Miss Olivia's Nursery

Since Olivia will be 10 months in about a week, it's about time I finish this nursery and share some pictures with all of you - sorry, took a lot but when she is a big girl, I'm sure I will like looking back at these pictures.

I just found these fun books at Rustica in Valley Junction.  I'm sure it would be easy to do, but you would probably spend more buying the stamps than I did on the books.  

I wish I could tell you where I got all these odds and ends- some I bought before she was born!  If you do want to know, I could probably look through my email or it might be on my oh baby pinterest page. I got the frames here.  The little pink one is from Target as well as the lamp.  

I got the elephant pillow and "olivia" cutout on etsy.  My sister found this pillow and it's one of my favorite things in the room.  The wood elephant from Pottery Barn Kids.  The white shelves were from Menards and I randomly found those curtains at Handcock Fabric.  I originally bought them for our room and didn't love them and they worked great with her room colors.  I did a post a while back on the chair, it was the chair from the boys - she recovered the brown pads with gray.  

To do over again, I probably wouldn't have done the large chevron stripe.  At the time I wasn't sure how the frames would fit in and much of it was covered up.  Plus I really like the pink color and I lost a lot when I added that. 

A lot of people asked me about her sheet before- got it at Pottery Barn Kids.  I've recently noticed they added several new colors and I'm seeing them at Target now too.  

She is so funny, she thought she was hiding back there:)  LOVE HER!

I found the white frames at a great website online for like $10 each - but I had to paint them! That was a pain for this not so patient girl.  That is partly why it took me so long to finish this!  

A couple girly touches!  

Keith actually bought this little sign when I was pregnant with the boys.  Works great in her room and I have always liked these words.  

I got this O here. 

I tried to work in some pink here and there and keep it girly!

I always tell moms now who are looking for bedding - don't stress too much on the bed skirt, once you lower your crib it always gets bunched up and barely fits.  

Nursery in Progress

I would prefer to share a finished nursery, but lately we have been doing things more at 90% complete! Some people have asked, so I will go ahead and share where we are at before we are transitioning her to a big girl room!

I was tempted to keep my old bedding and thought I could add in pinks, but one of my favorite things about the boys nursery was how it was painted and I was not up for painting another room of stripes.  And I was really loving pinks and greys - so finally I said forget it - we are going girly!!!  Not too crazy girly - since most of you that know me, know that I'm pretty far from a girly girl.  But after having two boys I think it is time for a bit of pink in our house.  So ultimately I still wanted something soft and sweet.
 

Here is a bit of taping out the chevron stripe on the wall.  It wasn't too bad to do, but I wouldn't be jumping to do another.  I was certainly happy I chose to do just one! 

 

A lot of people asked where I got the grey chevron sheet - I found it a Pottery Barn Kids.  I got the bed skirt there too, but am not a huge fan of it - if you look close it is a strange grey, but I was tired of looking for bed skirts.  I did find a really cool chevron bed skirt that fit great, but it was either the sheet or the bed skirt and once we lower the mattress the skirt will probably go, so I went with the sheet.  

Did I mention she is one of the only girl grand babies in our family - I think she is doing quite well in the clothes department!  I got out a few of my outfits from the boy - but so far have not put any on her.  

 

 

 

My mom did an amazing job recovering my rocking chair!!!

I found this cute little night light at Pottery Barn Kids too.

So what else needs to be done?  

We need some accessories for some fun finishing touches!!!

Well - a few things.  We put a dimmer switch in - genius, huh!  We got the idea from our neighbors, should have done that with the boys' room.  But like typical Bormann DIY - attempt 1 and 2 failed and Keith has to call the dimmer company to fix it.

We need to bolt the dressers to the walls.

We have one curtain tie back hung - still need to add the second.  And I might get around to ironing those curtains.

I just found these ducks and wooden name on Etsy, so i ordered them in pink, grey and white.  Hopefully they will arrive next week. 

I ordered a bunch of these frames.  You have to paint them yourself, so hopefully they come soon.  I ordered them before she was born, so I need to figure out what the heck is going on.  I plan to put her newborn pictures in them.