Piper's Room (A quick preview)

We have been hard at work painting, priming, silhouette tracing, repainting, and finally stenciling.

Yesterday I showed you my nursery inspiration.

The brilliant Rene told me about an HGTV nursery makeover that included wallpaper safari animals.

I went looking for the show and came across the Holland based company Inke. They will sell you these adorable wallpaper animals for $250 a piece.

A bit out of our price range.

So then I moved onto DIY inspiration. With the help of Ohdeedoh, I found Ozzy's bright Safari.

His talented Mom painted all of these animals at 38 weeks pregnant!

(I cannot even imagine.)

Mr. R and I decided to roll up our DIY sleeves and give Inke a run for their money.

It started with transparency sheets and an overhead projector.

I traced the images onto Piper's walls with a sharpie.

(Oh, how I love drawing on walls!)

Mr. R painted the silhouettes with white primer.

I spent my afternoon finding the perfect shades of pink :)

Each animal was then repainted in shades of sweet taffy, candy coated, and fading rose.

(Do you think that they pay someone to come up with those names? If so, can I be that someone?)

Next we stenciled.

And here is a preview of all of our hard work.

More to come later this week!

And here is my belly in it's 28 week glory!

Up 8 pounds total and no pants fit me AT ALL.

It's maternity stretch all the way.