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.