeling. I opened up my Google reader this morning and saw this which I think would be such a nice accessory to the room! So cute and would be so easy to do!

Of course this would mean that I would have to look for all new fabrics for the crib skirt and curtains (maybe I could go with the white curtains with pink and yellow swirls from Ikea) but since I haven't done anything yet or made any real decisions, that's okay. And I've got time. Thoughts?

I also just wanted to say thank you for all the people that have left comments! It's really nice to know that people are reading along.

Making It Work II

While I'm sitting here waiting for Turbo Tax to install, I thought I'd come back and update on the situation. First of all, thank you to all of those who responded and put in their opinion on the fabric choices. It really does help.

But, as far as curtains go, I think I may have found an easy way out. In perusing the Ikea website, I found two options that weren't so bad, and they are a lot cheaper than what I could make it for. Sure, I'd have to line them myself, but it's still cheaper than the $7-13 per yard fabric I was looking at! (And needing about 7-8 yards! Yikes!)

Here are the two that I like:

#1:


#2:What do you think? No, they are not perfect, but for $20 (or $30) I won't feel horrible changing them in a couple of years when she moves to a big girl bed and gets all new bedding (which is what Anderson is currently going through. Whole other story!). Getting fabric to line these curtains won't be too much either. Maybe another $10-15??

I'm still going to need to make a new crib skirt and the top contenders are still down below. I just have to find time to actually GO to the Ikea to look at these in person and pick which one I like the best. Then I'll see what fabric for the crib skirt will look better. To be honest, it's kind of a relief that I won't be making curtains. Not that it's hard or terribly time consuming, but it's still one more thing on my to-do list. I'd have to line these to make sure the room is dark enough for the little girl, but that'll be easy.

Make It Work

So now that I have confirmation of 3 people reading the blog (yay!), I'm going to put you to work. We're expecting a little girl as you all know. Although Anderson's room is pretty neutral, we'd like to priss it up a bit and make it a little more girly. We'll move Anderson out to his own big boy room and move the little one in. Currently, the room is painted green, almost like a pear green. We intend to keep it that way because it's just less work for us and....we're going to make it work. So what goes with green? PINK! I spent a lot of time and money on the bumper and it's going to stay. I was thinking that I'd just make her a new crib skirt and new curtains to bring in some pink (or other colors) to make it more girly.



The bumper looks like this (with the wall color very similar):





We also have a yellow glider/recliner with dark colored crib and dresser in the room.

So now I just need to find fabric from a crib skirt and curtains. I'd like the curtains to have some green in it to help pull everything together. I think it would be weird to have a mostly pink fabric on a green wall. In my head it would look weird. I'd need some touches of green in it to pull the room together. The crib skirt could be pretty basic to me since it probably won't be used for very long. Once we lower the crib it isn't even seen. I would like the curtain fabric to last a long time since I have to spend more money on it (only because it's more fabric) and I don't want to have to spend time and money making new curtains 2 years from now. I guess I mean I'd like it to be able to grow with her so that even though I change her bedding once she moves to a real bed, I won't hae to change her curtains (but I guess it would be okay to do so. It would be nice to not have to.) So...what are your choices?? Some are in my price range, some aren't. I'm mainly going for a "look" or direction. I could always look around to find something similar that IS within my price range or try to find it on a different site/discount site. So, just give your opinion on the look.

Option 1:

(May be too busy)

Option 2:

Option 3:

Option 4:

Option 5:

(Probably for a crib skirt)

Option 6:

(I actually wouldn't mind this for either curtains or a crib skirt)

Option 7:

(Not sure if I like the unevenness of the dots)

Option 8:

(Hmmm..I think this pink is too bright. But I do like the pattern)

Option 9:

The more I look at this, the more I really like it. Plus, it could help tie in the small amount of blue that is on the border of the crib bumper.

Option 10:

(I think it's a cute fabric, but not sure if it's really curtain material. Plus, since the bumper has animals on it, not sure how cherries would fit in)

Option 11:

(Again, more for a crib skirt that curtains. I don't want stripes for curtains)

Option 12:

(I like the pattern and the pink and green but the background looks a little yellow to me. Not sure if I like that)

It's actually nice for me to see it all like this since all I have are links in one of my emails. So, what do you think? All comments and suggestions are encouraged and welcome! And get your friends to voice their opinion too.