Nursery Decor and Being Crafty

First off, let me start by saying - we took the girls for their one month check-up today.  They are growing so fast!  Rylan weighs 7 lb, 14 oz and is 21 inches long.  Sadie is 7 lb, 15.5 oz (yep, she passed up big sister!) and is 20 3/4 inches long.  They are both doing great :)  We are taking Sadie tomorrow to get her blood work done to test for the thyroid issue that came back abnormal in her newborn screen.  The doctor told me today that she sees that particular issue come back abnormal often and has never had a baby actually have a thyroid problem upon further testing.  She said, "If you're going to get a false positive on one part of the newborn screen, it's usually that one."  So that made me feel a bit better.  Hopefully Miss Sadie will not be her first one to actually have the problem!

Now, onto the craftiness mentioned in my title.  When I found out I was pregnant, I said right away that if the baby was a girl that I wanted to do a "You are My Sunshine" theme for the nursery.  And then we ended up with two girls!  Yay!  :)

I found bedding that I LOVED - gray and white chevron and yellow - but it was way expensive.  I would have to buy the whole set and I needed two of them and they were each almost $200.  Um.  No.  So I asked my sweet best friend, Amanda, if she would help me out with bedding.  I bought plain yellow and gray sheets and plain white crib skirts (yeah, not a necessity but I tend to use the under-the-crib area as storage and the crib skirts hide that nicely) and Amanda is making blankets for the girls and she is re-purposing two crib bumpers.  I'm very blessed to have a wonderful friend who can sew for me because I definitely can't....

Next I started thinking about the walls.  They already happened to be painted yellow since the twins were moving into Melissa's room and we had just painted her room yellow last year (score!  No painting!).  I searched pinterest and etsy for ideas for my theme and found lots of fun ideas but there was no way on earth I was going to spend $30 on a print to hang in their room. That's insane.  So I started up my digital scrapbooking program and used the ideas I found as inspiration and made these to print out and hang in the nursery:

My crafting also included making the twins' names to hang on the wall (using the directions from this blog - http://joroad.blogspot.com/2011/01/diy-nursery-letters.html).  They were super easy to make - and since I bought white letters from Hobby Lobby (on sale, of course, as most things I buy at Hobby Lobby are), I didn't have to paint them!

Another decorative touch is the poems that Brian wrote for the girls.  He has written a poem for each of our kiddos and they all have them hanging in their rooms.  It's such a sweet addition to the room.

And today I decided to get crafty again and make one last addition to their room.  We have lots of bows and I needed something to hold all of them that would make it easier to find the bow I wanted (previously they were all just thrown in one of those pink baskets in the picture above.  A pain to search through to find the bows I needed.)  Yesterday I got online and searched for bow holders and decided this option was going to be easiest, cheapest and also work out well for their room - http://fusionartdesigns.blogspot.com/2010/09/hair-bow-holder-diy.html .  So this morning I went to Hobby Lobby and bought a plain canvas (16x20 size) and 2 rolls of ribbon (gray chevron and yellow chevron).  Since white goes with our theme, I just left the canvas white instead of painting it (did you know....I hate painting.)

I laid all the ribbon out in the pattern and distance I wanted (I used 8 strips of ribbon) and stapled it on.  I don't have a staple gun so I just used a regular stapler and then hot glued the strips down as well for added security.

Ready for bows!

 

Just clip them right on!

Finished product!  I think it's super cute.  However...I may have recently ordered a ton more bows from a fun and very addictive website and I'm afraid they're not all going to fit on here....oops.  :)

Anyway, that's the girls' room and the fun little touches I've added to it - without spending a ton of money that I don't have!  I love their room, the yellow is so cheerful!  It makes me happy whenever I walk in there.

I'll leave you with this sweet picture of the girls because...what blog post about their room
would be complete without a picture of them???  I love this picture, it looks like they're saying to each other,
"Does this woman ever stop taking pictures?"