In lieu of arriving at my third trimester a couple of weeks ago (currently at week 30...ahhh!), I decided I needed a post to vent about all my cool stuff I've been doing for baby! (Yes, the poor guy doesn't have a name yet.) There has obviously been a few shopping sprees here and there and the big items have been checked off my list already. I wanted to share...
First, we start with ze crrrib. I decided on white awhile ago because the other furniture we'd be putting in the room is also white...I'll be adding a dresser and also a desk with a hutch in the room that was the furniture I used growing up. I figured the desk would be nice to use as a changing table and the hutch is great so I have shelves for baby books, picture frames, stuffed animals, etc.
To complete my white
furniture for the room, I wanted some kind of chair as all moms do.
Originally we planned to buy a pricey armchair until we decided to make
due with a simple rocking chair that my parents had to give us...the
only problem was Jake was going to have to refurbish it since it's 70's
dark brown wood with some great gold foil accents. Well, a better offer
on a rocking chair ended up coming our way so we scratched the idea of
using my parents rocking chair and have now proudly inherited this
beauty thanks to my friend Natalie's grandmother. It's perfect! I'll
just need a cushion for my big bum...which I found at World Market! I wanted a back cushion too so I was clever and and bought 3 of the cushions: one for sitting on, and two that I'll sew together that will go along the back of the chair. LOVE.
Next, the fabulous bedding!...minus the hideous yellow monkey blanket. (I'm not big on character stuff, especially monkeys.) I was really up in the air on what colors I wanted. I originally was going to go with an adorable navy and white set with mini lime green alligators (almost like a Lacoste logo) but I felt like it threw off my plans for paint colors since I had wanted to paint a light shade of apple green to keep the room gender neutral instead of painting it blue. Lime green and navy just didn't fit those plans. I instead came up with finding gray and white bedding since it's just simple and I can mix any color of sheet with it...I had actually planned on using gray, white and lavender bedding had baby been a girl, so this works out nice to just switch the lavender to blues and greens for a boy. Overall I plan to use teal and apple green with my gray and white. Nursery room colors complete!
This would be a close example of the color we painted the room, but instead of painting the full walls, we only painted about the bottom third because we'll be adding trim around the room for the split color look.
For room decor, I only have a few ideas...mostly putting fun things on the desk shelves and some pictures above the crib along with a few other tidbits here and there. I came across these box canvas prints at Target and love them, but decided I might attempt to make my own so that I can adjust the shade of each color to match just right and can also so I can decide which color will have which pattern. Let's hope I can pull this project off! Either way, this will pretty much be what I'm planning to hang on the wall above the crib.
Then, during my adventure to Hobby Lobby to go browse their fabulous goods, I came across these items...a rug for the room and picture frame for one of the bookshelves. Love them! For the frame, I'll paint over the orange.
This will also end up being purchased for the bookshelf....
I've been debating on what to do for a lamp or night light in the room and had considered buying a large paper Chinese lantern since I absolutely loved the one I owned before. I instead settled on just a regular lamp but think a teal base with a white shade would be super cute. This one pictured is from World Market, so I'll be heading there on Saturday to investigate.
Another must is twinkle lights! I've always had them in my room since probably high school, usually draped over the top of my window or above my closet. I decided baby's room needs some and would act as a good night light instead of too much light from a lamp being on all night. These lights are also from World Market, and they would be perfect! Looks like I get to have my Chinese lantern look afterall, just in twinkle light form. Hooray!
For baby blankets, I couldn't wait to hurry and buy one I like. It seems that at baby showers, the next most popular item given is receiving blankets (or just blankets in general). I decided that even though I'm planning on people giving me blankets, I wanted to buy one that I specifically liked. I found this one at Target and adore it! I love the colored squares. I love it for a baby boy.
The carseat and stroller were the first things we bought...well, first things my parents bought for us. Thanks parents! I picked out this brand because I see them everywhere and loved the color selections they had. I went with my fabulous green color and like that it's gender neutral to use again for baby #2 when that day comes along. Jake is ok with my green obsession.
I haven't purchased my diaper bag yet, but I'm planning to get this Petunia Pickle Bottom one. I feel super snobby about it because they are so dang expensive, but this is another brand I see everywhere and friends of mine that have the diaper backpacks rave about how much they love it and wouldn't trade it for anything. They have so many cute options to choose from but a simple gray works for me...plus, Jake probably wouldn't appreciate wearing something with pink flowers on it when it comes to his daddy duties of bag carrying.
And then there's baby clothes! I'd like to think I really haven't bought that much since I'm guessing a lot of friends and family will end up giving me quite a few. I'm also waiting for fall clothing and colors to come out, so I've limited my spending on summer outfits...crabs and beach clothes don't fit September very well. For the clothes I have bought, I just love them! I put together a college of some of my finds. These all range from newborn size to 9 months...apparently I like stripes and haven't branched out much on colors after looking at this. Haha. But, missing from this group is a super cute gray and white Utes T-shirt, a gray Darth Vader onesie, and a yellow Tshirt from with baby sea turtles on it from Hawaii when my parents went in March.
Let me just point out the adorable Vans shoes above! I've had my eye on them for awhile and was so excited to buy them and use them as part of Jake's Father's Day presents to show that baby will be cool like dad in skater shoes...to complete the coolness look, I also bought an infant Air Jordan black baseball hat. So cute! The shoes won't be wearable until baby is over 1 year old when he will be walking.
July will be busily spent putting the nursery together, mostly by Jake. I can't wait until he's done painting and assembling the crib so then I can start decorating and putting things away. Fun stuff! Hopefully all turns out as well as I'm picturing in my head.
