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baby room help

Registration has begun. The baby shower invites are being sent out in the next few days and we thought we should have our registrations ready for all those eager grandparents, family, and friends. It has been a little disappointing with the selection of baby-related merchandise that all seems so cliché, not to mention an overwhelming amount of these items and “must-haves!” So currently we are a little stumped on how to proceed. Any suggestions? And don’t tell us to make everything on our own! This is the 21st century for goodness sakes, who has time for handmade anything ;)

But seriously, any suggestions? We sort of wanted to do a typography-themed room and/or may go with an aviation theme since we do have a series of 3 childish paintings we did awhile back called “bird” “plane” and “hot air balloon”. I can’t find a photo of them right now, but I did just find some awesome illustrations by Paul Thurlby. I’m excited again…there is hope!
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Check out his Alphabet Shop to see all of them.

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Home Improvement Update 2.5

The revisions to our lovely home have continued. It definitely was a lovely house to begin with, but it was a tad on the grandma side. No offense to the previous owner, but i don’t mean the grandma-style that marta loves so dearly. i’m talking christmas-plaid, country-mom, ducks-and-those-dolls-with-straw-hair grandma style!!

Anyways, I have many more photos to post including the mantle and cabinet my friend Mark just built for us, but for now I’m posting a photo of our new/old 1920′s chandelier courtesy of Maile Eaton and the piano that was just passed down to Marta from her Aunt Lisa…Thank you to both parties!

The chandelier and the piano all in one room
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The old chandelier that is on its way to Portland
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That last photo kept reminding me of that old Spike Jones commercial for Ikea. If you haven’t seen it…change that now:

Spike Jones Ikea ad – “Many of you feel sorry for this lamp…that’s because you’re crazy”

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