My Sugar Plum Fairy..

Molly's room has been the bane of my life since she arrived! Well, since before she arrived because the spaces I've had to work with have always been small. This was her first Nursery that I decorated in our flat last January before she was due. It was beautiful, but then she arrived and as she was sleeping in her moses basket in our room, her lovely Nursery became the dumping ground for all her stuff. Who knew babies had so much stuff!!

Anyhow, this was her first room when we moved into our three bedroom new build in the summer. But although it was all painted and set up, I just wasn't happy. I now regret my choice of pink and I wish I'd painted (well Jamie had painted) it white and used her toys and pictures to add colour. So I think that will be one to add onto my summer project list. Her cot is now against the front wall of the house and I have added a few more little touches, like pictures on the wall, bunting, and my favourite her little shoes amongst her ever growing library. There is still much to do but here are a few snippets of her space.

I love Molly's crumpled nap face!

 

My current want for her room- vintage fawns. I love her storytelling tree behind them, each of the characters are puppets, I can tell we will have a lot of fun playing with these when she is a bit bigger.

Homemade Knits. 

 This was an old gold picture frame for £1, I painted the frame white and painted the mountboard with chalkboard paint.

These book ends were given to me by a nun when I was little. I love passing on my beautiful things to Molly, 

 Lots of nappies, a relieving sight for a mother.

Delicate feet.

There's a bit of a woodlandy toadstool theme to Mollys room that just seemed to happen after I bought her grassy rug pictured above. I'd call it her feature rug and I can imagine her playing with her toys on it when she is bigger which is why I bought it. On my to do list for Molly's room then

• Paint her new shelves white and put them up.
• Keep a look out for old crates to replace the shelves with to create a feature on her wall (I have been in search of some under £20 since the summer and just can;t find any so I'm giving up for now and putting up some flat packed shelves for the time being)
• Repaint the walls white.
• De-clutter.

Christmas Crafting #2

Last year was our second Christmas together, but the first time we decorated so we only bought stuff for the tree and not much else because we were saving all we had for little Miss Molly to arrive. Everyone knows babies are expensive. This year, (since April) we live on a very suburban estate of new builds, and the rest of the area have outdoor lights, but as we decided to spend our Christmas budget on a bigger tree, we won't be getting any outdoor stuff 'til next year, so I wanted to make the front a bit pretty with a more original wreath. I bought this willow heart from The Range for about three pounds, it had polka dot white and lilac ribbon attaching a smaller wicker heart inside. I took off the ribbon and saved it for a rainy day, and added a giant bell (£1 for 9 also The Range) and some red festive ribbon I had in my box of crafting bits.

Here it is on out front door (which I want to paint sage in the near future). What do you think? Have you decorated yet? Will you be making anything this year? I am very much looking forward to having lights lining our fascia next year lighting up the bell :)