I bravely ventured into the room that will be the baby’s bedroom the other day to figure out what needed to be done and where to start.

I say “bravely” because this is the room that currently houses all the *stuff* that hasn’t found a home since we moved in six months ago; odds and ends that we don’t know what to do with. It’s our attic, basically.

It’s time. This baby who crept into my life unexpectedly, well, she’s coming, ready or not, and she’s gonna need a place to sleep.

Sleep, I said. SLEEP. We sleep in our house. And if she wants to be part of THIS family…

*Sorry. Just had a brief panic attack…

And you know what? It struck me that the drapes I already have hanging in that room… would be beautiful in a baby’s room.

Yeah, they’re blue and brown… ‘boy colors’ if you want to be all stereotypical, but … the fabric is elegant and shimmery and … I’m just thinking…

Picture THAT fabric on THIS bedding, with the giant girly bows… it would be gorgeous, right?!

And then… I thought about the chandelier in my used-to-be-a-dining room (which is now an office)… and I thought, my man who can fix anything could easily swap light fixtures, and this chandelier would be so pretty in our new girly room!

I have this mirror propped against the wall in our storage room junk room baby’s room, just sitting there unused.

This mirror…. with the drapes… and the chandelier….. do you see where I’m going with this??

*Please pardon the *stuff* reflected in the mirror. It’s on its way to a new home… asap. Hello, five month pregnant baby bump…

Also sitting in our storage room baby’s room, unused? 
This French Provincial armoire. I bought it at an auction years ago, and it’s wired with groovy {useless} European wiring, not that that’s relevant to anything.

I’m seeing it chalk painted. In duck egg blue.

The look I think I’m going for is quite different from my last baby nursery, which looked a little somethin’ like this…

Yep, that was Annie’s nursery, and Katie Beth’s before that. I’ll be using the same crib and that slipcovered rocking chair {that belonged to my grandmother}, and I’ll be reupholstering it to match baby’s room… I’m thinking duck egg blue velvet.

I’m getting excited about Baby Sister and her pretty new room. This is gonna be fun….

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