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We are getting ready to renovate Greta’s room and I can’t help but feel, didn’t we just do this?! Kind of. We had finished her last room shortly before we moved here. Her new room is a little dark, made darker by the current paint color. Made more depressing by the lack of anything. We are in the […]

Today is the monumental day when we call Greta’s “big girl room” done-zo.  We have been working on it since the end of November.  And now, four months later, we are so happy our girl has a beautiful room that makes her (and us) happy. It’s warm and playful and calm and fitting for Greta […]

Greta’s room is packing a lot of neutrals (or was)–but the art opposite the butterfly wall will hopefully balance that with lots of little punches of color.  And then there is the closet color that you all voted on, which is currently leaning toward a bold pink–a nice big splash of color that will coordinate […]

Name that movie!   This weekend, our biggest project didn’t involve a single paint brush or power tool. You may remember,  last November, sanity trumped aesthetics and we got a crib tent for Greta-girl. To this day, we stand by that decision.  It saved us all.  And for the past almost year, we have all […]

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