The Nursery Part 4 & ballister project

This weekend went by in a blur with all the things we had planned.  Chris played guitar with Mike at the Iron Gate Winery in Mebane, we had a great time with family and friends.  Then Saturday, we both needed a morning to sleep in....to 9am, ha!  Since when is 9 am sleeping in?!!!!

Saturday ended up being a little crazy getting all the pieces together that we needed for our "big" weekend project.  When we have a free weekend we try to tackle the big TO DO projects.  We are really hitting the list hard and we might actually get them all done before lil spark gets here!  (I hope I didn't jinx myself!).  So, here is where we went:

Here is our Saturday crazy circle of stores:
Home Depot: to see if their prices were better than Lowes, well they didn't even carry what we needed.
Lowes: bought the ballisters and handrail, but then they only had 5 of the metal pieces we needed, so back to HD
Home Depot: who didn't have ANY of the metal pieces!!  But we did remember that we needed black paint, so we got that!  Thankfully, there was this crazy old man who reminded Chris of this wood working supply house.
Hardees: for lunch, the new fresh breaded chicken tenders were ok.  The sweet ice tea was wicked good!
The Wood Place: thankfully they sold the metal pieces in bags of 10 and were IN STOCK
"the Holmes shop" or otherwise known as Chris' Parents house:  they seem to have almost everything for renovation projects.  We borrowed a few tools including a paint sprayer.

It is not 100% secure yet, but from looking at it it looks done!

In case you forgot the old before picture.  Look at those acorn things on top of the newel posts...YUCK!  Can you say: blah brown?  Everything is brown, the drapes, the walls, the mantel, the trim the floors.

How fresh and awesome is this!

If you want to see more details on this project, click here. 

 While Chris was working on painting and building the railings I was sewing.  I finished the valance for the window and then started on this little pillow for my back in the rocking chair. 

Here is the pillow all stuffed and ready to go.  You can't tell, but I sewed snaps on one end so that I can wash the cover if I need to.

I can't stand it, I love it!! I had to get a shot with the crib skirt in the picture!  Target has a light tealish crib sheet that I hope is going to match and Judy might find some of the bright green fabric and if she does she will make some sheets out of that or I might do some gray sheets.  If we don't do those then I will do white, but I am worried about stains and I don't want to have to bleach them a lot.  I did register for a white bumper and a white breathable bumper.