The Buzzbees

Emilio - Lemondrop Fabric

We finally started working on the nursery last week. Eric and I were both off on Memorial Day so we decided to make good use of that time and start painting. We are planning to do the nursery with a bee theme (because of our last name). Although I haven’t found any bedding or decoration that I really like yet. But for the room, we knew we wanted to do a yellow color. A few weekends ago when were were in Baton Rouge, we found some fabric that we liked at P. Tree Textiles in Baton Rouge. It’s called Emilio – Lemondrop and it looks sort of like a bee-hive, although not really… But we like it. It’s definitely our style. Anyway, we matched the paint color with the fabric and chose a color called Summer Harvest (Behr).

So, last Monday, May 31, we started painting the walls. We got 2 walls painted. Here are a few pictures showing the before color and the color now. The yellow doesn’t quite show up exactly how it looks in person. But you get the idea.

We finished the painting the other 2 walls on Saturday. Eric actually has another coat to do on the cutting-in on those 2 walls… just near the ceiling. But you can’t really tell at first glance.

Our second project was the baby bed. We actually had some friends, Joey & Jennifer, give us their crib (you can see it in the picture above) and mattress. It is a Jenny Lind crib in a Walnut finish. We thought that we might try to sand and paint it white, but then decided that we weren’t really up to that. Especially since we’re not the “home improvement” type of people. So we did a little shopping and found a bed we liked at Target for only $130 (+ FREE Shipping!) and decided that it was worth it just to buy that one. We chose the Graco Lauren Classic Convertible Crib. We ordered it last week and it came yesterday. So after we got home from church and choir, of course, we just had to put it together. We actually did it in less than 1 hour! Our only hiccup was that we put it together in the living room, not thinking that it was going to be too big to fit through the door. We realized it when we got it into the hall, but couldn’t get it through the room door. But we only had to take off the back (which was only 4 screws!) Once we did that, we slid it into the room and put the back on again. I told Eric, “We put this together, took it apart and put it back together without fighting!” We make a great team (at least I think so)! So here are a few pictures of the bed in the nursery. Now we just need to find some bedding… or have some made… Sara?!?

So our next project, or Eric’s, is to paint the small chest-of-drawers that we already have in the room. It’s also a walnut-colored wood that we want to be white. Maybe we can get that done this weekend.