Random but not so Random.

Ever try and do something that you want to look completely random, but it seems like it would be more random if you'd not tried so hard? Or in your effort for it to be random, it turned out completely the opposite? It's funny how trying to be random is hard then just placing things together.

This afternoon I decided to take the plunge and finally put up the White Flowers by Umbra. I bought them a month or so ago after seeing them over on Dooce's blog and thinking how nicely they'd "pop" against jellybean's chocolate brown walls.

The thing that worried me about putting them up was that they are attached to the wall by what looks just like a thumb tack. Sooo once in place, if it's not where you wanted it to be, you'd be left with a tiny pinhole in your wall. In all the painting I've done in this house, I've filled a lot of holes, so it's the last thing I wanted to do on her freshly painted (as of january of this yr) walls.

So I dug out my trusty painters tape and began sticking flowers on the wall. Stick a couple on, step back, change one size for another, stick a couple more, move this one, move that one. Even once all 25 were up and I started to stick the tacks in the wall I moved them a bit.

So they are up and I *think* I'm happy with how they look. I was actually pretty proud of them and really do like how the white pops against the chocolate brown. But then Owen came home and I showed him and he was all "Meh". He doesn't hate them, doesn't love them, is just meh on the whole thing. He's really not into the whole decorate the nursery thing, so I'll cut him some slack. :P

I'm not sure what I'll do next. I need to hang her growth chart and I still have curtains to hang and the PBK Penelope canvases I have...I was also thinking of making a mobile from felt for over the change table..I'm not sure. I need to pick up some baskets for storage as well for the change table.

I want her room to be simple, yet have a bit of "Wow" factor to it when you see it. Like I've mentioned before, I never got to decorate Tasha's room before she was born and now that I'm doing jellybean's, I'm sort of sad I did not get a chance to do N's, even though we moved 6m later, and knew we would be, so it would have been a bit of a waste.