Nursery!

 

I posted pictures of our nursery and finished baby quilt on my other blog! Go check it out! 

 

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I really like the idea of doing this in the baby's room. We sold our house in Missouri so we get to have a nursery now, at least some sort of nursery, even if it is just a nook in a one bed room apartment! There is a whole round-up of these alphabet walls in the source link. I better start collecting! 

Craft Room Progress

Although not much crafting has been getting done... SOME progress has been made on the room it all goes down in! Its also our guest room... what do you think??

This is my new fav thrifty find! It was $10 or something... it was kind of scratched up and off white with black legs, but my parents got it all spiffed up to match my room! I HEART IT!

I don't know if it is a real Eames, but I LOVE it anyway! Maybe I will have to get the rocking chair someday to match.

need 'em!

i have become mildly obsessed with these shelves this morning. i WANT them! aren't they amazing??

craft room updates

this is what my craft/study room looked like after we moved things around last week. can you say OVERWHELMING?

as overwhelming as it was... i was excited to have a desk for studying and another one for sewing.

and here it is all organized and put away. i still need to get a big storage unit so i can get rid of my plastic drawers, but after that and a few things on the walls i will be all set!

love my little knitting corner. and i still adore that rocking chair. although i wish it would have occurred to me to buy different paint after i bought the green chair...

study nook.

that is my new desk! can you believe we got it for $20?

**pics of my old craft corner here**

flea market finds... old and new...

i found these lights a few years ago and am still very much in love with them. still trying to work out my plan for above the bed...

i wanted little stools for beside our bed because there isn't much room for bedside tables and i hate how they tend to accumulate stuff. i thought these were cute and rustic. our other bedroom stuff is kind of stuffy so i like that this helps break it up. my rule is that nothing stays on them during the day... you can see that i don't follow it very well....

do you love this chair? probably only if you are into old stuff, but we LOVE it. as we were leaving the flea market last week i pulled my husband over to see 'one last thing.'

we left with it. i LOVE how unique it is. and it is way comfy to sit in... makes me wonder why more chairs aren't made so you sit at the diagonal...

we also got a desk for me for only $20! its old and sturdy and i love it...

flea market finds

a few months ago i discovered a great flea market, but hadn't had a chance to go back. when my mom was here a few weeks ago we took some time out of working on the house to browse. we weren't sorry.

for the past few months i have been desperately wanting a rocking chair. i think because i know i'll want an antique rocker when we have a baby, but also because i LOVE the idea of knitting or reading while rocking. it is incredibly soothing. i had spotted this the first time i visited this particular flea market - i fell in love and kept talking about it, but i just couldn't swing it.
good ol' mom - she was just like 'get it. you love it so i'll just get it for you.' holy crap! i was happy. i'm in love with it. i know this color is puke green to many and velvet probably makes you cringe, but i just can't get enough of it. and it is in amazing condition.

i am a dark wood person. light wood has its place and people can make it look amazing, but for me - i just love the dark stuff so this fits perfectly with our other furniture and antiques. it has great details. i love the rivets and knobby posts!

i also found this great antique ironing board. i was looking for a table to sew at and i thought this could be great because it is narrow and long so you have lots of room for support of a quilt or something. BUT i didn't look at how the legs are situated. see those metal rods? they get way in the way of where your leg needs to be to press the foot of the sewing machine. i'm hoping to figure out a way to make it work, but i'll keep it either way. i think its charming for a craft room, no?

here is another view. as an aside - i'm not way in love with how the color on the craft room walls turned out. i'm hoping i can like it after things get in place and stuff is on the walls.

so great

i learned about this poster company on apartment therapy today and i'm so in love! when we left oregon i had no idea how deeply i would feel the need to stay connected or how much i would miss the little things. so i've been wanting to incorporate oregon somehow into our new home. 

i'm thinking grant's office will be the best place. i was originally thinking a big map of the state framed on the wall, but i REALLY like this PDX poster.

 the heart is pretty awesome too. i used to teach human anatomy and my husband is a physiologist who primarily studies the cardiovascular system so it fits. remember the heart i embroidered for him? 

which one do you like?? i feel like they are a steal at $20-$22! 

doily pillow

i have a serious love affair with doilies... 

they are so beautiful and each one is unique. i used them to top the stumps that lined the aisle at our wedding. did you know that you can get them at the dollar store?? pretty awesome. they aren't as great as the vintage ones, but good when you are in a pinch. 

i have been thinking of ways to use all my leftover doilies and then i came along this post (love everything on there!). this pillow is one of the things that she links to... can you believe how simple and cute? the stars aligned - i had a few pillows lying around that needed covering and some (fake) linen. i started picking out which doilies looked best together. (my pillow was sort of big - 20x20)

i affixed the doilies with pins and then used an embroidery hoop to keep the fabric taught. then i just hand stitched the doilies in position! do this BEFORE you sew all the pieces of the cover together. 

for help with the cover i turned to the maker of that inspiring pillow she happened to have a  pillow cover tutorial on her blog!

i am super impressed at how easy it was to make what, i think, is a really professional looking cover.