I have been working on getting the nursery done for a few weeks now. I thought I’d share my progress. :)

Our theme for this room has been Hungry Caterpillar, which has ended up creating way more work for me than I intended. I love it when I come up with these great ideas, without really thinking how I am going to get them done, or even without an idea on how they are done…thank goodness for the internet! So, my mom made this great quilt out of Hungry Caterpillar fabric, which that in itself was not easy to find…we ordered it off the internet. And once my mom had the fabric, I knew I couldn’t back down. So, off to the paint store I went to find a color to paint the walls. Jayden and I decided on a lovely yellow color called lemon meringue. Really I choose based on the name, lemon meringue pie sounds delicious, so why wouldn’t it look good on the walls??? Being that I have just been getting larger and larger, I knew that I had to start on the room ASAP, and sadly, Royal, who hates painting, had to help me paint the room. He didn’t complain too much and we had it finished in 2 evenings. Then began the hunt for how I was going to paint a caterpillar and a butterfly on the wall. I traced them both out of the Hungry Caterpillar book I have onto paper, but I needed to get them enlarged. After Royal and I searched around Wichita for an easy to get them up on the wall - kinkos, office max, finding a projector to rent, or finding an overhead projector to rent - and coming up empty handed, I knew I was going to have to do it the hard way. So, since I don’t trust my free hand skills to enlarge the pictures and actually make them look like what is in the book, I decided to grid them. I traced a grid on my paper, then I put a grid up on the wall with string and tape, and drew my pictures on the wall with chalk. I then have spent the last week or so, painting them. I finally finished tonight and got the room put back together. All I’m waiting on now are the curtains and bedskirt my mom is making out of the Hungry Caterpillar fabric. It pays to know people who know how to sew!!! :) So, here are some pictures for those that want to see what it looks like now!

Boring Before Picture

My caterpillar paper grid and wall grid

Jayden and I drawing the caterpillar on the wall. I’m sure it was probably a mistake to let him watch me draw and paint on the wall. I know I’m going to come around the corner someday and he’ll have drawn me a masterpiece….hopefully it will be with something washable…. :)

The finished caterpillar

The finished butterfly

The room - notice the lovely picture on the wall that Amy Cooper just sent me today!