How to decorate your babies nursery

I like to think of myself as a crafty gal. I made a point of avoiding Pinterest until very recently, because I knew it would act as a black hole that would surely suck up all of my valuable time. Now that I'm a mom I don't really have any time to be sucked up, so I figured it would be ok to join the ranks of Pinterest users! This was shortly after my PPD diagnosis, and since I was searching for an outlet and something to do for ME, I started pinning and creating. In maybe two months time I had crafted the shit out of my girls nursery. It really looked awesome! 

Then Ed and I decided it would be prudent to swap rooms with them. Ours was too big for us, the floor was always inviting clothes to hang out. Sometimes for days or even weeks on end! I decided to put that space to good use by moving the girls things in and making it a playroom/nursery. I hung paper garlands and tissue paper pom-poms and paper cranes, we even made a teepee for them to play in and take naps! It was darling, and for the first couple weeks we spent majority of our time up there. 

Then, I don't know what happened...I guess we lost that new nursery glow and it turned into an ordinary bedroom. I was OBSESSED with the teepee! Now guess where it is? Folded up and resting on the changing table. The girls figured out they could crawl under the teepee to get to the desirable and off limits outlets and internet modem. I kept making barricades to keep them out, but no use. My powers are useless against the determination of my ten month old girls. Then they took to climbing the legs of the teepee (that damn thing is now the bane of my existence), so I was constantly trying to fix it so it wouldn't collapse on anyone. Fuck it. 

As you can see, they crawled under the teepee to avoid the barricade and are now barricaded where they don't belong. Margot is clearly riddled with guilt.

So how do you make a killer nursery for your baby? How ever the hell you want. Just be warned that the level of effort you put in could easily be turned on you and reflect equal or greater frustration when it fails. My advice, kids don't deserve nice things. They just want boxes and kitchen utinsils anyways! They'll appreciate a teepee when they're our age :-) because seriously, that thing was awesome for naps. No joke.

(This battle is not over, Teepee! I will have you standing strong and unflinching in my girls nursery...mark my words)