My new view when I look down. |
21 weeks |
Another fun change has been feeling her kick, which has really picked up this past week. She tends to kick most right after I've eaten, and especially after dinner when I drink my pregnancy tea. Her new favorite time to kick also seems to be right when I lay down to go to sleep. The kicks are getting stronger now and B can even feel them, which has been really fun. We'll be sitting on the couch watching TV and I'll be like, "Give me your hand!" He loves it when she gives a few real strong kicks ( : As I'm typing this now, I just had my "Peachy Kale smoothie" and she is kicking away, so I that must her way of saying "Hello!" to the blog world.
As I mentioned at the beginning of this post, I have been busy with my mom working on Avery's room and our main project this week has been a cherry blossom tree which she drew and painted onto the wall above her crib. Here's a little how we did it....
1. Here's the post where I talk about where I got the idea from, and from there my mom drew out a sample tree and traced it onto a large piece of paper. Then she cut it out and we put it up on the wall where we were planning to paint it (with pretend paper flowers and leaves, and an outline of a monkey). This really helped us to decide on the placement, size, and color of the tree without having to paint it and then want to change it.
Our "rough draft tree". |
2. Then we bought the paint (small samples from Home Depot that only cost about $3 a piece...no need to buy a whole quart for our small little project!). Then she traced the "paper tree" and took down the paper.
After about 2 days of painting (with a few breaks to plan our early baby shower and shop for a few items for the nursery) we were done!
Here's the finished pictures:
As you can see it hangs over the crib a bit, which I love! In case you're wondering, we were going for the "cherry blossom tree-look" mainly because Brandon and I love Asian decor and I love the simplicity of it. Hopefully Avery likes it too!
Here's the finished pictures:
As you can see it hangs over the crib a bit, which I love! In case you're wondering, we were going for the "cherry blossom tree-look" mainly because Brandon and I love Asian decor and I love the simplicity of it. Hopefully Avery likes it too!
Here's a fun detail of the tree: a little monkey we like to call Marley. In getting ideas for this tree, some other trees I found online had cute little monkeys hanging from them, and so my awesome and creative mom drew up this adorable little guy. I love him!
Little Marley the Monkey |
Our initials. |
Here's my mom (aka the creative genius behind this awesome tree). |
Here's one last pic of the tree, crib, and recliner that you can see when you stand at the door to the nursery. You can see I have some sample fabric in the crib to help me decide on what I want to use to make her bedding. I'm sure I'll have a post coming up about that soon! But for now it looks like stripe and polka dots. As for now, my mom and I are just kind of taking it one project at a time and on the agenda for next week is some type of hanging letters to say her name on the opposite wall of the tree...let the fun continue!
Hey Ashley, the nursery is looking great. We sure do have a talented artist for a mom.
ReplyDeleteI'M OBSESSED! Soooooo cute! I cant' wait to see the finished product.
ReplyDeleteAndrew, glad you like it! We sure do have one talented mom, I couldn't have done this without her! ( :
ReplyDeleteMeg, glad you like the room too! Can't wait for you to come in town and see it in person, it's way better that way! See you in a few weeks ( :
I'm so happy for you! Enjoy these weeks and the anticipation! It only gets better. What a beautiful nursery too.
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ReplyDeleteThanks for the compliment! I am definently feeling the anticpation...trying to just enjoy where I'm at right now instead of fast-forwarding ahead 4 months! By the way I love your blog, you are an excellent writer and I look forward to reading more of your posts!