For our Baby's Travel-Themed Nursery

As you know I've designed a travel-themed nursery for our baby. Mike and I have lived in so many different places and we just love to travel whenever we can. We just got back from our 'babymoon' to Puerto Rico, amazing!

One of the main art pieces in the nursery is this map. I just ordered it on www.childreninspiredesign.com My friend Keri introduced me to this website, and I've had it pinned for some time now. You order the map and it comes with 4 heart stickers to place where the baby's roots are. In our case, it will be Peru, Ireland, Greece and of course USA. The print is 18 x 24" and at the bottom it reads "My Roots Lie Here". I think it's going to look great in the nursery, all framed, front and center.

 

Here's a little information about the artist and her inspiration for this collection of maps "My Roots".

 

Rebecca Peragine, creator of Children Inspire Design, is known for her globally inspired art for children. So it's no wonder why her latest custom creation, the My Roots Collection, is filled with deep meaning for little ones. Not only is the art beautiful for both big and small, but the collection tells a story of how families come together from all parts of the world. Her art shows a child where family roots lie, a place they are connected to, whether it's ten or ten thousand miles away.
Parent and child can customize their own art by using heart stickers to locate and highlight a child's roots. A teaching moment that will last throughout the years.

-Available in in blue, clay, or pink
-Made with recycled card stock, eco-friendly ink and packaged in recycled/biodegradable materials

Children Inspire Design is a product line of modern, eco-friendly and culturally diverse wall art, wall cards and posters, full of whimsy, and designed to help children learn compassion for our earth and all who inhabit it. Artist, mother and social entrepreneur, Rebecca Peragine, has combined her passion for global design with her desire to inspire children to celebrate eco-consciousness and the beauty of different world cultures.

Environmental education is at the heart of each design. Rebecca believes in embracing every opportunity to recycle and reuse. Children Inspire Design creates art that teaches languages, cultures, and ways to care for our Earth. Each piece incorporates repurposed paper materials, eco-friendly inks, and biodegradable packaging.

Rebecca firmly believes that if we teach the importance of global responsibility at a young age, carrying that responsibility into the future will be second nature for our children.
Inspire children. Change the world.

Online Sources for DIY Roman Shades

Happy Wednesday Everyone! Rough night last night, first night of this pregnancy where I didn't sleep through the whole night and I officially had to turn to the extra pillow between my legs to help fall asleep. Oh well, I just have to get used to this, right?

A few of you have asked about online sources for DIY Roman Shades. I'm attempting to create some for our baby's nursery in the coming weeks. I'm hoping to go with a fun graphic pattern for the roman shades. I ordered a few swatches from www.fabric.com.

 

 

Anyway, here are some links to create your own DIY roman shades for your home.

Little Green Notebook

DIY Network

Good Life Blog

 

Making Progress on our Baby's Nursery

This past weekend we hammered out a lot of DIY stuff for the baby's nursery. We painted all the trim, Martha Stewart's "Popcorn", Mike painted the ceiling white and my parents and I painted all the walls Benjamin Moore's "Woodlawn Blue". I know these colors are different than what I had planned but late on Friday night after watching "House of Cards" (my new favorite show btw) I sat in the middle of the baby's room with dozens of paint colors around me until one spoke to me. I did the same thing early on Saturday morning when all this great sunlight was flooding the room and the Woodlawn Blue was the right choice. I also made a quick design board to have in the room for inspiration. I pulled some potential fabrics for my upcoming DIY roman shades and accent pillows, maybe even a crib dust ruffle if I'm feeling ambitious. I told you last Friday that I chose to go with a pale yellow, pale blue, navy blue and white scheme. Over the weekend I decided to add Coral back into the mix and I think it's going to work really well. Here's one custom print I created that shows the new palette. 

 

Nursery design board. The print of Notre Dame is on the left that we bought in Paris last March. I have another one of the Eiffel Tower. They are so much fun, a lot of primary colors, little dogs and kids with balloons. I had them matted and framed at Michael's during one of their crazy framing sales.

 

Here are some photos of the room all painted in Woodlawn Blue. I need paint the inside of the closet yellow, Martha Stewart's "Haystack" and we are going to add 12" high horizontal stripes to the north wall using the Popcorn white paint. These photos are from yesterday afternoon and are kind of dark, the color definitely has more green in it. It's a very soothing color. I love it!

 



Nursery Accent Wall Design Options

Looks like this is going to be my favorite type of weekend, a DIY weekend and we're going to focus on the baby's nursery. Below are some rendered elevations I quickly put together for the one accent wall in the room. It's going to be the wall you first see as you enter the nursery. I'm kind of diggin' the alternating version of blue and yellow, but let me know what your favorite is. I've also include a couple of renderings showing what custom DIY roman shades could look like.

Paint

• (blue) Benjamin Moore - Crystal blue
• (yellow) Benjamin Moore - Hay stack
• (white) Martha Stewart - Popcorn