So I've done exactly three things to change the nursery from Graham's room to Olivia's room. I put up a pink mobile, I changed the photo on the shelf from Graham to Olivia, and I hung up these dresses. I didn't really have anything special hanging from these hooks really since I put it up in the new house. I don't even remember what I hung from them when this was in Nate's nursery. But several weeks ago I thought how cute it would be to hang some dresses up there. The thing is that I have all of these super cute dresses, and all they do is hang in a closet where no one can see them. (Well, aside from when Olivia wears them to church.) So I picked 4 of my favorites and have them hanging here. (Well, when they are ironed that is.)
This is the dress that my mom made for Olivia. It's not exactly her blessing dress, because she'll wear this dress that my mom got in Belgium that 4 or so of the other girl cousins have been blessed in. But I still consider this her blessing dress. She hasn't worn it yet, it's closer to a 3-6 month size, and I'm kind of waiting until her blessing day.
Look at all of the smocking, yeah, my mom's a rock star.
These little pleats came at my special request. I was thinking in bed one night before Olivia was born, and I thought about how cute it would be to have a dress for her with little half inch pleats along the bottom. So I talked to my mom about it, and she did it. Yeah, she's a rock star.
I was walking through Kohl's the other day, and I saw this on the rack, and I didn't really even think about it, but I decided that I needed to have it. Love it!
Look at the little bow at the top!
This is the dress that I bought online specifically so that she could have an impossibly cute dress to wear to church her first
Sunday back. It's huge, she'll wear it until she's 17.
I love the eyelet work all along the skirt, and the white lining sticking out of the bottom.
I bought this dress I think before Graham was born. Like, I wasn't pregnant at the time or anything. It was super cheap at the Carter's outlet, and I saw it and thought that I should probably have it on account of how cute it was. It too is still too big for her.
I love these embroidered flowers.
The problem of course is that all of these dresses need to be ironed, and I'm sometimes slow to get down to do the ironing. Two of them, the white polka dot, and the pink one, she wears to church right now, so they get taken off of the hooks. I've started to replace the empty spots with other dresses that I don't love quite as much, but are still cute. Then of course there is this other dress that my mom brought back from Belgium. It'll fit her when she's two or so. I'll have to take a picture of that as well. It's got handmade Belgian lace, and is very beautiful. So much so that I have no idea when she'll wear it, but one day she will.
So what unusual ways do you decorate your kids' rooms?
This is the hostess apron that I made for Cammi. We didn't have her in the name exchange this year, but she does so much for us that it felt rude to not think of her at Christmas.
This one was for me. I made a similar one for my mom. The top bib part of it can button off and convert into a hostess apron as well.
This is the quilt that I made for my new nephew Dylan. He was born just a few days before Christmas. I also made a car seat cover for him, but I forgot to take a picture of it.
This is what I made for my mother in law. I am slowly getting around to making something handmade for each person in Jesse's family. I still have his older brother's family, and father left. But I made this cute little quilt as you go braided table runner with 8 matching place mats.
And that wraps up the Christmas things. I have a few baby quilts in mind to make in the next few months. I'm waiting to see if there is any money left over from our tax return to buy some more fabric, or if they will be stash quilts.
