Nursery Before and After!

The nursery has been a slow work in progress. It took me a while to decide just what I wanted to do. Then I had to clean the room out and find a new home for everything that was in there! If you've read previous posts, you know I was given a crib - which I painted white. My mom had an old dresser that she said I could have, but it sure needed some TLC! We moved an old rocking chair upstairs. I had an old end table already that just needed some new paint. Of course, I painted the walls and sewed new crib bedding and curtains. But before you see all that - you MUST see the before pictures. Pretty bland!

 Wow! I think this dresser has seen better days! I have no idea what the red stain is on top!

Bland white walls. Even the red curtains don't add much!

Now for the after! My beautiful 'Under the Sea/Sea Turtle' nursery is complete. A lovely aqua blue covers the walls! The crib my grandma gave me I painted white! It looks stunning against the colorful quilt, crib bumpers, crib skirt and crib sheet that I made! Our fundraiser turtle puzzle is complete and framed and hangs over the crib! Each time I look at that puzzle, I am overwhelmed with gratefulness for all the generous donations to our adoption!

Can you believe how different that dresser looks?! Bright white - new knobs! And a changing pad with a cover that matches the crib bumpers!

The little white table sports an awesome lamp I found that goes perfectly with the curtains I made! By the way, the green polka dot curtains were kind of the inspiration for the whole nursery!

My nieces gave me a few small stuffed sea animals and I put them on the little white shelf with a few books from Grammy and Lil Ribbert the Frog from Aunt Kelli.

Notice my stuffed turtle collection in the crib?! And last but not least, the cute sea turtle picture that my talented sister Rachael painted! (Sorry, I don't have a close up!) I hope to have letters spelling out our baby's name to hang over this picture!

 Well, that's it! We don't yet have closet doors, so I didn't take a picture of that wall!

I am so happy with how the nursery turned out!

Now all we need is a baby! I walk by the nursery everyday with a great longing for it to soon be a home to a baby! Please pray with us that a baby will soon join our family!

If you like our nursery transformation, please leave a comment and let me know what you liked best!! Thank you!