Babies room nearly complete..
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Topic: Babies room nearly complete..
Posted By: justme
Subject: Babies room nearly complete..
Date Posted: 10 May 2007 at 12:37pm
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hi there I've really enjoyed working on the babies room for our wee man.. We have put the cot together, the changetable, picked up a chest of drawers for all his wee clothes last week , also just bought & put together a nursing chair with footstool - It's so exciting to see it all coming together & that there will be a real baby in it soon!! Wondered how everyone else who is planning is doing & if you've been having as much fun as we have?
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Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 10 May 2007 at 12:41pm
| Yup I had fun putting together our mans room and turn from a bombsite where everything baby related got dumped into a useable bedroom |
Posted By: YvetteandElla
Date Posted: 10 May 2007 at 12:44pm
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Yeah I have definatley loved it, I have done a whole lot of art work including some canvases with her name on it _ Ella.
We have finished setting it up now and am just waiting to fill it with bubs., The only downside is we got everything in wood and it was next to impossible to get the wood to match( could not do white as that is the colour of the room) we did not want to paint as the whole house is the same colour and we dont expect to be here long You should post pics of the babies room - I will try and figure out how and do it also ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: justme
Date Posted: 10 May 2007 at 12:47pm
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he he.. that's exactly what ours looked like too because we dumped everything there after we bought it - room looks completely different now though - it used to be our music room full of guitars, drums & other audio equipment.. Gee only 38 days to go for you kebabkat!! ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 10 May 2007 at 12:48pm
hehe yeah it's not long now. But it's not quite real yet.. I'm guessing it will hit me eventually, hopefully sometime before I go into labour would be nice 
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Posted By: justme
Date Posted: 10 May 2007 at 12:53pm
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Sounds fab lilnutnut - Your canvases sound great too I was hoping to find a good website that had nursery templates but not been that impressed with what I've seen.. I will definitely find a way to post photos of the nursery once it fully complete -which isn't far away at all You also don't have far to go either! Yay! ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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lilnutnut wrote:Posted By: justme
Date Posted: 10 May 2007 at 12:58pm
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he he.. Yes, I'm sure it will - when the time comes - you'll know for sure ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 10 May 2007 at 12:59pm
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If you want to brighten the room up, try stikarounds. They are great because you can move them and you can get some really funky ones.. these are some of the ones we have used..
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h106/kebakat/room01.jpg - Picture 1 http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h106/kebakat/room04.jpg - Picture 2 |
Posted By: YvetteandElla
Date Posted: 10 May 2007 at 1:01pm
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Well to be honest I got my inspiration from Kebakat, I saw her art work of the animals and did some like those, nowhere near as good - I added my flair by putting in eyes and fluff.
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Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 10 May 2007 at 1:03pm
hehe I saw that artwork on trade me but didn't wanna pay lots for it so did my own version and made them quite a bit bigger than what I had seen.. you should post a piccy of your artwork! 
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Posted By: YvetteandElla
Date Posted: 10 May 2007 at 1:08pm
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Yeah I got most of my ideas of trademe - like the name canvases with woodden letters.
I thought that even though it would have looked better if it was done by an artist I wanted to add my touch it makes me know I had a part of it. I have taken pics I just need to figure out how to get them onto my computer ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: justme
Date Posted: 10 May 2007 at 1:21pm
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oh trademe is great! I agree -personal touch is important.. I got some plain wooden letters from spotlight so we can put my little mans name on his door & I have painted them myself. Was a bit of fun umm, not sure if you know - i'm not too good with these sorts of things myself & havn't tried it but - your camera should come with a lead that connects it to your computer & sometimes your camera comes with software which you'll have to install first into your computer but sometimes you don't need the software & all it takes is plugging the lead in & see what happens. Hope this is helpful for when you get a chance to do it ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: YvetteandElla
Date Posted: 10 May 2007 at 1:31pm
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Stacey can you put up the images of you babies room I would love to see them again ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: justme
Date Posted: 10 May 2007 at 1:32pm
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kebabkat! the stikarounds look fantastic! where did you get them from? ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 10 May 2007 at 1:44pm
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You can get stikarounds at www.all4kids.co.nz I thought they were expensive but considering you can take them down and move them around etc its great!
