I have never really considered myself as a “crafty” person. Yet, somehow I ended up repainting preeeeeeeeety much everything in this room.
A little background…….we bought our house a little over 11 years ago ( Yes, we were babies at the time, clearly) and over time, the room has gone through a couple of different uses before ending up as Siennas transition to big girl room.
Before Lyla, age 6, was born I went into full on nesting mode and bought all of the necessary furniture to transform Wayne’s then office into a nursery. We didn’t find out the sex of the baby so I painted everything a VERY bright and sunny yellow, gender neutral all the way, and that is how it stayed until last week. I figured that it was about time that we modernize the nursery a bit.
I chose to go with a black and white color scheme on the walls because the nursery is directly across from our bedroom which has white walls and a black ceiling. I wanted to echo what was happening in our room because our house is small, really small and we usually leave all of our interior doors open. So I figured that It would make everything seem a bit calmer to have a cohesive overall color scheme.
I spotted this chair in our alley one morning on our way to school. I am a sucker for anything with caning and thought It had great bones so I threw in in the back of the car. The coat hook was another thrift find…..$2 at a rummage sale.
While I painted the nursery over a weekend the girls were able to have a “sister sleep over” in Lyla’s room so they didn’t really get to see a lot while it was being painted. Once I did the big reveal Lyla asked if I could paint her room next…..So, be on the lookout for that, but right now mama is going to hang up the paint brush for the time being.
The girls have EXTREMELY sensitive skin, and battling the ever present dry skin on their cheeks especially during the harsh Chicago winter months is no small chore. The other day we decided to treat ourselves and have bit of fun as well by making face masks! I will usually do a mask once every other week or so and Lyla is always asking to do one too, but I never felt comfortable with putting anything other than aloe vera “mask” on her. Sienna wants to do everything her big sister does after a little investigative googling we headed into our fridge and pantry to make their yogurt + coco powder masks.
They were so excited while we mixed! We used the same coco powder that I use to make hot coco but didn’t add any sugar to it. Although now that I’m thinking about it the sugar could have been an exfoliant…..maybe next time.
The girls had fun. It’s not everyday that I risk the white walls by letting them get dirty inside the house. The one constructive criticism from them was that it didn’t taste good.
