When you're curious...

We have a nursery plan!  Anyone that knows me knows that I love planning so woohoo!  When I close my eyes I can see almost the entire room all put together and it completely excites me!  I think what excites my hubby is that he won't have to paint the room to do it! 

See, the guest room is becoming the baby's room.  A few years ago we painted the guest room and hubby picked the color.  At the store I warned him that the chip he had chosen would be a lot of color but he insisted he knew what he was doing.  That night when he was painting he called me up and asked if I knew how much color that paint was.  It is one of those stories that makes me giggle every time.  Anyway, once the room was completely painted we realized that he had inadvertently picked the color blue that about 50% of my Curious George books feature on the cover, hence our naming the color Curious George blue.  Once we made that realization we decided the guest room would house my Curious George collection.  Yep, if you were ever a guest in my house you slept in the George room.  Everyone needs a little whimsy somewhere, right?

Now, when we found out that we are having a boy Boogie immediately started advocating a Curious George nursery.  Honestly he had advocated in that direction a bit beforehand too since he was worried that George would end up in boxes and he knows George puts a smile on my face.  (Super sweet kid, huh?)  Anyway, Boog gave me puppy dog eyes and lots of snuggles while he told me all about how cute a CG nursery would be.  I promised to look and see if I could find anything CG related for a nursery.  I did find a set, but it is a boatload of money and most of the set is red and white checked.  It just didn't strike me as just right.  But, just to be sure I covered all my bases with Boog I kept looking... and would you believe I found a CG crib sheet from pottery barn?  It is a bunch of different drawings of George based on the original George (as opposed to the Will Ferrell movie or the PBS show) and is completely adorable!  Once I fell in love with that sheet we knew for sure what the theme of this nursery would be!

So, we are reusing Boogie's crib, which is a natural wood, with that Pottery Barn sheet, a rich brown crib bumper (which I refer to as monkey brown though the manufacturer calls it earth), a monkey mobile (I plan to replace the green checked sleeves with sleeves made of CG fabric), a crib skirt made of some classic CG fabric that I found on eBay and a brown and blue crocheted blanket.  The walls will stay CG blue but around the room there will be a single row of  white shelves that will hold all of the George stuff I have collected, with the exception of some snugly ones that will be left down for him to play with.  Now we can't reuse Boog's changing table since it had an accident 5 years ago, but we will be replacing it with one that matches the crib so it will be natural wood as well.  We are going to use a monkey brown changing pad cover and some brown baskets with cute little monkey faces on them that we found at Toys R Us for storage on the shelves.  We are avoiding having to buy a dresser by getting a closet organizer.  Oh and amazingly the  hangers that Kiddo stopped using with her room redo match the blue of the room so I have matching hangers already!  Woohoo!  The other thing we have is Boogie's glider and ottoman.  It is nice to have a few big things under our belts already!

Now here is where we hit upon the part of the room that I am not sure about... When I found that beautiful Pottery Barn sheet I also discovered that they CG wall clings.  They are $70 for five but each one is huge!  They are very cute but don't be fooled if you look at them online.  They are just George, no balloons or clouds like in the picture.  As cute as they are I worry about the cost ( I mean those clings cost half the cost of the changing table we are looking to get) and whether big clings are the right way to go.  It is kind of difficult to find George artwork but there are calenders that I can get where I can just pull out the pages and frame them for cute little wall art.  Which would you choose? 

When all of that is together then I will evaluate if the current white window scarf in the room should stay or if I should get something else, and just what color rug to put in the room.  I think that covers all the bases.  Can anyone think of anything I have missed?