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Hanging A Gallery Frame Wall In The Nursery

Some nursery tweak-age has occurred. And because we’re currently working away on the kitchen (stay tuned for those deets tomorrow morning if all goes well), we figured that we owed you the whole gallery-frame-change rundown (along with some well overdue what’s-in-that-frame answers). We’ve always loved the idea of expanding Clara’s art wall as she grows with more and more frames, so here’s how it looked before:

New Nursery6

And here’s what we have going on now that we’ve added a few more frames to the mix (and shifted the placement of a few of the existing ones):

Clara Frames Full Shotf

And for those who have been wondering, here’s a quick rundown of the things that we’ve framed (you can find some other details here):

  • John’s baby picture and my baby picture (for fun little comparisons)
  • a hilarious doodle of Burger that a friend did on my Facebook wall using Graffiti (I just printed it out & framed it)
  • this print of a girl and her dog from Etsy (it reminds us of C & B)
  • a personalized canvas that says Clara Kenley from here
  • a photo of Burger that I photoshopped to create a bright stylized picture of him in a field of flowers
  • two faux butterflies in a small shadowbox that I backed with patterned paper
  • a homemade silhouette of Clara that we cut out and placed on striped paper (more on that here)
  • a giraffe print from here (Clara loves giraffes and pooches most of all)
  • a cute Skinny Cow magazine ad with a giraffe that I tossed into a frame (framing ads from mags that you’ve purchased for your own personal enjoyment is totally fine – you just can’t profit off of those images or anything)
  • a big letter P that we decoupaged with colorful paper for a more playful effect (more on that here)
  • a print of peas in a pod purchased here made entirely of type (it’s the letter P, repeated over and over – which we love since we’re the Petersiks)
  • a silhouette of Burger that John ordered me years ago (which we backed with fun patterned paper to nursery-fy it)
  • Clara’s hospital bracelet (I just glued it to some pink construction paper and popped it into a chunky glass-less frame)
  • a cute Sweet N Low magazine ad with an owl in it (once again, when you purchase a mag you can frame any pages you want, you just can’t use them for any reason other than personal enjoyment – ex: ya can’t sell them on Etsy)

And seven of the “art” pieces were actually completely free (our baby pics, the Burger doodle, the Burger in a field print, the Laughing Cow ad, the Sweet N Low ad, and Clara’s hospital bracelet) because we framed something that we already had or made/printed something of ours out on card stock. Gotta love no cost wall-candy, especially when it keeps Clara happy (read: not crazy-wiggly) during diaper changes.

Clara Wall From Side

Clara Above Dresser2

Clara Changing Table

Clara Vertical Frames

The funny thing is that many of these frames hung in Clara’s first nursery (albeit in a slightly different arrangement with a few differences in what we framed):

Nursery Art Wall

One of my favorite things on the wall are our baby pictures. Clara loves looking at them and saying “Daddy baby!” and “Mommy baby!” and we love searching for characteristics in each photo that seem Clara-like. Here’s John’s a little closer:

Clara Baby John2

And here’s mine:

Clara Baby Sherry

First of all: we love that we both had our mouths wide open. But more importantly: who do you think she looks more like? Let’s have a good old fashioned vote.

Cutie Clara

Any Team Sherry peeps out there? Everyone in the family says she looks like John (even on my side) but John’s baby self was so sweetly chubby, so I personally think there’s a little bit of a mommy resemblance going on. Then again, I’m biased.

Psst- One of the five finalists for the Ikea Life Improvement Project is a reader of ours named Melissa Matthews! She found out about it back when we mentioned it during an Ikea giveaway, and entered… never thinking she’d end up in the finals (we were so excited to get an elated email from her all about it)! You can read more about her awesome cause and log a vote for her or any of the other finalists that you’re rooting for here (the other nominees are in the left column). Bonus: every time someone votes, Ikea donates $1 to Save The Children’s U.S. Programs.

