Who wants to help me decorate?? (Nursery help needed!)

I am having a really hard time decorating Parker's nursery...a decorator, I'm not! We have the basics done (paint & furniture set up), but that's about it. I am open to any and all suggestions.

If this were your nursery, how would you decorate it?? Product links are always appreciated. :)

The room...
I do have a 4th green bin for the storage unit...my mom has it right now. Oh, and I forgot to put the bed skirt on when I set up the crib.

And a close up on the bedding...I love it!

The story of a gliding rocker

Yes, before you start yelling at me, I know I've been MIA for over 2 months. *hang head in shame*

I don't have any specific reason I disappeared (unlike last time when I was trying to keep Baby Jones a secret). I guess I just haven't felt like blogging. That's not to say I haven't thought of dozens of potential topics. I have. Except when I go to write a post, I get brain block and end up closing the window and saying I'll write the post...later. Well, later is now. It's time.

In a previous post, I said I was going to tell the story of our gliding rocker. We got the deal of the century on it (in my opinion, of course!).

One Saturday back in January, Mr Jones and I decided to hit up the local furniture stores to see what kinds of deals we could find on gliders and/or rockers. We only made it to one store.

When we walked into the store, we found out they were having their 100th anniversary celebration (which included pizza and cookies...music to this pregnant girl's ears!! But I digress...). After we gathered our pizza and cookies, we were encouraged to enter our names into their hourly $100 gift certificate drawing (they were drawing the winner in 5 minutes). I never win anything, but figured "why not?" so I jotted down my info and stuffed the slip into the full fishbowl before we wandered off to look at what was available in the clearance section.

A few minutes later, we hear, "And the winner of our last $100 certificate is...Taryn Jones!" I turned to Mr Jones and said, "Wait. Did they seriously just say my name?!?" That pretty much sealed the deal. We were getting our chair there...and we had found the perfect one in the clearance section! We walked out of the store 30 minutes later with a fully upholstered gliding rocker for...drum roll please...$149!

I love it.

Apparently pregnancy has made me fickle

It all started a few months ago when I wanted root beer...more than anything else in the world. It was all I could think about. All I could talk about. I WANTED IT. Mr Jones (being the wonderful husband he is) decided to stop at the grocery store the next night to get me some. All was well until he called me to ask what brand I fancied. I thought about it, opened my mouth, and said, "I want orange pop, not root beer. Buy me orange pop. Pretty, pretty please?"

This was the first, but certainly not the last time I've done an unexpected 180 after I thought I had made up my mind. I've been known to change our dinner plans as we're driving past a restaurant that all of sudden sounded way better than the one we were headed to. Luckily, Mr Jones is very go-with-the-flow and doesn't even bat an eyelash at my fickle-ness.

The newest victim of my change of affection? The crib bedding.

Don't get me wrong, I really appreciate all of your feedback and opinions on which color bumper and skirt I should choose, but I found another set I fell in love with.

Let me introduce The Morning Zoo crib bedding from Land of Nod. What do you think? Will it look ok in the nursery? Please be honest. For the record, I would be getting the animal patterned crib sheet (instead of the solid blue sheet) and the crib skirt.

Decisions, Decisions...and I suck at making them!

Mr Jones and I (mostly I) decided not to register for a full crib bedding set. The cost just didn't make sense for us because we wouldn't use the bumper or the quilt (which would essentially leave us with crib sheets and a crib skirt).

Instead, we went to Babies R Us and picked out a crib sheets that go with the room color (but aren't too matchy-matchy). Plus, the colors go well with the mobile I like.

My dilemma now is deciding which color breathable bumper and which color crib skirt to get. Help?!

For reference, here's a picture of the wall color and gliding rocker we bought yesterday (which is a great story for another day!). The rocker is a light greenish-tan color (kind of hard to tell in the picture).



Also, we are leaning towards an espresso crib (as pictured for the breathable bumpers).

Option #1 (sage breathable bumper and brown crib skirt)




Option #2 (brown breathable bumper and sage crib skirt)




Option #3 (sage breathable bumper and orange crib skirt)




Option #4 (brown breathable bumper and orange crib skirt)