Spring Has Sprung and Nursery Paint

What a crazy weekend it was with blogger! I have to give props to the people who's job it is to fix and maintain blogger because 1) most of what they do is completely foreign to me and 2) I can't imagine how stressful things become when something doesn't go right and it is up to them to figure it out and fix it.

Not a job for me, I can tell you that.

Spring is finally starting to arrive in Alaska and with views like these outside our apartment I am feeling a little spoiled.

We are loving all the trails and things to do outside. We are trying to get out and enjoy it all. Our "to-do" list here keeps growing because there are so many things to go do and see.

One of our friends took her girls on a walk a few days ago and across the pond from her was a black bear mama and two cubs. A little scary but luckily they were far away so they could just sit and watch the cubs play.

Before we left on our adventure in Alaska we got quit a bit done on the nursery. First things first, we had to get the yellow out of there and get some fresh paint on the walls. If you remember from my nursery mood board I had decided to use Sherwin Williams Sassy Green and Heron Plume on my walls. I thought I would give you some before pictures. We were mostly using this room for storage since we had gotten home.

I was trying to get a move on and had already begun to tape the room before I remembered that I needed to get before pictures. I had shoved all the junk to the center of the room to start painting so please don't judge me on all the junk.

Thanks!

This door looks out into the hallway and the door on the left is the closet. Now this is a pretty small room at around 9ft x 9ft but, to be honest, they don't get much bigger in my house.

This is from the next corner looking at the closet door and window. The location of the closet is in this room has caused me some serious grief with arranging furniture and I think I am going to remove the door and hang a curtain to make arranging a little easier.

This is the the corner just right of the door.

Now here is a little sneak peak of the wall color now. Of course I forgot to take a picture of the walls before I started to move things in so I had to crop this from another picture I took.

I am excited to show you the progress of this room and I am looking forward to getting home to work on it.

In other news I started potty training Mr. U today. So far it is going okay but it has only been a few hours. Also, Mr P starts soccer this week. I might be crazy....

My Modern Nursery Mood Board

I am getting so excited about this nursery. To be honest it started out so simple and then more and more ideas came to my mind.

When we first started working on the nursery I told my hubby that he wouldn't really need to do anything for it.

Well...I was kind of wrong and he has been working his tail off to get everything done before we pack up and he heads off on his week long drive. 

So without further ado, my first mood board:

1: Fabric from Joel Dewberry's Modern Meadows Collection.  If it looks familiar it is because you have seen it in a different color pallet here, here and here. I just love Joel Dewberry. His fabric just speaks to me. He has a new fabric line out called aviary. I just love it.

2: This lamp shade is from Ikea. My hubby actually just hung it for me.

3:This beautiful crib is by Oeuf but with a price tag of $940 it is slightly out of my price range. Okay it is way out of my price range. Don't worry your little heads though, I have a few ideas up my sleeve.

4: This will be my first area rug I have ever purchased. I bought it online and I hope I like it once I see it in person.

5: Oh, my. This dresser is To. Die. For. To bad awesome mid century antiques are either to expensive or non-existent in my neck of the woods. Now if you would like and 80's plywood dresser, we have plenty to choose from. Again, no worries I have something up my sleeve.

6: I love the art wall in Young House Love's nursery.

7: Simple white drapes.

8: Paint from Sherwin Williams Sassy Green and Heron Plume.

9: Ikea Poang simple comfy chair.

10: Wire baskets. Still on the hunt for cheap inexpensive ones.

11: Perfect storage for toys and little extras.

Well I am certainly excited. I am hoping to get everything done before me and the kiddos take off for Alaska.

Wish me luck!

I also wanted to give a quick thanks to all of you that stop by here to check up on what is going on. I really appreciate all your sweet comments!