Aiden's Nursery

We've finally put the finishing touches on the nursery so here are the pictures I promised. We had two projects we decided to do ourselves for Aiden's room. The first was to build a set of shelves that I actually saw in County Living Magazine in December. The directions were to buy a couple different sizes of the large tubes that are used to pour concrete in and then cut them to your desired length. Eric used his table saw to do this.

Then, you cut contact paper to put on the outside of them. We chose the wood contact paper.

After that, you attach all of them using nuts and bolts. Here's the finished product.
Pretty cool, huh? I have to give almost all of the credit to Eric. After putting contact paper on about two of these things, I was over it. It was a great reminder of why I'm not a huge fan of do-it-yourself projects. Eric, however, loves them. Thank god I married such a handyman!

Our second project was to stencil elephants on the walls. My self proclaimed creative problem solver of a husband decided it would be a piece of cake to make our own stencil. He took a picture of one of the elephants on Aiden's bedding and then we blew it up and took it to my classroom where we could project it. We traced the elephant onto some butcher paper, and then cut it out so that we were left with a stencil.

Next, we hung the stencil on the wall, and Eric simply painted from the paper down onto the wall. I will be the first to admit, I was a critic from the beginning. I did not think Eric's plan was going to work. I was also happy to admit how wrong I was! The elephants turned out amazing!

Even Julia got in on the fun!

One of my favorite parts of watching Eric work is when he sits back and enjoys the finished product. Nice work, Daddy!

Here are the rest of the shots of the nursery.

Now all that's missing is the baby. My due date is one week from today, so I'm hoping he'll be here sometime next week! We can't wait to meet our son!