Creativity! Finally!

I don't know if it can be attributed to the process of creating a new little person or not, but -finally- my creativity has returned after about a two and a half year hiatus.

Several projects have gotten finished and lots more started. For instance, the movers (yes that was about a year and a half ago) never put our home office furniture together. It was late and they had to leave. I have been operating in chaos for that long while trying to figure out where I wanted everything to go permanently. Awful. I have now taken the first steps in making sense of that mess. It will probably be a few weeks before it seems livable, but at least that is something. Then I can make it look NICE.

Also, I have a very red wall in the family room that I have been avoiding for awhile. I finally found (for less than half price, incidentally) a painting that complements it. The painting is still sitting on the back of the couch against the wall right now. But, I'm sure, very soon, it will be hung up. That Honey Do List has been growing of late.

You get the idea on the general home deco front.

But, I have been puzzling about a large purple wall in the girls' room. It looked so plain, but there is enough else to look at in there I didn't want some character or some kids' themed "thing" hung on the wall. Finally I thought up a painting that just might work. I tossed it around in my head for a couple of months, and this week, it just popped right out of my head and onto the canvas. It's nothing super fancy, but the girls love it, it does the job, and it marks a fun stage of their lives for me. You can see the wall below. It needed something, didn't it?

Here is a closer look at the painting. It's just four different colors of purple in a geometric pattern with a 3-D bejeweled butterfly (the girls decorated a pink one and a turquoise one at the same time and we hung them on the bathroom mirror), and their handprints with names and ages.

Now this new little guy is also going to need a cozy place to stay and the purple we had in the nursery for Madeline and Katie wasn't going to cut it, according to Franz. Once he mentioned a wall full of red Ducati motorcycle posters, however, he was kicked off the decorating committee. Since I am somewhat of a color nerd, I have one neutral color painted throughout my house with accent walls of different colors. For me, the transition is soothing that way. Completely nerdy, I know, but that's how it is. So, the nursery had to be done that way, too. Here is a view of it as you would enter from the hallway. You can kind of see the neutral tone next to the icy blue. We have two walls of each color in there, with a 12-inch wide chocolate brown stripe around the whole.

In the picture below, the lighting makes the walls look almost white, but they are light blue. If you were to turn to the left from the picture above, you would see the crib, below. We may hang painted letters to spell his name above the crib. That would require us to name him, however, and that is easier said than done. The crib bumper, on the inside, is a satiny ice blue fabric with chocolate brown outlines of cars, scooters, airplanes, clouds, and stars. The outside of the bumper is striped with our blue, tan, and chocolate colors. This bumper, the coordinating crib sheet, and the quilt, which is draped over the glider in the picture above, were all that was left of a bedding set that has been discontinued but I loved them.

If you keep turning left, you will see the entrance to the Jack-n-Jill bathroom and the window. So, since I loved the bedding I found, but lacked so many other pieces I needed, I went to our gigantic fabric wholesale warehouse out here (Dad you would just LOVE it!!) and found a coordinating chocolate fabric with tan, light blue, and dark brown polka dots, and a dark brown for the crib skirt and round table skirt. I used the polka dot fabric for the curtain, the round table topper, a toy basket liner, and a pillow for the glider.

If you continue to the left, you will see the changing table and entrance back to the upstairs hall. I found a light blue changing pad cover, but it looks white in the lighting, too. Besides paint, the walls are a little bare, but I'm sure I will find something to perk them up now that I'm feeling creative again!