Nested

Paint the Room Red

Red's usually a color that works great for children's rooms, but can be a hit or miss for nurseries. We always love to see a hit, so we were happy to find this nursery set on Flickr.

Audrey's nursery uses red as an accent color (that's why we think it works so well) and a combination of pieces re-purposed and customized for the room. The antique Babar prints are from 1933 and found at an antiques home show.

Also check out this great wooden butterfly mobile. We can't seem to find it available in the United States, but these two (Poppy's Toys, & Oodles of Toys online stores in the UK have them available for 11 pounds.

Decorating with Hoops

SouleMama has inspired us to rethink the way we hang up art -- the use of embroidery hoops to hang up both embroidered art and fabric is both smart and inexpensive. It's especially great considering all the great fabric you may already have in remnant form.

Definitely check out SouleMama  and peruse her archives. It's a great crafting blog that has an emphasis on getting crafting with children. And, from her site, it appears her book, The Creative Family, is available for pre-order from Amazon.

Something to Make: Stencil Collage

When we purchased the Birds of a Feather Mobile by Helen Ige, we were put-off by the $69 price for a few moments. After all, your purchase seems to be nothing more than a 11 by 13 piece of walnut veneer and some string. When we saw that the bird and tree pieces are meant to be punched out of a piece of wood that can become a stencil, we thought, "okay, we can make *something* else out of this" and swallowed the price. That *something* that ended up being made is this piece of nursery art that was intended to tie all our nursery colors together.

Nursery Inspiration: Rork or Arli

Last month, while randomly surfing Flickr, we stumbled on what we could only describe as "our dream nursery." Actually, scratch that -- we want this to be our bedroom. It's modern, yet whimsical, kind of like a really calming circus. Calming circus? Yes, used here, it's a compliment,

And to prove that it's really a small world after all, when we we checked out the Flickr set again during the course of writing this post, we realized that the room belongs to Jake, one of the Threadless co-founders!