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Been busy making crafty things for the nursery... and its finally finished. We have tried our very best to use second hand, and use environmentally friendly products. We used clay paints on the walls / furnature (no nasty smells). The only 2 new items are the carpet, and the cot (both bought in a sale).

 

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The Lamp is from the old lady next door, and I added my own embroidery to the lamp shade.

 

The chair is my old uni desk chair, which I have painted white (using clay paints). I have always had the Sheepskin rug on it. (Teddy is my teddy my nan bought me when I was born). and the Mobile is second hand. (bedding is a mixture organic cotton. and a large old bed sheet that I cut up and made into smaller cotbed sized sheets).

 

 

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I made the curtains from old fabric. Got the moses basket from freecycle, and handmade the linen using the fabric is s"Ooops, word censored!" fabric from my mother (If only I knew how to use a sewing machine, as it took me over 30hours to handstitch it) . The changing mat is also from freecycle.

 

 

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DH's built the wardrobes and shelves from s"Ooops, word censored!" wood found around the house / shed. and we painted it using the clay paint. The clothes are all from NCT sales.

 

 

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The play mat is from NCT sale, as is the steam cleaner.

 

*beam*

 

im thinking about maing a little pelmet for the top of the curtains next :)

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Kaz, that looks beautiful! How clever you both are :) The paint is delicious, the texture looks amazing. I love what your hubby has done with the cupboards and shelves, it's a wondrful use of the space. Lucky lucky little one!!!

 

 

Although if you can hand sew like that, you should definitely go and learn how to machine - I often see sewing machines going for next to nothing or free on gumtree/freecycle, and it makes life so much easier if you can whip out the machine and whip up bits and pieces like cot sheets, and moses basket bedding. The threading is probably the most complicated bit, after that it's just common sense and learning as you go. You can get good books on machine sewing at most libraries, and you might find that someone will swap you some lessons for a bit of that lovely looking embroidery!

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