Wednesday, June 27, 2007

babies' room curtain is *finally* complete!

You may remember the crib skirt I did for the foster babies room. Today I finally got around to working on the matching curtain. I'm not sure if it looks like it did in my head (no pattern!) but I like it anyway. It's a stagecoach curtain with the top 2/3 brown, and the bottom 1/3 the same stripe as the crib skirt. I decided that stripe was too much to put in the entire window, so the brown is my attempt to tone it down. I may have gone overboard with that since you can't see the stripe much at all when it's tied up, but that will just have to do!

close up


And a room shot from the doorway, where you get to see my nifty Charlotte's Web art, as well. I sacrificed the dust jacket off of my large "read aloud" edition of Charlotte's Web (my all-time favorite children's book) and framed it. I also scanned and printed my three favorite illustrations, which are hanging in a collage frame above the changing table (not visible in this picture--sorry!).



It's all coming together! The only thing I still want to do in the babies' room is to get those fun letters that hang on the wall and spell out a word above the crib. I'm leaning toward "blessing" in chocolate brown letters, but that project will wait until I make up my mind! Word suggestions welcome...

4 comments:

Erin said...

Oh, do "blessing" that is so fitting!

Jessica said...

What a perfect room...I love it!

Lea said...

So cute! And I loved Charlotte's Web as a child. It seems like a perfect theme. Gender neutral, and not the same usual stuff...

Great job... you are going to have some really lucky kids to have such a loving environment to go to. My dh and his brother are both adopted, and both were in foster care for a short while (his brother longer than him). Neither of them remembers it, but they both know they are so lucky that they had people who were willing to do that for them!

Good luck!

Unknown said...

great idea with the charlottes web ! blessing is perfect. love the room, those babies are going to be nice and comfy in there. i can't wait to hear about all your adventures.

carley from the pin