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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; font-family: Palatino;"></span>Perfect timing for today's post from some of my favorite people over at <a href="http://www.smallfryblog.com/">Small Fry blog</a>.  As you know, I'm in the midst of making over my son's nursery into a toddler room, and below are two creative kids rooms I know you'll love.  Don't these girls look like fun?! Their personalities translate into their children's spaces too!<br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT2h6L89LJ0fWGobJfVo0oyMd2c3hhl4ER7AB2j_qqffYBMLEMBP6mhQEwjMYJ5Ow21oSRrvnGGfqRep7Zjun0jhayV3f7mmBgIzZ2kZwxHYGT8BPkDcfGwzzKmp2j9bGKXYa5A9mAur4/s1600/DVVOahwE0BKDo7vmDB2rlZ0g1-X1KHQ1HKMDkOv3SDQ.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT2h6L89LJ0fWGobJfVo0oyMd2c3hhl4ER7AB2j_qqffYBMLEMBP6mhQEwjMYJ5Ow21oSRrvnGGfqRep7Zjun0jhayV3f7mmBgIzZ2kZwxHYGT8BPkDcfGwzzKmp2j9bGKXYa5A9mAur4/s640/DVVOahwE0BKDo7vmDB2rlZ0g1-X1KHQ1HKMDkOv3SDQ.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj20dIugMVQQGHrQX8Vgc6T9VMnwwpyJ8ld8g2k22K3IoL-Hv44YbyrZ3p5f_NQb4Ul-fcwVxu-Yp62vcTT4kaq8YXswOk9-D26V8khtoBF54Gex_1H1QyD2p6YPoY8W-yQwC6E1-ND3XE/s1600/Screen+Shot+2013-05-20+at+9.51.56+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj20dIugMVQQGHrQX8Vgc6T9VMnwwpyJ8ld8g2k22K3IoL-Hv44YbyrZ3p5f_NQb4Ul-fcwVxu-Yp62vcTT4kaq8YXswOk9-D26V8khtoBF54Gex_1H1QyD2p6YPoY8W-yQwC6E1-ND3XE/s1600/Screen+Shot+2013-05-20+at+9.51.56+PM.png" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><br /></div><br /><div><br />Jenna:<br /><br /><br /></div><br /><div><br />I started the concept of Quinn's Room with the colors I wanted:Aqua Blue, Orange & Grey. I can't remember where I got my initial inspiration for those colors, but color is where the room started. It was important for me to have a room that was very little boy inspired but still masculine. I'm not a fan of sports themes or any of the typical "boy room" designs so I stuck to bold patterns, simple ikea furniture & beautifully painted walls. I had five versions of the aqua i eventually used on my wall for a month! I sent over my ideas to my designer friend, Kirsten & she helped me find the striped bedding from West Elm & the beautiful rug from CB2. Both bold patterned pieces I think make the room! I love being in Quinn's room, it is cheerful, happy & calming  & the perfect room for my little boy.<br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxUlMNcl364ELA6AneauxFOM4Pk6KTZJrX2Pe_MPMFyp9-oCIFnjnqbRSbWcibGJsPHB37F9STDPM5EzfMbhwFIrgRVDm1gUfXsERFq4u1aYjDuoEzhvanlGcSYCKEGmNzcMannXNJ50E/s1600/Screen+shot+2013-05-12+at+9.40.11+PM5-12-13.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxUlMNcl364ELA6AneauxFOM4Pk6KTZJrX2Pe_MPMFyp9-oCIFnjnqbRSbWcibGJsPHB37F9STDPM5EzfMbhwFIrgRVDm1gUfXsERFq4u1aYjDuoEzhvanlGcSYCKEGmNzcMannXNJ50E/s640/Screen+shot+2013-05-12+at+9.40.11+PM5-12-13.png" width="636" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy2obGmq9W3enmho-RtffZ9uSZL9f8o1_3xBk3TPN9xchbPO9sRONFlLn1NQ_THfjgkCwLjnMREbJrjEljULsIHB-jrgSubE5dp9XWtX8D9iHLTW76HkzT9XKL0Mfm_f2lTq6mgisCk4s/s1600/Screen+shot+2013-05-12+at+9.44.32+PM5-12-13.