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Operation: Make a Nursery

Porch and I headed out shopping yesterday afternoon with a few friends and while I was decidedly over the entire process, I am pleased to tell you we found a set that met all of the criteria and it will be delivered next weekend.  We got home and enlisted the help of said friends to relocate the guest bed to the front sunroom.  We chose this location to be the "new" guest room because it has doors and heat and lots and lots of windows which creates an amazing cross-breeze in the summer (man do I miss summer).

The new guest bedroom!  Ready for its first guests:  My parents!!!

This room looks totally empty now... and it's a little overwhelming to
think about what it will look like in a week.



Now that it's all moved, Porch and I are kind of having this realization that we'd like to purchase a large rug for the nursery and ideally have it down before the furniture arrives (in t-minus 7 days).  We'll be out and about today looking for the right piece to add.  We also have big plans to fix the leaning tower of Ikea.

And we plan to move the dresser to the craft room (attached to the poop bathroom) after my nesting kicks in and I clean/organize the hell out of it.  Maybe if I put up these shameful pictures, I will feel pressured to get the clutter cleaned up!

In my defense, some of those buckets are already designated as donation-ready
and we'll be making a trip to drop those off this week.

This is the clutter left in the nursery (including the Ikea dresser)

Today is going to be a busy day & I'm excited to see how the apartment changes in the coming weeks!!

xoxo

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