Kids Room in a Closet

When we moved to Minnesota the only house we could find that we liked had 3 bedrooms. We thought we could easily just move when we had another baby, but that ends up being a lot more complicated than I’d thought especially when we have a great location, great landlords, a house that is really nice, and great neighbors. Even when we looked at the possibility nothing seemed to be right, even when we were pregnant with baby #3.
Cue discussions of how to successfully house and sleep 3 children ages 3 and under. We really love the idea of kids sharing rooms… when they are older! There’s no way our 3 year old and 21 month-old would be sleeping through the night sharing a bunk bed, so we got creative. With a newborn we just had to have our other kids sleeping well! Once we realized the closet had circulating air we went for it.
Here is the closet of our son’s room, made-over for our baby girl Genevieve.
The toddler bed fit perfectly (purchased at Target, similar here). I used the quilt I’d made for her crib (see here), added a couple touches from her baby nursery like the scalloped banner (see tutorial here), paper lantern, and some art, and voila – a closet room! She loves her space! The kids love to play in it too.

We added a G to the door, a “vous etes mon soleil” print, a stuffed elephant, and the scalloped banner. We think it’s pretty cute and very functional.

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Plum Street Prints: Shop Opening!

Our print shop opens today! Check us out: http://www.etsy.com/shop/PlumStreetPrints

And if you spread the word about Plum Street Prints, we’ll give you half off your first order! That means you’ll get your first print for $5 if you create a blog post, Facebook post, or mass email—anything that supports our business to a large number of people and links to our shop. Comment on this, email me, or Facebook me if you post about us and I’ll send you a half off code.

And if you have a business site that you’re willing to promote us on, we will likely be happy to promote you on our site as well, once our blog is up and running.

Go tell your family and friends! Thanks for your help!

Shannon (and Lori)

http://www.etsy.com/shop/PlumStreetPrints

http://facebook.com/pages/Plum-Street-Prints/149950705061554

Here are some of our prints—all patterns are original as well as the prints of course.

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Nursery Monograms

A couple months ago I made a monogrammed “E” print for Emerson’s room… really, really easy but looks nice. I’ve seen a lot of cool wall hangings for children’s rooms online, but they are pretty expensive for simple designs. I can understand canvas prints being more, but posters are pretty easy to do from home. When I got done, I made some for friends as well.

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