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Kazzle 
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Posted: 30 October 2005 at 3:00pm |
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Wow its so exciting we have just started to get the nursery ready, mainly because i want it done before xmas lol, talk about wanthing things done now.
We have cleared out the room and my darling husband is painting the skirting boards and the ceiling, then we were going to paint the walls, but i have discovered that i cant handle being around the paint fumes, they really make me sick, so 3 of my girlfriends are stepping in to paint the room for me and help set up the nursery etc.
Yah for friends, and of course yah for my daddy who is at the moment resanding and repainting the cot we got.
i am starting to love being pregnant.
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Posted: 30 October 2005 at 3:09pm |
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How exciting! Yay for friends and family!
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Posted: 30 October 2005 at 4:00pm |
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thats soo nice. i wish we owned the place so we could redecorate and paint and stuff. INstead I painted some pictures and put them in frames, replaced the curtains. It turned out well enough but would've loved to paint! Oh well, will redecorate when we move to Gisborne! You're so lucky Kazzle!
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Posted: 30 October 2005 at 8:41pm |
Have fun!! 
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Posted: 31 October 2005 at 10:20am |
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Yay Kaz! how exciting! Im getting stuck into babys room today, clearing it off all my junk! lol
Im going to ask my landlord if we can paint the other rooms in the house that are boring boring white, my lounge and laundry are red and the kitchen and bathroom are lime green, it looks great (may sound ick!) If I buy the paint Im pretty sure I'll be allowed to do it. Im just wondering what colours to paint babys room, i know im getting way ahead of myself! but i was thinking maybe yellow, but still, the whole house would have to fit in together,,, i dont think i want baby in a red room! any ideas?
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preggy_sunflower
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Posted: 31 October 2005 at 10:59am |
Go lime green maybe? That could be pretty cool. Maybe some purple curtains? He he! I love bright baby rooms, and would so want to paint our babies room that colour, but we don't have money to spend now on painting the room so will make do with mobiles, pictures etc to brighten up the room 
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Posted: 31 October 2005 at 11:33am |
yeah thats sounds great! Im trying to muster up the courage to ring my landlord, lol, fear of rejection and all that lol... if he says no, im going to move, I cant live here! lol... we'll see 
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Posted: 31 October 2005 at 11:37am |
Go you!! If you can't do what you want when you're up the duff then god help the man who gets in your way My best friend painted her cot lime green and purple, and it looked SERIOULSY cool, hence my desire for a purple and lime green baby's room! Weird combo I know, but it's gotta be seen to be believed how cool it is!
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HelenElla
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Posted: 31 October 2005 at 12:40pm |
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We are also renting so our babys room is boring cream but I bought some really cute teddy bear curtains. At dulux they sell a really cool kids range of paints that you can in so many cool kids colours that are bright and fun. You can also get them with your choise of glitter in them. If you just but a few test pots you can just do the furniture for little cost.
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Posted: 31 October 2005 at 12:43pm |
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we are renting to, yeah so we brought new curtains and winnie the pooh stick on wall boarders and wall stickers that arnt really stickers, they dnt ruin the wall, also i got a really nice pink mosqito net to hang over bubs cot, makes the room really gurly..
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Kazzle
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Posted: 31 October 2005 at 1:20pm |
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We are painting our entire house the same colour which is called sour cream, its a pale creamy yellow colour,
In the lounge we have a feature wall, and in the master bedroom and our spare room we will have a feature wall as well, but in the nursery we are painting it all one colour, and using the curtains, paintings etc to accent the room.
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Posted: 31 October 2005 at 2:41pm |
I was soo eager to set up the babys room so we got it all done in august it was so much fun setting it up but now it's just frustrating going in and opening the curtains every morning closing them every night with no bubby to go in the cute little bassinet.  I bet if we waited until the last minute bubs would have come early!
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preggy_sunflower
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Posted: 31 October 2005 at 3:01pm |
I think that is called Murphy's Law
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Posted: 31 October 2005 at 4:21pm |
Jack's room is a bright lime green colour with a border 3/4 up the wall to break it abit. He has a white cot and the curtains are dark navy. It looks really cool, people always comment and I just love it! We just decorated the walls with some stick ons.
Lime green and purple go really great together! Purple is my fave colour, if we have a girl next (fingers crossed) her room will be purple 
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Posted: 31 October 2005 at 8:48pm |
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lolol sounds like a whole heap of kewl colours - only thing you might wanna think about it the fact that it may keep baby AWAKE!!!!!!
I always liked the idea of a cream room, with bits of colours, lots of pastel coloured ginghams made into curtains and duvet etc, separated by cream bits. - sounds corny but i've seen it done and it's cute. oh well - am stuck with olive green walls for now since we rent. ick
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Posted: 01 November 2005 at 7:55am |
One of our goals for next year is buying our own place and I can't wait to paint/decorate everything!!! I love doing stuff like that!!
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Posted: 01 November 2005 at 10:33am |
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We painted the babys room in a colour called half spanish white, its nice. We did it a couple of years ago, though, as it was the spare room, but it goes great with the wooden cot and bed and drawers that are inthere as well. We decorated it for Jakey with mobiles and I am going to put an alphabet freize around the wall, one that i can take off and not damage the paint! I went preggo mad (nesting?) over easter and made rod finish all the painting and stuff around the house, he was knackered, but I was terified that the baby wuld be coming home to a paint fumey unfinished home! LOL. (another novel..)
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Posted: 01 November 2005 at 10:47am |
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Maya's room is boring cream too with big exposed plaster since we're renting, but the landlord is having the place painted in a couple of weeks. Will be a pain having to live around the painters, but the finished result will be awesome as atm the walls have lots of exposed plaster from the previous tenants.
Maya doesn't have a really 'girly' room, her duvet cover is purple with farm animals, and she has some bright yellow, green and red plastic drawers for her nappies, wipes etc. and some matching plastic bins for er shoes, which look really cool but practical too (we have a matching set of bins in the lounge for her blocks and little people, they slot into a wooden frame).
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Posted: 01 November 2005 at 10:55am |
Our whole house is the same colour - an off white colour, but the curtains are all very nice (Jono has great taste I have to say!). We own our place so can do what we want, but money is an object so will make do with what we have. BTW we went looking at nursery stuff over the weekend, and I nearly died at the cost of everything  A nice cot - $700!! A good stroller - $700!!! I never knew it was going to be such a HUGE expense!!
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Posted: 01 November 2005 at 11:01am |
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Farmers are pretty reasonable, we got a nice wooden cot there on sale for $399 and a jolly jumper 3 wheeler, which is great for $229 on sale
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