After finishing the adorable Owl {always love you} Friend/Pillow I decided I would start on the mobile. My inspiration was this. I already had the perfect round styrofoam wreath to work with (my $0.25 yard sale find!). After playing with the colors a bit; and realizing that my tulle was a little too sheer for the visible styrofoam, I attempted to pain the styrofoam gray. What a joke! Styrofoam is porous but also slick. The paint was both running off and seeping into the pores all at the same time. This was not going to work. Back to the drawing board! (The mental drawing board atleast - and back to the nursery.) When I returned to the nursery I remembered the mobile assembly that came with the crib we had purchased while we were pregnant with Logan. During that pregnancy I had decided to remove the animal toys attached to the mobile and hand sewed felt stars and a moon and reattached them. I dug out the assembly. Three of the 4 stars were missing, but the moon was still there. OK, so now I have a mobile assembly, white tulle, fishing line, and flowers. The "circular" design is out, but this crisscross design could work....
The result: a simple but beautiful mobile full of "things" that hold significance. The moon - Baby Girl's angel brother's moon...as if he's always watching over her. The gray pearls - the same pearls I used to make pearl necklaces as gifts to my bridesmaids (aka sisters) for our wedding. The white pearls - the pearls I used for the necklace to wear for my wedding day. The tulle and flowers -- all for Baby Girl. When I showed Ryan the finished product he gave me a very genuine "that's cute" followed by "I don't say that word often, but it's very cute.....nearly brought a tear to my eye." (Yes, I totally just spilled the beans....he's inconceivably smitten with his unborn daughter! Such a hard external shell but such a softy on the inside.
I can't wait to see the whole nursery come together. It's going to be elegant, cutesy, peaceful...it's going to be *perfect*.
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