The Room, Part 2

Sooo….remember how I said I wish I were more crafty? Yeah, well I might have to take that back. As it turns out, being crafty and doing lots of DIY projects is more than a little bit exhausting! We’ve made a lot of progress in The Room, but it’s been very time consuming. Every “little” project somehow managed to turn into at least a several hour event. Maybe it’s just my lack of experience. At any rate, here’s what we’ve done thus far:

First off, we tackled the wall art that I wanted to create using the fabric that inspired the theme of the room. My original plan was to buy three canvases and then just staple the fabric to the back. However, they didn’t have the sizes that we needed, so we had to just buy pieces of wood to build a frame and go from there.

It ended up taking hours, lots of measurements and even more help from Nathan’s parents, but eventually we got them finished and hung on the wall.

That same weekend, Nathan’s parents surprised us with our baby gift, a really comfy chair that we can rock the baby in. It was nice to get that in the room to provide some perspective and help me figure out where I wanted the tree stenciled on the wall.

Next up was actually putting up the stencil and getting the tree painted on. And boy was that a chore! I mean, I’m guessing it was because it took a long time…not because I was actually involved in said painting. Nathan and his dad are nothing if they aren’t concise, so to minimize the amount of paint seepage, they put tiny pieces of tape all throughout the branches before painting.

While they were busy doing that, I kept myself occupied by painting the letters of her name that will go above the crib, using the dark purple and pink paints that we bought for the birds that would later be painted on the wall.

Yep, there's a K somewhere in her name!

After the tree was finally finished, it was time to paint the birds in….

I have to say I am thrilled with the final result!

I even bought a little bird house ($1 from Michael’s), painted it brown and hung it on the wall to look like it’s hanging in the tree.

Lastly, I used some of my leftover fabric to sew (well my mom did the sewing, I did the cutting) little birds to make a mobile to hang above the crib…or somewhere else in the room. I’m not sure how that’s going to turn out, but I figured that worst case scenario, I have some cute little birds to decorate with.

We still have to sew up the tails now that the birds have been stuffed!

So that’s pretty much where we are at this point. We still need a crib mattress, changing pad, curtains  and a crib skirt (color for both still undecided). Then we’ll just have to hang the letters and add a few finishing touches (a mirror somewhere? I think every baby room needs a mirror) and the room should be all ready to go!

Unfortunately the room is small enough and with the door in the wrong place, so I really can’t get a good picture of the whole thing. So you’ll just have to use your imagination to piece it all together.

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