The Crib ...

So a while ago, I ordered the crib for the baby room. Although it was not the exact one I had in mind, it was within the budget and I am happy with it. Addison was so excited to help put the crib together...

 

Addison was trying to help and did a really great job of throwing all of the trash away, but she kept getting in the way when Uriah and I were trying to screw together the many parts of this crib. So... I put her in charge of the camera - hence the very bad pictures... She had fun though :)

She loved taking pics of her toes

This fabric hanging over the bed is the fabric I will be using to make the curtains

I have had my eye on this pillow for a long time now... Target was out of stock for a long time, but one day I was pursuing the isles of Target, spotted them and snatched two of them up... I don't know if they will stay in the nursery, but they sure do march perfectly to the yellow in the fabric.

This bedding is a black and white Toile set that I purchased for Addison when she was first born from Overstock.com

Tada... the crib :)

There is still much to do... I purchased a dresser for this room for $30 off of craigslist. I am almost finished sanding it. Then we plan to paint it gray. The dresser is large so it is also going to double as the changing table. On top of the changing table/dresser, I am thinking of putting a little chandelier lamp such as this one found at Target: link

That is all for now... more pics of the nursery to come...
Until next time...

Headboard and Bedroom Makeover

For the last few months I have been saving up to decorate our master bedroom. Finally, I finished school and had the time to do it. I knew that I wanted to have a tufted headboard, but they can cost upwards of 1,000 dollars and my budget for the bedroom was like... a fraction of that. So, I started to Google how to make your own tufted headboard and I stumbled upon this blog Brick City Love in which she does a tutorial on how to do this sort of thing. Hers was a little different because she fitted hers inside a wooden frame and we wanted a more clean lined look - also it was much easier to do a rectangle than what she did. Here is the link to her tutorial part 1 and there you can also find part 2 and part 3.

Supplies we used:
 - staple gun
 - linen fabric - got it on sale at Joanne's
 - 2 inch thick green foam
 - batting
 - pillow
 - fabric covered button kit
 - spray adhesive
 - skills saw
 - screws
 - buttons and heavy upholstery thread

After we determined the size of headboard we wanted and purchased the fabric, we went by Lowes and had them cut it to size

Then we marked where our button wholes would be and Uriah drilled the holes.. we wanted a  large diamond pattern

Uriah fabricated a wall mount by using a 1 x 4 and cutting it at a diagonal. One section was screwed into the wall and one section was screwed onto the back of the headboard. 

We made the buttons by purchasing the large metal button kits at Joanne's. In the kit, they give you a stencil to cut out the fabric to size and a tool to secure the fabric to the metal pieces. 

We cut the greenish blue foam to the size of the plywood frame 

... and used spray adhesive to secure it to the plywood

Then we brought the headboard inside...  We used a long needle to poke through the foam first and find where our  holes had been on the plywood. When we marked the spots for each hole, we used a hole saw piece to bore out the foam so we would have room for the buttons to be pushed down into...Then we cut the batting over our holes in the form of an X

I wanted the tufting to be big so I took apart an old pillow and used the batting in that to make the space  in between the diamonds more fluffy. 

Then we stapled down the batting

Using this...

Ironed out our linen fabric ... 

... and placed it on our headboard

We started in the middle of the right side of the headboard

This is what the underside of the headboard looked like... I used heavy upholstery thread and small clear buttons to secure the larger buttons on the top of the head board. 

taaadaaa...

** I want it to be known that I could not have done this by myself - this was definitely a two person job. Uriah put his design and handyman skills to work for this one. **

Cost of the bedroom makeover:

Headboard: $120-$130. (I probably could have done it a little cheaper by sourcing out some cheaper foam and batting.)
End tables: $60 for both. (craigslist find)
Recent additions:
Dresser: $30 (found at a garage sale across the street)
Silver bedside lamps: $10 each - target - I still need to purchase shades
Curtain rod: $30

It is still a work in progress and I will keep you updated... Right now I am a little distracted with the nursery... Her crib came in yesterday! I can not wait for Uriah do get home so we can put it together!

Update... Nashville, house projects, new arrivals and Father's Day

Hello all...

I apologize for the lack of posting lately. So much has happened!

1. I graduated from nursing school and passed boards and I feel as excited as these girls who won the lottery

picture from google images

2. I drove to Nashville, TN to visit my little sister

Having a melt down

Making a wish

On the ride back home

3. I am now 25 weeks prego (and feeling great - picture of the bump to come soon )
4. We are in the process of re-decorating the master bedroom for which we made a custom headboard. (I will do a separate post with step by step pictures soon :)
5. Baby Baumeister arrived!

We love you Baby Everett!

6. Had the best date - ever! (thank you Phil and Christie for babysitting!) Uriah heard that Josh Groban was in town and surprised me with the idea of trying to get tickets, which were way to expensive for our budget, by going to the concert and trying to find a deal from those guys who sell tickets outside the ticket booth... kinda tacky, I know, but we are broke and we figured we would just try (we had a backup plan just in case...) So there we were scouting out people who would sell us tickets and out of no where, this guy came up to us and asked us if we were looking for tickets... we said yes and we pulled out our money.. I was ready to barter. He was an older guy in his 50's.. he looked at us both. I don't know, maybe he felt sorry for us because it had started to rain. He said, "you know what, just take 'em". We said, "seriously?" He said "yea I had a date meeting me here, but she is stuck at the airport. Have fun." He promptly turned around and ran in the other direction. We looked at each other and then at the tickets - utter shock. When does that happen - ever?? This guys generosity sort of left us breathless. We looked at the tickets which happened to be the third row to right of the stage.. really great tickets!!

this guys name is ELEW - amazing pianist

7. We are also in the process of decorating the baby room ... (Can't wait to show you how it turns out)
8. We are planning on painting our house in about 3-4 weeks. (It will be a grey-ish color with black shutters and black front door.)
9. I start my job on July 17th... so excited... and a little nervous too.
10. Father's day!

I think Uriah had a fabulous father's day weekend. It started with a Luau at Addison's school.

Addison made him a golf ball on a tee... too bad he isn't really a golfer, but we won't tell her that.  :)

She sure does love her Daddy...

 But as a family, we celebrated on Saturday. I let him sleep in and Addison and I snuck out of the house to pick up breakfast and worms... When we got home, I let Addison wake him up and give him his father's day card. She told him... "we are going to go fishing with worms!!" I think Addison was more excited about the worms than the fish. I had the car all packed for them to take the short 5 minute drive to Harris Lake to go fishing along with their breakfast. I met them a few hours later with Addison's big red ball and a picnic basket. When I arrived, Uriah had some funny stories of Addison fishing.

First of all, Addison caught three fish. Uriah - 1. She definitely has skills. Uriah said that on the third fish Addison caught, he let her pull in, but when she did, she must have pulled really hard because the fish came flying up at her (it was really small) and she went berserk... started screaming and crying, fell back and tripped on some roots, then proceeded to try and climb on top of Uriah's head. It scared her to death... poor baby. Then Uriah said that when he finally caught one, he told Addison it was called a cat fish. I can just see her eyes getting really big and the little wheels turning in her head.. because then she said, "oh oh, daddy, lets throw this one back and get a dog-fish!!" She cracks me up..

Nice hair :)

Goin' Fishin'...

Okay, so this may be the longest post ever - sorry.. I hope you feel as though you have been updated on the happenings of our lives for the past few weeks. Love to you all... 

Until next time...