Nursery REVEAL!

You all know I’ve been working on the church nursery for a while….well, I’m finally ready to show you everything!

Here’s what the nursery looks like now…bright, cheery and much more up-to-date than the old one!

We still have some bedding that’s getting the final touches put on it, a changing pad cover, and some pillows for the rocking chairs…they just didn’t get done in time for these photos, but it stills looks good enough to call done!

The little green rug, and the larger matching one, came from Garden Ridge….both were a smidgeon over $200.00! They remind me of grass, and feel amazing under foot!

I love how the artwork, and bins came together in the picture above! Each bin has two little Noah’s Ark tags with numbers on them….one stays with the child, and one goes with the parent. That’s how we know what child belongs to what parent! :0) They have to show us their tag to pick up their child with the corresponding numbered tag!

My favorite thing in the whole nursery is the giant color blocked giraffe on this wall! :0) You just can’t get much more bang for your buck than this $25.00 giraffe!

We still have to find a suitable paper towel holder, but I love the little soap dispensers I found at Walmart….the blue was just right!

Here’s another wall of storage….bins, cabinet with white erase board attached, canisters and shelving!|

I really love the chalkboard vinyl tags I cut out for the snack canisters!

Here are some Before & After pics:

View into the bed area and cubby….

Wall of hooks, turned into art and bin storage!

Wall of toys, into color blocked giraffe art….

I just love how it all came together!

What da think?!

If you weren’t able to follow along for the whole nursery ride, you can find the other posts as follows:

1.Beginning of the nursery
2.How to Make Safari Artwork
3.Painting and accessories update!
4.We have COLOR!!
5.Cute decorating ideas!
6.Cute hardware and accessories!

Blessings & Hugs!
Missy

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Church Nursery Accessories

How adorable are these knobs?!

I have to tell you about a GREAT company, D. Lawless Hardware.  They have so many wonderful knobs, pulls and tons of other goodies! I can’t say enough good things about this company! 

I ordered six zebra knobs for the changing table I got from Walmart, and I think it turned out so sweet. So much better than the plain little while knobs that came on it. :0) The little zebra knobs were only $3.08 each…I couldn’t find anything in any store that even came close to that price!

I also ordered pulls for the cabinets in the nursery and the nursery bathroom too.  I picked out an antique brass pull because all the knobs and hinges in there are that metal.  I found these, I thought they kind of had a safari-ish feel to them too…and they were only $1.49 each! I’m tellin’ ya, D Lawless is a great place to find hardware!

Here’s what the cabinets looked like before the pulls….

Here are the AFTER photos:

I love the difference the knobs made in the room!

Here’s another before and after for you.  See this little cubby……

Here it is now!  We took the back off, painted the body blue and the back green, and screwed the back on.  Tada, all new cubby!

Here’s one more accessory before and after for you.  We got four of the large animal crackers containers from Sam’s Club……………

I used OOPS to get the labels off the containers……

See how clean it is after you use the OOPS!…….

Then I bought some chalkboard vinyl online and used my cricut machine to cut out some labels. Safari Crackers anyone?!  LOL

Next time…………the BIG REVEAL!

Blessings
Missy

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Church Nursery Decorating Ideas… CUTE!~

Hey Ya’ll!  Last time I showed you this picture, and told you I’d tell you what I was doing with the big square……

WELLLLL….it’s going to have this inside it!! (after it’s painted green, of course!)  :0)

You wanna see??

Here ya go!

Isn’t is just adorable!  I ordered the giraffe from Etsy for $25.00, and I really think it just makes the room!

The same day we worked on this, one of our church guys (Jim) did this!  See the white on the cabinet door? It’s marker board! I found it at Lowes and he took it home and cut it down for me. I used double sided carpet tape to hang it and it worked great!  Where the old marker board used to hang (there in the blank space beside the cabinet) we did something else. 

SEE!! All new shelving! Yay!! Such a better use for all that space than where one white marker board used to hang! :0)

Next time I hope to show you the great hardware, and accessories we did for the nursery!  Yay!

Blessings

Missy

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Church Nursery Update---we have COLOR!!

We have COLOR in the church nursery!!!

We used the Sherwin Williams Georgian Bay color on the bottom of the walls, all the way around the room. I measured it off and put Frog Tape around the room so the top edge would be perfect, and also would leave a white stripe under the frog tape.

I then went around the room and measure up five inches and put another strip of Frog Tape. (I used a level when I was measuring to make sure it was straight)  We painted in between the two pieces of frog tape with the Sherwin Williams Lime Ricky paint. 

