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! ;)

Progress on the Nursery

We are officially done painting the nursery walls today!! We've had the base color up for quite awhile and we finally got around to painting our stripe this afternoon. Since we are not going to find out the gender of baby Hahn until delivery, we had to decorate the nursery as gender neutral. We didn't want to go with the typical green or yellow, so we decided to try to find a periwinkle color--a color that you can't quite tell if it is blue or purple. Well, the color we picked looks a bit more purple to us, so we decided a nice green stripe on the wall would masculine the room up a bit. Plus stripes are just fun and what better excuse to paint one than decorating a nursery!

The baby's dresser still needs finished. This was a hand-me-down from Brendt's folks. The knobs say 'Baby Hahn.'

Ok, now onto the stripe project. We didn't really measure much--we started the stripe on the right side of the room at 16 inches wide and knocked off roughly three inches every time it turned. We just went across the wall with a level as we taped. It worked pretty well.

In the next blog about the nursery, it will be clear why our green stripe had to wind around the wall a bit instead of just going straight across. There is a method to our madness, we swear.

The finished stripe. The lines turned out really clean. We were really happy with the finished product!

We might have gone a wee bit bright on the green tho. I think it will tone down just a tad after we get the rest of the furniture and decorations up.

Ok, kinda funny story about the crib. A few weekends ago I tell Brendt how silly it is that people spend so much money on crib sets when you can't really use the quilt so you are paying $150 for a crib sheet, bumper, and ruffle. Then I walked into Shopko and saw this set up and personal....I had to call Brendt and tell him how I didn't have the willpower to walk away from something so adorable. He just laughed at me and told me it was ok to splurge on this since basically everything else we have is hand-me-downs and craigslist finds. The crib itself for example...total craigslist buy. =)

Just a closeup to help understand why I had to buy it. So freakin' cute!

And last but not least, I thought I'd include a shot of my progress as well. Here is a shot of my 30-weeks-pregnant belly.