The Nursery... My DIY Project

At long last, I am posting nursery photos. It's come a long way and I've gotten quite a bit done. There's still a little more to do, but I'm very pleased with it thus far (click on photos to enlarge).


This is the nursery a couple weeks after we moved in:



This shelf was in my bedroom when I was a little girl. It was pink. I'm not sure what the hell my mom was thinking when she painted it recently... it's a mess.




I have no idea what's going on here:






Fixing!:


It looks like I have a basketball in my shirt:

My Grandma Sue sent Cooper this card with a letter on the back. It was so precious. I hope he always keeps this card from his Great-Grandma Sue:

I got this amazing idea from a website Tara introduced me to, http://www.younghouselove.com/photo-gallery-2/our-first-house/. In their first house they had cards hanging on a line from clothespins. I loved the idea and hunted down the perfect cards on Amazon.com. I found these for under $10 and fell in love with the art:

Jory hand cut me some wooden stars in our shop at work, to be used to hold the strings up:

I painted them:

When I was done I had some pretty cool line holders:

I attached the line and used clothes pins to hold my cards:

I had quite a few extra cards, so I put up some cute shelves to display a few more of my favorites and to take up some of the extra wall space:

And it started all to look more complete...

I played with these Raggedy Anne and Andy dolls when I was little. Grandma Sue kept them all these years:

And the crib:

That's all for now. We still need a rug for the nursery, which is not in the budget at the moment. I am pretty happy with what we have so far and I'm pretty sure Cooper will like it too.

My Own.

There's a lot of things I'm good at. Few things I'm great at. I have been trying to find something to make my own, something I can focus all my energy on and become amazing at. Make something unique, something that not a lot of people do or create.

It's difficult. I have been racking my brain, asking myself "what can I make awesome? What can I make my own?".

I have yet to find it. I think about it constantly. I do lots of different activities. Photography. Painting. Crocheting. Language. Blogging. Building fish tanks. Gardening. Dancing. Cooking..... but I want to me known for something, be the only person I know to do something specific. "Oh, that's Alie. She makes awesome ________".

I know when I find it, it'll be amazing. And I know it'll take a lot of time and energy, which I realize I will soon not have much time for. But I'm still on a mission to find this hobby or craft to make my own.

*sigh*

I will find it. Eventually.

I found a new band tonight, I am in love with this song. Give it a listen. All the way through. I have their album "Touch Up" and I am hooked.