Our Girls Nursery Makeover

Well its been 7 months since our little girl graced us with her presence and now its time to move her into her own room. Yes I admit I'm a bit selfish when it comes to bubs and I really find comfort in having them in our room. Our first bub Lachlan stayed in with us till he was 8 months old. However as our little miss is now sitting and pulling herself up it is no longer safe for her to be in her crib and so the fun of setting up her own room begins.

 

Before I started I did many hours of research (Pinterest browsing). I found so many ideas and wanted to do them all! Of course this was just not practical and the bank balance would never allow for it. So I started of with what we already had.

 

I had purchased a lovely cabinet a while back in the hope to turn it into a sewing storage space however since us moving it has not been used as all my sewing goods are still in boxes (disgraceful I know). So since it was sitting there empty I decided why not give it some love and use it as a change table. It works perfectly.

 



Next was to purchase a cot. Ever since having our first 2 and a half years ago I wanted a sleigh cot. So as our girl is our last bub I took the now or never approach and got what I wanted. I wasn't disappointed! I had a great little helper to put the cot together and it was relay simple.   

My little helper

Our little Miss exploring her cot

I purchased a tree wall decor stickers to put up on her wall. I really don't know how I was lead to believe that this was going to be an easy task. All I'll say is that I'm a person with a lot of patients nevertheless this put me to the test. Fiddly, annoying and grrr worthy is my conclusion.




Wall sticker not playing nice... crinkling
and bubbling at every opportunity

I survived and managed not to swear in front of the very repetitive Mr LJ. There was however a lot of cursing going on inside my head. None the less the tree and birds looks wonderful and I'm very glad I spent the day to put it up.

We were given spare birds so I found a home for them along the bottom of our blind. I also found a gorgeous dona setting from Target that matched perfectly for her cot.

 

In the corner above her cot I added two tissue paper pom poms along with a birdcage that I had purchased from Kmart some time ago. And to complete her cot area I hung up the netting that was once over my bed as a baby.

As our kids are lucky enough to have there very own toy room there was no need to have toy storage in Charlotte's room. However I decided to added a little play picnic corner to house some of her teddies along with her picnic tea set and a gorgeous vintage tray. I can see our little miss enjoying a picnic tea on her rug with her teddies sometime in the distant future.

 

 

And so there you have it.. our little girls nursery.

I'm sure it will be forever evolving as she grows but for now I adore this space and can not help but grin each and every time I enter the room.

 

Next job... to finish organising her wardrobe. Stay tuned!

 

 

 Till next time stay safe, be happy and smile

  

 

Pink Picnic In The Park

It was with much planning, thought and love that we created a day for close family and friends to help us welcome our precious little girl into the family by holding a ceremony to officiate her name. Planning was all a bit last minute due to our celebrant becoming short of time very quickly so it was a now or never event. I grabbed some cards, dusty pink ink and a set of stamps from spotlight and got to making invites right away.

 

Not bad for one nights work over a glass of bubbles I think!

We wanted to keep the day relaxed with a family atmosphere and hence we based the event on the idea of a pink picnic in the park for our princess. I gathered all the pink party goods that I already had in the party cupboard and purchased some cream wire baskets from Typo. I also found some pink home style lemonade in Aldi - bonus!!

I then did a quick sew up to make some pink gingham picnic blankets and pink cushion covers. At this point hubby thought I had lost my mind but what’s a relaxing picnic without the comfort of cushions right?!? lol



This set up was for our special girl - her toys
were stored her pink picnic basket for the day.

 

Then on to the cooking - yes I was running around like a mad woman getting all this done within a week! ha ha ha. So cooking, as time was not on my side we decided to go with some scrumptious Subway rolls for lunch. Everyone loved them! This left me just enough time to do a white chocolate/strawberry cake and some cute cupcakes in jars.

 

 

 

As our guests arrived they were met by a trail of pink polka dot balloons leading them to our secluded picnic area by a lake. (Sorry I forgot to take a wide shot pic so you just have to imagine). Pink gingham picnic blankets with scattered pink cushions spread across the lawn..We propped our cardboard table under the central tree for shade as it held our cold refreshing pink lemonade in cute glass bottles alongside subway rolls, cupcakes in jars and the cake. Our relaxed pink picnic theme had worked perfectly... (If only I had taken that pivotal pic of the entire picnic area.. darn it!!)

 

 

We were surrounded by love, had superb weather and perfect company. Chatter along with kid’s laughter filled the air as we ate scrumptious food and cake...yum!

