Finishing Touches

So the nursery is mostly done however I have been working on a few finishing touches. I completed the mobile today but it's not hung up in the nursery yet. As you can see it's currently hanging above my dining room table which is where I assembled it. It's butterflies and flowers.
I got some double sided scrap book paper, cut out different sized butterflies and then glued them together in the center so that I could spread their wings and give them a 3 dimensional look, then my friend Corrine helped with the flowers as she is a mad scrapper and has some crazy tools like the cricket that I had no idea existed.
The top is the center of a cross stitch hoop which is what I tied the fishing line and ribbon to and then covered it with paper that has been cut with fancy scissors anyways it was a fairly quick totally cheap project and I can't wait to get it hung in the nursery.
I added more flowers to the mural so I thought I would post an updated pic.
So my curtains were looking a little naked so I made some fabric rosettes out of scraps of fabric that I had left over from making the curtains. I'm so thrilled with how they turned out and I think it has really given the added touch that they needed.
This is what it looks like now, I put the flowers on both sides.
So I'm 33 weeks now, I finally broke down and bought a pair of maternity jeans, uggghh so close. Anyways we're getting really excited as you can tell. It will be fun to bring her home and start actually using this room.

Nursery

So I'm 30 weeks along now and feel great. It's been a pretty easy pregnancy. I'll post some pics of me here shortly. However I have pretty much finished the nursery now, everything except for pictures on the walls. Pretty much everything you see I have made, trying to do the whole thing on a budget and had a blast. It's not perfect but I'm excited.

The chair was originally blue gingham so I bought a king size bed sheet from good will and created a chair cover by making my own pattern and then I dyed it pink. The sheet was only $5 so I was able to spend a little extra on the cushion covers. Which I bought the material the day after Thanksgiving on sale and with a coupon so I think the whole cover was about $30. The rug which is peeking out was free, thanks to my friend Laska. The dresser was Jeff's when he was a kid, originally his grandmothers. So his mom had it in her garage and let us have it. We refinished it and painted it and lined the drawers.

This was the first thing that I made for the nursery the curtains and the lamp shade. I saw the pattern in the fabric store and decided it was easy enough to wing so I did. I used a mixing bowl to create the scallop edge and was originally going to put buttons at each point but have since changed my mind. We'll see I may leave it or do something else.

I used left over material from the curtains to make this lamp shade. I got the shade at goodwill for $3 and recovered. it. So I think the shade and curtains total were something like $15 can't remember but I know the fabric was on sale.

This mural was really fun to do. Never really done anything like it before, I knew I wanted to do something like a cherry blossom branch for many reasons. First this little girl is a spring baby, also Jeff and I took many engagement pictures in the cherry blossoms and also just cause it would look cool. So I drew the branch on with chalk to make sure I liked the shape then I painted over it. I made a stencil for the leaves out of plastic disposable plate because I didn't want to spend hours painting each leaf by hand. The flowers however I did do by hand but they are a very basic shape and it all went together rather quickly. Also as a side note the crib was a craigslist item and a gift from Jeff's mom. And the walls are a pale slightly pastel green, it's hard to tell because it hasn't been sunny lately and the lighting is different in every picture. Hope you guys like it. We are getting exciting for our baby girl to arrive and enjoy her new space.