This Blogging Thing Is Not Easy & An Update On The Boy's Room

When I started this blog a couple months ago I naively thought that it would be easy.  I figured I would sit down a few nights a week and write a quick post about the projects I've been working on.  Ha!  While I have somehow found time to do projects, I have not been able to devote precious spare minutes to writing something up.  I promise to do better :).

So the last time I posted *cough, 5 months ago, cough*, I was getting ready to redo my son's room from a car theme to a superhero room.  Well... shortly thereafter we decided that the room would be put to much better use as a nursery for the baby of the family.  Previously she had been in a room with her big sister, but since she had never been a great sleeper and was still waking up a couple times a night, we thought it best if the older kids bunked together so that they can get more sleep.  That little move caused a chain reaction of redecorating in our house (oh darn, I have to redo a room, haha).  The boy's room is now a girl's room and the girl's room, full of pink and a giant tree painted on the wall, will eventually be a gender neutral shared space, but that will have to come later!  The first priority has been the baby's room and I'm proud to say that it is ALMOST done.

So here is where it started.

After everything was cleared out I started by picking out some inspiration fabric from a great little quilting store nearby. 

Finally after years of doing this I have learned that it is much easier to pick my fabric first than try to find the perfect fabric that I have pictured to go with the color scheme I have picked out (and probably already painted!).  I decided to go with a light peachy pink for the wall color, Fresco by Olympic.  And the lady at Lowe's suggested this wonderful primer since I was painting over black stripes. It. Was. Amazing.

 I went from black stripes & a superhero city skyline to this.

And then this...

The perfect blank slate for the Baby A's new room!  There's also a sneak peak at the valance I made which I'll get to next time along with an eclectic gallery wall.