the girl's room

I am getting ready to move Renee's gender neutral, half finished nursery into the baby's new bedroom and as a result of that am having a blast picking out new stuff for her room. It is true that doing a girlie room is more fun than doing something that can go either way. I feel moderately guilty about the baby starting off it's little life with hand-me-downs but then I tell myself that I was the THIRD of three daughters and I'm pretty sure I owned approximentally one new item in my entire life and managed to live through it. I'm sure The Fetus will too. Speaking of The Fetus, STOP KICKING ME IN THE BLADDER ALREADY.

I got the pleasure of buying a second crib because the little thing was in such a dad gum hurry to get here SEVENTEEN MONTHS after it's sister and I'm going to refresh the old nursery with some new wall items and some new storage solutions so it is indeed getting a few new things. Oh and the walls will be yellow instead of green so that's like totally different, right? I feel better now.

Back to The Girl's room. I started out wanting butterflies. I wanted to use these fabrics (minus the blue one). How cute is it? CUTE.
 

I searched high and low and Hobby Lobby is the only place that carries those fabrics and after waiting well over a month for the fabric to be restocked (it was on backorder), I gave up and re-started my search.

This ended up being a good thing because I found someone on etsy that has just as cute stuff, allowed me to fully customize my order and is going to make it all for me. I haven't seen the finished product so I'm a bit hesitant to go on and on about SwellByStephanie but she was very patient with my indecisiveness and even ordered two fabrics that I wanted incorporated into the quilt without charging me extra. Ski should be scared of the number of hours I have spent on etsy recently. Wait until I get into buying handmade dresses and hair ties for the girl. OHMYGOD. We are going to be filing for bankruptcy at some point, I'm just sure of it. I'm not sure why God felt compelled to give me a girl but he really should have known better and felt some degree of pity for my husband. THIS IS NOT MY FAULT.

These are the fabrics that I picked. The Apples and Pears (upper left) is going to be the main fabric for the sheets and most of the details in her room, the stripe will be used for the bedskirt and the others will be incorporated into a quilt.

Fantastically cute, no?  Two days after I placed my (non-returnable) order with Swell, the butterfly fabric came in. OF COURSE IT DID. I am taking it as a sign that some higher power thought me making the bedding myself was a terrible idea. I think I could incorporate the butterflies as the color palette is the same but we'll see how the quilt turns out and go from there. I have been collecting matching picture frames and hampers and storage bins. Even though I wanted turquoise and pink, I settled for green and pink so that the hubs didn't have to repaint her already green room. THE THINGS I DO FOR LOVE.

Comments

[AmandaH]

Fantastically cute, YES! Great choices.

[Leslie Collins]

Adorable fabrics. I love the apples and pears. Girlie stuff is way too cute. Jade has been scared since REyna was born that we might go bankrupt. :) hahaha.

[Davina]

It is so cute and I look forward to seeing photos of the room when you finish it:) I figure it the $ doesn't matter as long as you are happy with the results.

[jenny]

very cute! great choices in fabric - i'm sure it will look great. oh, having someone else make it all - BONUS!

[jessica]

loving them!!!!! can't wait to see it all pulled together.