Baby's room.

...Was once Mike's painting studio...
now its transformed into a lovely room for Baby.

The window brings in the wonderful afternoon sun.

I revamped the Bassinet handed down to us from S.M.I.L. After some difficulty in finding a pattern to sew a bassinet skirt, I found a 1970's pattern for a bassinet skirt & lining from Etsy for $4.00. However, I discovered that the lining pattern was missing from the packet - so I had a very, very hard time improvising as I made several attempts at it and my first cut out was too small and it didn't sit right when put over the bassinet. The second time it still didn't fit as well as I had hoped. I didn't have enough of the padded lining material left so I couldn't make a 3rd attempt anyway. So I made do. In the end I had to tie it down around the edges with ribbon so it didn't cave in everytime you put any pressure on the mattress. So fingers crossed, when Baby arrives to test it out!
The skirt is just cotton material I bought from Spotlight - I loved the cute little vintage pictures on it.

The guttering was tedious as I had to thread 3 lengths of elastic to give it this effect - I taped a chopstick to the end of the elastic so I could get through about 8 metres of fabric!! X 3!! I sweated a bit... I guess that happens when you are pregnant and frantically doing this at 11pm at night!

The rocking chair was bought on Ebay over 3 years ago for $50 and we used it for Morri when he was breastfed. It originally came with a yucky green cushion. I had some material left over from the bassinet skirt so I made a replica of the green cushion cover. I re-used the buttons from the green cover as they were wooden and it matched the overall look of the new cushion cover & rocking chair. I made a bit of a mess on the button holes though - stupid me I cut the slits first before sewing the button holes with my special buttonhole foot!

This is the hammock my M.I.L bought for Baby; 2nd-hand on E-bay. My wonderful and very brilliant S.I.L recommended it as it has been raved about by midwives at hospitals and other mothers who have had babies with sleeping 'issues' - like Morri did when he was first born - he didn't want to sleep on his back - and we ended up making the choice of putting him on his stomach to sleep - so WE could get some sleep!!
So we are well prepared for the worst!!... plus it will come in handy for keeping Baby happy when I need hands free moments and maybe Morri could bounce Baby for comfort...?? hmmmmm... if he is gentle enough!!...