A room fit for a princess

The nursery is finally complete, well almost. I'm of course going to adorn the walls with enormous prints of the little princess, but that will have to wait so the walls are a little bare for now. The nursery has been in progress since November and its nice to see it all come together. I found the color combo on pinterest and then started creating from there. I'm proud at how thrifty I have been putting the room together. We have been doing lots of do it your self projects. I feel as though the nursery has been an outlet for all the things I can't control. I realize it's a little overboard but it's the one thing that couldn't be taken away from me. A perfect princess room! 

I bought this mirror at the crazy garage sale Emily and I went to in Boise a while back. I knew I would use it somewhere one day 

My mom helped me sew everything. I feel like we made a trip to a fabric store about every other day. 

Here is just a short list of all her work: Sheets, Crib Skirt, Bumpers, Decorative Pillows, Changing Pad Cover, Canvas Totes, Curtain Tie Backs, Cornice Board, Rocking Chair, and Throw Blanket

My mom is seriously amazing and can just sew anything up. I really think she needs to open a baby boutique because she has made so much for this little girl. I feel very spoiled. 

I bought this lamp a while ago with no purpose so by default it ended up in the room. I made some fabric flowers to tie it all in. The dresser we bought at a DI in ogden. It was a weird off white color and was missing one of the top handles. Other than that the dresser was really good quality and in perfect condition. My dad tried a new painting technique from pinterest of course and I loved how it turned out. It totally looks professionally painted. I bought new knobs from hobby lobby for the top drawer that had the broken off one. My dad is so handy what would I do without him!

The Process......

Brett and his family painted the nursery in December while I had a break from work. They were very patient with me and the fiasco it was to find the perfect color, and when I later decided to paint the ceiling. Brett's dad is professional at crown molding so he came to the rescue when our first plan with the tulle didn't work and now I love it even more. 

I knew the room had to have a princess chandelier and my dad came up with the tulle on the ceiling and helped me execute it. We bought the tulle for $0.50 a yard on black friday. Then we sewed a gather in the strips of tulle. We used double sticky hemming tape to adhere it to the edges of the room. Then we gathered each strip and tacked it up in the middle of the room under the chandelier medallion. It took us about three times before we finally got it right, but now I LOVE IT! 

One of my parents good friends gave me this glider. It wasn't the dream chair I had wanted, but when I realized how expensive that would be I came up with plan B. My mom spotted a tutorial on pinterest of recovering a glider that gave us a brilliant idea of transforming it. This project was one of those that many swear words were said and maybe some tantrums thrown. If it was a chair just like the tutorial it would have been a million times easier but this chair had a curved back which made sewing a cover near to impossible. There were many steps in transforming the chair. 

1st- We cut large sheets of foam padding and board and nailed them to the chair to give it its new shape

2nd- We used spray adhesive and attached a layer of batting to help smooth out all the pieces of foam

3rd- We made a tight slip cover out of fleece to hold everything together nice and tight

4th- We made so many patterns of all the pieces out of everything from news paper to old sheets to make sure we cut the white fabric correctly. Measure twice cut once right :) 

5th- We made the white cover, cushion, skirt, etc. 

When I say we I really mean me mom, but I was there for moral support. She hated the project but we ended up with a really comfortable and perfect glider for less than $80. I appreciate her and her diligence in making it work.