Nursery Reveal

What seems likes YEARS ago, I promised to do a nursery reveal for Beckett. It has taken us 10 months, but its done (almost). Sure, I have a few touches here and there. But for the foreseeable future, it's done. I gave up on several ideas when my husband pointed out that they might not be terribly sustainable. Apparently, he doesn't think that 16 year old Beckett wants bunny knobs on his closet doors. I think they would have grown on him...but I guess spending $80 on Anthropologie woodland creature knobs (that require bolt cutting -- important note to self, that's a job) wasn't the best investment.

I tried hard to take really great pictures. But, I had a 10 month old crawling through 90% of the shots, pulling toys off shelves, and generally attempting to kill himself by eating anything he could get his hands on. I don't know how I've managed thus far. So, take these pictures as face value. They aren't great photography. They aren't artistic. The sleepsack is slung over the bed where I left it. And I"m pretty sure there was some dried poop on the rug. Welcome to mommyhood.

I will add links to products as I have time... but for now, here are the pictures!

Baby Animal Prints // Sharon Montrose (amazon frames)

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Chair // Bellini Boca Raton Storytime Series 

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Print // Quote from Peter Pan...more computer paper and paint pens!

Framed birth announcement and baptism announcement

Embroidered Bookshelf // Wayfair 

Wall Color // Sherwin Williams "Rain"

Rug // Milliken Rugs

  

Curtains // Blackout Canvas Drapes - Pottery Barn Kids

Arrow Curtain Rods // Emily and Merritt for PB Kids

The random cup is Beckett's contribution to the shoot.

Bookcase // Wayfair 

Crib & Dresser // Baby Furniture Plus Kids -- Haven White Cottage Crib

Free nursery download from Hello Maypole (just used a gold paint pen to make it go with my color scheme)

I'm trying hard to keep photo albums of Beckett's first year. My mother did this for me, and I loved looking through them as a child!

Prints

 "Greatest Adventure" - computer paper and a paint pen :)

Palm Beach Map Print // Palm Beach Lately blog

South Carolina cut out // Ewalk Down South on Etsy

Night light // Pottery Barn Kids -- on MAJOR sale!

Block Frames // Oh Joy! Collection at Target

Rail Bumper // Suzani Print, Liz and Roo

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Socks the Fox Blah Blah kids stuffed toy

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Bedding // Liz and Roo

Skip Hop Mobile (see review here) - and take a gander at that previous wall color!

 

So this fan. It is supposed to be a knock off of the MinkAire fan that costs $299 (seen here). This fan is only $169 from Lowes. The review said that the light was dim, but we paid no mind. I mean, how dim could it be. Oh, you'd be surprised just how dim this light is. I think the zebra night light rivals it in wattage. This fan is for looks ONLY. We will probably get several lamps in here, or can lights at some point and use just the fan. For future reference, we will just bite the bullet and get the expensive fan. (Because, once you install it, there's no way you're taking it down to return it...right? #lazy #darkroom).

Five on Friday

My Five on Friday this week is themed....I'm giving you my top 5 Dax Shepard and Kristin Bell moments. #powercouple

ONE -- Dax Shepard describing the birth of his daughter - My fave.

TWO -- Kristen on Giving Birth 

THREE - Dax and Brad Pitt

FOUR -- Dax just being funny.

FIVE- You've seen this before on my blog...but the sloth video 

In case you haven't see all of their Samsung commercials...

The Citrus Experiment

Last week I made a trip to Costco and realized while I was there we needed a few lemons and limes. When I say a few, I mean about 5-6. But, I was Costco. And I wasn't about to go to Publix just to get lemons and limes. So I just bought what felt like a 10lb bag of lemons and limes. Each. Surely, we'd use them, right?

No. No, you can't use that many. As I started to toss rotting limes out (I will admit they made lovely table decorations for a few days) I got an idea. Freeze the juice. I googled it, and sure enough, Real Simple did it. And, if they did it, so could I, right? Sure. So, the citrus experiment began.

First, I juiced the limes, then poured them into silicone ice cube trays. Be sure to measure about how much it takes to fill 1 cup, so that when you use them later, you have an idea of how much a cube is. I didn't use the plastic trays because I wasn't so sure how the whole process would work. The juice is slightly sticky and the silicone was pretty easy to push the cubes out. Not saying that plastic wouldn't work, I just don't know.

In case you're wondering, the average lime had about 3/4 of a cup of juice in it.

so now I'm just getting carried away with playing with my camera.

Once I juiced them all, I poured them into silicone trays, and froze them. After several days, I popped them out and stored them in ziplock bags. So far they haven't stuck together, so I think it might work!

Voila! And, now it's time to juice the lemons. And find reasons besides cocktails to use these cubes. Although, if all else fails, we'll have one hell of a margarita bar.