November November

This month has been pretty busy with Adam finishing up a quarter, beginning another, routine check-ups, visiting family...whew! Here are a few photos from our month:

More fruit, please!

To Great-Grandma's house we go!

One of my first few times in the exersaucer! Love it!

Isaac's Nursery Reveal!

When we found out that we would be having a baby boy, I contemplated the nursery theme for quite a while.

Inspired by the Restoration Hardware Baby & Child vintage aviator theme, the nursery adventure began!

I painted a dresser white and selected a dusty vintage blue paint for the walls. There is a post dedicated just for the dresser, which was published late June 2012...just a few days before Isaac arrived (good thing I didn't procrastinate painting the dresser!). The inspiration for the dresser came from Pottery Barn, such as this piece here. The dresser matches our white changing table and crib.

(Please pardon the lack of photograph quality....)

One of my baby shower's themes was vintage airplanes. I enjoyed helping out with the event's decorations. With my Cricut, I created a triangle banner out of vintage patterned and colored papers. 

It went from cake table decor to the crib's banner. (RH Baby & Child's nursery themes are generally neutral toned, but I wanted to add some cheery reds and pattern.) It kinda reminds me of this banner.

My sister created a beautiful blanket for Isaac. The colors are similar to this blanket, one of the inspirations for the room. She chose the perfect colored yarn for this special gift. It is so pretty I only want to drape it over the side of the crib for display!

In the spring  I found this nifty hook propeller at a children's clothing/etc resale event. Perfect tone of red, creative and great for organization!

Something I wanted for the walls was a dictionary print. You may have seen them...it's basically a picture or letter printed on a vintage piece of paper. Our printer wasn't cooperating and I didn't have a good dictionary page background image...so long story short I did something a little different. I have four identical black frames without the glass. Inside I inserted a dictionary page from my 1960's doorstop of a dictionary. With my Cricut I created "FLY!" in large grey letters. I adhered them within the frame using foam adhesives. I liked the idea of the letters being raised because it adds depth.

During one of the last few days in Wheaton, Mom, Isaac and I went to some garage sales. Along with some other goodies, we found these curtains. Linen. Neutral. Long panels. Only $1 a piece. Perfect. 

So I got four. :-)

One of the last things I added to the nursery was a mobile. I was waiting for inspiration. I really liked this one, but it was $$. So I pulled out my handy dandy Cricut once again and the following is what I came up with. I already had the paper and string...$0.

Most of the planes in the nursery are from my second home. This beautiful silver one is, however, a gift from some dear friends.

I hope you enjoyed the tour of Isaac's nursery. It was fun to create! And just think, this summer I'll be taking it apart and putting it back together again this summer when we move.