Nursery Additions- Decor not a baby yet

Baby Brown is officially 5 days overdue. Little stinker- I wonder if he/she knows how badly everyone wants to meet him/her and so they're just going to wait everyone out and make sure we're really ready for the big arrival, just taking some sweet time.

So now I figure since the baby doesn't look to be coming anytime super soon, I better bide my time doing something else and I haven't been a very good blogger lately so I thought I'd catch everyone up on what's going on with the nursery and do another post update about the basement.

There is a big wall across from the closet in the nursery and, for my life, I couldn't decide how to decorate it. With wall words? Picture decals? Framed children's art? Family photos? The possibilities seemed endless- but I had NO inspiration. Then I started thinking about how we've already received some keepsake type items, things FOR the baby, but that baby won't actually get to touch until they have their own home and family :) I thought a long shelf would be a nice addition:

We purchased the shelf and the brackets from Lowe's for about $30 total, not bad for such a display in my opinion. The funny part about the shelf (though not at the time) is that I completely misjudged how high it should be on the wall and didn't realize my mistake until after inserting wall anchors of about 3/4 inch diameter, which meant moving the shelf (which I had to- it looked ridiculous) also meant filling in holes, sanding, and painting over the patches.....lesson learned.

Now, obviously there is still a ton of wall space under the shelf, and then I GOT IT! I don't know where the spark came from, but I loved it and this is the result of my short-lived hiatus from pregnancy brain-block:

Do you love it?! I'm always looking for different ways to hang/display photos and frames, and I was thinking of framed art under the shelves when I realized that I didn't just want random art in my baby's room, I wanted things that represent our family, where they came from, and how they are growing. I found the ribbon at Hobby Lobby (I will have to put together a different blog post about my love for that joint) and it was all half off so I go 4 spools for $4. The pictures frames were all Dollar Tree purchases and the best thing about the Dollar Tree is that literally everything is $1. They were different colors, but a nice can of $3.50 metallic silver spray paint jazzed them up and the best part is that if one falls and breaks- whatever, it was only a dollar, and super easy to replace. The rod the frames are hanging from is just a cheap $6 cafe curtain rod from Kmart that I threaded through the shelf brackets.

So far I have displayed a picture from our wedding, pictures of Jerod and I with our respective family members as babies/toddlers, and an ultrasound photo of Baby B. I am very happy with how this project turned out (though JB thinks the bows of the ribbon make it look too girly) and am looking forward to adding photos of my sweet little button!