favorite things...

Every now and then I want to incorporate a "favorite things" post into this blog.

I wanted to share one of my favorite places in my house...

{K's} room.

We spend a lot of time in his room, (night and day). It is a little escape place for us to go... somewhere quiet and relaxing. I love rocking {K} to sleep and just staring at his baby face, trying to memorize every detail. It won't stay a baby face for long and I know these days won't last forever nor will I ever get to have these precious moments back.

I'll take what I can and enjoy every minute that I get.



I love this wall in his room most of all.

I'll explain.

The canoe and the bigger ship are both from my husband's room growing up... (with a little paint job.) The smaller ship and the sailor man we bought when I was pregnant with {Z}. We had the intentions of doing a lighthouse/coastal type room for {Z}, but we never found bedding we liked and things just never came to be... so we settled.

When I found out I was pregnant with another boy all my ideas came back. I was excited to use what we had stored away and put inspiration to work. Not that it is anything BIG, exciting, or spectacular. Just something simple that I love. =)

Decorative Box

I have this piano in my house...

It was given to me about a year ago. I love the "antiqueness" of the piano. BUT, it is so HUGE it kinda sticks out in my house. I'm still working on it, but I'm trying to decorate around this thing to make it fit in with my home a little more.

It is an old auto piano (one of the piano player kind, like below).


I checked out the history behind it... and it was originally built as a piano player model. During WWII the auto piano company were still selling piano's, but needed to cut down on building materials and supplies. They started buying back old piano player models and modernized them by cutting the top part off - adding a mirror and a shelf on the back.

The history makes me like my piano all the more. =)


I decided I wanted/needed a long narrow type box/basket to put on the lower shelf. I scoured the stores near and far, but had no luck. One day, while browsing aimlessly through Michaels I came across the "Balsa Wood" display.

Inspiration kicked in that I could build my own.

I don't own fancy wood cutting tools, so I loved that the balsa wood was thin enough to cut with my exacto knife. =)

A little Gorilla Glue (love this stuff!)

A couple of decorative handles from Lowe's...

and...




I had myself the perfect box!




Loving the handles... right?

The basket balls are from Ikea and the linen is from a little boutique shop up in D.C.

I have the perfect artwork to hang above my piano also...
that is as soon as I'm rich enough to walk out and put down $300 on a piece of art.

One day.