DIY: Bringing Happiness to Your Drawers

As long as both Joel & I pass our TB tests, we should be licensed foster parents by mid-December.  We are really excited about the possibility of being parents very soon, but also know we easily could wait a year before any children are placed with us.  I've tried to not be too anxious about decorating the baby room, but my head is just swimming with ideas. It would be helpful if foster children came with due dates.....

You may remember the baby dresser I blogged about HERE.  I set out to decorate the inside of the drawers today.

(the little brown basket will one day house all of the baby's lotions)

Our $400 crib found on Craigslist in Chicago for just $100 in almost new condition...complete with the $14 bedding I found on clearance at Target in August.  Our colors will be brown and white with a pop of green throughout the room.

7 Steps to Happiness (for your drawers):
Step 1: Find scrapbook paper to coordinate with your bedding. (Hint: thicker, darker scrap book paper will be much easier to use)  My two picks to bring together the white, brown, green, & circles while keeping everything gender neutral.

Step 2: Take all of the clothing out of the dresser.

Step 3: Trim your scrap book papers to fit inside the drawers

Step 4: Paint Mod Podge on the bottom of your drawers, then cover with your scrapbook paper. Some tutorial's online will tell you to recover the paper in mod podge, but this only caused wrinkly paper for me. Try to keep your cat out of the way. If she is anything like Kitty, this is nearly impossible.

Step 5: Allow time to dry.  Notice, you can see a line with the lighter green paper, but not the brown.  Some online tutorials say you can use wrapping paper. Make sure it's extra thick wrapping paper or you may have a major wrinkle crisis.

Step 6: Smile every time you open your drawers.

(yes, our babies will be wearing those adorable fuzzy slippers one day)

(Piper's mommy has been so gracious and given us TONS of baby clothes)

Step 7: Save any extra paper to frame later in the room. I promise, it will look really cute on the wall and help coordinate your room! We'll be placing our scraps in white frames one day.  I seriously have about a million ideas for wall art in this room....I cannot wait!