Baby Klim's Nursery

Happy New Year!  Wooty Woo!

Where has the time gone?!  Time has seriously been flying by around this joint.  It's been insanely busy around here- working, studying, traveling, crafting, painting, growing a baby, etc.- you know, the usual.

As for the pregnancy, it's been relatively easy (knock on lots of wood), minus a little run in with some kidney stones (which lead to my first ride in an ambulance- sweet!).  Now we have 3 more days until her due date....yeah, THREE DAYS...seriously.  The nursery is about 98% complete; we need to put up the rest of her wall art and pictures.  I use "we" loosely, because let's face it- dudes don't care about baby crap, and the hubs is no exception....womp.

I don't think I've shared what we (again, used loosely) picked out for her, but here's the fabric collection that I fell head over heels for and went all out-

   
I wanted something she can grow with- hence, no over-the-top pinky or baby themes (and NO PRINCESSES....I absolutely cannot stand princess crap, ugh).  I made her a few throw pillows (cause that's what babies want, decorative throw pillows) and a crib quilt with the Sarah Jane fabric.   



Then the kidney stones struck and I was stuck on my rear for a few weeks.  During this time, I became a human crappy-daytime-TV-guide....and embroidered my happy self to pieces!  I love the pirate girls in the Sarah Jane collection, so I embroidered and framed them for her wall.  Yes, ubber cool (crappy pictures, sorry).

With my kidney stone friends now embedded and not moving anytime soon, I decided to make her some crib bumpers.  Dear Jesus, why do the "easiest" projects have to be the hardest?!  Apparently being pregnant makes your ability to do simple math impossible; hence, I ended up driving back and forth to the fabric store to gather enough gray chevron fabric for the stupid bumpers.  But by golly, they look faaaaabbbulous!  :)

All the while, I've been refurbishing an old chest of drawers that we acquired from my in-laws.  The plan was to sand and paint it white, but after spending hours sanding the crap outta that thing, I fell in love with the natural Cherry wood that was underneath- gorgeous!  Several coats of semi-gloss polyurethane later (and hours of scrubbing nasty brass handles, thank you hubs), this is where our 'lil home girl will store her socks-

BEFORE 

("ewwwww")

AFTER

("ahhhhhh!")

Yeah.  Been kinda busy.  Oddly enough, I honestly don't think either of us are ready for her to actually arrive- but who really is really ready for a huge, life altering event?!  However, when I think about taking a deep breath without her kicking up into my diaphragm and getting indigestion, I am seriously ready for her to get here....

Happy New Years!
~Jacq.