Butterfly Mobile

Since Megan's nursery is a mish-mash of bedding and accessories I've either found or created, I've had a hard time finding a mobile that matched her decor. Plus, buying a mobile isn't as fun as making one, so that's what  did with a little inspiration from this site. I just changed it up a bit since I'm not a fan of gold :)

Supplies:

Large Ring – I bought a wooden one from the sewing section (can you tell I don't sew?)
Large butterfly paper punch, or any shape you want

Sturdy paper (I used a translucent card stock)

Fishing line or invisible thread

Spray paint

Glue gun

Directions:
Spray paint the wooden ring with your choice of paint color. Then wrap two pieces of fishing line around the ring, forming an +. Once you have them on you can tighten and straighten them.

I used 4 large pieces of translucent paper to punch out enough butterflies (107), but the amount you use will depend on the size of your ring and punch. (Just a note: I wanted glitter paper but decided against it since it hangs over my baby's crib). First I will explain the measurements then explain the assembly.

16 threads on the perimeter of the ring all measuring 12 inches long. These all had 4 butterflies.

4 threads for the first row in measuring 15 inches long. These all had 5 butterflies.

4 threads for the second row in measuring 18 inches long. These all had 6 butterflies.

4 threads for the third row in measuring 21 inches long. These all had 7 butterflies.

1 thread for the center measuring 24 inches long. This had 8 butterflies.

If your ring is bigger, I would add an inch to all these measurements for every inch it is bigger, and vice versa if it is smaller. I wouldn’t add more butterflies, just space them a little more, or vice versa.

To thread the butterflies you will want to take each thread and tie a tight triple knot at the bottom. Then thread a butterfly on with the needle so it falls onto the knot. Moving onto the next butterfly you will want to tie a loose knot (you need it loose so that the knot cannot slip through the hole from the needle) about 2½ inches from the first knot and then thread another butterfly that will rest on the knot, and so on, until you reach the final butterfly which should be about 3 inches from the end of the thread leaving room to tie it to the ring. I tied them on as I went and ended with the center.

Then I tied three very long pieces of thread to opposing sides of the ring for a way to hang it. I tied a final knot with the three long threads about a foot and a half from the mobile to stabilize it, and used the remaining length to hang it.

It took me the length of a loooong movie to make and like the original creator said, only a few “what have I gotten myself into” sighs, before I was in love. It makes my baby girl's room extra pretty ;)

Megan's new nursery

I know, I know... you're probably thinking, 'wasn't her room already done?' And yes, it was. But everytime I went into that room, I couldn't help but think that it was too boyish.

But because I'm pretty frugal these days, I decided to change it up just a little bit by adding some new things and tweaking some existing things. So this was the room before and this is after:


I bought the wall decal and the pink bedding for super cheap and then changed out the orange paper lantern for a pink one. But other than that, I kept everything else the same including the paint colors, furniture, curtains and lamp. And just with these few changes, the room has been completely transformed :)

Baby Brownie's nursery

The hardest thing about not finding out the gender of your baby is planning the nursery. Everything nowadays is gender specific and I had a heck of a time finding stuff I liked that would work for both girls and boys.

Eventually I found some awesome bedding and designed the room around that (although I didn't spend nearly what the website says!). We painted the walls gender neutral colors, added some accessories and viola!


Here are the minor details:


Three canvases that I painted to match the scheme,


three hanging paper lanterns,


and a wall hanging to attach memontos.

The only thing I'm missing in there is baby's name. I'll buy the letters, paint them and hang them over the closet after he/she is born.

Overall, I'm pleased with the results. All three nursery's have been completely different and it's been fun to design and decorate once again :)

As promised...

here is Jacob's nursery! I am quite happy with the results and so, with no further ado...


These curtains are particularly special because first off, it took me forever to find this perfect fabric and second, my mom handmade these, complete with "backing" to block the incoming sun. I love them!


And because I can't get over just how many clothes this baby boy already has, I took a picture of his closet. I assumed that only little girls received tons of clothing, but I was wrong! Thankfully, I love baby clothes so the more, the merrier!

Alright, gotta run. It's 8:30ish and the bed is calling my name!

The start of Baby's Brownie's nursery...

First off, isn't she just the cutest thing you've ever seen? She loves, loves, loves these bears and manages to hoard them all to herself...hence the reason there's 4 bears in that crib with her (two are on the other side of the crib and she's laying with the brown bear and the green bear is being smothered under her). She's such a snuggly little girl :)

Great news today...the baby has started kicking me!!! And I'm not talking that "fluttering" feeling. I mean real, hard kicks and when the Hubster gets home tonight, we'll see if they're strong enough to be felt outside. But because I'm feeling these kicks early (4 1/2 months) and the fact that they are frequent, leads me to believe that we may end up having a soccer player, in addition to the little Princess that lives here :)

Anyways, as promised yesterday, I'm going to post pics of the new nursery. It seems so surreal to be decorating another nursery so soon but it was SO much fun! We put Miss Busy Body to bed last night and then began setting up the furniture we had purchased earlier that day. Luckily we had already painted and hung up the chair-rail, so the scene was set for his/her crib, dresser, etc... The dresser we purchased came with the crib as a set. However, it's not quite big enough so we purchased a bigger dresser that matches the set as well and this smaller one will find it's home in the closet where it will house blankies, burp cloths, diapers, etc...

And, I don't know if I've mentioned this before, but I decided to go with a Classic Pooh theme (I say I because Justin could care less about the theme, as long as it's not mucho expensive or hideous and luckily it's neither). I contemplated doing this Pooh thing for Lauren but instead chose to do a Safari theme in her room. And I'm so happy I did because the vivid colors and animals totally fit Lauren...she is such a spunky lil' thang and she adores animals, so I'm happy that her room is the way it is. This time though, I decided to go with a nice, peaceful room filled with Classic Winnie the Pooh stuff. My room was Winnie the Pooh when I was a baby and I think it's very fitting that Baby Brownie have the same :)

So here they are:

I really don't think these pictures do the room justice. The paint color is so pretty and you just can't tell that from these pics (as well as the Tigger above which looks brown rather than the burnt orange it is). And even the Pooh comforter doesn't look as nice as it does it person. Ah well, come over and see it one day and I think you all will agree how cute it looks in there... but I recommend waiting 'till the baby is in the room because it will look much cuter in there I think!