 

 

The formalities so to speak went wonderful also. We as parents made a promise to our little girl in front of those that support us.

We welcome our daughter into our family

and promise her daily support;

we will fulfil and respect Charlotte's needs.

We will comfort and care for her,

protect and respect her, love and hug her 

and raise her to the best of our ability.

We asked our sisters to do us the honour of being godparents. Thus to stand up and pledge there support to us and freely offer Charlotte, protection and guidance whenever these may be needed. It was with great happiness (and some tears of joy) that they both accepted this request.

 

 

 

To conclude the formalities I read this to our sweet girl:
 

As I held you in my arms that very first day,
I knew I would never let any harm come your way.
With your tiny little hands and tiny little feet,
Every time I look at you my heart skips a beat.

As I watch you sleep in the middle of the night,
I hope and pray I will do everything right.
I know I may make some mistakes along the way,
But I promise to do my best every single day.

Words cannot express what you have brought to your dad, Lachlan and me
We often wonder what you will grow up to be,
But whatever you become will be fine with me.

Charlotte Grace is the name we chose for you
Wear it with pride with all that you do,
We love you with all of our heart,
Nothing will change that no matter what you do,
Be all that you can and always be you.

Charlotte you are the greatest gift of all,
Thank you for choosing us to be your parents,
We wouldn’t have it any other way,
We love you and hope you enjoy your day.

We are so thankful to those that shared in this special day with us.

Overall it was a perfect day and we couldn't ask for anything more!

^YKylie

 

Getting ready for our girl

As baby #2’s arrival is fast approaching I decided to get organised and this meant one thing a complete overhaul of the master bedroom. 

Yes we live in a three bedroom home: Master bedroom, Bedroom 2 is our 22 month old boy’s room and Bedroom 3 is our very embarrassing chuck and shut room. And by embarrassing I mean I cannot even walk into the room! Hence bedroom 3 is just not a possibility for our new bundle of joy and as there are no plans of moving house at this point in time so our little girl will be joining us in our master quarters at least for now.

I always find it so hard to know where to begin and so put off a lot of to do’s for that very reason however this is just something that I have to get done. So why not start with the fun part of setting up bubs crib and getting inspired then to do more.

So I searched eBay and bought this gorgeous crib for a bargain of $25. It worked as soon as bubs crib went up I could not resist I had to do more.

So some shopping was in order and off to our wonderful local Target store I went to pick up some new bedding. Whilst I was there I found some fantastic white baskets on sale. So into the trolley they also went. Once back at home I just had to set up the change table next (this one we already had from bubs #1).

I find change table mat covers so expensive for what they are so instead I use cheep fitted crib sheet. On the first row I placed 3 of the target baskets. The first is holding towel nappies (revamped into cute burp cloths – post to come), with the other two baskets are holding the small cloths items such as socks, singlets, bibs and booties. I placed our blankets and wraps on the bottom of the change table so they are easily accessible.

I then had to find somewhere for all the baby cloths we had been given and so an overhaul of our wardrobe was in order. (I forgot the before pic..ops). I started by going through all me cloths and to my surprise I was able to give away a lot of items, 2 garbage bags full that I no longer wore or had outgrown. Having kids does this to you I guess.. lol

Organisation then began...

I moved all of our cloths to the back wall in the wardrobe as having bubs cloths closest to the door would work for me best. I put an old coffee table that we were no longer using below our cloths to gain shelf space for our jumpers and shoes. At the top of the wardrobe I put my shoes into shoe boxes and stacked on top. I then have my jewellery box, perfume box and hair accessories bag stored in there as our en suite is quite small. The large pink suitcase stores my wedding dress, I know I should get it stored properly its on my to do list when money allows. The green bag holds hubby's toys, his remote control car, helicopter and tank – don’t ask!

 

The right of the wardrobe is where I had cleared all the space for bubs cloths along with my maternity clothes for now.  At the top I have used IKEA DRONA boxes to store all the larger cloths for her to grow into.

As these box will be constantly changing I thought of re using some size labels of cloths instead of printing labels.

I like to hand up all our cloths as this reduces my work load by not having to fold cloths to put away. I simply just hang them up and this also allows me to see everything at a quick glance. As our little miss already has SO many cloths I was in need of more hanging space. So making do with what I had laying around I grabbed some twine and a rod and made a quick second rail. Under all her cloths I will store the baby car capsule when not in use.

I will be adding some gorgeous cloth divides but for now I’m happy with what I’ve done. And so there we have it I’m all set for our little girl’s arrival in July.

^YKylie