Peel and Stick Decals

• I won a peel and stick tree from RoomMates hosted by Now What Baby. 
• These peel and stick decal's are great! I love how I could reposition the leaves, and they'd still stick.
• They make for a wonderful nursery!
• I've been working to add more character's to Isaak's tree in his room. 
• At first I was thinking of just making a bird's nest. 
• I decided to make a sleeping owl too. The owl has to be asleep because it's day time.
• These two characters are now made, but not attached to the wall yet. I'm still trying to figure out what the best way of attaching them is. Our walls and ceiling isn't dry wall. It's cement mixed with plaster. Something like that. Hard as heck! I'm sure structurally the walls are great to withstand a thunderstorm, but horrible to attach anything to them! 

 

• Here's the bird's nest. It will go on the bottom right branch.

• A detail of the nest. I just sewed in scraps of thread and I left the ends showing in a messy manner since nests are organized, yet cluttered at the same time.

• Here's the wise old owl. He'll go on the bottom left branch.

• This is a detail of one of the owl's eye's. They were sewn in.

•  I'm still in the process of making a puppy for a hill. He's going to be chasing one of the butterflies on a different wall. Isaak loves puppies, so I had to add one in.
• I was thinking of creating a puppy Doctor Seuss style. To be honest I think Max from The Grinch Who Stole Christmas is kind of ugly. I'm going with more of a puppy look from The Poky Little Puppy.
• It will be a brown puppy, and he'll have a funky pattern for his spots. I thought brown will be better then white; just in case a little boy decides to touch him a lot.
• And last, but not least Isaak's going to have a kite on that same wall as the puppy.

Desk or Changing Table?

• When I was pregnant with my youngest, I knew I needed to find ways to save space in his soon to be nursery.

• I took an old desk that was left in our house from the previous owners and decided to convert it into a changing table.
• I ripped paper, glued it all over the desk, painted it dark brown and put three coats of acrylic varnish on top. The texture is subtle.

• The idea of this desk being a changing table appealed to me because it had a hole in it where a chair would normally sit, which was perfect for a hamper.
• I imagine a large trash can, or diaper pail would work in this hole as well!
• The drawers on the sides were used for baby socks, onesies, BabyLegs, sleepers and more.

• We still had room on the top for the wipes, spit up rags and anything else that we needed.
• The diapers hung above the changing table.
  

• We used the middle drawer for a baby brush, lotion, thermometer and the many samples that we got in the mail.
• When our son got sick with Meningitis we had to treat him at home with home IV antibiotics. This was the spot we made sanitary and reserved for treatment. Our baby had to lay down for half an hour three times during a 24 hour period. The middle drawer was pulled out, and we fit our many supplies inside a lined cake pan for his treatments.
• As you can tell it's served many purposes.
• Now that our son Isaak is a toddler, I've taken the changing pad off and it's now back to being a desk. I love that this old desk was something that we're using.

{Trash Turned to Treasure}

Setting Up Your Own Toy Bin For a Nursery

• I got a set of shelves from a friend that was moving away.
• He was just going to trash the shelves, so I took them in.
• I put a subtle texture on them. I applied white Gesso on the shelves with a spatula. After the texture was the way I wanted it to be, I moved on to the next step.
• I painted it with a mint green, and put three coats of acrylic varnish on top. Note that the varnish does yellow the paint slightly.
• I found baskets at Michaels that were just the right size for the shelves.
• Baby toys fit perfect in them!
• Now that my son is a little older, we've replaced the baby toys with cars, balls and stuffed animals.

{Trash Turned to Treasure}