Nursery Inspiration!

I've been window shopping on the web for awhile now trying to find the perfect nursery design to suit both mine and Joe's taste. It took awhile for me to find one I loved because I wanted something simple yet bold with pops of color. Joe's favorite color is orange so of course we HAD to incorporate that in there somehow.

After a couple of hours surfing the web (what else was I supposed to do during my bed rest down time???), I came across an awesome nursery that had almost everything I was looking for. The walls were a pale duck egg blue with a tinge of green and bright pops of orange were scattered throughout the entire space. I immediately book marked the page, so that I could show Joe when he got home.

Fortunately,  Joe loved the room and colors as much as I did. The only thing he was not a fan of was the zebra rug... I guess that was just a little to "girl" for his taste.

Once I found a design we both agreed on, I began to look for ways to make it more unique to my taste. I wanted some sort of theme, but I didn't want something that's been done over and over again. If you remember Payton's nursery, hers was done in a ladybug theme which suited her perfectly! I wanted something that would equally suit Kashton even when he gets older.

After some more searching I came across these cute little plush monsters called Ugly Dolls. Since I have been calling Kashton Little Monster since before I knew he was a boy, I decided a monster theme would be perfect! I didn't want to just plaster the room with Ugly Dolls and so I decided to incorporate some art and memorabilia from the book "Where The Wild Things Are", which has been a childhood favorite of both Joe and I.  I am still trying to find other ways to incorporate more monsters into the room, but I'm pretty happy with my ideas so far.

Below you'll find some pictures of the nursery that we will be using for inspiration. Fortunately for me, the lady who decorated the room for her little boy gave the names of the paint she used, so I'll be able to use the exact same colors!

Here is an inspiration board I put together that has some of the items on our shopping list that will go in the room. I will be using the green fabric to make a fitted sheet for the crib. I found a really cool tutorial for making no-sew fitted crib sheets, so I'm going to get various fabrics in the color palette to make custom sheets (so easy and pretty cheap too!).  I've also been dabbling in Adobe Illustrator, so I'm going to make most of the art prints for the walls myself and just use Ikea's white Ribba frames because they are so inexpensive and I love the look of them! I have a ton more DIY ideas for both the nursery and Payton's room that I will share once I get to the point of actually doing it.

I haven't quite finished the inspiration board for Payton's room, but when I do, I will for sure post it. It's going to be very girly with a gray and yellow color palette... I can't wait to get started!!! xoxox

Getting My Blog Back On

Ok so quite a bit has changed since I updated my last blog and to be honest, the old one kind of sucked so I'm going to just start a new one.

As most of you know, we are pregnant with a sweet little boy due March 20th, 2012 and we couldn't be more thrilled! Since my labor with Payton was pretty rough and ended in c-section, we decided to do a repeat c-section with Kashton to hopefully bypass all the complications I had last time. I'm kind of bummed that his birth date won't really be a surprise, but I am thankful for the opportunity to let my dad know exactly when he'll be born so that he can make it here in time from Florida.

Here are some pics taken of Kash during my 15 week gender ultrasound. Joe was SO happy to be finally having a boy and I was equally excited!! Payton is just happy that she is still going to be the only princess.

 As for Payton.... I really can't be believe how much she has grown this past year! She surprises me every day with new things and I couldn't be more proud to be her mom. I'm going to have to start writing down all of the funny things she says, because it's so hard to keep track of them all! Lately, she has been really into making up songs about random things and I can't help but laugh at them sometimes. I have to be careful that she doesn't see me giggle because if she does..... she throws a fit! She acts as if I'm the worst person in the world for laughing at one of her amazing originals. Such a little stinker sometimes, but I wouldn't have her any other way!

I'm not quite sure how she's going to act when the baby comes, but my plan is to keep her as involved as I can. She helped pick out a lot of the clothes for him and even helped pick out some of the things for the nursery. As a result, she has really started getting into playing house and is constantly carrying around her baby dolls and all of their things in her diaper bags. I have a feeling she's going to be a great big sister and I'm kind of happy that they will have a nice age gap.

Well that's all for now! Hopefully I can keep this thing going. xoxox