I've been seriously drooling over...

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some gorgeous nurseries the past few weeks. As I mentioned before, our nursery is not a big room. In fact, it measures about 9'X11' with a closet. If you don't count the closet, than it's a 9'X9' box, but I still want it to be light, bright and, most importantly, comfy. I really like modern styles like this:

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or this (I couldn't find the original source, unfortunately):

I love almost everything about this room (maybe, minus the rug). I did notice that I tend to gravitate towards all boy rooms :) Funny, when I found out that my firstborn was going to be a boy, I was terrified! I had no idea what I'm going to do with a boy because I grew up in a family of girls (all two of us... but I did help a ton when my sister was a baby. After all, I'm 7 years older than her). Now having a girl makes me abnormally anxious :)

I picked up a few things for the nursery (I will share more with you when there is something to share :) but, again, none of it is pink :) I'm debating if I should just have little bits and pieces of pink as well as other colors in the room. I really like this idea:

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I don't have that much space but, I think, this nursery is so fun. I really like the rooms that can grow with the children. I'm not a great fan of themed rooms. I like simple colors (and stripes!!). I would add a bit more of a rainbow but I really like this room:

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Drool... I really like this one too:

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So which one is your favorite? :) I can't wait to design our own (and for much less than most of these would cost new parents...). Stay tuned!

The diamond in the rough...

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Hello, hello, my lovely friends!

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend. Ours is chock full of fun with family and friends. I really enjoy spending time with them but, man, this girl is exhausted! I can barely drag my feet today...

But I know I promised to tell you how much I spent for the dresser :) No Terri, it wasn't free :)

Last week we all went to Toys R Us to use my oldest son's Birthday coupon (the perks of signing the kids up for the Birthday Club - $5 to spend on anything). But very close to Toys R Us is my favorite Goodwill. Of course, I couldn't pass it up :)

Before I knew it, I was in the furniture department.  And here it was... my diamond in the rough. For the most unbelievable price. (insert drum rolls, please!!):

Yep, just $5.99 (Cindy, you were the closest with your guess on Facebook :) I couldn't believe my eyes at first. Score! I immediately called my husband and told him that we are getting it. To sweeten the deal even further - even though it was super-sweet already - I used a 20% coupon that I got after donating a bunch of stuff to them, so in reality I only paid $4.69 for it. As I mentioned in yesterday's post, it's very solid though does need a bit of help. But all of it is cosmetic, and I can see this piece lasting us for years and years to come.

And this is my major score for the month :)

And did you get any good deals lately, whether in a grocery store, from thrift stores or classifieds, or, maybe, yard sales??

The Frugal Fridays. Guess what I got??

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Yesterday a good friend of mine stopped by. We see each other occasionally but it's been a while since she actually stopped by our house. She's been one of my faithful readers over the past couple of years (hey, hey :) and she really wanted to see all of the different projects she had seen on the blog. As we were taking a small tour, she mentioned how much stuff - furniture etc. - was originally bought used and then fixed, repainted or redone in some other way if needed. I've never really thought of it but it's so true.

I just hate paying full price for anything! More than I thought, in fact. And what we do buy/get usually lasts us for years and years.  So now that we are slowly buying new things for the nursery, it's quite exciting :) But yes, it's a slow process because I'm still looking for the best deal whether we are planning to buy brand-new or used. And do you remember about my woes of finding an inexpensive dresser that would serve as a changing table too? Well, I found exactly what we need (insert a loud "wohoo" here!!!):

It's really sturdy and nice. But as you can see, it needs some help. It has a few scratches and scrapes (an easy fix), some screws need to be tightened and knobs replaced (guess, who is going to Hobby Lobby tomorrow?? Looks like they might be having their 50% sale on all of the knobs and handles) but mostly it just needs a really good wash.

It has a changing area on the top too that can be later removed to turn it into a regular dresser:

And how much did I pay for this "beauty"?? Ha, I'm not going to tell you :) Yet. How about you guess instead?

So how much do you think I paid for this dresser? And if you are really curious, come back tomorrow, wink wink ;)