Nursery Moodboard

It's here! I found a Moodboard app that helped do the trick. But it made my lame-o iPad crash every time I tried exporting it so had to take a screenshot instead. So here it is, little Miss Wimm's nursery!

33 weeks + some empty decorating promises?

So I was planning to put up a nursery mood board but not sure anymore if I'll get the time before the nursery is actually finished AND I'm kinda freaking out that it might not be a girl! Ha! Probably stupid.. But I don't really want to embarrass myself when a boy pops his little head out and I have a cute baby girls room waiting for him at home. I don't have to wait long.. Only til Tuesday! I will be getting a 3D scan so we should be able to have a clear view and put my worries to rest. Not that a boy would be bad but I think the pretty pink clothes I've got will feel very sad and lonely having to be packed away.

So probably no nursery mood board. Unless I can squeeze it in between my 3D scan on Tuesday and decorating on the weekend. Which now that I think about it, may be a huge doable possibility. But did I tell you? Our ikea delivery is arriving on thursday! My fingers are tingling just writing about it. The main item which I am so over the moon about is our sofa. We will finally have a sofa! No one can really understand my joy over this unless they themselves have also never owned a sofa. Our living room at the moment consists of a very uncomfortable day bed and one very springy uncomfortable chair. We went with Karlstad in dark grey.

When I first saw it, I wasn't that into it but then I saw it over at Young House Love and read about how much they love it. So I was taken! But with the new sofa coming it got me thinking. Our living room screams boring and bland. And I'm afraid the sofa will probably just accentuate that fact. So next week I will be putting together my next project: Living Room Makeover Mood Board! Just so you get the idea, the colours at the moment are navy, white and beige with a couple of unnoticeable pops of red. I'll be keeping the navy as that is our feature wall but the rest has seen better days. So until next week where I'll be back with my mood boards and some gender news. Hopefully...

Freebie: Printable Alphabet Flash Cards

After seeing so many cool ideas for nursery or playroom decoration using alphabet cards, I thought it would be cool to hunt some down. (However in the meantime I have so many other ideas for the nursery that I don't think the cards will fit in such a small room) And obviously they are just as useful when the babies grow up and start learning their letters!

Firstly there's THIS fun set from The Handmade Home.

And today I stumbled across THIS set from Mr Printables.com! Love it! This is exactly what I wanted. Simple and modern. They have tons of fun free stuff on Mr Printables.com like these animal flashcards or these earth vocabulary cards or these number flashcards.

Since it's a rainy Saturday, I think I'll print these out on some cardstock and spend the afternoon on the couch with my scissors! Have a Happy Weekend!

Nursery: Storage Problem Solved

I certainly was not expecting it to take just one sleep. A couple of minutes after adding a bookcase to my Ikea shopping list I came across these awesome Ribba Picture Ledges!

Aren't they fab? Well i think so! Enough to say that the bookcase was immediately taken off the list. They're just what I wanted, and not too sticky-outy from the wall that they would be too weighty for my pathetic walls. Just perfect. They come in two lengths, 55cm and 110cm. I think I'll go with the longer ones and maybe put a few smaller ones around the house. In the craft corner for example. I had no idea Ikea had anything like this! I'm virtually buzzing that my book storage problem is solved!

Nursery: Pom Poms

I've been seeing a lot of these Pom Poms in nurseries lately. When I first saw them, I thought they were incredibly tacky. Like a cheap wedding full of glitter. But now they're actually growing on me...

This last one broke my heart! Love those colours together!

So here is my attempt at a Pom Pom mobile:

I'm actually pretty happy with how they turned out. The pink one is probably about 20cm in diameter just to give an idea of size. So for those who want to give pom pom making a try; for the pink one I used this tutorial. It took about 5 hours haha. So won't be doing that one again in a hurry. The white rose one took about 3-4 hours while watching the new Emma series. And the white netting one took about 2 minutes. 

Nursery: Storage Dilemma!

I'm getting to the nitty gritty stage of nursery planning where it turns from cute to practical... :( the nursery is rather small and it has sloped walls on one side slicing it even smaller. I'll be putting baby clothes, towels and nappies in and on top of the dresser. But all the other stuff like books and toys I have no place for... I love the idea of those shelves where the books lean against the wall so little people can see them better. Like this:

or this:

But I'm just not sure if shelves are an option for us. Our walls are pathetic. That's the miserable truth of it all. They're paper thin and spew out all largish objects I hang up. However I have found some other ideas that might just trick the walls into thinking that there's nothing there.

These fabric book holders are pretty funky but still aren't quite as clean and crisp like my precious white shelves.

I'm also loving this basket idea but might look a bit too much...
Hmm...I suppose I could just grab a bookcase from Ikea but then my wall space is gone for other pretties. But I guess I still have a few more nights to think this one over.

Nurseries I'm loving...

26 weeks and we still don't know if it's a boy or girl... I'm starting to go more with girl. My doc says that if next week we still can't see anything, then it's a girl! So I've started to put together in my mind what the nursery will look like for either boy or girl. I've decided not to paint, and just keep it white and crisp with pops of pastel colours. Dusty pink for a girl and light turquoise for a boy. Probably throw a bit of grey or beige in there too. Made my ikea furniture list. Everything is white!
Thought I might share a few nursery ideas I quite like right now. Obviously not every aspect, but you get the idea...