{art print} baby nursery // giraffe // i love you

So thrilled that my good friend Michelle and I had babies a month apart.  We have been able to share and swap a lot of information via text, facebook, email, you name it!  I shipped these two prints to Zack for his first birthday.  I love doing some things for little boys.  Always fun to have a little blue and green in my life inbetween all the pink and purple.

{art print} dr. seuss themed nursery // ean john

My cousin in Minnesota welcomed the arrival of the cutest little boy, Ean.  He was only 15 pounds and so many ounces but still such a cutie.  I also love that she decorated his room in Dr. Seuss.  I didn't grow up with Dr. Seuss books (mom's preference) so I'm welcoming them with open arms into our house.  Some I am reading for the first time.

Congratulations again Sarah.  Can't wait to meet him!

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{art print} blue and grey elephant themed nursery // gavin robert

So excited our good friends Brooke and Grant (finally) had a little boy.  I haven't met him yet.  Our trips to Indiana are just too short to squeeze everyone in.  And especially hard to squeeze in enough quality time.  I'm loving on him quite a bit via facebook and instagram (thanks Brooke!)  So excited to make these for his nursery and even more excited that the colors worked out perfectly.

 

 

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{art print} farm themed nursery // holden joseph

As you are noticing on my blog I am surrounded by little boy babies!  I think I have celebrated either the birth or a first birthday of at least ten boy babies since the beginning of Spring.  Yowza.  I am having so much fun with these art prints.  I especially love doing this one for our cousin Holden because of the farm theme.  (Farms are near and dear to my heart since I'm a farmer's daughter).  Looking forward to seeing it on his wall!

{art print} pirate themed nursery // briston lawrence

I saw this adorable little quote on Pinterest and new it would fit right in to our cousin's pirate themed nursery.  I'm looking forward to seeing this on Briston's wall!

Anna is turning one // Nursery Art Prints

My baby is turning one next week.  Where did the year go?  I'm spending a lot of time reflecting over it these past few days.  Its been a whirlwind of happiness, laughter, challenges, new relationships, and love.  It seems like only yesterday I was folding all her newborn clothes and putting arranging her stuffed animals on the shelves.  I'm finally posting the artwork I created for her nursery.  It hangs over her crib complimenting the whimsical animal prints by Trafalgar's Square.  Check out more of Anna's nursery here.

all prints by sixteen sunbuckles.  please visit the shop for more detail.

{shanks household} and morning sunshine

"you are my sunshine my only sunshine"

^ We woke up to this, ^

^ but I was greeted with this in the morning. 

Who minds the snow when this little sunshine is so happy to see you? ^

^ check out the rest of Anna's nursery if you missed the first post ^

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

{all pictures by sixteen sunbuckles / Anna at 10 months / Anna's favorite blankie by Tiddliwinks for Target / Sleepsack by Halo }

Baby Nursery

Finally we have put the finishing touches on the nursery.  We are officially READY for her arrival.  So, as of next week we are considered full term (37 weeks) ... so you are welcome to come anytime baby shanks!

 

DIY seat cushion and back

Our nursery is coming together.  I've taken a two week sabbatical from this blog to get things in order.  I spent quite a bit of time visiting family for baby showers then this week was busy washing and hanging up baby clothes.  We sure do have a lot of pink!

One of the most special elements in baby's room is a rocking chair from Brandon's grandparents.  Brandon's grandpa has a special talent for canning.  He has canned thousands of rocking chair seats and backs.  I love this rocking chair because of its sentimental reasons.  However, I know I'll be spending a lot of time in this chair and its a bit hard.  So I decided we need to make a seat cushion and while we were at it... a back.

I am a huge fan of Eric Carle and Leo Lionni sketches.  And when I found this fabric at IKEA I thought "BINGO!"  So I bought 2 meters at $6.99/meter.

Basically, to begin you will need to make a pattern.  I used drafting paper because that is what I had on hand.  You can use parchment paper, tracing paper or anything else translucent.  Just draw out your the shape of the seat and cut out.  It was easiest for me to draw one side.  Fold the paper in half and cut out the pattern.  This way the sides were completely equal.

Next lay out the pattern over the fabric.  Pin the pattern to the fabric.  Before cutting, you'll need to leave 5/6" extra around the outside.  This will be enough space so you can get that nice "poof" to your seat.  You'll need to cut out a bottom and a top for the seat.  Next, place the right sides of the fabric together and sew the outer edge.  (I recommend a sewing machine for this)  Leave enough of an opening so you can get your hand in and stuff.  Next, bring the fabric right side out.  You can now stuff and sew up the hole by hand.

If you want to add ties you'll need to cut out a large strip and sew up the one side.  You'll also need to pin this to the wrong side of the fabric before you sew the top and bottom together.  If you forget, you can always just sew the ties to the bottom of the seat.

{before}

{after}

DIY bird crib mobile

I have all kinds of craft ideas now that I'm not working and have ample time on my hands.  I know this time will come to a close when baby shanks arrives so I'm trying to soak in my last weeks of freedom.  This week's project.. making a crib mobile for my sweet baby girl.  Thank you to Pinterest for continually flooding my right brain with motivating and inspirational craft ideas.  It is because of you that I continually have a project going.

So I started looking at crib mobiles.  I saw this and fell in love with how colorful it was.  However, there is no way I'm paying $150 for a mobile. 

{puka puka design}

And then I found this adorable fabric bird mobile on Etsy.  However, I didn't want to pay $85 plus shipping to Canada. 

{annie's mobile boutique}

I also really liked a simple tissue pom mobile.  But I had already fallen in love with the birds so I couldn't let them go.  I also thought $40 for a pom mobile was a bit expensive.  (I'm sure you are beginning to think I'm a penny pincher!)

{little nest box}

Then on Pinterest last week I found a blog that had a free pattern for the birds.  BINGO!  To get the full instructions you'll need to click on over to Spool Sewing.  So this is really easy to do everyone.  I used scrap fabric I already had.  (I did buy a few small swatches from Walmart in their craft section.  Each was $2.  I think I used about 6 different swatches).  You will also need different size sewing hoops (I used 3), thread, needle, batting, pipe cleaners or fake flower wire, and hot glue.  I cut out the fabric using the pattern from Spool Sewing. Then I sewed (by hand... on the machine would be much easier but I don't have one) and stuffed the birds.  Then I glued them on to the hoops.  I also glued on these paper flowers from Paper Source ($15) that I already had in my scrapbooking box.  Next I made poms out of colorful tissue (I bought a pack from Walmart for $4).  For a pom tissue tuitorial visit Natsprat.  (I made them half the size she makes them in her blog).  Next I hung up the hoops with the thread and attached to the ceiling with a small screw hook.