Here's a couple more photos from our mans room.. http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h106/kebakat/room05.jpg - Photo 1 http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h106/kebakat/room03.jpg - Photo 2 - Cot We have decided to put the basinette in the cot now and the change table is set up where the basinette is in that photo. But all looks pretty much the same 
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Posted By: justme
Date Posted: 10 May 2007 at 1:57pm
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Thanks stacey We have a bassinette similar to yours too - which is in our bedroom.. I was going to move bubz from our room to his cot in a few months.. Do you mind me asking about your theory of putting his basinette in his cot? is he staying their from the start? I'm still not 100% sure what we're doing ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: YvetteandElla
Date Posted: 10 May 2007 at 2:10pm
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I love the comfy chair Stacey, we have one of those in bubs room - it takes up most of the space but I know I am going to love it ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: justme
Date Posted: 10 May 2007 at 2:12pm
yes we have a nice big comfy chair too. Think it'll be a must for all those hours we'll be spending there - go the comfy chair ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 10 May 2007 at 2:13pm
| There's a few reasons but a big one is space. We can't fit it in our own room (but never wanted it in our room). And his room isn't a big room, it just takes up less space if its in the cot. He has a big as walldrobe to make up for the lack of space though. Also I figure it might make it a tad easier later on when he moves into his cot, at least the "scenery" will still be the same for him. It's also a nice height. |
Posted By: justme
Date Posted: 10 May 2007 at 2:29pm
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ahh.. I see I just thought it would be easier for me for when i'm first breastfeeding so I can go straight from bed to him, feed him, put him down & hop back into bed again.. Although we have purchased monitors - I know I'm just going to be so paranoid about cot death to start with so wanted to keep an eye on him when he's quite wee. I thought initially we might have him in our room in his bassinet for up to 3mths then try him in his cot.. but I might trial putting his bassinet in his cot a bit earlier so he gets used to his room. thanks stacey ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: YvetteandElla
Date Posted: 10 May 2007 at 2:56pm
Pictures of ella's room - well the artwork - excuse the mess
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Posted By: YvetteandElla
Date Posted: 10 May 2007 at 2:57pm
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Posted By: YvetteandElla
Date Posted: 10 May 2007 at 2:57pm
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Date Posted: 10 May 2007 at 2:57pm
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Posted By: justme
Date Posted: 10 May 2007 at 3:01pm
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cool...! lilnutnut you've done a lovely job! the animals are really well done & so.. cute! Loving the flowers on the wall too ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: justme
Date Posted: 10 May 2007 at 3:05pm
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wow! just saw ellas name on the wall, it's gorgeous! love the sweet animals stick -ons & cute giraffe - not sure how I missed it before - think I was posting before all of them came through - the room is looking just fantastic! Great job lilnutnut ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 10 May 2007 at 3:10pm
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hehe I love the the hippo is pink!
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Posted By: sparkle
Date Posted: 10 May 2007 at 5:38pm
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I love Ellas name blocks!! That looks so cool. May just borrow that one...................
I want to take some pics now, but DH STILL hasn't finished bubs draws, so it looks a little unfinished in there. I might take one of his bassinet, I bought his first teddy on the weekend, so it looks rather cute sitting in there!  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: justme
Date Posted: 10 May 2007 at 5:59pm
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oh sparkle! that's a gorgeous bassinet! teddy looks really cute sitting there I need to get onto posting some photos soon too! ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: YvetteandElla
Date Posted: 11 May 2007 at 9:20am
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I love the bassinet it is so beautiful.
Yeah hippo is pink, my childhood toy(which I still have ) was a pink hippo and mum brought ELla one just like it. So I had to paint it pink ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Bumble
Date Posted: 11 May 2007 at 9:33am
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Wow, your rooms are all looking gorgeous! I can't wait till I get to make up a baby room again!!!!
