It's not a nursery anymore

With another baby on the way it was time to start the transition of Giselle's room from nursery to a little girls room. We decided that we wanted to go the toddler bed route thinking that for us it would be more ideal to buy real big girl furniture when shes about 5.  At that time we could possibly buy the furniture she will use until shes out of high school, know more of what our family is going to look like and what our living situation will be (and not worry too much about her falling out of her bed which she does maybe once a week :))

So, we replaced the changing table with a storage unit from target.  I wanted an affordable piece that would work for storing toys and books, and that would be easy to access for a toddler (note that if you have a toddler, all toddler furniture and probably the rest of the furniture in your toddler friendly house should be nailed to the wall :)).

And, of course the biggest transition was moving Giselle from her crib to her big girl bed!  It actually went really well. She went right to bed the first night, and we've hardly had any struggles, besides a few funny nap time experiences the transition was a sweet and easy experience.

I found her napping in her rocking chair during her second nap in the new toddler room. :)

Okay so on to the sewing..  To make the new room complete, Giselle needed a few cuddly items to help make this transition smooth and fashionable!!

I took her crib sheet cut it in half and made two toddler sized pillows to fit her bed. For the inside of the pillow I took a standard sized pillow and also cut it in half and then stitched up the outside lining to make her very own toddler sized pillows.

Giselle was starting to get attached to blankets that were just not up to par.  They were soft but, drove me crazy because they didn't match her bedding. So it was time for me to finally make Giselle some snuggie-bug blankets of her own.

Now that Giselle has been using them for a couple months, she is very much attached to these blankets, and it just warms my heart to see her snuggle with something that I made for her. :)

And finally, she needed a cute sham to spice up her bedding, so I just sewed together the scraps of fabric I had left over from the quilts and Wah-lah, cute cozy pillow!  My favorite part of the pillow was learning how to use the button-hole stitch feature on my sewing machine.  Totally easy to use, and very professional.  Definitely something that will come in handy.