| "body"> | | | | Then you stumble upon someone - ME! - who |
| So, you're going to be parents. How exciting! | | | | suggests two alternatives to the cutsey wallpaper |
| Your parents and grandparents have already | | | | borders your were considering. |
| volunteered to buy baby furniture for you and friends | | | | 1) Visit local (or online) teacher supply stores. There |
| have already committed to having a baby shower. | | | | you will find all kinds of materials that you can use as |
| Much of your baby's early needs will be covered. | | | | borders for your child's room. You may find bright |
| What's left for you to do is to paint and patch the | | | | colored ABC's. You may find pictures of clouds or |
| walls in your baby's room. And to clean up the tile | | | | animals or fruits and vegetables. Teacher supply |
| floors. The room had been an extra storage room and | | | | stores are a great place for finding things for a child's |
| has been neglected as the rest of the house took on | | | | room. |
| some charm. This one room was the deemed the | | | | 2) Why not consider purchasing patterned contact |
| baby's room from the time you purchased the house, | | | | paper instead of wallpaper borders? Contact paper |
| but you wanted to wait until there really was a baby | | | | comes in all kinds of colors and patterns now and |
| on the way to start decorating it. And now that day | | | | could be a good alternative to expensive borders. |
| has arrived. | | | | 3) If after trying #1 and #2 you still have not found |
| Since you've frugally decorated the rest of the house, | | | | exactly what you're seeking, perhaps you need to |
| you already know the best places to purchase paint | | | | consider a real do-it-yourself project. Are there |
| and patching materials. You aren't sure of the baby's | | | | magazine pictures that you could laminate and put on |
| gender yet, and really don't want to know. You have | | | | the walls? Have you taken snapshots that you could |
| decided to use bright colors, primary colors, as you | | | | enlarge and laminate and hang on the walls? Or can |
| paint your baby's room, figuring that they will do for | | | | you find stencils that depict the theme you would like |
| either gender. But you would really like some cute | | | | for the room? If so, you could stencil drawings on the |
| wallpaper borders. You want your baby's room to be | | | | walls and color them in yourself. |
| special and one he or she will enjoy for years to | | | | Once you've really mastered the art of being frugal, |
| come. | | | | your creative mind comes to life. There are so many |
| Off you trek to the local stores, looking at every type | | | | things you can do for your child's room that don't take |
| and style of wallpaper borders that you can find. And | | | | much money at all. You just have to have an open |
| you soon discover that even when they're on sale, the | | | | mind - and maybe a few months to work on the |
| ones you love are more than you would really like to | | | | project. You have both of those, don't you? Then why |
| pay. | | | | are you still reading? Why are you waiting? |