24 Weeks Pregnant

I've been a massive slacker in taking belly pictures. For a few weeks it seemed nothing changed, but I can definitely tell a difference between week 20-24!


Front/Side View

Vintage Irmi Lamps: I can't choose!

I love the look of vintage Irmi lamps. There's nothing I hate worse than matchy-matchy generic nursery decor, and lamps and bedding are tied for the matchy-matchy prize. Don't get me wrong, there are some really cute baby bedding sets out there, they just aren't what I'm looking for.

These lamps are very unique and one of a kind and I like that a lot. Here are the Irmi lamps I'm leaning toward the most. I really need help deciding which one to get. The train and trolly definitely fit the color scheme best, but there's something about the ark and animals I like on the other lamp. HELP, I can't choose! Which one do you like best?



The ark comes with a plain white lamp shade (not original) but is missing the trolly driver part of the lamp. The train comes with the original shade. It has orange trains on a white and yellow checked background. The tolly doesn't come with a shade.

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UPDATE: I just purchased the Orange Caboose lamp. I think it fit more of the criteria than the other two. I like that it still had it's original shade. Can't wait to get it!

Kewpieville Framed Pieces

I LOVE how these turned out. These are postcards adapted by Florence Baker in the style of Rose O'Neill. They are from the 1950s and I love them. I really like the rich colors in them, and I think they will look great on the seafoam wall. I was initially going to paint the wooden frame gold to match the triptych frame, but I really love how the rich wood looks with the postcards.



Yes, I typed the word "love" three times in this post. But it's true, I love these (okay, now four times).

Mockup on Seafoam wall:

Rocking Chair Drama

I think my brother is totally cursed when it comes to hauling furniture (especially chairs!) for me. Back when I was moving into my first place, my Grandma bought me a table and chair set and one of the chairs fell out of the truck and shattered on the highway. When he was moving an overstuffed living chair back to Libby to my mom's house, that took flight as well.

As you might remember from a previous post, my mom gave me a rocking chair that's been in the family for quite some time. I was going to refinish and reupholster it. My brother was doing me a favor by bringing it to me and guess what happened? Yep, it grew it's wings and took flight and shattered like glass on the highway. Dang!

Tim and I decided to go look around a few second hand stores, and what do you know, the first one we go to I find the PERFECT glider rocking chair! And it was only $30! Not bad, not bad at all. I plan use the existing cushions on it as a pattern to make new ones. I'm going to sand this bad boy down and paint it to match the crib and dresser (An antique off-white color).

I don't think I mentioned how PERFECT this chair is! It matches the crib ( I don't have the crib yet, but that's in the works!!!) almost perfectly. see...



Here are the pictures of it with and without the cushions:









I can't wait to get started on it. RIP old family rocking chair, you will be missed!

Rugs

I really like the look of the light grey on white zebra rugs. With the colors we're doing in his room I think one might look cute. Most of them range from expensive to expensiver (yes, I know that's not a word). Here are a few examples:

So Far...(Frames)

Here are the second hand frames we got. Most of these will be painted white. I'm replacing all of the artwork with my own and others I find that I like.

The Kewpie Doll picture is an old Kewpieville postcard by Florence Baker. I'm getting a few more and putting them in the gold frame with this one. I'm not painting the gold frame. I actually kinda like the real subtle gold color of it as is. The two bigger frames on each end will house the Walter and Judy Collection lol.

So Far...(Toys)

Most of these are used and were bought for next to nothing! I don't even want to say how much all of this stuff cost because it's pretty pathetic how inexpensive!





Notice the Sophie the Giraffe...I just had to buy her! I'm going to repaint the hook shelf a bit to make it a little less girly.

So Far...(Newborn Clothing)

Here are the used newborn-3 month clothing we've accumulated so far. Most of them you can't even tell they've been used and they were all very inexpensive (bonus!).





Here are the NEW clothes we've purchased. We got all of these before we even knew we were having a boy. But most of them are boyish lol. Also here are a few other random things that have been purchased.

So Far...(Books)

Here are some of the books we accumulated so far. Most of these are from Goodwill.

I LOVE Little Golden Books!








I love these old vintage library books.


I didn't get pictures of every book we've gotten so far, but this is most of them.

I can't wait to paint

I have the colors picked out and I just can't wait to paint the baby's room! I chose to do 2 walls one color, and 2 walls another color. Here are the colors I've chosen for the walls and accents:


Colors will look different on different computer monitors.

Nursery Wall Art

Being a designer, I have a lot of plans for the nursery wall art. I want to make a great deal of the pictures myself. I have a few little prints that I just have to put up. I wanted to do one of each of our dogs in a cartoony sort of design. I had a pretty funny picture of Walter, so I just dove in and here it is.


ORIGINAL PICTURE:


Two of the accent colors are yellow and orange, so those are the background colors of each print. Judy's will be orange. I have to get a cute picture of Judy so that I can start her cartoon. I really don't have a lot of solid ideas for other pictures I'll make, but I have some time to figure it out.

Toys for Decor

In going with a vintage theme, I've been looking for toys that are a nice mix of new and vintage. Here is a compilation of a few of the things I'm thinking of. He is going to be born the Chinese year of the Rabbit, so that is reflected in the Miffy Bunny.

Baby Blankie

My Grandma taught me to crochet many many years ago. I really hope to put those skills to use and make something similar in color and style to this:



I'd probably not use green and I'd swap the tan for a light gray color.

Still searching for the crib

The search is still on for that awesome crib. I refuse to give up, I want it. I want it bad! I got a hold of the store, and because that crib has been discontinued, they have it for actually VERY inexpensive compared to what it originally retailed for. Also, they only have 2 colors available: natural wood and antique white. The price for the crib new is now $429. I *might* be willing to pay that much, but with the shipping (she estimated $250-$300 are you kidding me?!) it's just too much!

I Googled Bellini Annie Crib and found it for sale all across the US in various Craigslist posts. I found it on Ebay also, but that lady refused to ship it unless someone could come and pick it up and ship it out.

For now I'm happy to shop around and hopefully some nice citizen will be willing to ship me this crib at a reasonable price. I'm keeping my fingers crossed!

Second Hand Shopping

This weekend Ryan and I went to Libby, I had so much fun shopping with my mom and husband. We only went to a few second hand stores/consignment shops, and spent very little (well mom did, she wouldn't let my pay for anything!) I was a little sad that Parkside Thrift store wasn't open on Saturday. I haven't been in there in years, and they have a ton of stuff to look through in there. I got a ton more books, a LOT of baby clothes, and some toys. All in all a pretty successful shopping trip.

The thing I'm most excited about is the dresser I found. I didn't want to have to get a changing table. I wanted a dresser that was wide enough and long enough to have the changing pad on top of. I don't see a point in getting a changing table since it pretty much becomes useless after baby is done with diapers. I found the dresser on my Grandma's porch! It used to be mine years and years ago. It's a French Provincial style, which really, doesn't go with anything in my house, but being it's for the baby, and goes with the vintage theme, it should work out great. I do need to refinish it. Next time my brother comes down this way I'm going to have him bring the dresser and rocking chair for me to get to work on.

I spent quite a bit of time today washing and cleaning all of the new books and goodies. I'm going to wait to wash the clothes until right before he's born. What's the point right now, I'll just have to wash them again then anyhow.

PICS COMING SOON