Annelisa's Nursery

Annelisa's Nursery is very much underway! When we moved into our house in June, we knew which room would be the nursery; however, we never expected to be pregnant as quickly as we were...so the room began as a work out room.

At the beginning of December, we picked up the crib and the dresser was delivered! I had earlier posted that we had selected furniture from Lonestar Baby and Kids...then when shopping for some birthday gifts we walked through Pottery Barn Kids, just to look...when my husband found the Kendall Crib on sale. See, I had browsed their website earlier in the pregnancy, but had eliminated them based on the price point. When we discovered the sale price and found that the Kendall double wide dresser was also on sale, we were sold! We ordered both in the Espresso stain and are thrilled with the simple lines and functionality of each piece.

There are two items we have ordered that we are currently waiting on...

1. The side table, the weekend before Christmas we ordered it from Pottery Barn Kids and got a great deal thanks to reward dollars and a couple of coupons. (It was $5.10!!) This is going to be my 'mommy table.' The place for me to store snacks, water, and things to read while nursing Annelisa. It will go next to the glider. 
2. The glider...we ordered it today from J C Penny. It is bonded leather and it will hopefully transition to the game room when it's not needed in the nursery. It will go between the crib and the dresser, below the eye brow window. 

Things we need to do...

1. Paint the room...it will be a light green to coordinate with the fabrics we've selected. 
2. Find a book case and a floating shelf. The floating shelf will go above the dresser to display items for Annelisa and the book case is to store all of her books and toys (of which she's getting quite the collection). The book case will go next to the closet. A shopping trip to IKEA, should solve this dilemma for us, hopefully! 
3. Purchase the crib mattress from Amazon. 
4. I want to find some sort of wall art, perhaps a wall decal customized with her name from Etsy or something to go above her crib. Maybe frame some of my future maternity pictures to go above her book case...we'll have wait and see what we come up with! :) 
5. Install a dimmer switch on the overhead light to help for future middle of the night feedings and changings. 
6. Change out the window treatment and come up with some sort of solution for the eye brow window. The eye brow window provides great natural light...however, it could bring in too much light, especially early in the morning! So some sort of solution must be found! 
7. Organize the closet...enough said! 
8. Register!!! This is planned for later this week...it's still very overwhelming! However, I've had lots of good advice from other moms and we've been reading Baby Bargains, The 11th Edition. Hopefully, this process will work itself out with our efforts! 

I am most excited and blessed by my mom! She has offered to make all of the bedding for Annelisa's room. She helped us find the fabrics on-line. They are perfect! We wanted a pink and green scheme for a girl all along! 

The pink stripes will be the crib skirt, the floral will be the bumper, the green polka dot will be a ruffle on the bumper and the inspiration for the paint color. There are several other fabrics from the collection that will be going into the quilt, and that will be used in a couple of sheets. It will be lovely and girly when it's all finished! I can't wait to see it all come together! 

I'm looking forward to meeting our little lady, Annelisa Grace!