And Baby Makes Six: And Then There Were Seven

So, for the last 9 months or so, I’ve been busy housing a human. And on June 29, Miss Harper Grace graced us with her presence. She was about 2 and a half weeks early, weighed 7 pounds 2 ounces, was 20 inches long and is perfect in every way. And in the time leading up to her arrival, I’ve been busy pink-ifying everything…obviously. In case you didn’t know, it’s kind of my favorite color.

From the second we found out we were having a girl (even before, actually), I knew I wanted gray & white stripes on one of her nursery walls. And the plan was to just do gray on the other walls. And after about 20 trips to stores looking for furniture, I decided on gray furniture...and then I decided to put the crib on two walls...and one would have a window on it...and with these decisions I decided all gray walls weren't going to work. And that's when I came up with this great idea to do polka dots. It's a great idea...but the actual application hadn't really been thought through yet.

After some research, I came up with a plan and got buy-in from the hubs, and together we created a nursery that far surpassed my expectations. I love, love, love it!

We bought this thick-ish brown paper, did a lot of measuring (because my circles had to be perfect and a perfect distance apart for it to work for me...a hodge podge of circles all over the wall wasn't what I was after) and made a template (the first of many). And then we started the taping and painting.

And here is the finished paint job.

And then it was time to start the pink-ifying. I decided to be crafty (and Lindsay and crafty do NOT go together, so this could have been a disaster) and make some fabric poms. But, again, I was so excited with how well these turned out. See, I CAN be crafty.

I bought a lot of fabric and my very first hot glue gun, cut a lot of circles, glued them to make 'petals', glued them onto a Chinese lantern, put some ribbon on them for hanging and TA-DA! A couple weeks later, I had 4 fabric poms.