Conceiving Piper: Blog Slacking

Yep, that'd be me!

I admit it, I've been slacking on my blog duties...but I have a good excuse! No seriously, I do. It's called getting the nursery together, helping organize the baby shower, and exhaustion. I've been going no-stop for the last couple of weeks, and the result has been slacking on my blog. There are so many things I need to catch you all up on. My nursery furniture is all in, I had my baby shower, I'm starting on the organizing and decorating phase of the nursery, etc, etc. I plan on getting to all of that in due time, however, I have just been worn down from all the go-go-go I've been subjecting myself to. I have a very difficult time just stopping and chillaxing sometimes. I plan on doing just that this weekend before I run myself completely our of steam. I figured once I had a couple of days of complete and utter down time, then I would be back to my lively writing self. As for right now, though, I'm totally unmotivated to do much else but ponder my slackishness. I do apologize and promise to get all things bloggy back up and running stat! For now you will just have to accept my apology and bear with me a few more days.

I will share with you a few pics of the new nursery furniture to tide you over until my motivation is back in gear.

The crib is the Hope crib which I ordered from Rosenberry Rooms. It is made by Newport Cottages and is painted a unique "hope" pink color. One great thing about this crib, besides the personalized plaque and inlaid fabric panel on the sides, is that 10% of the proceeds from the sale went to Susan G. Komen. While I am extremely lucky to have no breast cancer history in my family, I still like that part of the purchase price went to a good cause...I won't tell you how much it cost because you'd probably die of shock! I will say that it was worth every penny and I will be keeping it as a family heirloom.

Side panel with harlequin fabric inlay

Plaque which reads "I carry your heart in my heart"

Full view with lavender under bed drawer and my cat Loki

Piper's hat, headband, and shoe collection!

The quote on the plaque I took from E.E. Cumming's poem i carry your heart with me. While the quote is shortened a bit, it had to be as there were only so many letters allowed. Here is the full poem:

i carry your heart with me
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go, my dear;and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)

Okay, now on to the dresser and chest. I will eventually dedicate and entire blog to these pieces, but for now I will just post a few pics. The pieces were antique pieces refurbished and hand pained by a wonderful woman named Tracey. She has an Etsy shop called TraceysFancy. I highly recommend her, as she is an absolute genius and her design and artistic talents are impeccable. Plus, she totally rocks to work with and way exceeded my expectation on everything!

Side of the chest with totally awesome monogram!

Dresser, notice the cool stripes! Such an awesome touch!

Dresser front. The added details of damask and checkered legs just blew me away!
Oh, and the awesome Alice quote!

Front of the chest with more surprise, awesome detailing!

I will definitely be providing more detailed pics when I get an entire entry written up dedicated to these two pieces. There are quite a few surprise details she added that just made them so unique and special. Tracey outdid herself. Seriously, if you want custom pieces done, go check out her shop! I promise you will not regret it! She also is very reasonably priced, so bonus on that!

I know it wasn't much today, but it was hopefully enough to let you all know that I'm still alive and hadn't just decided to stop blogging all of a sudden. I'll get myself back in gear and get some better material out to you very soon. Be on the lookout for the next Nurseryland entry as I've got it almost completely finished, well I still have some pics and stuff to hang and rearranging to do, but everything is in and ready to be placed within the room. This will be my first "free" weekend, so hopefully a lot of the rearranging will get finished. I will do my best!

I'll leave you now with an adorable video of some twins who are having the most interesting of conversations. Who knows what they're saying besides them, but they are definitely saying something!