Genevieve's Room

(09/2008) I know some of you have been waiting to see what we came up with for Genevieve’s room. Well, here are pictures! So what if she’s already four months old. I didn’t want a theme necessarily and wanted colors and patterns to mainly decorate the space, although it did turn into a very flower-y room. I had a Pottery Barn crib sheet that I got when we were expecting Tristan. You know – one boy bedding possibility and one girl bedding possibility. Since then, they discontinued the bedding. This was actually fine since all I liked in the set were the crib sheets anyway, but I would have liked to have two of them. I couldn’t find any bedding I liked so I picked out the fabric and had a picture of what I wanted in my head. Ann (Gran) had the blanket and crib skirt made for us and it turned out better than I imagined. It’s so soft! After waiting for James and Jim to make the wooden window box, I made the valance out of the leftover fabric. Oh yeah, I also HAD to bedazzle it a bit with fun fringe. It took me forever to find the right knobs for the dresser. The originals were clear glass, so they were boring to begin with, and then two of them broke after just a few days of me putting clothes in the drawers. I cut my fingers/hand twice on the knobs and knew that they would obviously not hold up to wear and tear from kids. I wanted pink knobs for the dresser anyway. The dresser also has some beautiful legs that go on it but they will be in the closet until after Genevieve is potty trained. Since we are using the dresser as the changing table, I wouldn’t be able to reach her with the extra 8 inches the legs would add. There are some specific shelves and a hat rack that I want, but we’ll have to get those at a later time. I love how it has turned out. Thanks to James, Karen, Ann and Renae for helping me put my vision together!





Look at those seams! I was pretty proud of myself, especially considering that I haven’t sewn anything in about 5 years and even then, that was a very easy project – wall curtains for the music studio in our old house.