That's Not A Watermelon Under My Shirt: Sneak Peak into the nursery!

The past couple of weeks we have been consumed by figuring out the nursery. I would say that we are about 75% complete and hopefully by the end of this upcoming week we will be about 90% done. Shawn re-painted the nursery this past Thursday on his day off. He thought it would just take a few hours, but it took much, much longer than that! The problem he said was that the 2 colors were very similar and will both paint colors being semi-gloss it was really hard to tell where he had started and stopped. By the end of the day, it was all complete and I am absolutely in love with the color! We spent this weekend organizing what clothes and items we had accumulated thus far (thank you Ashley for helping me take the tags off, wash and fold everything) and adding decorative touches to the nursery. My dad came over and hung the chandelier and we exchanged the curtains....again! I feel like this is the story of my life with this nursery. We buy something, think it is going to work and then we end up returning it and buying something else. For example, these curtains. We found some great lavender curtains at Target that blocked out all of the light and had a neat dot design on them. However, once I got them home and ironed the creases out they just hung really weird. They were so thick and heavy due to the back paneling that they would not lay right and I knew that in the end they would drive me crazy! So, we headed back to Pottery Barn kids and got some of the curtains we had seen the week before. They were actually on sale and cheaper than the ones we had originally gotten at Target ($30 for both panels)! I ironed them this morning and hung them up and I am much, much happier with these.

The other thing we did this weekend was hang the chandelier. Well, Shawn and my dad hung the chandelier and like everything else about this room, they had some trouble with it. My dad had to work his magic and adjust some of the wiring, links, etc. It took about 2 1/2 hours to hang! We all had to admit though that it is super cute and really makes the room.

Our canvas pictures, that took like a week and a half to find online, should be coming in the mail on Wednesday and I am really excited to get those hung. My sister is coming home from college this next weekend and she is going to help Shawn put up the wall decal that we ordered. I am super excited to get this up because it is going to be a big focus of the room. The tree part itself measures about 60 inches in height and about 35 inches in width. It also has blossoms and butterflies that we will add. Once these other 2 things are done we are pretty much done with the "decorating" part. We will be ordering her name in block letters, but Shawn has said that we can absolutely NOT get them until I am 100% sure about the name! He is learning real quick that I have been super indecisive about everything in this room. Hey, at least we will have a great story to tell her! Here are a few more pictures of some of the things that we have gotten so far and I promise that I will post a video of the room once it is 100% complete.