The Baby Room

So I am not sure if I would consider myself a crafty person but I have definitely come a long way! It all started on my birthday when Matt bought me a sewing machine and insisted that since I was becoming a mom I need to tap into my more feminine motherly instincts. I really had felt certain that I was born without the crafty gene but once I got started it became a lot of fun! So after I got my sewing machine I practiced on a tiny baby skirt just to make sure I remembered how to do it. Then I became way overly ambitious and had my first project be the baby bedding! I am not sure if any of you feel the way I do but I hate all of the prepackaged bedroom sets that you can buy. I don't know, I am just not that into the butterfly, ladybug, hot pink theme. So while I was shopping around at Hobby Lobby I found the most adorable fabric! That's how I got sucked into this project in the first place. I had to have it. I love how Lillie's room is not your traditional out of a magazine room. Most of the things in it Matt and I did ourselves and on an amazingly low budget!! Here is the bedding:

This is the quilt. I also did a bed skirt but still need to do the bumpers.

Another thing that I love and that is pretty popular these days are vinyl trees put in rooms and baby rooms. Well if you have ever shopped for them they usually cost between $80-$100. Well I don't have that kind of money so Matt and I decided that instead of buying one, why not just find the one that we like online and then use a projector to shine it on the wall and trace it. Then we used the left over fabric for the leaves and used the small acrylic paint for the trunk. So this adorable tree cost maybe $1.50:

So Matt and I are kind of into the Shabby Chic sort of look but didn't want to spend a ton of money on a cute chandelier so we decided to make one instead. We went to the DI, bought the most ghetto brass chandelier and spray painted it pink. We then attached our own little jewels on it. The chandelier cost maybe $15 because the beads were kind of expensive. 

The next thing I really wanted were some cute picture frames that had her cute newborn photos in them. Well picture frames can be expensive! Especially the ones I liked were like ten dollars each! So I went to the DI instead (you will soon figure out that the DI is my favorite store) and bought five really ugly frames, but with cool designs, for a dollar each. Then I spray painted them white, and thanks to my crafty friend Nikki Haslam, I put a black glaze over it to give it an antiquey look. They turned out adorable! And probably only cost $20 or less. 

This pink picture frame I did as well with the left over pink spray paint from the chandelier. The picture is a picture of Matt's Great Grandma Lillie. I thought it was appropriate to have her in the room since Lillie was named after her.

Oh and the glider stool I found at the DI and just reupholstered it. It cost $8.

Anyway, the room was a lot of fun and ended up being well under $100 for everything. I love bargains and I am starting to love turning old ghetto things into cute things. So hopefully I will do more so stay tuned!

Oh and just for fun, here is a few pictures of my adorable daughter all dressed up for church: