Lions and flowers and birds, oh my!

And so goes the theme of our nursery. We ordered our crib bedding fabric online and it arrived several weeks ago (coming in a little late on the post). If you’ve followed this blog, you may have read the post about some challenges I was having finding crib bedding until a visit with my tailor proved eventful and she is going to make it for us. With the production question out of the way, the fabric hunt began and continued until bingo...the match was made. When I first found a photo of the pattern, I fell in love with it immediately. Even better was when I showed it to Jeff and he thought it was pefect too.

We wanted gender neutral without being too typical. We wanted baby appropriate without being too babyish. Add onto those that we were looking for something to match the paint color we had chosen for our walls. The fabric's pattern contains multiple colors, 18 to be exact, three of which are variations of orange, and number six on the pallet? You guessed it! Firebush (or at least a close cousin, even though here it looks more redish).


I’m crazy about the combination of the aqua with the orange and I love how the other colors complement. We think the vivid colors with the dark wood furniture will work well together. I laid the fabric out on our bed and with a voice filled with gusto said, “I’m in love with a fabric. I’m in love with a pattern!” When I fully expected Jeff to bust out laughing at how ridiculous I sounded I was surprised to hear his reply. "Same." he said without hesitation and somehow it still sounded moderately manly. Such easily excitable fools!