Shade

This drum lamp shade from Serena & Lily I desperately wanted to buy and use for a ceiling fixture shade, but it's $238 price tag wasn't going to cut it.

I searched everywhere for an affordable drum shade in the nursery's color palette and had no success for any amount I was willing to pay, but I did find this shade at Pottery Barn that had sage green trim around the top and bottom and happened to be on clearance for $13.99.

I purchased more of the dark brown grosgrain ribbon from JoAnn's and some fabric glue, a light kit from the Home Depot turned the shade upside down and was able t achieve a  similar look to what I wanted at a fraction of the cost.

Harper's Nursery

This crib bedding by Serena & Lily inspired me to make Harper's bedding, one because I needed it in a different color palette, two because of the $500 price tag for a  crib sheet, bumper and crib skirt!

The damask print fabric was actually part of a  California King sheet set I ordered from Oversock.com for $39 plus $2 shipping, the large and small gingham fabric from fashionfabricsclub.com, and ribbon from JoAnn's and Hobby Lobby.  I made the changing pad cover from towels I purchased at WalMart- one matching the wall color, the other a dark brown.

I had actually intended only to use the large gingham, but mistakenly order the small by mistake, so I used both of them to create the bedskirt, an additional crib sheet, the duvet cover for the comforter I purchased at Ikea and for the top of the curtain panel.

The shade came out of desperate search for a cheaper alternative to the original inspiration.

I was able to make a pillow case and a few throw pillows from the leftover fabric and ribbon.

Crib

The crib above was one that Barrett and I fell in love with while searching for crib bedding for Whittaker.  We had located a favorite online store with some great bedding and most of the pictures used this crib.  I contacted the store and found out it was a NettoCollection crib, found a store in Dallas with it's then $1500 price tag, got all the measurements and Barrett made our crib to look like the designer one for about $100.

One of the coolest things about this crib is the shelf on the bottom slides out on gliders and gives additional storage.  The crib is now priced at $1690, we spent $100 and have used it for 2 kids, I think we got the better deal.

Whittaker's Room

This is the Dwell crib bedding we ordered for our first born in 2005, most of their designs are inspired from vintage wallpaper designs.

I used a swatch from the website to to print a photograph and then enlarged it to the size

that I wanted for the wall stencil that I made by tracing the pattern, one for the leaves and one of the stem.

The circles I painted by using a plastic potting tray from the Home Depot, held it against the wall and traced the circle and then painted it using acrylic paint for the mushroom and blue and leftover interior paint from our living room for the dark brown.