Spoonflower

I came across this company a while ago, but as I am searching for wallpaper for the nursery, Spoonflower sells beautiful fabrics and wallpapers, and if you are a creative bee, you van upload your own design as well.

for a girl (fretwork in pink)

or for a boy (gold lattice)

for a girl (zebra print by Danika Herricks)

or for a boy (quatrefoil lattice)

Boy o boy arent these nice? I am not sure yet what the gender might be, as soon as I know more I will tell.

Sharon Monrose baby animals

I absolutely love the baby animal pictures I have in Matteo´s Nursery, we say good night to them

and sing them songs. The photographer behind these pictures is the talented Sharon Monrose of the animal print shop. As animals besides dogs can´t really pose, it´s fun but difficult job to get that perfect pic. I was reading this interview from one of my favorite blogs a cup of Jo.

the baby zebra is my new favorite!

Vintage trunk and suitcases painted white

These trunk and suitcases are the vintage ones my mum and me we bought on flea markets. They are already lovely in their brown colors, but I wanted to have them clean and painted in white so they would match the idea I had for Matteo´s Nursery. I posted about Matteo´s nursery before here.

I changed a bench for the vintage trunk and suitcases so toys, small clothes and other things can be saved in there. I changed the rug for a bargellow white and navy one bought at Zara home.

Painted vintage suitcases, Anthropologie coral hooks and gold wall Monogram

Nursery and kidsroom decoration

Hello everyone, It's weekend! Yay! Hope you have some nice things planned to do. I travelled with baby Matteo to Amsterdam, for him to meet family and friends. It was hard work to keep him occupied drinking during take off and landing, traveling with a bay is a whole new experience.

Absolutely loved these gold horses against a grey wall. The Horses were found at a flea market and DIY spraypainted. This could be easily done with any kind of funny objects, especially if you are so lucky to get a few of them, and you turn it in to an artwall. This picture comes from the blog The Gold Yelly Bean

Another favorite is this bird mobile from etsy seller Birds of a feather

Fabric covered bakets to hold diapers, toys and knick-knacks

Next monday is queensday in Holland, will make pictures and write about it on Tuesday.

Beau Lifestyle´s Nursery Revealing

Finally I can reveal Matteo´s nursery, after many ´to do´ things were done, thanks to the grandparents. It´s a mix of vintage finds, some new things, DIY projects and Ikea. I wanted to create a room that I am confortable in too. 15 more days untill my due date, I have the feeling Matteo wants to come a bit earlier, so today I have packed my hospital bag and took pictures of the Nursery.

I am so in love with the vintage faux bamboo chandeliers that I won on Ebay, I have got them rewired and painted them, so they are as good as new again.

The XL changing station, with everything in reach. The hat and sleeping bag are handmade gifts.

The curtains with the ribbon that my mom DIY-ed, I am so happy how it looks.

The Leander crib with the animal prints. The owl is handmade by my mom who used the same fabric as I used to upholstered the little chair.

I would love to have a little library with childrenbooks, so now I started collection them.

The wonderfull O´verlays, that give the 2 little closets an instant wow factor and you can´t really tell the mess behind them.

another love of the nursery is the vintage parrot lamp I purchased on Etsy. Other Etsy purchases is the vintage tea cup with the gold M monogram and the peepee teepees (fabric cones) so Matteo doesn´t pee on me when changing his diapers.

Room Resources:

Crib: Leander
Shelves: Ikea
Blocks: Dwellstudio
Dresser: My former office desk, designed by me and custome made.
Artwork: Sharon Montrose
Picture Frames: Ikea
Rug: Ikea
Lamps: chandeliers from ebay, parrot lamp from Etsy- modern logic and floorlamp Artemide.
Vintage elephants: Etsy -  Curate
Swaddle blankets: Aden and anais
peepee teepees: Etsy - lil´twinkle star
Geometric pattern in closets: O´verlays
2 grey Closets: Ikea
Wall closet: own design and custom made, inside is a guest bed and more of Matteos clothes hanged up.
Globe: thrift find
Bench: thrift find
Sheepskin: Ikea
pillows: Caitlin Wilson textiles - fleur de chinoisie and the other 2 are DIY
Fabric: Diamante

My momma did it...curtains

I loved this picture from Martha Steward´s site, that also tells you how to DIY add ribbon to your curtains. We just finished the project and instead sewing the ribbon we used some fabric glue and ironed it on.

