218 N Dianne: Lizah's Room

January 25, 2019

218 N Dianne: Lizah's Room

I've been slow at posting pictures of our house, mostly because I've been slow at getting things done to our house. The finishing touches might never be finished, but s-l-o-w-l-y things are getting done. Having a baby is a good way to get the catch-all room cleared out (and moved to the next room over). Lizah's room was previously a nursery for a little baby named Scarlett. We looked at the house before we announced I was expecting and it was kinda fun to see the room as a nursery because we didn't have to wonder where we'd put the baby. The room was cute and the wall color acceptable, but it feels good to put a fresh coat of paint on everything and I like the walls much better white as it makes the small room feel more open and airy.

I wanted to have a theme for the nursery and was initially thinking I'd do something related to plants. If it was a boy I could incorporate Bible verses about strong trees and for a girl I thought there would be verses about blooming or flowers. But honestly there weren't many verses that directly connected growing plants with growing children. There are a lot of neat parallels between the two, just not necessarily specific verses you can pull to emphasize the theme. In addition to that discovery, my mother-in-law mentioned that she'd like to make a quilt and as I looked online at fabric bundles I wasn't seeing anything that would really go with the neutral plant-themed nursery I was envisioning. However, it was more important to me that the baby have a hand-made quilt so I started opening my mind to other ideas based on the bundles available. One day while driving over to see Bandit I noticed some roadside sunflower-like blooms bursting into the sky. They were such a cheery sight and I decided that sunflowers would be a good central theme since the baby had already brought me such joy. Things started falling in place and now the nursery is our little escape to country life.

The room before: