Ya know how some things get worse before they get better? Well the baby room certainly did. We were showered by wonderful friends and family (Baby Shower #2 Post coming soon!) and then we had to organize it all....which actually proved to be a bit overwhelming :-) I spent quite a bit of time sorting clothing and other goodies by size, age appropriateness, category, etc. And it looked like chaos for a whole day before it looked better.
While I tackled some of this craziness, Matt was hard at work putting up the shelves we were given by the best brother-in-law I have :-) We originally planned to just buy some white ledge shelving to put our books on. He did one better and MADE them himself! And we love, love, love them.
[Like I've said before, we aren't great at this sort of thing...but we eventually figured it out with the use of a drill, a level and a very newly purchased stud-finder.]
[Matt was absolutely thrilled that I was documenting the whole affair...]
[Time for books. Lots of books!]
Since we were on a roll, we decided to go ahead and tackle the frame wall as soon as we finished the bookshelves.
[We started with this blank wall, some spray-painted $2.00 frames and some free art prints, photos, postcards, etc. ]
[I did a search for "free printables" online to find things like this "Life is a Beautiful Ride" print.]
[The elephant, which is my favorite, is actually a print of some artwork from a Hickman student. The staff loved it as much as I did, so we made it the cover of this year's magazine.]
And one final touch above the closet doors - the gift Matt gave to me on our first Valentine's Day together. What better place than the kid's room, right?
And voila! Almost done. Just a few more finishing touches to go before it's ready!
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