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy2obGmq9W3enmho-RtffZ9uSZL9f8o1_3xBk3TPN9xchbPO9sRONFlLn1NQ_THfjgkCwLjnMREbJrjEljULsIHB-jrgSubE5dp9XWtX8D9iHLTW76HkzT9XKL0Mfm_f2lTq6mgisCk4s/s640/Screen+shot+2013-05-12+at+9.44.32+PM5-12-13.png" width="426" /></a></div><br /></div><br /><div><br />Emily:<br /><br /><br /></div><br /><div><br />When we found out we were having a boy, it was around Christmastime and my husband had this awesome teal cashmere sweater that he would wear. It was the coziest thing ever, I wore it around all Winter. I fell in love with the color so I took the sweater to Home Depot and had them color match it! It represented comfort to me, and isn't that what a nursery is all about? We knew we couldn't do more than one wall teal without the already small room feeling smaller, so we painted one, picked a complimentary lighter blue for the others. To add texture my husband installed some pine flooring on the one wall, with original plans to do a high gloss white, but we sort of loved the natural wood, so it stayed!</div><br /><div><br /><br /></div><br /><div><br />We are huge music lovers and had a collection of concert posters that we wanted to put up in the nursery. They all had a mustard yellow hue to them, so that became the secondary color throughout the room. I was like Jenna in the sense that even though it was a nursery, I wanted it to feel masculine and ageless. The gallery wall helped with that tremendously. I found a super cheap rust colored rocker, and threw that in for good measure. By now my color scheme was all over the place, so my goal with the crib bedding was to tie it all in some how. Low and behold I found this adorable woodland creature print with you guessed it, mustard, teal, rust, and light blue. My husband built the shelves and hanging racks into the standard closet, and an Ikea shelving system gave us extra storage. </div><br /><div><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgErMY8LZFKQdHujKPFUZwy3bFpqMFv7ZF3CaiUTxEbaGx1akCZtD9NcIxPHvap-TImTO6N-lajuaAx7dhPXpedIvINLJMf_faniX0ZTv_aEwjDhGeHRMPrfj72AYky9EqlTgPbiPwSayI/s1600/IMG_1376.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgErMY8LZFKQdHujKPFUZwy3bFpqMFv7ZF3CaiUTxEbaGx1akCZtD9NcIxPHvap-TImTO6N-lajuaAx7dhPXpedIvINLJMf_faniX0ZTv_aEwjDhGeHRMPrfj72AYky9EqlTgPbiPwSayI/s640/IMG_1376.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjajAevCaRegQU160g4lbpgh6QmZF8HStfef4mH7Kh16uy2rrnFQbkxcyxJ-imrIIKTzZJC9V_RQijG503kAGRGmUq-zrW5GCDpcEHAKLyroh4TAzQak8MlS0oqqijd58NOEnoDtyr7KtQ/s1600/IMG_1402.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjajAevCaRegQU160g4lbpgh6QmZF8HStfef4mH7Kh16uy2rrnFQbkxcyxJ-imrIIKTzZJC9V_RQijG503kAGRGmUq-zrW5GCDpcEHAKLyroh4TAzQak8MlS0oqqijd58NOEnoDtyr7KtQ/s640/IMG_1402.JPG" width="450" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_QzL-kd2x2cc-sISbDgY8I3Yb4jfFS9GE2npwjzVjMfjasHsfoAVxmGaiLCR-VsmuJeYupsWu6qQwybcESIkuDspEIkSG68OVLL60Kk0Hq7v87gpQrLX8tO4hd89OHwj_5gmZdfpMM_0/s1600/IMG_1400.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_QzL-kd2x2cc-sISbDgY8I3Yb4jfFS9GE2npwjzVjMfjasHsfoAVxmGaiLCR-VsmuJeYupsWu6qQwybcESIkuDspEIkSG68OVLL60Kk0Hq7v87gpQrLX8tO4hd89OHwj_5gmZdfpMM_0/s640/IMG_1400.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />Thank you Jenna and Emily for sharing your inventive kids' rooms with us!  </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />* * * * * </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />Kristen at <a href="http://6thstreetdesignschool.blogspot.com/">6th Street Design School</a> kicks off her series this week and I'm honored to have chimed in with what works in our house as it pertains to kids + good design. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgNx3oFqbPKajq2gYkIjT_AiV77EJMDGresSa-KOOzSccTSVsARabE2886rph53thaEryWck1JyEFLzsuDzoPQSqvUOzmD9qHBdgl_E_vjwT1Ee4hco655_1lob5ahaKBnxMGR5KD1Rag/s1600/Screen+Shot+2013-05-20+at+9.41.48+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgNx3oFqbPKajq2gYkIjT_AiV77EJMDGresSa-KOOzSccTSVsARabE2886rph53thaEryWck1JyEFLzsuDzoPQSqvUOzmD9qHBdgl_E_vjwT1Ee4hco655_1lob5ahaKBnxMGR5KD1Rag/s640/Screen+Shot+2013-05-20+at+9.41.48+PM.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><br /></div><br /><br /></div><br /><div><br /><br /></div><br /><div><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;"></span><br /><br /><div class="gmail_extra"><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></div><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></div><br />

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Perfect timing for today's post from some of my favorite people over at Small Fry blog . As you know, I'm in the midst of making ov...

I'm feeling a whole lot lighter after tackling a chore that I'd been avoiding for a couple weeks- cleaning up the accumulating mess in my office.  It's the result of James' art projects from school, home files, Stella & Dot stuff, craft things, and magazines.  It's all the stuff that didn't belong downstairs, and so I rightfully bring it up, but instead of putting it away properly, I just dumped it on my office floor.  You do this too? Move one pile to the next until you can't stand it anymore.<br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm-Uw_aij47lYQ-0HRFKJjLypAZDBFCOqAzsmBFR9j3FuI10y-GpCvq_4T34WfSyVR2o6i4gCLvCnaPGFMp4rYXB3fYfkUp6pcIwb5aLHSqw8oyW5rSi-cIdOKU5UbFelZkexRozU-RA4/s1600/Screen+Shot+2013-05-19+at+5.59.28+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="432" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm-Uw_aij47lYQ-0HRFKJjLypAZDBFCOqAzsmBFR9j3FuI10y-GpCvq_4T34WfSyVR2o6i4gCLvCnaPGFMp4rYXB3fYfkUp6pcIwb5aLHSqw8oyW5rSi-cIdOKU5UbFelZkexRozU-RA4/s640/Screen+Shot+2013-05-19+at+5.59.28+PM.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />I avoid my office completely when it looks like this so it was time to get it cleaned up.  It didn't take long to throw out the trash and put things back where they belonged. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7HhyLTIo7YMejlPNs3M4IRCwleACdXTY1uu5suzj0WfWkrGT3-W5ajsz6G1yHm0CbzIpIM9SSyzOIetG54uzxKIm7s_mUn_ePgik5whlK7rGPV2ZPkSuetm3wcot4aYkitfMpnSyGx5M/s1600/Screen+Shot+2013-05-19+at+6.04.02+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7HhyLTIo7YMejlPNs3M4IRCwleACdXTY1uu5suzj0WfWkrGT3-W5ajsz6G1yHm0CbzIpIM9SSyzOIetG54uzxKIm7s_mUn_ePgik5whlK7rGPV2ZPkSuetm3wcot4aYkitfMpnSyGx5M/s640/Screen+Shot+2013-05-19+at+6.04.02+PM.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />So much better!  Doesn't it feel so good to get things organized and cleaned up?  It's a fresh start to the week!  Hope you have a great one!</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br />

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