nursery

As a kid I always had a wild imagination. Whether it was playing with my action figures while involving them in a continuing storyline or acting in imaginary movies, both activities I would do by myself in my room. If someone where to have filmed me, I’m sure it would have been embarrassingly hilarious. As ridiculous as it was, I feel today that it was healthy and helped me grow to be creative as an adult. We had video games growing up, I had my Nintendo/Sega. I didn’t really give a shit about any of them.

I wanted Amelia to have a room that would hopefully spark her imagination. I wanted a room that she would want to play in. Nicole and I started brainstorming this room even before she was born. This newest addition was something she had come up with that really put the final touch on her bedroom.

A freakin’ Tee Pee with a little fake animal skinned rug! We got this on amazon for $130.00, I was able to use my amazon points and got it half off. They have it in 2 sizes, we opted for the 6 ft size which was the smaller. It fit perfectly.

Her face is always priceless when I show her something new. This was no different, and for a little while she wouldn’t go in it. She just looked at it. Eventually I convinced her to go in by going in it myself with her favorite book, “Harry the Dirty Dog.” She followed me in and seemed to like it.

The quality of this thing is really nice. The reviews on Amazon from everybody had said it was nice quality, but that it had a gross fishy smell. It actually didn’t at all. Maybe they fixed the issue. I’ll have more pictures of her room once we finish the clouds that we want to paint on the wall.

Well, we were put through a whirlwind with the burglary, temporarily moving out, and all that madness. With only a few weeks remaining (possibly earlier), the nursery is finally finished! We took a disgusting turd of a room and turned it into something awesome. I have taken the pictures from the other blog posts and compiled all of the process pictures to create this wonderful room. For a while, when we were trying to sell the house, losing this room before the baby got to see it was brutal on me. I was doing my best to deal with it, but I couldn’t let go of it. I slowly started getting more and more angry….

When we had to make a call to stay or possibly not have a place at all for when the baby came, we decided to stay, I love our neighborhood, we just has some super shitty luck. It was then going to be full speed ahead in finishing the room. I want to thank all who helped make this possible and who helped us get through the worst two months ever. It is finally done…

Girl or Boy….. the Bills are in their blood.

This weekend was super productive. With no set plans, it gave us a ton of time to work in the nursery as we are closing in on the final project in this room….the new floor. I’m a bit scared to try this next project by myself, but I was scared when I was trying the crown molding, and that turned out fine. This will be my most challenging project yet.
This weekend, we started wrapping up some of the final things that needed to get done before starting the floor. We had to finish the inside of the closet and we had to sand and paint the window molding. As soon as we finished these, all of the dirty work was pretty much done. This would clear the way for putting up the new light. We had looked at a number of lights and up until maybe a week ago, we were set to pay a little more than $100 for the one we wanted. Then Nicole came up with the idea to get one of those paper ball shades. I loved this idea, mainly because it would sort of resemble a moon! We found one at Pier 1 Imports for about 10.00. We then bought a mini pendant light kit from Home Depot for 14.99 making the entire light around 25.00. Pretty sweet huh? I put that up this weekend as well, and we are finally getting to see the formation of this room come together. Besides our kitchen, this baby is going to have the best room in the house!

Stay tuned for more updates! I’m trying to make a more constant flow of blog posts happen, I have been insanely busy but if I pour myself a tasty pint, I can chill out enough to type out an entry!

Category: nursery

Cool Addition to Our Daughter’s Room

With not much time remaining, we have a nursery!

Our Imagination Nursery Project!

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