The Nursery is Finished!

We are VeRy happy and relieved to say that we are finally finished with the nursery--minus a few finishing touches. It was a lot of hard work, but it was worth it and we are so proud of the end result! Hopefully, Baby Hahn loves it as well! I wasn't sure what angles to take the pictures at to get the best pictures so I tried to do a quick panoramic from the doorway and then another from the middle of the room so brace yourself b/c it ends up being a lot of pictures and a whole lot of periwinkle and green...

I wanted to take a closer picture of the floating shelf that Brendt made to go over the changing table. I really wanted some lights that we could have on dim for some late night diaper changing.

Ryn and I made the curtains. They were so quick and easy and I just love the way they turned out. Also, you can barely see the ceiling fan at the top of the picture. We decided to go with a funky new fixture that wasn't too baby-ish so we wouldn't have to change it out in a few years. And it matches the crib and changing table so it looks really good in there now. =)

Brendt and his dad made this window seat. They had the idea to drywall the front of it to make it look like a built-in. When they were done with that, I painted it and sewed the pillows. It isn't quite finished because Ryn is making a cushion to cover the top that we will get after the baby arrives. We can't wait to see it with the cushion.

I had to spotlight this crazy pendulum clock that we bought off of Etsy.com. We weren't really looking for a clock for the nursery, but when we saw it, we had to have it.

And Rufus was gracious enough to stand in place of Baby Hahn! Just two weeks left and we should have pictures of the real Baby Hahn to post here!!!

Happy Halloween!

Just thought I'd share a few photos of our Halloween festivities. We didn't do much this year since we are so busy finishing up the nursery and getting everything set for the little one's arrival. My brother came over and we carved pumpkins together. Yeah, that's pretty much all we've done for Halloween. =)

Brendt was going for the classic pumpkin with a slight twist as one of his eyes is square.

My brother made a creepy and evil pumpkin, his specialty.

And I made one with glasses and huge nostrils, just like my dear husband! (Jason thought it looked more like the dragon monster from Dig Dug than Brendt)

Note the ghouls staring out the front door. Spooky.

And then of course with the flash off.

This was my Halloween costume for work. I was supposed to be Michelle Duggar, the lady with 18 kids from TLC. I couldn't find a mullet wig so unfortunately this was the next best option. My pins say 'I *heart* Jim Bob' and 'I *heart* #19.'

And here is a shot of me taken today at 37 weeks and 1 day. Just three weeks 'til launch!!

What is Blik?

In between hosting and Husker games we've been squeezing in time to work on the nursery here and there. We've bought about everything we need for the nursery--the rest will be finding time to build a shelf and a window seat and we should be pretty much ready for baby Hahn's arrival! In theory anyhow....

Ok, I have to brag about the changing table we got. It matches our crib and it was a steal--only $30 off Craigslist!!!

Remember Brendt's old baby dresser dresser from our last blog entry? Here it is being prepped for painting. Brendt had to reinforce it in a few spots, but other than that it was in great shape.

And here it is looking like new! We painted the drawers the same green as the stripe on the nursery walls.

Ta-da! Lookin' good! Notice the blue bird of happiness. =)

Ok, you may have been wondering about the title of this entry. What is Blik is actually a website (whatisblik.com) with crazy wall decals. We ordered a fun decal for the nursery since we were so sad to see our Space Invaders go. I think I like this one better anyhow. Essentially, when you order one, this is what you receive in the mail--sheets of wall clings that you have to sort of assemble yourself to make a picture. Each sheet has a different color and it's your job to layer the colors correctly to make your finished product.

That brings us back to our bendy green stripe. We had to make the stripe turn down so we had a good spot for our wall decal to go.

Here is Brendt applying some leaves after we had already stuck the branch to the wall.

Next, we applied the bird bodies, one at a time.

Then we added feet, beaks, and word balloons--basically we finished off the gray layer.

Then we finished by adding the last layer--dark brown.

And after about 1.5 to 2 hours, you have the finished product! The gray actually shows up better than this photo makes it out.

Zooming out. We aren't sure what we are doing for window treatments. I'm almost thinking just a plain cream colored roman shade might be nice. Any ideas are welcome. The space under the branch and behind the changing table will be where our glider sits. We have one ordered and it should be here in a week or so.

After getting up the stripe and the wall decal, we decided the mirror didn't quite fit with where the theme of the nursery is ending up so we replaced it with our baby quilt. It feels a lot more cohesive with the rest of the room now.

So that's the current state of the nursery. The next set of photos should be the final product minus the finishing touch: the baby! ;)