The finished Nursery

Here are some pics of the finished nursery.

It is the most relaxing room ever. I love rocking her there while I sing to her!
Thank you Lord for your immeasurable blessings!

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My Felt Nursery Projects

I've been thinking this over and over.

Ever since I knew I was having a baby, I've been planning her nursery. 

It's only 8 weeks till she arrives, so I'm getting everything done ASAP. 

However, I've been fearful of sharing more projects with you.

Why, you ask?

I hear stories of ladies that plan nurseries and come back home from the hospital empty-handed. 

Boy, just writing that down brought so many tears to my eyes, you don't even know how many! 

What if I get really excited to come back empty-handed?

What if all these projects will be for nothing? 

Oh boy! Linda!!! Where is your faith? 

As I mentioned in a post before, my husband asked me once who I was putting my trust in. 

And as you know, I answered that just because I trust God doesn't mean the empty-handed scenario could not be in His plans. 

I was told I needed to monitor the babies movements every two hours. 

As you may well have guessed, I've been losing my mind! 

We've had two runs to the doctor's because I didn't feel her move in a lapse of 5 hours just to find out she is perfectly fine. The doctor sternly asked me to stop crying wolf! 

I think it's perfectly normal to feel like you don't want to be overly excited, but the alternative (fear and expecting disappointment) doesn't show true hope. 

So, I'm getting over myself and my dumb ol' fears. I'm chosing hope, excitement, trust, joy, and peace that God is in control and there is a bunch of people praying constantly for Emmalee's well-being. 

Ánd in that spirit of breaking free of my fears, I share with ya'll my felt nursery projects. 

Animal mobile:

Boy was photographing this project hard. 

Here are the best shots. 

 In this one you get a good look at the turtle, the lamb and the hipo. 

 And in this one you get a good look of the elephant, the owl and a little bit the giraffe. There was no pic where you could make out the giraffe well. 

And here a shot at the complete mobile! 

Door wreath:

This one I made with some cloth pieces my husband's grandma graciously collected for me. It didn't have a sign originally, but I felt it was missing something.

Here's a closeup of the sign! 

I LOVE her name ^_^

Emmalee name piece:

No idea what to call this piece. It's a project to put infront of the changing station. 

 I just knew I had to do more projects with her name! It's adorable!

And I couldn't resist adding more giraffes to the nursery. One of my favorites!

Animal Bottle Holders:

By now you must know that I'm making an animal themed nursery. When making an animal themed anything, people tend to chose between jungle animals, farm animals, or forest animals. I'm sorry, not me! There is no way I was having lovely giraffes and hipos and no pigs! And I have plenty of turtles and frogs in the mix too. 

 I drew inspiration for these from a cow with similar design some dear friends gave me for my birthday. 

Since I have a cow-themed kitchen, the cow will not be in the nursery but happily holding my honey bottle. 

forest, jungle, farm? Who cares, they are lovely! 

ABC mantle:

So this one is not finished yet. I'm still working on the frame for the mantle, but here's a preview. It is not completely animal-themed and again I have no problem mixing farm, forest, and jungle animals either.

 It'll look better with the frame but I wanted to breakdown the alphabet mantle for you.

 a: alligator, b: butterfly, c:cat, d:duck, e:elephant

 f:frog, g:giraffe, h:hipo, i:igloo, j:jet, k:kite

l:lamb, m:mouse, n:nation (no brown felt for nest and I just couldn't find anything else to put for the n. I tried). o:owl, p:pig

q:queen (I know I made a crown, forgive me), r:rhino, s:seal, t:turtle, u:unicorn, 

v:valentines, w:worm, x:xylophone, y:yo-yo, z:zebra.

Well, I'm not a photographer but I tried to capture them as best as I could. 

I hope you like them. 

I draw inspiration of things I see in the web. Here is my pinterest link so you can see where I find projects and inspiration for proyects here.

I have more project I haven't posted! Hopefully my girls are coming this next weekend to finish the mural. I hope you enjoyed my DIY rocking chair project here. 

Please keep praying for Emmalee and that we may all have her with us soon!!!!!! 

^_^

DIY Fabulous Rocking chair for nursery plus Over the Rainbow video!

As you all may know, I'm a lover of all things DIY. 

It had been a dream of mine to do a DIY project with the hubby and it finally came true. 

I had pinned this chair transformation since I had a similar glidder, but I really like my traditional country looking glidder, so we decided to restore it. 

Here is our first DIY project together:

 This is with what we started off. 

My Aunt had bought this old glidder at the market and never got around to restoring it. 

I'm tackling my very first sewing project, Crossing fingers it goes well. 

The top pillow turned out great!

 The hubs is so meticulous he took the glidder apart and cleaned every single piece. 

 This is what it looked like. The hubs sanded by hand every piece for two days!!!!

Here's a side view of the old thing.

And here it is after paint and back together

And this is how it looks with the new pillows I made.

Doesn't it look beautiful??!!!

As you can guess, I'm overjoyed!!!! :)

And I thought I'd try it out and do some baby rocking while singing some lullaby!

Please don't be harsh on me.

Here is a video of me singing Over the Rainbow on my new rocking chair! Oh the songs I'll sing to my daughter! I might feel encouraged to post the lullaby I created! We'll see :)