I’m stealing a baby.

I know that’s typically frowned-upon, but my motivations are pure: I just want to decorate another nursery. Fortunately, my sister-in-law Tiffany is having a little boy this summer, so I’ll just take her baby.

Isn’t she beautiful? My kids are going to have some gorgeous cousins. COUSINS. Plural. Right Tiffany?
Or maybe I’ll let her keep the baby and I’ll just decorate the nursery virtually. That way I won’t have to change the diapers, so win-win, right?

Tiffany lives far far away from me, so I can’t be there to help her redo the room in real life. This also complicates my baby-theft plans. Instead, I offered to help virtually begged her to let me play around with ideas from here. She has a beautiful old house chock-full of character, and a sweet little room just off the master for a nursery.

She already picked out a crib and changing table:

And she was inspired by this cute little onesie to make a penguin-themed nursery:

With this as a starting point, I started pretend-shopping and had lots of fun checking out what etsy had to offer. I fell in love with this print:

Penguin and a Red Balloon, by Psuedooctopus on etsy

Because their nursery is on the small side, I thought fresh, chunky horizontal stripes on the wall could be fun and help open it up a little:

I added in this pendant light, a fun orange chevron fabric for the crib skirt and this sweet polka-dot minky fabric blanket, combined with a cozy sheepskin rug (for taking naked-butt photos of the baby, of course).

Okay, since you begged, here’s Weston on a sheepskin rug at three months.

See? Babies love sheepskin.

And here’s the changing table wall:

Those penguins running away and jumping into an abyss are actually from this cool vinyl wall decal, and I think they’d be fun leaping off the changing table into the icy cold carpet water. I also loved those art pieces, because my mother-in-law (Tiffany’s mom) always sings “You are my Sunshine” to our kids, and the turquoise, orange and red are kinda perfect with that penguin print I put above the crib, right?

BUT THEN

I remembered that Tiffany’s walls are kind of that old textured plaster, and stripes might be hard to paint. (But they might NOT, who knows. I’m far away.) So I played around with another plan that assumes solid-colored walls. Because it’s a small room, I chose a light aqua:

Not having stripes on the wall freed me up to use stripes in the bedding, and so I found this fabric for the crib bedding:

From fabric.com
I also liked this fabric, but I couldn’t make it look right in photoshop, so pretend like this is another option for the crib bedding:
From fabric.com
And I loved the idea of an orange rug like this one from Land of Nod:
I’d also add in this guy, because, come on.
From campfireculture on etsy
And this would be cute for tiny little Albert*:
From bunchofbees on etsy
*There’s no indication the baby will be named Albert.
Thanks for letting me borrow your unborn baby for my own selfish decorating fun, Tiffany! You can have him back now… just in time for childbirth.

What do you think? What lengths would you go to for the chance to pretend-decorate a nursery? 🙂