The Nursery

This post is full of pictures of the process ERICK went through to make the perfect NURSERY! Erick, you did such an AMAZING job! All that HARD WORK paid off....and now COOPER has the PERFECT room to come home to! THANKS babe! It meant the WORLD to us that you did it!

The inspiration for this wall came from Cooper's CAR SEAT of all things! I fell in love with the AEGYLE pattern and so we decided to duplicate it. Little did we know, Erick would be painting this wall SEVERAL times over! LOL! Let's just say we learned A LOT along the way!

First of course, is taping. The great people at Lowes assured us the best way to go was to use this green "FROF TAPE"...... apparently it has adhesive that seals it to the wall to prevent any bleeding. But from our experience, let us put out the WARNING......this tape bled worse than any tape we have EVER used, and we have done A LOT of painting! STAY AWAY FROM THE FROG TAPE!!!!!!! Erick painted all the diamonds and they all bled! He had to RE-TAPE and START OVER! Poor guy!

One of my FAVORITE qualities Erick has is his OPTIMISM! He seriously has a way of making EVERYTHING so much FUN! We had a blast with this project together and made so many MEMORIES!

Don't these diamonds look PERFECT?!?! After the "FROG TAPE" bled so bad, a good friend, Shiane, told us of the silicone trick. Tape the wall.....then get a silicone based caulk.....spread it on the edges of the tape.....let it dry.....then paint....peel tape....PERFECTt lines! It's A LOT of WORK! But so so so WORTH it! Look at those PERFECT lines! Way to go hubs!

Next Erick taped for the PINSTRIPE. On the car seat this strip was BLACK and looks so cute. We didn't think twice about it and threw that black paint on.......this is how it turned out.

Now don't get me wrong, this wall is ROCKIN COOL! Just a little INTENSE for a baby room. LOL! We laughed that it looks like a chain link fence. We agreed....the black was too BOLD and had to GO!

...Good Bye Black...HELLO WHITE!

This picture says it all! LOL! To get rid of the black Erick PRIMED the black away, then RE-TAPED and RE-TOUCHED all the diamonds, then RE-TAPED for the pin stripe, and PAINTED it cream. WHOA! That was a lot of WORK!

HOOAH!!! I think that's how they say it in the Army. =0)

DUN ... DUN ... DUN...... And the FINISHED PRODUCT!!!! We had so much dang fun putting together the crib and rocking chair! We love our little NURSERY and can't wait to bring COOPER home!

THANKS again HUBBY! You win the GREATEST HUBBY award for all your hard work in this room! I LOVE YOU!