Tag Archives: Blankets and Bedding

Bird Mobile – Done!

Posted by Leanne on September 20, 2011 4 comments

Here it is…as cute as can be!!

Bird Mobile

Baby girl, loving her new birds!

This project was definitely a learning experience for me… for anyone who knows how to handle a needle and thread, I’m sure you would have had a few good laughs watching me! I even needed to recruit my husband’s help a couple of times! …his mom is a Home Ec teacher, that a good excuse, right?! Anyways, I’m happy with the way it turned out, and baby girl is thrilled watching her birds spin around with the music… which is why I attached the branches to her original mobile, rather than how I saw it in the original picture.

I’ll add a few more pictures of her room… I wish I had pictures of this room when we first bought this house – it was nasty! Close your eyes and imagine falling ceiling tiles, stinky carpet half way up the outside walls, plywood for the inside walls… when we first moved in, we used this room as our “storage shed”! it held our lawn mower, tools, weed eater, and all that! When I decided to start my spa business, we fixed it up and added a sink, which is still in here – SO useful with a new baby!!

entering baby girl's room

I love how calm her room is, and the birds symbolize her peaceful spirit so well.

Those bookend owls were the reason I had leftover fabric and was inspired to make her mobile with the left overs. I had seen owls like these on ”Etsy” somewhere, but since they were over my budget, I rounded up a Facebook friend to stitch them up for me. I LOVE them!

The adorable bedding was made by my husband’s cousin’s wife. I LOVED it when I saw it on her facebook page, and as soon as the news of my pregnancy was out, I ordered from her… I love how the whole room has been planned around this bedding.

Since this bedroom doesn’t have a closet, I needed to get a little creative, and remembered this very ugly brown “thing” we had picked up at IKEA… It was seriously on sale, and we thought it would be useful, until we brought it home and found that it wasn’t at all… until now. A coat of white paint, and a curtain, and ta-da, the perfect wardrobe. It fit perfectly in this space. The change table was a hand me down when I was pregnant with my son, 7 1/2 years ago (and it was a hand me down to the people we got it from!). I love this old thing. It too needed a fresh coat of paint, plus a new color on the handles… a fluffy white towel covers up the ratty change mattress underneath, and the seamstress threw in a change pad to match the room. Perfect.

I swear, every baby room should have a sink! She even still fits in it for her baths!

Bird Mobile

Thanks for reading!

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Big Girl Room Reveal!

Posted by Leanne on September 7, 2011 None comments

So, I have mentioned before that our big girl, Anna, received a bedroom makeover lately, and I am so excited to share this with you. But before I do, I am going to take you back, waaaayyy back, to 2003…

this was the room of tonight’s topic, when we first came to look at the house for purchase

Now, just in case the last people who lived in this house read this blog, I will put in here that they rented this house, had I believe 3 teenage daughters, and we showed up with the real estate agent at 8:00 am on a school day. Woops!

Anna's room before

anna's room before

We were blessed to find we were expecting our first child shortly after we bought the house. So our “dump room” at this point, needed a remodel.

baby #1 on the way!

baby room

Jordan

We had a baby boy!

4 years later, along came our #2 baby…

Anna

Having not much money in the budget, and again, thinking the colors of the room that would be passed on to her was very unisex, she moved right on in…. however, all the pink that also moved in, completely clashed with the room.

walking toward her room

Always remember to Kiss Me Goodnight

Pink

Now, you also have to understand, our little anna was born with fire red hair, and is a Diva in the truest form. some people have princesses, we have a Diva. So this bedroom did not suit her at all, which, of course, irritated me. So when baby #3 was coming along, I was thrilled to have the freedom to do a makeover. I had just sold my business, and had a little extra cash for this adventure, so there were a few things I could splurge on. The first splurge was the inspiration for the room: The WallPaper:

So beautiful I could hardly stand it!

…Anyways, I am really tired right now, and still have a hutch and a desk to add another layer of varnish to, so I’m going to leave it at that, and continue tomorrow!! Thanks for reading!

The Perfect Crib Mobile

Posted by Leanne on September 1, 2011 6 comments

Perfect!

The theme for my baby girl’s room is birds. This happened completely by accident when my husband’s cousin’s fiance posted a crib quilt she sewed, on Facebook. I fell in love and ordered it for my baby’s room while I was still pregnant with her. Not knowing if I was expecting a girl or a boy, this quilt was the perfect neutral choice. Since then, I have found ‘birds’ seem to be ‘the thing’ right now – I see them in designs everywhere! And I am loving the theme. Standing in her room I decided she needed a bird mobile above her bed, so I headed to the computer and googled it. I love Google. There, I was stoked to find a fabulous idea, courtesy of www.spoolsewing.com. The website even has a free pattern available! Baby girl already has a butterfly mobile above her bed, and since she loves the way it spins and plays music, I will figure out a way to take the butterflies off, and put on the birds instead… but first I gotta get sewing! …did I mention I don’t know how to sew?! This is where my creativity comes in!!