Setting up a Nursery, Part 2

This weekend we let the sawdust fly as we finished off the next 2 projects for our nursery:

Letters for his Name
One of the ideas Lindsay wanted to do was to put his name on the wall with wooden lettering. She did some pricing and the letters we liked cost as much as $10 apiece from Pottery Barn, or as low as $3 apiece for dinky little letters from other places. She suggested that we could do our own and I jumped at the opportunity to make a contribution.

We scoured the web for the perfect font, but wound up picking the default Comic Sans font for it's simplicity and roundness. I blew the letters up to full page size and printed them out to use as stencils. We thought we could utilize some plywood in the garage left from Harrison's bunk bed, and it was thick enough, but not really meant for jigsaw cuts, so that got scrapped. However, our second attempt, armed with a fresh piece of solid pine and a better jigsaw blade for scrolling cuts, was much more successful. Lindsay sanded each letter, spray-painted them red and then attached ribbon bows for hanging them. The final product looks great, but there will be no pictures as our tradition is to not reveal the name until the little guy is here (although I tried to convince to Lindsay that it doesn't matter this time around, as there will be no more letter cutting).

The Rocking Chair
Our second project for the weekend was painting our rocking chair red to fit the decor for the nursery. I borrowed an orbital sander and sanded down the finish the best I could and Lindsay dispensed about 3.5 cans of spray paint on it, covering the garage in a light pink dusting and making the tendons in her right hand very sore in the process. The results were amazing, the chair looks brand new and really sets off against the furniture.



Next up, getting some paint on the walls...