Love the animal paintings on the walls, and the canvases with letters!! Excellent idea!!! May steal that one for my boy.... hmmmmm ------------- formerly known as "Bee" Ethan ~ March 2003 Big 6 year old school boy! Micah ~ Aug 2008 ~ Smiley pants who loves telephones! |
Posted By: YvetteandElla
Date Posted: 11 May 2007 at 10:06am
The name things were so much fun to do - I got the canvases from the warehouse and the block letters from Spotlight however they were $5 each and then the next day I saw similar ones for sale at botany in the markets fro $1 each  ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: catcase
Date Posted: 11 May 2007 at 10:22am
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You guys are so organised!!! Our baby room is still the spare room with baby stuff shoved in - can't wait to start getting it together. Loving your pics of what you have done. Also waiting for friends 2 yr old (little girl) to get out of the cot we are buying off them - can't snatch it out from underneath the poor wee thing just so i can set the room up.
Sparkle that is a gorgeous bassinette - love the teddy too. Lilnutnut your canvas's of Ella's name is fantastic, you are giving me inspiration!! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Mama2two
Date Posted: 11 May 2007 at 2:20pm
I had the most fun doing Samantha's room. I had an idea of what I wanted it to look like from the very beginning, but it turned out better than I could have even imagined :) I am especially pleased with the drawers which DH and did ourselves out of his Grandmother's old tallboy.
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Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 11 May 2007 at 2:23pm
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Very cute!!!
We have the same mobile too!
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Posted By: AN E
Date Posted: 11 May 2007 at 3:47pm
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Loving the photos girls - I agree about the block letters. I think that's an awesome idea.
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Posted By: shelleybean
Date Posted: 11 May 2007 at 10:27pm
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How exciting guy's - love the artwork guys, well done!!! Im still excited about Lily's room and she's nearly 7 months old - hehehe ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: my4beauties
Date Posted: 12 May 2007 at 4:03pm
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Our baby's room is sort of set up, still want to get more wall art & as for the name, well will have to wait til its born to see what it is first!
My friend's sister is borrowing our bassinet (similar to yours sparkle) so not sure when we'll get that back but of course before the babe is born! So no point showing off the room at the moment, have lost interest at the moment in doing anything too it. ------------- My babies: R (9),G (7), J (5) http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Kels
Date Posted: 12 May 2007 at 7:17pm
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Love the room, Its awesome!!! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: peanut butter
Date Posted: 13 May 2007 at 6:19pm
I have started decorating but this is as far as I got today. Isnt Winnie cute?
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Posted By: miss
Date Posted: 13 May 2007 at 8:18pm
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Wow, lovely rooms everyone!
We are just getting the room in order now, it is so much fun! I will post pics once it is sorted. We will have name blocks too, once bubs is here and we know the name for sure. I scrapbook and it is something done in scrapping circles, though i am nowhere near as creative as most of the scrapping stuff I see! We are going with some animal paintings too- since I got pregnant i have become strangely obsessed with giraffes, somethign that has never stood out to me before, so i am picking bubs likes giraffes! Just got to get it all organsied. -------------  
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Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 14 May 2007 at 7:36am
| I love giraffes now too! I'm always keeping an eye out for anything giraffe related hehe |
Posted By: miss
Date Posted: 14 May 2007 at 7:48am
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What is with the giraffe thing do you think? A couple of other preggy ladies have said the same thing - it seems really odd! -------------
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Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 14 May 2007 at 7:55am
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I dunno, I just think they look really cool. I want a giraffe soft toy
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Posted By: peanut butter
Date Posted: 14 May 2007 at 8:23am
| maybe we wish we could give birth to a giraffe....afterall they have little heads and are long and skinny...but I guess those legs could cause probs. |
Posted By: YvetteandElla
Date Posted: 14 May 2007 at 9:48am
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Was at a friends in the weekend who is due in 8 weeks.
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Posted By: justme
Date Posted: 14 May 2007 at 11:28am
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Lol! we have a brightly coloured giraffe as a newborn rattle/toy in babies bassinet & had forgotten about it because we have the bassinet covered with a sheet at the mo' so it doesn't get dust etc on it... over the weekend we bought a really neat giraffe soft toy which is about the size bubz will be when he's born - it's now sitting in bubz cot.. not sure what it is about giraffes but they're cute & yeah - we're sold on them too ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: YvetteandElla
Date Posted: 14 May 2007 at 12:03pm
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What is everyones opinion on colour - can you have too much, the room I saw in the weekend was all white even the duvet etc.
