Hudson's Nursery

While we were living in Dominica I longed to be in our own space and be able to decorate! Our apartments there came furnished, and although our second place was furnished pretty nicely, it was still generic and it wasn't ours. When I got pregnant with Hudson I started looking for ideas to decorate his nursery. Although we are tight on funds, I really wanted the nursery to be a nice, relaxing, peaceful place. And I just longed to decorate. When I jumped on the pinterest bandwagon last January it only increased my desire to just be a little creative and make our surroundings just nicer overall. My plan was to use what I already had for Chase's nursery, but just add a little more to it. 

Then at Christmas time, my sweet aunt Dennette, who made this beautiful quilt for Chase, mentioned that she wanted to make a quilt for Hudson as well! I was planning on using the airplane quilt again, but since she was willing to do a new one for Hudson I let Chase take the airplane quilt to his big boy room! (It's a good thing too, because he decided shortly after that he is very attached to the "aweplane banky") I knew I wanted to reuse the same crib bumpers I had for Chase (which I love), which are just plain, light blue minky material. The walls in the room are already a beautiful color of gray, so I wanted to incorporate gray as well. I met my aunt a few weeks ago at the fabric store to pick out stuff for his quilt. I was happy to find the same blue minky material to tie in the bumpers and the gray chevron stripes that I just loved. Then I found a few other fabrics I liked that incorporated red, and I just loved the way they all went together! 

Dennette brought the finished quilt by last week and I absolutely LOVE it! It ties his whole nursery together!

 I bought extra fabric to make these fabric buntings- so I have now officially done one craft  I've pinned on pinterest! Hudson's nursery also doubles as the guest bedroom/Nate's room when he's home from college. This queen bed in here has been very useful for me though when Hudson is having a rough time sleeping (which happens at some point every night) and I end up just crashing in here! Chase loves the red clock on the wall (or tick tock as he calls it). I still want to add to the selection of stuff hanging here- and two of those frames just have filler paper in them until I get his newborn pictures back to fill them! The other picture is the CinnamonInk airplane print my friend Kate made for Chase as a baby.

 I love having his name on the wall-

Chase points at it every day and says "it's ABCs!"

I bought these letters at Hobby Lobby and painted them.

I was also so impressed that I got everything hung up with command strips

so we won't leave holes in the walls when we move from my parents basement.

 This rocking chair completes our nursery. Ben found it on KSL when I was pregnant with Chase for a really good deal and I couldn't love it more. I missed it so much while we were in Dominica! There is nothing like having a comfortable reclining glider to relax in for all those hours nursing/burping/rocking a sweet baby in the middle of the night. You can also kind of see our changing station on the left of the chair.

 Although not a permanent part of the nursery, I've loved having these beautiful flowers on my changing station for the last week! (Maybe just the firetruck part can stay?) These were a gift from my sweet in-laws.

I have to say that although I'm far from a professional decorator, I am so happy with the way Hudson's room turned out. I think overall I spent less than $80 to finish up his room, so I'm calling it a success. However, my very favorite part of this nursery is the little baby boy who sleeps there!