Nursery Source List - Part Two

A week or so ago I was able to share some of the sources for items in the nursery. I'm going to try and do another section of the room while I have two hands to type. Code for baby is finally sleeping.

I purchased the dresser for about $90 at the Christie Lake Antique Show two years ago. It's old. It sat in our basement for the longest time. I refinished it using two different paint colours (grey and white), distressed it, and added some brushed nickel drawer pulls from Home Depot and some brushed nickel house numbers from Canadian Tire. I wrote a whole post about the process which you can read here. Oh yeah, here is the before and after picture:

The numbers on the front have actually been really handy. Occasionally I'll ask Alex to get an outfit for me and he'll ask where. All I have to say is, "Drawer #2"!!!!!

Since I made so many 3-D butterfly art pictures for friends' baby showers, I thought it was only fitting that I had my own version for my little baby's room. I really loved the blues and greens that were in the star map garlands that I mentioned in my last source list post. I went to a local used book store and found an atlas for $4. Most of the stars were punched from random places but I made sure to include one star with our hometown and one star with Ethiopia. I already had the large white picture frame from Homesense but I picked up the double matte from Michaels (with a 40% off coupon of course).

Of course I had to have a few decorative items on top of the dresser. I bought a tiny plant from Lowes and planted it in a tiny square, ceramic flower pot from Chapters. It's hard to tell in the photo but the pot is white with tiny greyish blue crackle lines all the way through it. It's really neat. I bought about 6 packages of marbles from our local dollar store and dropped all of the soft, pretty coloured ones into an old milk bottle that I already had. The little wooden turtle is a toy that I found at Homesense.

On the other side of the dresser is an adorable set of books from Chapters: Little Hoot, Little Oink, and Little Pea by Amy Krouse Rosenthal. The whale is a piggy bank (or would I call it a whale-y bank?) also from Chapters.

Sitting beside the dresser is a tiny antique child's chair that I found at the Christie Lake Antique Show the same year that I found the above dresser.

I refinished the chair quite a while ago and you can read that post here. The little stuffed zebra sitting on the chair is one of my favourite things in the room. It's called a Kenana Knitter Critter and I found it at a local home decor shop.

Hanging from the closet doorknob is a tiny woven basket which I purchased on a road trip to Muskoka a few years ago. I bought three of them and use them all the over the house for little odds and ends. In this case it's holding a little owl rattle from Chapters.

There is a tiny wall beside the closet so I hung a simple little white frame from Wal-Mart over top of the lightswitch. Inside the frame is one of my favourite pictures from Charlotte's Web. I used the copy of the book that I had already cut up for this project.

I'll be back later this week to share the info about the rest of the room. Sorry I have to break this up into so many posts. I've been finding it hard to find time to brush my teeth before noon these days. Gross, yes I know. ;)

Here are links to the other related posts:

Little Ninja's Nursery

Nursery Source List - Part One