Oh Baby: Etsy Artwork in Nurseries

I have a confession to make, I spend way to many hours of my day looking at nursery artwork on Etsy! I'm not kidding, I'm always on there. I've been looking for modern nursery artwork for our baby's nursery for months and even though we have Ikea Ribba Frames ready to be filled with Art, I still haven't bought anything. Let me explain, I plan to DIY some artwork and buy artwork, but the selection on Esty is amazing & at really good prices. Nurseries 


Here are some artwork I'm digging for our babies nursery - feel free to chime in which ones your like! Personally I love ABC prints in nursery, kids room you name it. This one from Sugerfresh, is a cute modern take on the ABC's


{ via Sugarfresh }

I'm really fond of almost every print from LeoLittleLion. Talk about darling and so perfect, I love how whimsical their artwork is and Original :) This print is called 'Lion King'


{ via LeoLittleLion }


Name initials done in a super cute way, Weedoodle transforms letters into kid friendly artwork. I think this print works in so many areas of the home & not juts baby rooms. I could so see this print in a Gallery wall in a home, or maybe my older sons bedroom.


{ via Weedoodle


The Etsy store MissPrintDesigns has cute nursery prints for nurseries among other pretty paper products.  This one caught my eye. I how how its personalized to the baby.







After I made Stuffed Fabric Giraffes for the nursery, I revived a comment telling me to checkout the Esty seller Giraffes and Stuff. I was instantly smitten, with this modern giraffe print. 



So this is one of my to do projects for the nursery...find the perfect modern artwork. Are there any Etsy baby artwork sellers I need to checkout?

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Project Nursery: Bare Bones

Finally the day has arrived where I get to share our third bedroom which up until recently we called the junk room! The room now has the pretty name the baby's nursery. Oh how I love referring to the room as the nursery. We haven't really touched this room since moving in, we slapped some paint on the walls { Cream in My Coffee by Behr } and called it a day. Here's what were working with its a standard small bedroom from the 1950's but this room has sliding glass door that leads to the back yard, not to worry we have an alarm system and a yappy dog! In the future we plan on replacing the sliding glass doors with french doors. One thing I love that this little room gets twice the sunlight our bedroom gets, which is directly across the hallway.

As you can see the room is a current blank slate. We went though all of our junk and donated a lot of items to the goodwill which always feels good. I took these pictures on a wet Sunday afternoon. This is how the room looks when you enter, we only have two full walls to work with.


The other wall is mostly taken up by the 5 ft slider, fortunately there's still about 2ft of wall space on either side of the sliding glass door.Here's the wall with the sliding glass doors, please excuse my tall grass/weeds in the back yard! lol Just keeping it real, but on the next Sunny day with have in N. Cali, please know Mr. CLH will out there mowing away!



This is the closet wall, the same wall the doorway is on. Oh how we hate these doors cheapo non working doors. They will be replaced with with white paneled closet doors. I'm going to make look less builder basic, trust me!


Lastly the current light fixture, this the last of its kind in our house....lets call it the Last of the Boob Light Fixtures shall we! If your new to reading our blog, we've already replace three of the these basic light fixtures { dining room, sons bedroom & ours } Instead of tossing them we drop them at our local Habitat Restore.


This is our mini Construction / Improvement Breakdown:

Replace closet doors
Paint Ceiling & Walls & Door & Closet doors
Replace light fixture { we bought and amazing one already!! }
Beef up our baseboards { like we did in our Dining Room }
Improve closet storage
Crown Molding - on the maybe list
Can't wait to share project! { it will be a secret of a couple more weeks }

We've already been testing paint color in the bedroom. It's a toss up between two colors. Here's the sample colors on the wall. We placed the colors in two locations, so we could see the colors in various lights thoughout the day. On the left is Silver Drop by Behr the right Opal by Martha Stewart.


Silver drop is a Subtle grey shade and the Opal is a very pale blue.

Hopefully you can see this little room has potential like we can. So much to be done, oh and those closet doors they are in the trash. That already made a huge improvement, trust me. As soon as we get some of these improvements out the way, the fun will begin { decorating}

Is there a room is your house your in the process of redoing?

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Craving Yellow

It's no secret I love pops of yellow in my living room, lately I've been craving new yellow additions to our living room. With Spring finally appearing Northern California, I want to inject some fun new yellow fabric in our living room. I'm thinking of making some new lumbar pillow covers & and pillows for our sofa. 



{ via fabric.com }


{ via Calico Corners }


{ via Fabric.com }


I think my new love of pom poms is growing by the minute, I would love to add pom poms to our basic white IKEA curtains in the living room. Isn't this pretty!! I think this would add so much whimsy into our living room!! I'm not sure if the husband would agree :) 



{ via here


I think new pops of yellow will be entering our living room very soon. What colors are you currently craving for your home?


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Bathroom Update: Cutting Edge & All the Trimings.

My Sunday was all about cutting in with paint and fabric trimmings, yup and unlikely duo. On Sunday I stoped in Joann's looking to get started on possibly adding rick rack to our white cotton shower curtain { read more about the idea here } Joann's has a great selection of rickrack. I loved looking at all the colors.


I put together a possible color combination of rick rack together,  I liked various shades of blue . But I wasn't entirely sold of the blue color combination and couldn't find any grey rick rack! And grey is a MUST in our bathroom. The were a few other ladies in the rick rack section with me, most likely thinking I'm crazy for taking pictures! Oh well, got to remember the colors and of course share with all of you.

Next I looked in the trim section which sales the trim by the yard. I loved all the pom poms! However they wont be making an appeqrance in the bathroom, I know for a fact Mr. CLH would nix the idea { he loved the mini pom poms on the giraffes }


Right now I'm not sure if we'll go with rick rack for this project or I might just add trim. I like the idea of added nice thick trim to our basic waffle weave white shower curtain or adding wide grosgrain ribbon. Either way, I plan on making a thrifty decision since our bathroom update is a mere 100 bucks.
via here.

We finally choose the paint color for our little blah box of a bathroom. As I mentioned before, we were looking at Martha Stewart's paint color line, and narrowed the colors down to three. In the end we decided to go with the color Rainwater. The color is a combination of soft green with pretty light blue undertones. We had the paint color matched at Lowes using Olympic paint ( in home we use Olympic paint & Valspar). Instead of breaking out the rollers, opted to cut in first which makes the whole painting process much easier. Don't worry everyone the paint is Low VOC and I wore a mask :) Gotta protect my lungs and our baby. I loved how the color looked when first applied and loved it even more after it dried. I was a little hesitant first because its a dramatic change going from a beige box to living in color. Here's how the color looks so far in the bathroom, Mr CLH will be painting all the high areas and low, since my bumps in the way. In the pictures below the color looks more blue, buts on more of the green side.



The 'paint girl' did and amazing job of color matching the Martha Stewart color, the very top corner is the swatch I gave her. Of course I some how lost my large swatch of the color, so she gets extra props. On Saturday we found a nice thick bathroom mat of the bathroom. I'm in love with it! So this weeks agenda will be to finish painting the bathroom & Mirror and seeing how we like the bath mat. This is one of those slowing going projects since were also working on a few projects. Here's a more true representation of the color Rainwater.


What do you think of the bathroom color so far? Too dark for such a small space? Or do you like?

{ follow our bathroom progress & ideas part 1, part 2 }
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