Home Improvements and Baby Things

We've been making some preparations for the arrival of our baby. We got this cute little high chair from Ikea as a gift from Simon and Katrina. I know it will be a while before he's sitting in it, but it just looked so cute sitting at our table!

We also got this cute Moses basket from Justin's grandparents, plus some snuggly little receiving blankets that Mema sewed.

The car seat is in our Passat, ready to carry OB1 home.

Mama came over the other day and helped me do a little work in the baby's room- we set up his dresser, filled it with his little clothes, and set up the bookshelf in his room to hold miscellaneous baby things.

Here's his crib, in front of the wall that just had its wallpaper scraped off. We still need to paint his room.

I replaced the curtains in the living room. Previously I had some leafy-print ones that I got when I lived in my apartment by myself before we got married, but they clashed with the plaid couches. Then at Ikea I found these nice solid green ones! They were on sale, plus I got an extra discount because the only set they had left had a slight tear in it. Hooray! So what did I do with the other curtains?...
I put them in the dining room! We were wanting to get some curtains in there.

We found this kitschy lamp the other day at KCM for $12. I liked it, as it goes with my general leafy theme. It seems nice, and it's pretty heavy. I found a sticker on it that had some designer's name on it, so I looked him up and found that he makes lots of ostentatious "statement lamps", mostly priced in the $300-$600 range. I couldn't find my particular lamp, so I don't know if it's actually one he made, but it seems like it could be. Hooray! Art!