Clifford's Room

Cliff's room is starting to look like a nursery.  It's nice.  It makes things seem more real, that's for sure.  As you guys know, we got Clifford's crib last week and I love it.  I like that it is substantial, as I am sure Cliff will be too.  I have to change the curtain....not sure what color I want yet.  I think maybe I will steal the ones from my bedroom...but then what do I hang in my bedroom?  It's a perpetual quandry.   

We rearranged his room a bit the other day.  Moved his crib to the big wal and his dresser to the short wall.  I don't think I'm going to have a rocking chair.  This may be a disaster, but I figure if he gets used to being rocked, he will want rocked always.  I may be kicking myself for it when I am standing bouncing him at 3a.m. instead of being in a semi-coma in a chair.  But nonetheless, Cliffy has a chair and toys and books already.  He is gonna be so spoiled.  

This is something I am pumped about.  He actually has wooden blocks!  Real wooden blocks.  I found them at a thrift store and got 2 boxes of them for $4.  I am pumped about it!  Penelope loves them, so I figure Cliff will too.  How could he not?  I gotta get a different lamp.  I just don't love that green one, but I have been eyeing a turqouise one at TJMAXX.  It's the berries.  It will be mine.  Well, it will be Ford's but still.  

Ford is actually amassing quite a bit already.  Especially considering that he is still "in utero."  The day I found out he was a boy Annie had me come "shopping" through Everett's stuff.  I picked out what I liked, stored some of it away and have already washed and hung the rest.  Then Mom gets me something everytime she leaves town.  And the aunts have started buyings stuff.  I honestly haven't spent anything on my own baby yet (aside from insurance deductibles).  It's odd.  But look at all this little outfits!  

As I mentioned, Zac and I stopped by his sister's house on the way back from Wisconsin.  She has an almost 9 month old baby and was ready to get rid of some of the things she had stored.  She gave me this awesome carseat which came with a stroller, plus 2 covers, 1 lightweight and 1 heavyweight.

  I also got a great booster which I will use constantly since I have a niece or nephew to haul around with regularity.  In fact, last week I drove Aubrie home from school.  I told her I was working "every stinkin' day" next week.  She said, "then you can drive me home every stinkin' day."  Cracked me up.  I told her if I was working at the school and heading out to her mom's we could.  

I was pumped to see that this booster is the kind with the slide out cup holders.  We Foxes have taught our children well.  We go no where without a beverage.  It's important to stay hydrated and visit the bathroom everywhere we go.

And last but not least.....I got in Cliff Stu's fabric!  I will be sewing bumpers, a crib quilt, and fitted sheets.  I may also be sewing a dust ruffle, but I pray I don't have to.  

I looked online for crib sheets in colors I liked, but they were all like $20-25 each, so I got $5 flat sheets at Walmart and they are perfect.  Just a little time and a little elastic and BOOM, crib sheets in the exact shades I want.  

Honestly, the hardest part of all of this, is deciding which ones to use where.  I think I will make 2 crib quilts.  One will  have the travel fabric.  The other will have the bugs.  But who knows.  I love a project!  

Look at this bugs in jars fabric.  It is just so great!

But then again, so is the travel fabric and the cameras.  

See my predicament here?

I really love this fabric for the bumpers. I found this pattern online for free, and it looks pretty simple.   I will probably make the townhouse fabric the outside and then use a pattern inside, like the orange fabric on the left side of the picture above for the inside of the bumpers and then use a solid grey for wrapping the cording and making ties.  I just don't know!  The options are killin me!  What's worse is that the sisters and I are going shopping tomorrow to register Clifford and I know I will see a thousand other things I also adore.  I have to go by Hobby Lobby to get canvas for some more client art and I know the fabric will suck me in.  I think I may have to draw a line in the sand before there is an intervention. 

Anyway, this is where Clifford's room is at now.  I have a long way to go, ton of organizing and re-organizing (OCD what's up!) and a lot of sewing ahead of me, but I consider it a labor of love.  Now I just need a big flat table, good lighting and a big glass of iced tea.