Mattie's Nursery Planning

Well, I have been a little slack the last couple of weeks on taking pictures.  We have just been busy with the mundane and normal tasks of daily living and caring for children, and the camera has been getting a well-deserved break.  I feel really bad about not capturing some of our normal everyday life lately though so I definitely need to work on that.  Of course, we are gearing up for more busyness (Is that even a word?  It just looks weird.) with the boys' birthdays coming up, setting up their new bunk beds and getting their new shared space ready, Easter, getting everything ready for the new addition, mommy's graduation, etc.  As usual, the list goes on and on.  So I thought I would give you a little sneak peek into our plans for the little pink space we'll soon be adding to our very blue home.  When I first started planning this out (way before knowing if we were having a girl or boy), I decided relatively quickly what colors I wanted to use.  Since this is likely to be our only little girl and our last baby, I knew there would have to be pink.  However, I am not a fan of bright bold pinks.  I just love the light and feminine feel of soft pastels.  I also absolutely love the way baby pink and blue look together.  I decided that I wanted a light pink and aqua nursery this time.  The room is already painted a light shade of blue, and the furniture is white so not many changes need to be made there although we'll probably add a light shade of pink to the walls.  When I was looking and browsing for bedding, the only crib bedding ensemble I really found that met these qualifications was a slightly richer tone of the colors I loved.  I had sort of made up my mind that I could handle those colors since I hadn't seen anything better.  I created this "mood board" to see what I could work with for the space.

It wasn't bad, but I still really wasn't feeling it.  I wanted a monogram above the crib which I'll probably order from the Etsy site where I got our free monogram for our room.  There is a very sweet little decal that I ordered for Brody's nursery on the wall that I would like to keep so I am thinking of framing out around it to make it look like a piece of art on the wall.  I will probably make my own version of a mobile and something to hold those little hair bows that will be a necessity.  A dainty chandelier of some sort is also on the list of must haves.  So this was the general idea until one day I happened to see something in my blog reader from Project Nursery's blog about a giveaway for a bedding set from Carousel Designs.  I headed over to their site to check out their bedding and well I sort of fell in love.  I entered the contest as many times as I could, but it was a pretty popular giveaway with thousands of entries so, of course, I didn't win.  However, the bedding set wasn't too much more than the other set I had liked so it quickly took the top place spot on our nursery list.  It is just the perfect shades of aqua and pink and very dainty and feminine and elegant.  The set also has lots of matching accessories available.  We won't need to add anything in the way of furniture this time so the change over to a girl nursery should be pretty easy, but I think it will still feel like a totally different room.

Here is the current plan for the space:

*Side Note:  I am sure bunnies will make their way into the decor and accessories as soon as I have a chance to break out my old box of bunny goodness that has been in storage too long.  ;-)

Oh and if any of you wonderful people would like to send a gift to the little princess, I found a wonderful new way of "registering."  Instead of the old school way of registering at a select store (and what store has everything you need and want anyway...haha!), there is a new trend using a site that works a lot like Pinterest.  You can "pin" stuff from any other website (Target, Babies R Us, Etsy, etc.) onto your Babylist and everything is all in one place.  It is mostly a good place for planning for OCD minds like mine.  Ha!  Here is the link to our Babylist!  Happy shopping!  Haha!