You Capture- Love Around Your Home

This week's You Capture assignment at I Should Be Folding Laundry is Love around your home. I spent a little bit of time walking around the house for things I love.

I Love Remington's crib and nursery. His name letters turned out really well.

I also love our Pizza Hut lights above the bar downstairs. The Pizza Hut in town was knocking down their old building and selling their fixtures. I got a great deal on these and they take me back to eating there as a kid.

When we bought our house, this doorway was something weird and quirky about the house built in 1917. Yes, it is on the stairs. It's just a closet that also has a doorway in Remington's room. I expect him to have lots of fun playing in there when he's older.

With a new house to fill with furniture and being just out of college, we looked at lots of garage sales and even some antique and flea market stores. This couch came from an antique store that was going out of business.

We're big on having a modern take on antiques. Here are a few more. The lock picture is from a secretary desk and the S is for our last name.

It wouldn't be my house without a million of these. My favorite are Yankee Candles.

And finally, I wouldn't be the obsessed new mother without including a picture of this little guy, whom I , of course, LOVE.

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We finally have a crib!!!

After more than 5 months of waiting, we finally have a crib for Remington. Luckily he hasn't come early since we only have 5 days left! Landon and I went to the store yesterday, picked up the crib, and stayed up putting it together. It really wasn't that complicated. Landon had no problem putting it together. I really love the color and design and it looks great with the bedding and the room.

With the days getting closer, I don't know what to think. I've been preoccupied with getting everything done at work before I leave. It's stressing me out. I'm just glad that he hasn't come early and is giving me a chance to make sure everything is ready. I can already tell that it's going to be hard to come back after leave ends in January. At least all the IEPs and high need students are ready. Tomorrow is our doctor's appointment. I highly doubt that I'm dialated at all. I haven't even felt any contractions really. We'll ask if we can induce on Halloween, and hopefully we can. I'll post more tomorrow. Now enjoy the pictures of the crib and the nursery.

Update on baby items

I know this is my 3rd post today, but oh well, just deal with it. :)
First an update on this post. Here are the pictures hanging in the nursery. I'm thinking about putting a shelf below the pictures, but I haven't decided yet.




Here are some baby items by sister in law brought back from her hometown in China. She said that all Chinese babies have these three items (shoes, drum, pillow). I love the shoes.

Starting the Nursery

This past weekend, Landon and his mom painted the nursery. The room looks much better (paintwise) now.
Before with purpleish blue walls and creamish trim:




After:




We still need to figure out what to do about the painted floor and touch up the paint a bit. Definitely an improvement, though.

Zooples & Co.

While I was browsing Etsy for wall art for the nursery I came across Zooples & Co. and iDesignMyWorld. There are super cute prints that are perfect for a baby's room. They also sell magnets, stickers, flash cards, coasters, and notepads. I ordered one 8x10 print and four 5x7 prints to surround the 8x10. I also bought a set of the ABC flash cards. The shipping was fast and I love how the pictures look. I'll post a picture of what I ordered when we hang them in the nursery. In the meantime, be sure to check out Zooples & Co. on Etsy.