After we put a couple of coats of the green paint on, we started pulling off the Frog Tape.  You really want to pull the tape off while the paint is wet so it doesn’t pull off any paint.  Here’s a picture of the white stripe it left between the green and the blue paint when we pulled off the tape. :0)

I decided to put three stripes on the focal wall so we taped it all off at the top and bottom and put a couple of coats of blue……………………

When the blue paint dried, I taped off a few inches in from the top and the bottom and painted the green stripe.  Isn’t that a cute wall!! :0) 
OHHHH…and check out that new floor!!  SO much better than that carpet!

Ok….in this picture I’m taping off a large square, but you’ll have to wait until next post to see what it’s for. :0)

Come back for the next post to see what’s going to go in the big square! Any guesses? 

Blessings
Missy

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Church Nursery Update!

We have finally begun to paint! Tammy, Kim, Gina, Tiffany, David and I all painted on the nursery to get it started!  (great friends!)  Gina and Kim knocked out the first coat on the ceiling one night on their own, and the rest of us came in and took turns painting until everything had at least one coat!

I cannot tell you what a HUGE difference it made painting the
ceiling in that room! You see, it has wooden beams up there to hide where it used to be cut into different rooms, and they were two different colors.  It really cut the room up visually…now the room just flows into one nice space with no separation!

In this picture, you can see we also came in and tore up the carpet. A great group of guys from the church came in and had it out in 30 minutes flat, then we pried up all the staples that were left from the padding, and started painting again!  We are making progress!! (this is David giving the ceiling it’s 2nd coat)

Since the carpet was torn up we went on a shopping trip to find some flooring.  We found this piece at Lowes, it’s called Fireside Oak and we bought it to match the existing trim in the room.

I found these cute little baskets at Walmart while grocery shopping….I picked up 9 of them to put the kiddos items in when they check into the nursery. :0)

I also found these cute bins at Garden Ridge…I’ll show you what we’ll do we these later!

I also found these soap dispensers at Walmart for $6.00 each.  Right now we have the disposable hand soap dispensers and they aren’t that cute…..I love little details like this in a room. :0)

OH…I ordered two beds and a changing table from Walmart!

Here’s a picture of them from their website. Aren’t they sweet!  They were really affordable too! The beds were $119.00 each and the changing table was $179.00.

I can’t wait to see this whole nursery come together! :0)

Next time I hope we’ll have more of the painting done….there’s some serious pops of color going to be going on in this room soon!

Blessings

Missy

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How to Make Safari Artwork

Remember these canvases I purchased for the church nursery artwork?  I got all five for $27.53! If you’ve ever purchased canvas’ before, you’ll know what a great buy that is! Hobby Lobby was having a terrific sale that day! Have I ever mentioned how much I LOVE Hobby Lobby?! They are so good about keeping Christ in their business, and I love how they take out full page ads on Easter and Christmas, proclaiming Jesus’ birth and resurrection!

Okay…well, today I’m going to show you what I did with all these art pieces just waiting to be born! :0)

I started out by choosing the paint for the nursery because I wanted to tie these art pieces into the paint colors.  I went with Sherwin Williams Georgian Bay Blue and Lime Ricky Green……so cute together!  Well they will be…I promise! :0)

OH! Before I show you what the canvases look like all painted, I wanted to pass along this cool trick.  Before you start painting stick some thumbtacks in the bottom of whatever you’re painting and you can paint all the was down to the edge and it won’t stick to the newspaper, or whatever you’re using to paint on. I LOVE this trick…it keeps me from painting all my fingertips! :0)

Here are the canvases while I’m painting them…see how the thumbtacks lift them up off the ground?! Cool huh?!

Here they are with three coats of paint!

I have some special software on my computer that allows me to cut out things that you can’t get on a cartridge, so I cut all of these vinyl safari animals out on my cricut, but you can also find many vinyl cutouts on Etsy that you can use too!

Here’s the different animals I cut out!

Elephant:

Giraffe:

Lion:

Monkey:

Rhino:

To transfer them to the canvases, I just put clear contact paper directly on the cutouts, and peeled them off onto the contact paper, leaving the sticky side of the vinyl out.  I positioned them onto the canvases and rubbed them down, then peeled off the contact paper.

Walla! Here they are!….

The cool thing about this project, is you could do it with any color or any cutout, in any amount of canvases! Your imagination can run wild!

I have another VERY large vinyl cutout that I bought for another project that I’ll show you when we get to that point! I’m so excited about this project!!

Hopefully I can go shopping and find some things I have in mind and show you what I get, and maybe show you a little more progress on the actual room next post!

Blessings
Missy

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