a word from our mommy-to-be!

In a conversation with my daughter a while back, she said,"You know, Mom, the really cool bloggers ask people to write guest posts." I had no idea! And you probably don't know this about me, but I have always wanted to be cool. Who knew it could be so easy? :-) When I asked if she was volunteering, she said, "Yes!" So, I would like to introduce my sweet girl and the first of several guest posts as she prepares to be a mommy!

The Making of a Nursery: Volume I

As most of you know, my husband and I are expecting our first little one later this year, and it's a girl! We are so excited! We can't wait to welcome that baby girl to our family. We are already totally in love with her! (Though her daddy did have to scold her a bit last week for positioning

herself directly on my sciatic nerve...ouch!) :)

So, of course, since we found out about our sweet Blueberry, we have started preparing a nursery for her. Our spare room is light brown (we already painted it once, not doing it again) so I decided to go with white nursery furniture. My mom bought the crib, and we bought the matching changing table. We just needed a dresser or chest of drawers.

Well, in our spare room we had a chest of drawers already. See below.

It's a fine looking piece of furniture, I guess. Obviously I didn't mind it for a spare room. But when I thought about it in a baby's room....ugh. I suspect the babe wouldn't mind, but her mama would! So we decided to overhaul it, take something old and ugly, and make it something new and beautiful. A redemption process, if you will!

So the husband went to taking off the parts I didn't like, namely the hardware and the weird ornate decorative rectangles on the top drawers, which turned out to be plastic. Then we sanded away the finish to the wood. Here's the husband hard at work.

I didn't want to leave the top drawers completely plain, so we went to Lowe's (love that place) and bought some decorative moulding to make our own frames that were pretty similar to the bottom drawers. Then we primed it, painted it white, and put on the new hardware (also from Lowe's), and we had the finished product. Here it is!

I am very pleased with how it turned out. It's amazing the difference a coat of paint and some new hardware can make! A few people couldn't believe it was the same piece of furniture. :) I am excited about our next project: a bookcase! Look for the next installment to see how that one turns out!

Random funny: I've had many people tell me I'll have crazy dreams during my pregnancy. Well a couple of nights ago, I dreamed that instead of a baby, I gave birth to five little ants who named themselves Henry, Harriet, Adrian, She'teria, and Okay. The strange thing- I wasn't at all concerned that I had given birth to ants, but that they were too small for me to tell them apart!