The Girl's Nursery - Part Three

I know...this should have been finished like, umm...before they were born, but ya know, with bed rest, extreme swelling and oh yeah, pre-term labor, the nursery never got finished until about two weeks ago. I am so excited to say that it is about 99% complete. We still do need to buy the last crib, but have decided that the extra space in the room is better than buying the last crib at this point. Also, the curtains I wanted were on back order and so I waited for them for close to four months.

So really the only thing I needed to do was hang the girl's names above their cribs. This was totally not easy! I bought the white letters at Michael's during a sale and with a coupon, since I needed so many of them! Also, I bought about ten rolls of light purple ribbon. Figuring out how to get each name centered above the crib, all the same height and then have the correct amount of ribbon to make it letter perfectly next to the other was quite challenging. Each letter will hang differently, so finding the correct measurement of ribbon needed was different for each letter. After two months of starring at the ribbon and letters every time I walked into the nursery, I finally decided to figure out how to make it all work.

I decided that each letter would have the same amount of ribbon, no matter what letter it was, so the letters would be level at the bottom but the ribbon bows at the top would not. I liked this look and it seemed somewhat easier. So, just if you're wondering, I used 17 inches of ribbon for each letter, hot glued the ribbon on the back and then hung on the wall. I had to tape the letters to the wall because...well have you ever tried to hang the letter "D" or "R"? It doesn't work, plus I wanted all the letters to be perfectly spaced and level. For someone with the perfectionism that I have, this was a challenge.

I then had to tie a bow for each top, to hide the nail. I glued the ribbon bow to the end of the nail because it couldn't be done any other way and look good. If I glued the ribbon bow to the ribbon hanging, it didn't look good at all. So, each nail has a ribbon bow at the end and it looks just fine. No one would even be able to tell...unless you've read this!

The ribbon looks shinny, but it's not. I don't know why it shows up that way.

I am so happy to have their names done! It turned out perfectly and I even like the imperfections in the letters hanging. It makes it unique and sometimes, just sometimes, perfection isn't always the best.

 There is the rocking chair my parents bought me for my birthday. I love rocking the girls at night peering out the window. It's such a special time, however I'm so sleep deprived that it's hard to stay positive sometimes. I live in that chair all night it seems. The cross on the wall was in my room as a child, and so was that white shelving unit on the wall. I love that I used things that I grew up with, I want my girls to know how special these things are to me and that I wanted to share them,

These were the name tags I made the girls for their incubators in the NICU. Now on the front door of their room!

These ADORABLE little outfits were one of my VERY FAVORITE gifts that I received after the girls were born. LOVE them and I cannot wait to have them wear these on their 1st Birthday!

This beautiful statue my mom bought for me when I was born. It's Rapunzel and I have had it in my room ever since and now in my girl's room.

I LOVE Winnie the Pooh so when I received this book as a gift for the girls from a friend, I was so excited. The Pooh is from Niko and Michael who gave it to me when I was recovering from my appendectomy in 2006 and the little bear my daddy bought me the day I came home from the hospital when I was born.

So, there ya have it! I am so happy at how it turned out. I imagine walking in and seeing them peering up over the top of the cribs and saying "momma, momma"! Oh God is good!