Parker's Nursery

The initial theme was monsters. But I quickly found out that was going to be a lot harder then I thought. I tried looking for the perfect monster fabric everywhere, with no luck. So I asked my sister in law for help since she is great at finding fabric and while we found some really cute fabric the cost of the fabric alone was not worth it. So I moved on to plan B, which was dinosaurs! And I am really glad I did, because the nursery is perfect and I love everything about it. Now that we had a theme, next came the bedding. The bedding turned out to be a fiasco. So, I looked on the typical baby websites for various dinosaur beddings and was not pleased with any of the choices. I turned to Etsy next and found exactly what I was looking for. I looked at a number of sellers on Etsy and found the lady I was going to go with. After chatting with her through a number of messages we got all the details worked out and the order was placed. Well I soon discovered there were issues with the seller, she initially stated her turn around time for the bedding was 4-6 weeks, well 6 weeks pasted and still didn't have any bedding. Then 8 weeks and no bedding. And finally 12 weeks and no bedding. During these times I had been in contact with the seller and she kept reassuring me that the bedding was on the way and I had lost all faith in her. So I contacted Paypal to get my money back and to find another seller. Paypal could not get me my money back because it had past their 45 day limit for a refund. So then I tried getting a refund from the seller and once I had asked this she stopped responding. So I reported her to Etsy...when you do this it is a like month long process in order for things to take place. Finally, I contacted my bank and was able to get my money back. The seller was kicked off Etsy after a month and should not be aloud to open up shop on their website again. Now, I have no bedding and had to find another seller, which I had success doing, we just had to pay a little more because it was a rush job. Ultimately I got the bedding and love it. Here is a photo of the bedding. I also got curtains, a crib skirt, a blanket, and another sheet.

Then came the furniture. We had looked at Babies R Us and Buy Buy Baby for furniture. We were not pleased with the Babies R Us furniture. It seemed poorly made, where as Buy Buy Baby had pretty good furniture. Then one weekend while Jake was out of town, I explored other options and this included Pottery Barn Kids and found a set that I had fallen in love with. So when Jake came home I took him to Lenox Mall and showed him the furniture that I fell in love with. He liked it too, maybe not as much as I did but we ended up ordering it. We were initially told that it was on backorder until March which was perfectly fine, because we weren't in a huge hurry. March came and we had no furniture. So I called PB kids and found out that the furniture was on backorder until the end of April. I wasn't happy about this but there was really nothing I could do. So eventually the furniture started arriving bit by bit. Here are some photos of the furniture.

Finally was the chair from PB kids. This chair is amazing and probably the most comfortable thing to sit in. So the chair arrives and we just have to wait on the slip cover. The slip cover arrives and I open the box, and the slip cover is grey. Well...we ordered a navy slip cover. So I call PB and the sales lady tells me that whatever was shipped to me was their color navy and that there was really nothing they could do unless I wanted to exchange it. Jake was out of town and told me to wait till he got back because he didn't want me to do anything rash. So he gets home and confirms what I told him...the slip cover was grey! We head to Lenox the next day to chat with the PB people and they look at us like we are crazy because they knew that was not their navy and that it was grey. Upon further investigation the slip cover was actually a cover for a couch and not a nursery chair. So they exchanged the cover and sent us the navy cover and the chair is AWESOME! Here is a photo of this amazing chair!

And finally all the little pieces that pull the whole dinosaur theme together. The border was an idea I got off Pinterest. They are 8.5 by 11 inch frames with dinosaur cut outs done on my cricut and glued to scrapbook paper. Then to complete the look we put up two chair rails. We also found this great hamper at PB kids and I love it! We also found these cute bookends to put all of Parker's books between. And finally, the growth chart was a gift from Chelsea that she had made herself. Overall the room is PERFECT and we love the finally results. Hope you enjoyed as well!