Nursery Progress

As you may recall, we once lived in an apartment that was much too small for a giant desk, a baby-in-the-making, and a million rollie pollies that insisted on paying homage to our bathroom every Spring.  As much as I looked forward to decorating a nursery, I was very hesitant to tackle the nursery/office/storage/I-hate-this-room room.

And here it is, in all of its glory (and so that you are more impressed with the anticlimactic ending to this post):

Then, when I was 8 months pregnant, we discovered that we would be moving when I was 9 months pregnant.  Now, if that doesn't motivate someone to decorate a nursery, then I don't know what would.  (Swollen sausage feet?)  So, I gathered all of the strength and creativity that I could manage and made a few pom poms:

   

And the result was rather sad.  

(As is the quality of these pictures.  Let's blame Clara-in-utero.)

Somewhere around the first of the year, I had a burst of energy.  This was also around the time that I kicked Clara out of our bedroom for sleeping like a boob-aholic dolphin with spidey senses.  My mom helped me paint (Robins Nest, my favorite color!) and I decided to incorporate pink into the room.  (I had originally planned on yellow, but began finding it hard to combat all of the pink things Clara was acquiring!)

And I finally made the curtains I had been planning for months!

And then, I realized that I hadn't taken any current photos, even though that was the point of this whole post, so I rushed to clean Clara's room and take a few decent pictures.  

(10 minutes later...)

And Husband only thinks I'm mildly insane for moving the pom-pom arrangement 5+ times.

I have a lot more to do, like:

1.  Make about a million pillows

2.  Refinish Clara's dresser

3.  Hang a gallery wall

4.  Spruce up a teddy bear

5.  Make a bench cushion

6.  Find toy and book solutions

7.  Finishing touches

Maybe I'll have this room finished by the time she's 12 and hates it!