The Babied Baby – Ethan's Farm Nursery

EthansNursery, originally uploaded by lucyschutte.

My friend Ellen is getting married, and watching her, I don't think anything can become quite as big of an obsession as planning your wedding. After you get married, you buy a house and become all-consumed with decorating. Still, it doesn't quite compare to planning a wedding because decorating a house is a long term (really an endless) project (plus, you just blew your whole budget on your wedding, so who can afford to make over their whole house at once?) Then, you get pregnant. Budget? Who cares about a budget when we're talking about you CHILD? As evidenced in $900+ chandeliers for a baby nursery from PoshTots. My husband and I tried for years to get pregnant and when we finally did, I was hesitant to start planning our nursery (although I had been secretly planning it in my head for a very long time.) When the time did come, I was pretty disheartened with the examples of baby nurseries out there. I couldn't really find anything. Eventually I would like to start a website where people can post pictures of their nursery so that expectant moms and dads can see all the cool things that people are doing in preparation for their newest member. Until I do, I decided to post pictures of my own nursery here.


I decided to do a Farm theme based on a print that was given to me from my grandma. It's a picture of a milk maid and a little kid drinking milk on a farm with cows and cats and a farmer standing in the background. My Grandma Young would hold me in front of the picture when I was a little girl and tell me stories about the farm family. I decided to hang it in Ethan's room. My husband and I added the mouldings and I painted all of the silhouetted animals. Also, in rebellion against paying $900 for a chandelier, I made my own. I sculpted a pig, a hen and chicks, a cow and out three dogs for each arm. (If you are interested in a custom chandelier, feel free to email me. dianacweir@yahoo.com)

Here are some images from the completed room...

Here's a list of where I bought everything:

• Freckles Farmyard 4-Piece Crib Set
  


• Espresso Pinehurst Lifetime Crib from Babies R' Us (It looks like they don't have the Espresso one anymore)


• Waverly® Carlton Drapery Rod - 26-48"


• Old MacDonald Had a Farm Rug

I'll add more to the list as I think of things, but if you have a specific question, just let me know.

If I Crotcheted (or had a cat)

Image from Lion Brand's Newsletter
Goldfish Cat Toy
This cracks me up. I can just see little kitties wriggling their little tushies in the pounce position and sending this little guy flying into the air with his little bulgy eyes.