Eleanor's Room

I wanted to share a look at Eleanor's room, since I'm really pleased with how it came together, and baby rooms are just fun! Also, let's be honest, this is by far the most put together room in our new house. I basically just started with a few ideas (and a Pinterest board) and went from there: grey with a green accent wall, neutrals with a variety of colors, simple with room for change, kid-friendly.

 featuring Luna, our hospital bags, and the Rock n' Play where she'll sleep in our room

garland- Target this past holiday season, changing pad and cover- Land of Nod, "e"- Anthropologie, dresser and cart- IKEA

drawer 1- clothes and accessories newborn to 3/6 months, pacifiers, socks and mits

drawer 2- shoes, receiving blankets and swaddles, clothes and accessories 6-12 months

drawer 3- storing extra items (soap, wipes, diapers, pacifiers, etc)

prints from Hello Hue, Lucy Darling, and Penny Arcade (a comic strip/company Kyle follows- this is pretty much the one thing he picked specifically for her room!), cube shelf and baskets- IKEA, crazy cat clock my mom found up in Canada (the tongue swings)

using this unit to store books, her few toys/teethers (Sophie and Kiki!)/stuffed animals, and in the baskets are extra linens (changing pad covers, towel and crib sheet) and bibs; green basket (Target) to the right is for laundry

the little orb is a night light from IKEA over a year ago, teddy bear from Gap, knit kitty doll from blabla

print- Rifle Paper Co, whales- Cherry Garden Dolls, crib sheet- Land of Nod, lamp- Target

Boppy pillow, a collection of my stuffed moose (plus a bear and a moomin from Finland), wire basket storing a couple blankets

undecided about that "smile" print- it's from our wedding and was in our room (where it may return to)

two closets! The left one is just being used for extra storage, right one for baby things; rug from Rugs USA

I am undecided if I want a rocking chair/glider yet, so that will go by the window if we get one. 

This random shelf fit perfectly in this space, so I used it to display some cute and colorful items, and some of the clothes my Nana Rose knit for Eleanor! penguin and "E" Christmas ornaments from west elm, E and M blocks found at Spice Village in Waco. 

closet mostly storing boxes, packaging, and instruction booklets from all the baby items as well as some diapers, baby monitor, and stroller accessories; clothes on the left are up to 6 months, on the right up to 18 months. I need to get more hangers!

I'm looking forward to seeing how things change and evolve with actual use!

- S

Wedding Photos

As it's on my summer to do list, I've finally gotten around to figuring out the whole wedding photo situation. Does it take everyone over a year to actually get around to ordering and displaying their wedding pictures? Because that's how long it seems to be taking me. But now, I'm ready, and it's happening. Here's what I'm thinking in terms of displaying the pictures!

I ordered two of these from ModCloth. I think it is a simple, clean, and stylish way to display a lot of photos, and as any of you married folks know, it's difficult deciding on just a few wedding photos to put up. I'm thinking of putting these side by side up above our couch in the living room, but the nifty thing is the photos could be exchanged and these could be used anywhere in the house and painted (I don't imagine we'll display 18 wedding photos for ever)! And, the price seems pretty good at $39 a piece.

I also found these frames from West Elm, and I absolutely love them. They are perfect with the gold and linen, but to order all the ones I want it would cost over 200$ (including shipping), so I'm holding off to see what is out there and look into doing a DIY replication of these. I've spray painted frames gold before (for the wedding!), so I may do that again for a cheaper alternative. 

We also have frames about here and there, and decor from the wedding that has transitioned to household display. I'm working on getting the house more decorated in general (taking advantage of army stuff not being everywhere), so I will surely show you what I get done by the end of the summer! :) 

- From the desk of Mrs. M

New Rug

After buying a series of different smaller, cheaper rugs for our living room, I finally ordered us a big 5x8 foot rug, for 75% off + free shipping in November from RugsUSA.com. Amazing, right? I love it, and the cats do too. It makes the room more homey and complete, fits the space perfectly, and maybe it will prompt Kyle to take his shoes off at the door, rather than leaving them all in a pile under the coffee table. :) I broke in the rug by folding Kyle's laundry on it while listening to Christmas tunes! I see some Christmas gift wrapping happening here in the near future...

see, three other rugs in the vicinity

- Mrs. M

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like

:)

- Mrs. M

Necklace Display

It seems lately I've taken a little bit of a liking to necklaces, and I randomly decided this afternoon that I needed to keep them better organized and easily accessible. I scanned my Pinterest boards to see if there was something quick and easy I could do without having to buy any supplies, but I didn't find anything. I glanced back into my room and saw this mirror that I got some years ago, but don't really use now. I looked in one of my craft supply drawers and saw some of those Command hooks that we got a while ago, but anything we hung on the wall with them ended up crashing to the ground, usually in the middle night after only a couple weeks of hanging. Instead of just putting the hooks on the wall, I thought it would be a cooler display to hang them on the mirror, and I was right! I think it's a pretty neat solution, and you can always add more hooks when needed. I like that this mirror (from IKEA) has a little shelf, too, for extras or other pieces of jewelry. I'm sure I'm not the first to come up with this, but I was pretty pleased that I thought to put it together.

- Mrs. M

We Finally Got Some Curtains

 There is really no good excuse reason why it took us so long to put up some curtains. There were blinds up already when we moved in so we just used those, though the cats have partially destroyed most of them with their enthusiasm for bird watching and squeezing themselves in places they don't fit. We put up some makeshift curtains in our bedroom, as Kyle sometimes has night shift and has to sleep during the day; and by makeshift I mean we stapled tapestries over the windows. The front large window in the living room was in a particularly sad state of blind coverage- the "window" in the blinds the cats have carved out for their needs was gaping and I was growing more uncomfortable with the thought of creepers seeing into our house, so on Saturday I went to Target (where else) where I walked up and down the curtain aisle for about 15 minutes deciding what pattern to get. I decided to go for the red, partly because with my other top picks there was only one set remaining on the hooks and I needed at least two, and I thought the red would be bold. Also, even though it's not my or Kyle's favorite color, we seem to have touches of red in the house. Anyway, I like them, and I think the cats do too.

Huxley being helpful as always.

Darwin exploring. 

- Mrs. M