Austin and I are so thankful for the support we have received since my last post! A lot of donations have come through that we know will meet the basic needs of the children who enter our home. In addition to organizing children's clothing (now accepting suggestions on how to fold tiny baby clothes) and toys, we have been preparing the room throughout the past two weeks. Prepping the room for children older than infancy has been hard! Who knew it would be so difficult to do a gender neutral 3-7 room? Our options seem to be all things Frozen for girls, or car/train/sports for boys. We decided we were going to stick to a "woodland creature" theme. Two fun DIY NO SEW projects that we have completed are a teepee and a stuffed animal fox taxidermy. Both projects were inspired from this blog. Including paint, we have spent only about $40 on the room so far. We recycled paint by using a color we tried in our living room but didn't love downstairs, curtains were also originally from the living room, the crate was previously used as a TV stand before we found an AWESOME steal at Goodwill for a real TV stand (DIY post about this coming in the future), and the stuffed animals, that we pray will bring comfort to these children, are all animals that were gifted to me after Nick's death. Our splurge for the room will probably be this quilt to bring it all together! Thanks for following us throughout this exciting process!
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Kati
2/3/2015 10:23:33 am
You guys are so awesome, and are going to move mountains in childrens lives, as they are going to do the same in both your lives! So excited for the two of you!!
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