Decorating Projects!

My "nesting" phase seems to be manifesting itself in decorating projects this time around. Of course, that is largely prompted by the fact that we have majorly changed the room arrangements in our house over the past couple of months.

Talia and Leila are now sharing the bedroom in the basement. When I started looking for ideas for a sweet, girly room I was enthralled with this. We are not really wanting to paint at this point, so I went about recreating the color scheme with fabrics instead. Here is the first installment:

I made the duvet cover from some clearance sheets I got at Wal-Mart. I got 3 sets of full-sized sheets for a total of about $10! I made all the throw pillows from tutorials I found on Pinterest and modified another throw pillow tutorial to create the shams. I love the way they turned out!

My next projects for this room are tall, skinny bookshelves on either side of the bed (any ideas for cheap??), something to frame the head of the bed (still trying to decide what I want to do), and some button wall art.

Meanwhile, I am also working on the nursery. Believe it or not, we have never owned girl crib bedding (for a normal-sized crib). When both of the other girls were born we were in our teeny, tiny house and the kids were sharing one teeny, tiny bedroom so we bought a mini crib (the size church nurseries usually have) and I made bedding for that. Since we can use our normal sized crib again and this baby will have her own room (praise the Lord!!!), I was excited to be able to finally decorate a girly nursery.

Early on when I was trying to decide what I wanted to do I got stuck on the idea of having a bird-themed nursery. Later I decided on a pink, yellow and taupe color-scheme. This is what I have done so far:

 
I made the crib bumper and crib skirt using Benjamin's store-bought crib bedding as a pattern and sort of making it up as I went along. I still need to add ties to the bumper and some big, pink bows at the tops of the box pleats on the bumper (can't really see from this picture).

My next projects for this room are: faux canvas wall art (SO excited about this!! cute and cheap!) and recovering the rocking chair with an awesome white & yellow damask print.

What else would you do in these rooms? All you decorating-savvy friends out there, I welcome your input!