Finishing up

We are finally finishing up the baby's room. Who, by the way, we have decided to name Noah Kai. After praying, researching and looking through scripture we have decided we love the meaning and the legacy Noah left for his generation and truly all Christians and non-Christians who know his story. More about his name another time. My last project for the room is a gallery of frames/pictures representing his name. (In short, Noah means peace and Kai means rejoice (in Finnish) or ocean (in Hawaiian.) 

Thanks to the help an resources of my wonderful mom, the crib now has a skirt and the window is "dressed." I really do enjoy sewing but have not done it enough to tackle it on my own. Not to mention I don't own a sewing machine. So we spent a couple days together mastering a few projects. The first was a roman shade. I found a tutorial on Pinterest and loved the idea of using blinds to make a roman shade. I wasn't confident it would work, but it turned out great! We did need to add brown panel curtains to the sides because our windows do not have casing and it looked a little bare. But here is the final project. 

 Next, we made a crib skirt out of some coordinating material. It turned out really good although our crib doesn't show the skirt all that much. It was definitely needed.

 Here is a shot of the room so far. With some extra fabric we also made a couple pillows. One of which I actually did all by myself. It is looking much cozier. Now we just need a few things on the walls and I think I will be happy. It has been fun making up our own idea for a nursery.