I know it’s a little late in the game to be thinking about pulling together a nursery, especially when you consider that the “nursery” is a crap storage room right now. I don’t know how people actually put together anything coordinated … or that they actually USE the room for the baby in the first three months, either. In our experience, putting a room together for a baby has been a waste of space (in the past, we didn’t have 4 bedrooms!) and the baby has always stayed in our room for the first 90 days anyhow. I’ve often thought I’d get all into it and do up a nursery right when/if we bought a house, not thinking we would ever be in that position. Now my excuse for it is not having the $… or the energy… or even knowing what we’re having… but I have been asked from all sides what we would do if we did a nursery.
Let me go back a tad to earlier this summer. I was going through a stash of towels when David turned the old TV armoire into a storage armoire and found an old linen dish towel that belonged at one point to my great grandmother. It has birds all over it… her favorites were cardinals, but really, I think she liked all birds, even the blue jays she used to yell at when we’d eat breakfast at her kitchen table. Toast with butter and strawberry jelly.
Finding that old towel reminded me of the canary we had when I was little. Not that I remember having a bird for a pet, but that I remember my parents talking about the canary. His name was Texas and he sang and he was yellow. Totally got me longing to go out and find a singing pet canary. I still – someday – would really like to have a singing canary for a pet.
With the combination of the towel and the canary thoughts… along with finding a sweet little stuffed bird pattern… led me to wanting to set up a bird theme for the nursery, but I could not find any fabric that even came close to what I had in my minds’ eye. Until tonight. (All of the other birds are so grotesquely misshapen and “cutsified” that they make me want to barf…)
This fabric showed up on my RSS feed in one of the blogs I follow and — it’s perfect. It even would go with the blue walls… absolutely PERFECT.
What more can I say? I think I found my dream nursery in one little swatch…
(but wait! there’s more!)
