Nursery progress.

Our little man is now 25 weeks along, and because I'm only 2 weeks away from being in my 3rd AND FINAL trimester of this pregnancy, Tyler and I have started digging deep into our plans for the nursery and we've finally started making some progress.

Most of you know that my husband is an Avionics Technician, so he works on planes for a living.  We decided that our theme would be Vintage Airplanes... how fitting, right? ;)  Not those cutesy little cartoon airplanes you see, but vintage.  Meaning more realistic.  I found bedding that I fell in love with on Pottery Barn Kids' website, and for a mere $212.00, I could have had the complete bedding set.  But seriously - $212 was way out of our budget, and so I started stalking Craigslist.  Just as I was leaving work one day, I decided I'd check Craigslist one more time for the day to make sure no one had posted any bedding from the last time I had checked.  Sure enough - a local lady was selling her sons vintage airplane bedding set from Pottery Barn for a whoppin' $60 bucks!  Not only that, but she threw in a PBK airplane lamp that retails for $199.  Score!!  So in the end, I paid $60 for a set of crib bedding from Pottery Barn Kids AND a lamp, when I would have paid $411 if I would have bought the same exact thing online.  God is good... All the time!!  :) 
Here's some pics...
   

Next up... the crib.  We received a crib from my father-in-law that used to be Tyler's little brothers crib, but it wasn't my fav.  Absolutely nothing wrong with it, and somehow even though Tyler was bound and determined that we were keeping it, I was able to convince him to let me sell it on Craigslist and in exchange, buy another one on Craigslist.  (Seems fair, right?)  I found a beautiful convertible crib for $150, and the lady selling it lived 3 minutes away from our house, so we went and picked it up one day and I crossed my fingers and said a little prayer hoping I'd be able to sell the old one.  Sure enough - I posted it on Craigslist and a lady from Olathe came and picked it up yesterday for $75.  She was buying it for her first grandbaby, and awww... you could just tell how incredibly excited she was for her grandbaby to arrive.  (Due 3 days before me!)  She was happy - and I was happier, because in the end after selling the old crib, I ended up only paying $75 for a crib that costed the original owners $408 (she gave me the original receipt!)  I am always so amazed at the many ways God is providing for us!  Here's a pic of our beautiful new crib that we're in love with! 

 

We also decided to paint one of the walls in the nursery in a "block" pattern.  We spent our Saturday afternoon/evening taping the wall off, and Sunday afternoon/evening painting - and here's the finished result.

    

That's just on one wall of the room... we are working on installing a chair rail on the other walls this week, and painting the lower half of the chair rail the red color from the blocks.  We thought if we did the other 3 walls ALL red (or any color for that matter!) that it would be too much going on.  Here's a picture of a chair rail, similar to how ours will look once it's completed. 

 

Last but not least... here's some random things that I'd love to get for the room: (click on thumbnail for larger view)

- Prints from Ebay seller "This Little Piggy Prints" (it matches the crib bedding perfectly!!)
 

- Large vintage airplanes to hang from the ceiling:
  

- An airplane mobile, of course! ;)


- I'll be ordering a few things from my SIL who sells Uppercase Living... they have some cute airplane wall transfers, and I plan on making a custom piece for above his crib.

- And of course, a few other ideas I have that I want to be a surprise.  :)

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So that's it, my friends!  Just a few random thoughts and ideas I have for our little guy's nursery.  :)  Hope you enjoy it!