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May 22, 2017 by Kirstin

bohden’s nursery nook

tiny nursery 'nook' (with tons of DIY details!)

tiny nursery 'nook' (with tons of DIY details!)tiny nursery 'nook' (with tons of DIY details!)tiny nursery 'nook' (with tons of DIY details!)In our house in Saipan, our master suite took up a ridiculously disproportionate amount of space. It included an outdoor bathroom (for real), a changing area, two walk in closets, and a little office ‘nook.’ Instead of using a guest bedroom for our nursery, we used that little office space to make a nursery nook for Bohden.

tiny nursery 'nook' (with tons of DIY details!)tiny nursery 'nook' (with tons of DIY details!)tiny nursery 'nook' (with tons of DIY details!)I wish you could tell from the pictures just how quaint and tiny this little ‘nook’ really was (maybe 5′ x 9′?). It was like a walk in closet with a couple of windows and a little niche that somehow perfectly fit a changing table. It was the perfect amount space for a baby room!

tiny nursery 'nook' (with tons of DIY details!)tiny nursery 'nook' (with tons of DIY details!)We haven’t even started on Bohden’s nursery here in Texas (he’s still in our room), but I was scrolling through pictures the other day and saw these ones of his first room and wanted to share them.

tiny nursery 'nook' (with tons of DIY details!)
tiny nursery 'nook' (with tons of DIY details!)tiny nursery 'nook' (with tons of DIY details!)I actually used to sit in this room quite often (we initially made it into a nursery for foster care, so it was essentially set up as a nursery the entire time we lived in Saipan). I would go in there to pray, or to read. We even had the kids’ reading nook set up in here for a bit, so they’d join me in there many days. My heart catches just to look at pictures and think of the hours we spent in there, reading and praying and readying ourselves for the next season as a family.

tiny nursery 'nook' (with tons of DIY details!)tiny nursery 'nook' (with tons of DIY details!)tiny nursery 'nook' (with tons of DIY details!)tiny nursery 'nook' (with tons of DIY details!)tiny nursery 'nook' (with tons of DIY details!)tiny nursery 'nook' (with tons of DIY details!)And then seeing all of the little pieces and projects that were added over time is so fun as well. There are so many projects in this room that were added in those last days while we waited for him to arrive (I was a wreck, and am kind of a busy body under the best conditions, so you can imagine the DIY-everything frenzy last August).

tiny nursery 'nook' (with tons of DIY details!)tiny nursery 'nook' (with tons of DIY details!)tiny nursery 'nook' (with tons of DIY details!)In fact, almost everything in this room was a DIY project (the perfect storm of a lack of access to even basic decor in Saipan plus so much less on the schedule [aka more time to DIY] equals a serious pile of DIY decor). We made-

tiny nursery 'nook' (with tons of DIY details!)The DIY striped rocker

The pineapple pillow

The You Are So Very Loved pennant

The watercolored name garland

The Psalm 126:3 banner

tiny nursery 'nook' (with tons of DIY details!)I also made the tassel mobile (I made the tassels like this and then hung them from some driftwood that I found on the beach), the painted driftwood hanging (inspired by these, but with paint instead of yarn), and the crocheted pom pom blanket (just crocheted a baby blanket and added pom poms- kind of like this but crocheted and baby sized).

tiny nursery 'nook' (with tons of DIY details!)Oh, and one afternoon I sewed a whole pile of crib sheets using Dana’s tutorial (after a call from CPS that they were bringing over a baby and a panicked fruitless crib sheet search on island).

tiny nursery 'nook' (with tons of DIY details!)tiny nursery 'nook' (with tons of DIY details!)Many of those clothes are also mama-made, as are most of the burp rags. Like I said, perfect DIY storm- haha.

tiny nursery 'nook' (with tons of DIY details!)tiny nursery 'nook' (with tons of DIY details!)And I can’t wrap this up without including a couple pics of our teensy tiny bear when he was just a few days old. Oh how we love him.

February 7, 2013 by Kirstin

wooly sheep nursery mobile

Oh how we love today’s guest, Alicia from La Famille. Not only is she a master decorator, organizer, repurposer, party planner and family tradition maker, she is one of those rare blog friends that has transitioned into a real life friend (yep, we text her pictures when we’re party prepping- ha!). She is genuine and […]

August 1, 2012 by Kirstin

huggie pillow tutorial (land of nod knock off)

huggie throw pillow tutorial (land of nod knock off)

  Today’s project is an oldie but a goodie (oldie as in I-made-it-in-January-but-haven’t-shared-the-tutorial-yet). I shared the tutorial over at Family Ever After for Rach’s Sew-lebrity series (sidenote, real sew-lebrities don’t have to sew with the sewing machine manual in their lap and You Tube on their sewing table… but it was so fun to be […]

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