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Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 14 May 2007 at 12:20pm
| I love colour. I think a room with everything white and no colour would be boring as anything to a child. Some colours are meant to be soothing and at least with colour the room is interesting. I couldn't imagine a child in an all white room, I can imagine trying to keep everything clean once the child gets a little older would be a nightmare! |
Posted By: .Mel
Date Posted: 14 May 2007 at 12:49pm
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Babycity is the place to get giraffe soft toys we brought one for our friends son.. I can't for the life of me remember the brand - no doubt you can get them elsewhere. ------------- Mr Mellow (16) Miss Attitude (8) Destructa Kid (3) 
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Posted By: peanut butter
Date Posted: 14 May 2007 at 1:11pm
| I'm sure you would want colour in a baby's room as you want to stimulate its visual development. Baby's eyes need colour, motion and detail...If bubs spent all day lookng at a white wall you could run into probs. go with logic and make it fun. |
Posted By: justme
Date Posted: 14 May 2007 at 1:14pm
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Colour in a babies room is a definite thumbs up I'd rather have a cheerful colourful room instead of drab boring one - that's why we're trying to add as much colour as we can - babies need colour for stimulus too! I would prefer to have something cheerful to look at when i wake up or go to sleep -your ideas & decorating looks great lilnutnut! ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: YvetteandElla
Date Posted: 14 May 2007 at 1:35pm
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Someone came up with a great thing that as a baby is looking up all the time they need stimulation above them - any cool ideas apart from cot mobiles.
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Posted By: caliandjack
Date Posted: 14 May 2007 at 1:45pm
| Has anyone seen The Holiday, Jude Law's kids have this most awesome tent over their beds, with stars and moons hanging down off it. I saw something similar at Babycity on the weekend. Cots sized mosquito net. |
Posted By: miss
Date Posted: 14 May 2007 at 2:09pm
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Pumpkin Patch have the coolest giraffe sort toys at the moment, part of the neutral newborn range. I have one already! -------------
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Posted By: BaAsKa
Date Posted: 14 May 2007 at 4:20pm
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we have a cute little girrafe soft toy by playgro it was Bays and he loved it!
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Posted By: DJ
Date Posted: 14 May 2007 at 4:29pm
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Hi girls
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Posted By: .Mel
Date Posted: 14 May 2007 at 5:17pm
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I just wanted to say how cool it has been to read about all your adventures getting your babies rooms ready, and the photos are very cool.
I'm a tad sad really cause our baby isn't going to have it's own room as we are only in a 3brm house and can't afford to move to a 4brm, so baby will be with us for as long as we can bare, and then will be moved in with Nyah... so we've dedicated one corner as the baby's corner in our room, we even have to put the drawers in our wardrobe so we still have room to move.... Sigh.. the joys of living in Auckland!  ------------- Mr Mellow (16) Miss Attitude (8) Destructa Kid (3)
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Posted By: my4beauties
Date Posted: 14 May 2007 at 6:52pm
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So here's a peek at baby's room. Very boring at the mo, trying to work out what to do with the wall that the cot is up against.
In our previous house we got a stencil of fish & made a feature wall with brightly coloured fish which was quite cool. Am thinking I might do that with that window/door wall. Bassinet is being borrowed by a friend & will be in our room to begin with anyway. 
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Posted By: peanut butter
Date Posted: 14 May 2007 at 6:56pm
| Italiah, I bought the giant winnie sticker set from baby city and they had some Nemo ones too....$34.95 I think and there were quite a few stickers. We are thinking of getting them as well. |
Posted By: my4beauties
Date Posted: 14 May 2007 at 7:24pm
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I like the idea of stickers = saves making holes in the walls for hanging things & can easily be removed/changed around. Would like to get baby's name, once its born, in a sticker too. Saw it done in the recent Cosmo Pregnancy book, & funnily enough it was in a baby girls room called Anouska!! ------------- My babies: R (9),G (7), J (5) http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 14 May 2007 at 8:13pm
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Stickers are great.. so long as they are definately the ones that can be removed easily.
It looks like your bubs is gonna have a huge room! |