Here my mom is doing the proyect.

Will show you the result when revealing Matteo´s nursery soon, it´s getting very pretty!

Nursery inspiration

This is al I can think of lately, I am almost becoming an addict to create a cozy nursery for the baby boy to come. I want to make it so it looks nice for the baby, but also has to be a space that I feel happy in being an adult. The nursey I am decorating at the moment has the colors light blue, yellow, white and brown...post about it soon. These nurserys are my inspiration for this week

 

Matteo´s new pillow from Caitlin Wilson

Hope you had a great weekend! Yesterday I had a deadline to finish and wasn´t able to post.

I have been in love with the Caitlin Wilson textiles for a while, and we need to support our fellow bloggers too! So I bought Matteo a pillow cover, Mustard fleur chinoise pillow wich arrived today. Also I purchased a designer swatch box, I was so curious to see the other fabrics for future projects.

The coral pink packaging is so pretty.

Even it´s not really a masculine kind of design, I want Matteo´s nursery to be cozy and welcome

and for me to sit on the carpet admiring the nursery from every point of view.

This is what I made this weekend, chocolates with nuts, pistachio´s and cranberries...yummy!

I packed them in jars with red bows, a pretty and easy DIY gift for this Christmas!

Weekend nursery decorating

This Sunday we stayed home in our PJ´s decorating the nursery.

Beau mounted the Leander crib and it looks good!

Some inspiration I got from the book Room for Children, that I bought in Jonathan Adler´s NY boutique last year during our US roadtrip. These pretty elephants I bought over at Etsy from seller Curate

 The room is quite empty but bit by bit it comes together.

The toy elephant is from a spanish babybrand sal de coco, wich makes cute stuff.

The adorable booties I got from a dear friend, Matteo is going to be so handsome with these booties!

Matteo´s chair

Yesterday I had a busy day in Madrid visiting customers, had no time to post sorry.
I am trying to travel as much as possible now and get everything done for work, because the bump is growing and soon I will not be able to travel.
A year ago my mom and me we found this little childrens chair over at a local triftshop, and I knew I had to have it. Now I had the best excuse to get it upholstered for the nursery, they delivered it today at my office, can´t wait to see it in the nursery.
The fabric is calico corners diamante, and I ordered a few more buttons on it, this is the after:

           The before was a very ugly color, but sometimes you have to look through it:

pictures taken with my iphone

So what do you think of Matteo´s chair?

Nursery gift

I am a happy daughter to have my mom over for a week, total happiness!
I told her my plan of buying an Ikea crib and do some pretty DIY stuff to it, but my mom and beau boyfriend had another point of view.
Now from the grandparents to be we have had a pretty present, a Leander crib.

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The Leander crib is aconvertible crib from Scandinavian design and is available in 3 colors, white, natural and brown.
I choose the white one, and it´s arriving this friday, hurray!
Hope to post pics soon!

Vintage faux bamboo pagoda chandeliers

Yes I have found them, not one, but two! Searching Ebay dit got me these 2 babies and I am over the moon happy, so happy that it got me recovered from my fever too.
These two faux bamboo chandeliers are for the nursery, that soon is to be decorated.

picture taken with my iphone

On this picture you see a similar one to the ones I bought and a bigger version.

I have to admid that not only finding them was a joy, als the Ebay seller was amazing, the best service possible, so big thanks to you Raudy! He has had some cute vintage stuff for sale if you want to check out his shop for a mid century light tole and a unique heart shaped tufted bed.
I will ask beau boyfriend to spraypaint them white for me.
Soon more to come...