Nursery

We have a goal - to get a lot of work done in the nursery over winter vacation. We'd like to at least get it cleaned out of all the other stuff that's currently in thre and get it painted. The room is currently a dark pea-green color, but I don't think either of us has been a huge fan of that since we put it in there a few years ago. We're planning to repaint the walls a steely-gray color - a lighter color than what's in there now - and use lots of yellow and white as accents. We already have a swatch of the paint on the wall and we really like it so far. We're hoping to get things in there a little more organized before we start accumulating too much baby stuff. We already have a couple of big bags full of things - and with Christmas and baby showers around the corner, we know we'll be collecting a lot more in coming weeks.

Speaking of baby things, I found a new website with some fun stuff on it: Arte Bebe. I just wish there were more shops like this in Boise to buy things at rather than only shopping at the more mainstream stores. I'm a little jealous of people who live in places that have more of a thriving local artist/local shop area - especially if it's an area where the local people don't feel like they have to only make stuff that looks like it could be sold in a main-stream box store, like a lot of locals here. I plan to go to the downtown market when I'm in Portland next month and see if I can't score some cool stuff for the nursery there.