My baby girl will be here in less than a week, and so it was finally time to get the nursery completely in order. Her name is Paloma (dove) and we will call her Poppy for short, so the nursery has a sort of sky/birds/wildflowers theme with lots of blues and golds and beiges. My husband and I made so many of the things in it ourselves; we had a lot of fun this winter stuck in the house working on this. Here are some of the things we made or bought as personal touches:

– We bought secondhand dressers and painted them aqua.

– We made large cloud mobiles for the ceiling with styrene and cotton balls and wooden sticks.

– I made fabric letters for the wall and a matching fabric streamer banner to hang over the nursing chair.

– Also in the nursing corner is an adorable unicorn stick horse and, cream and beige pillows and blanket, and a golden chandelier.

– The Bob Marley yellow wooden “Three Little Birds” sign was a pinterest find.

– We made the blue gold and brown patterned rug using upholstery fabric we bought and glued/sewed to an inexpensive IKEA rug underneath it.

– The matted picture in the frame is a picture of us, and underneath I wrote one of my favorite quotes from E.T.: “I’ll believe in you all my life, every day. Love, your parents.”

– The yellow paper butterflies hanging on the mirror we found in a really neat shop downtown.

– Above her crib hangs a picture of a dream catcher with the phrase “dream a pretty dream” in an ornate gold frame.

– The Alice in Wonderland mobile was a gift made for Poppy by one of my mom’s neighbors. I absolutely love it.

– The crib bedding is light blue with birds and tree branches and leaves. I also got her an aqua Little Giraffe blanket for her to come home from the hospital with and to love forever. It’s the softest blanket you can imagine.

– Hanging in front of the window nearest the crib is a dream catcher I made myself using lots of stuff from Michaels – ribbons, sequins, crystals, beads. Can you tell I love dream catchers?

– I also hung a set of four photographs of clouds that I had taken last summer.

– We decorated one of the dressers with a sorting hat and a Hedwig stuffed owl because of our love of all things Harry Potter.

– On the last wall, we hung floating bookshelves to hold assorted beautiful books including Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books. Also on this wall are some poppy decals and some tree branch and bird decals.

– Finally, the birdhouse nightlight is something we made using a plain wooden birdhouse from Michaels and a bulb kit. Hanging from it is a wooden sign with some Grateful Dead lyrics carved into it from Etsy.

And that, my friends, is our little dove’s nursery.