I'm a good slave driver. I'll admit it.

I mentioned earlier that my moms were coming to town and they did. It was an exciting time for me and I put those ladies to work. Here's my mom painting the boy's room and my mama empey sewing one of the many projects I gave them.


I couldn't find any pre-made crib stuff that I truly loved, and since I've made a rule for myself to only buy things that I truly love from here on out (as opposed to anything sort of okay on sale) I decided to make my own crib bedding and such.

After despairing around in the baby section of target, I wandered elsewhere in the store and found a twin bedding set that I loved and some king size sheet sets that were 50% off to match. After doing some math (sitting in the shoe department on my phone calculator) I figured I was getting my fabric at about $1.70 a yard for 300 thread count cotton!

When I say "make my own crib bedding" I should say "have my moms make my crib bedding." They were lifesavers, and I wouldn't have gotten all the things that I wanted to get done, done without them. They helped me paint, make a sofa cover, fitted crib sheets, baby blankets, upholstered storage boxes, curtains, and more. Nick even helped out, he assembled furniture -- two cribs and two book shelves.




Here's my design/inspiration board for the boys room:



I'm still finishing the room up, slowly. I'll post pictures when it's all complete. Thanks so much moms for letting me slave drive you around! And thanks so much to Nick for always letting me try to slave drive him around.