Comments on: On the cheap: Nursery Tree edition http://treyreeme.com/2008/03/03/on-the-cheap-nursery-tree-edition/ by Trey Reeme Mon, 14 Mar 2011 17:44:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Trey Reeme http://treyreeme.com/2008/03/03/on-the-cheap-nursery-tree-edition/#comment-87 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:01:05 +0000 http://treyreeme.com/2008/03/03/on-the-cheap-nursery-tree-edition/#comment-87 @Cara – I eyeballed it. Started with the base of the tree and worked up with tape only. Took a couple of resticking sessions to make it look the way we wanted (we wanted to frame our crib with the branch and had to work around a phone jack).

I credit my wife for being able to say “that doesn’t look right” :)

]]> By: Cara http://treyreeme.com/2008/03/03/on-the-cheap-nursery-tree-edition/#comment-86 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:47:58 +0000 http://treyreeme.com/2008/03/03/on-the-cheap-nursery-tree-edition/#comment-86 My husband and I have been wanting to do this same project in our babies room. Did you use the picture out of the Pottery Barn magazine and trace it onto the wall (using a projector)? Or did you just eyeball the tree and tape/pencil it onto the wall? I am very curious as to how it will be easiest for us to do it!

]]> By: Derek Guyer http://treyreeme.com/2008/03/03/on-the-cheap-nursery-tree-edition/#comment-85 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:32:12 +0000 http://treyreeme.com/2008/03/03/on-the-cheap-nursery-tree-edition/#comment-85 That is hot. Congrats on the baby and the job well done.

]]> By: Christopher http://treyreeme.com/2008/03/03/on-the-cheap-nursery-tree-edition/#comment-84 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:03:23 +0000 http://treyreeme.com/2008/03/03/on-the-cheap-nursery-tree-edition/#comment-84 Trey – I have two wee little ladies. We used cloth diapers (fuzzi bunz) and they were awesome. No diaper rash, no nastiness and no smell – we put them in a diaper pail type thing and washed them once a week. Very cool.

BTW – Nice to finally meet you last week in Chicago!

]]> By: Roger Conant http://treyreeme.com/2008/03/03/on-the-cheap-nursery-tree-edition/#comment-82 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:17:36 +0000 http://treyreeme.com/2008/03/03/on-the-cheap-nursery-tree-edition/#comment-82 Congrats Trey! My girls are 28 and 33 and are a blessing.

]]> By: Trey Reeme http://treyreeme.com/2008/03/03/on-the-cheap-nursery-tree-edition/#comment-81 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:18:26 +0000 http://treyreeme.com/2008/03/03/on-the-cheap-nursery-tree-edition/#comment-81 @caleb: Yeah, we put our dog in onesies. Dig around my flickr page if you don’t believe that. I don’t think the baby without pants will fly around our house. ;)

@christopher: I have a feeling I’ll be one of those easy marks.

@tony: I needs some pics! Let us see!

@dan: great call on the projector. Even better call on candy for potty training!

@andy: many thanks – I’m already TiVoing Super Nanny, so we can’t fail ;)

]]> By: Andy LaFlamme http://treyreeme.com/2008/03/03/on-the-cheap-nursery-tree-edition/#comment-80 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:15:36 +0000 http://treyreeme.com/2008/03/03/on-the-cheap-nursery-tree-edition/#comment-80 Beautiful work Trey. Gook luck with the new baby!

]]> By: Dan Veasey http://treyreeme.com/2008/03/03/on-the-cheap-nursery-tree-edition/#comment-79 Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:09:25 +0000 http://treyreeme.com/2008/03/03/on-the-cheap-nursery-tree-edition/#comment-79 Really nice trey, really nice.

Here’s how you can do it even cheaper by omitting the tape, my brother-in-law the artist thought of this…
He drew butterflies and flowers on transparency paper, then we borrowed an old overhead projector from church and shined the outline on the wall. Trace with pencil then paint. You can even resize by adjusting the projector.

My two year old went spastic!

As for diapers, here’s a tip for that. Hold off on sweets, all sweets until you’re ready to potty train. When she turned two over my four day New Year’s Holiday we rewarded dry panties with M&M’s. She would have tried to swim the Dan River for a handful of M&M’s! She was potty trained in 2.5 days. We’ll see how daughter number 2 does later this Spring.

]]> By: Tony Mannor http://treyreeme.com/2008/03/03/on-the-cheap-nursery-tree-edition/#comment-78 Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:33:02 +0000 http://treyreeme.com/2008/03/03/on-the-cheap-nursery-tree-edition/#comment-78 Nice job on the wall. My wife liked the old school Winnie the Pooh look so she gave me a old Winnie the Pooh wallpaper pattern and said “Do something with that.”

I should have done like you. That looks great!

]]> By: christopher http://treyreeme.com/2008/03/03/on-the-cheap-nursery-tree-edition/#comment-77 Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:25:02 +0000 http://treyreeme.com/2008/03/03/on-the-cheap-nursery-tree-edition/#comment-77 Beautiful work, Trey. I have no suggestions for cheap alternatives to diapers, though. Heck, I couldn’t even bring myself to buy diapers that had that plasticky feel. Everything had to feel soft and touchable. Babies probably couldn’t tell the difference, but diaper marketers aren’t advertising to babies, just to easy-mark parents.

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