Ahoy Charlie!

If it weren't for my mom's creativity and hard work and my dad's resourcefulness then I would be embarassed to admit what Charlie's room looked like. Before my parent's arrival to Brussels, Charlie's room decoration was basically a crib in our spare bedroom. I have no talent at decorating and since we didn't know the gender we didn't really put much effort into picking out a theme. But now that my parents have worked their magic, this is where Charlie is lucky enough to lay his head...

I had taken some photos of sailboats when I worked in Nantucket. When we combined those with the blue color of a bookshelf Dad found we decided to go with a nautical theme. Mom worked her tail off while she was here sanding and painting both a chest of drawers and the changing table in a really sweet blue color. The glider is a gift from my wonderful friends at the American Women's Club. Charlie and I rock in it every day and I spend the time thinking of just how blessed I am (and how I would like him to fall asleep).

We bought the crib from our friends Rick and Rachel. Their girls ended up sleeping in their bed pretty often so it is only a very gently used one. We want to hang more pictures on the wall, but at the same time we also want to get our apartment's security deposit back so we are hesitant to put too many holes in the walls.But the pièce de résistance of the room is the bed cover my mom made by hand. She took a standard white quilt and added the blue and red borders. Then she painted on the anchors, added a rope feature over the anchors and then painted an incredibly intricate nautical star in the middle.

Thank goodness Charlie has some hard working and creative grandparents because his parents definitely did not inherit that gene. Thanks so much to my dad and especially my mom for all the hard work they put into making Charlie's room look like a precious little boys room!