Esme's Blue Room

My second child is 4 months old and this was my first time doing a nursrey. We were poor and in an apartment when Eli was born and when we moved here, the people before us conveniently made it a nursrey for their boy with the wall of cubbies, bead board, deep red paint, and even the carpet and door. You see, the builders intended it to be a closet, only accessable through a cupboard door in our closet and the floors were only the particle board sub floor. We appreciated it all their work which even involved moving walls. This room was the selling point for us. It was the only room they had put any work into and we wouldn't have bought the place if Eli had to sleep on a different floor from us at 9 months old.

Now it is Esme's room and eventhough we aren't poor college students in a basement apartment, I only ended up buying two new things to make the space hers. The little glass lamp on the table and the picture hanger used to make her mobile. The paint was left over from Eli's room (but the color is so great I didn't feel like I was merely being practical), the dots were transplanted from the family room, even the bed is just a craigslist find, although I can't say "just" because it is my wildest crib dreams come true. I had planned on making some modern-looking mobile, I don't know, with felt, but my sister in Switzerland sent us this dangling art made of driftwood, ceramic beads, and a ball that she felted which sadly came apart in transport, so I used the parts, along with shells we collected from Santa Barbara and/or Oregon to make Esme a momento, I mean mobile. So there we go. And hopefully it will stay pretty tidy since she's too small to make a mess of her room, if only I can keep Eli from going in to play with his baby toys.