Kids room

I should be sleeping, but I am not. I wish I was able to, but sleep has already become a thing of the past for me. Luckily, I must be in that nesting stage because I still have quite a bit of energy throughout the day and have been accomplishing so much lately. This weekend we set up the babies room, I made a bunch of freezer meals, made tons of muffins, reorganized the bonus room and still had time for a date with my husband! I don't see sleep coming anytime soon, so hopefully this energy lasts a while longer, I still have a few things to tackle on my to do list.

I started this project in January I think. At the time I wasn't even pregnant, wasn't really thinking of being pregnant, and was really excited to make a fun room for the kids. The room that is now the babies room was going to be the kids playroom....well now it is another project that I am working on!

This was Donovan's room, it was all blue and had a truck theme. When the kids begged to share a room so they could have bunk beds, we decided, why not? Then I started thinking, what is a gender neutral theme? This is all I could come up with. Thankfully the internet is full of resources and it all pulled together nicely.

I am not an artist, but I found this awesome website that sends you outlines for murals. All you have to do is trace them and paint them. I traced the room in January, painted a little and then decided to have another baby. Well....I did not work again on this room until July I think. Now that I am feeling a lot better, I have been able to complete it and the kids are really happy about that! I am pretty proud of myself too, it was a lot of work, but SO worth it!


I love the window valences. I have since put one on the other window. I found some bamboo and rafia and went at it. It was actually a lot of fun making these.

The mural had no sun anywhere....I figured we couldn't have a beach room without the sun, right? Well I was SO excited when I found this sun light. It is perfect for their room!

I have started the babies room. Jeff painted the room for me, we set up the crib and furniture this weekend and now I am getting to the tracing. Hopefully this one won't take me 8 months to complete!