Baby W's Room

Its finally here!!!! Not the baby but a mostly complete baby's room :) I'm very excited because this was my first project to decorate a room all by myself.  Our room first looked like this when we moved in:

And we totally could not decide on a color which was making me a little crazy. I wanted to use a color called robin's egg blue because I had seen it in so many cute boys little rooms (how many times have I mentioned I think its a boy ha!) but then Steve asked if by chance it was a girl would I really want a blue room. My answer was still yes but just in case I let him talk me into a nice soft green which I believe is called Lunar Moon (I'll double check).  

Next came the curtains which took forever because I had no clue on how to use my sewing machine but my sweet neighbor came over and off we went. Curtains were made out of cloth I found at Ikea as well as some of the wall decorations. So here are the pictures!!!! I can't wait to bring this new baby home and putting him(ok maybe her) in their room.

I couldn't get the color to come out right, I hope you can tell how cute they look. I also got the frames below from a thrift store and my mom sanded them down for me so I could paint them different colors and hang up. Once I know what I am having I will paint the burlap I set inside them with the name. Steve had gotten a shipment for his work stuff and so we made creative use out of the pallets.

This was a panel from the pallet that we used to hang the frames on the wall. The frames are held up by twine (excuse the one in the middle it needs to be repainted and I can't find the paint), and I took the glass out just in case one fell down. Instead I put in burlap (which ps when cutting is very scratchy I thought I was going to go crazy) and the knobs are just fun cabinet knobs I found at Lowes.

This is one of my favorite parts of the room. I got these free printouts here and just used different color stock paper to print them out on. I just cut them down and tied them up with twine and hung with baby clothes pins. Even when I am done with this in the baby's room it will be up somewhere in my house its way to cute!

I had extra fabric from the curtains so I just found some sewing hoops at AC Moore pretty cheap and cut the different characters out that I loved and put them up on the wall. The hubs made a W (for Witherup in case you are curious) out of plywood for me and here is another wall.

I already had the crib sheets and the comforter came from Ikea as well and I found a great tutorial on how to just add ribbon to a crib skirt so I think it all came together nicely.

The bed skirt!

Little/big brother helping me take pictures :)

I still have a few more things to do, I need a shelf built (I'm so glad my husband is handy with tools) and there are two pictures that need to be hung but I can't do the pictures until the little one gets here :) I hope you guys like the room, I don't think the pictures do it justice but it will be so sweet for my little one. I can't wait to use it, hopefully in just another week I will be able too!!!! 8 DAYS AND COUNTING!!!!

Wreath DIY

Ok I know that I am more than behind on my blog but I have a pretty good reason. Only 1 week and 2 days til my due date and while I know that this baby will come out when its good and ready the countdown is fun for me. Anyway while I am not nesting by cleaning up my need to decorate and create things has gone into overdrive!!!! So last week and part of this week I decided to decorate my front door with one of the wreaths that I keep seeing online everywhere. And while it was hard for me to decide on one thing I just combined all that I loved into this one wreath. So it started with just a round foam wreath and a fun easy yarn color that was a bit neutral. I used a hot glue gun with this and just started wrapping the yarn around the wreath holding it tight and glueing about every 6 or 7 wraps like so...

I couldn't decide what type of flowers that I wanted on the wreath so I decided to mix it up and do a few. The first one that I started with was felt flowers and after googling quite a few I found the one that I liked. I got $.29 fabric pieces from AC Moore and cut them up into 1 in strips.

Depending on how large I wanted my flower I was doing some with 2 strips and some with 3 strips. Then I cut small niches in each strip.

After cutting all of the strips I started to roll them and glue them every few rolls.

Here was my end result :)



I also made some rosettes (I got the tutorial here) like this:

And did a few frayed flowers like this: (tutorial here)



After all of that I got a fun "W" to be in the middle and painted it (ok my husband did so I wasnt smelling fumes) midnight blue. I'm not too excited about how I have it held in the wreath but until I find something better I think its ok. I also wanted to be able to change the color of the flowers out depending on the season so I used large pins with different color heads to add a little bit of flare like this:

Ok and now the moment you have all been waiting for my end results. I was pretty excited about it all!!!

I hope you guys like it. Up next will be the babies room, its even more fun than this!