Baby Boy's Nursery

When I found out we were having a boy I started thinking about how I wanted to decorate the nursery and what I wanted his baby blanket to look like and this idea of an airplane applique quilt popped into my head. I looked at a couple different ideas on pinterest and then came up with my own design. It's always a bit tricky finding fabrics that you love, but I found some really cute ones. To do the applique part I cut out the different shapes and then sewed each of them onto the middle panel. This part wasn't too hard and considering how cute it turned out, I would totally do it again.

Lucas was very interested in the whole process and watched me make most of the blanket.

I'm so in love with how it turned out!

I used grey minky fabric on the back, and silky binding for the edges.  Both of my kids so far love the minky and the silky binding so I had to keep it up.

For decorating the rest of the nursery I wanted to do it as simple and cheap as I could. I used yellow fabric in the quilt so I could keep the yellow curtains I made for Paige. I already really liked the room for the most part, I just needed to change a few of the more girly things. I used airplanes as my theme. I kept some of the same art work that I had up for Paige, but I needed one that was a little more boyish and I wanted something that went with the airplane theme. I couldn't find anything I liked from the original artist so I just copied the same style and made my own. I'm pretty proud of how it turned out.

And here it is on the wall with the rest of the art work.

The only thing left to change was the mobile. I didn't think butterflies were the right way to go. I found some really cute ideas for airplane mobiles online, so I got some paper and made my own. I'm in love with how this turned out too! It's pretty simple but really fun.

Look at the cute little airplanes.

And here's pictures of the whole room.

Someday we'll change out the photo for one of the new baby, but for now it still has a picture of Paige.

And this hasn't really changed at all, but I have to have my comfy chair!

I really like all the little airplane elements I've added to the room.  And overall it was a pretty easy change from how it was before, but still really cute for a little boy.  I'm going to wait a while before I get any of the other boy stuff ready.  I want to keep Paige in the crib until we're ready to move the new baby from the bassinet, and we have a while before that happens.  It's hard for me to not move her and get everything ready right now, though.  I've really been nesting and I just want to get everything into place.

I can at least start planning out how I want Lucas and Paige's room to look.  Any ideas on how to do a cute room for a boy and a girl?