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  6. Jess M. says

    Team Sherry for sure!! What a doll :D

    PS-Thank you for introducing me to the addiction of ORB…I am officially hooked!

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  10. Stefanie says

    Clara definitely favored John in the looks department for awhile but as she’s getting older I think she’s looking more and more like you. Adorable either way.

    Love the frames btw. I’ve got a frame project brainstorming in my head as we speak. I’ve been on Pinterest pinning all kinds of free print sites and I can’t wait to get started on making the hallway fancy.

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  14. AMI V says

    What?? Your family thinks Clara looks like John? (No offense), but i have always thought she looks like Sherry! Either way – shes a cutie, and you guys are one good-looking family! :)

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  16. Amanda @ Our Humble A{Bowe}d says

    I love the tweaks. And, I think Clara is starting to look like you, Sherry. Maybe because John was so chubby that it’s hard to see, but previously, I thought she looked so much more like John. As she’s getting older, I think she’s more like Sherry.

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  18. Colleen says

    I have always thought she’s the spitting image of John, but I totally see the resemblance to Sherry in that picture! A mix between grown-up John and baby Sherry. :)

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  19. nikki says

    I think she’s a good mix! Sometimes I think John and sometimes I think Sherry. I think she makes a lot of the same expressions that Sherry makes. I have always wondered who you and your family think she looks like. Good to know.

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  25. Lisa says

    I think she resembles you a LOT. you both have fairly large mouths. (I promise I mean that in the kindest way possible – but you both have that Julia Roberts thing going on.) just as beautiful as her momma!

    by the way – this is my first comment on your site. been reading for months though! you guys are awesome.

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  34. Jessalyn says

    Definitely Sherry! I feel your pain, Sherry. No one thinks any of my children look like me, but the middle one really does.

    I remember reading in a study ages ago that people are more likely to say that a baby looks more like its father if the baby is still an infant, but by the age of 2, people will say the baby looks more like whichever parent it actually resembles more. Interesting stuff.

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    • Megan says

      That’s weird. I wonder if it has to do with the fact that you know who the mother is, but the paternity could technically be a question. It’s almost like people are subconsciously assuring the Dad that the baby is his.

    • ali says

      I read that too – that there is an evolutionary reason for it, the baby favors Daddy so Caveman Daddy will love and accept the baby as his!

    • stephanie says

      although not a scientific study, on Bones (the tv show) Brennan says that evolutionary, babies look like their fathers so that the fathers would know who their children were, and not desert them, which seems to make total sense.

  38. Jennifer says

    Such a precious little cutie. Sorry, John, but I’m going with “Team Sherry” on this one. You are such a lovely family!

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  41. Kelly says

    TEAM SHERRY! I definitely think she looks more like Sherry. As a mom to two daughters, I feel for ya…everyone says my girls look like their dad!

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  45. Kristen says

    I think she very closely resembles you Sherry. You and Clara have very similar features – big eyes and beautiful smiles!

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  46. KC says

    I really think she’s looking more and more like Sherry the older she gets. Some of her expressions from your recent posts have especially captured her mommy’s beautiful genes and facial features 100%! But I do see John in her too. I think it’s the hair :)

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  47. April Besth says

    Clara looks like Sherry {sorry John!}… I love how you incorporated your own baby photos in Clara’s bedroom. I was just looking at my mine & my husband’s on our fridge! Good idea!
    :-)

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  49. Sarah @ Redhead in Ruffled Flats says

    I see so much of Clara in your baby photo, Sherry! I think it’s really her eyes and mouth. It’s not so much in the photos you posted but from seeing photos and videos of her over time, I think she definitely looks more like you. Perhaps the fact that her hair is so light is why people say she looks more like John. Only time will tell!

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  50. Ashley@AttemptsAtDomestication says

    From family pictures of all of you together she looks more like John, but I can definitely see the resemblance between Sherry’s baby picture and Clara now.

    I love the magazine prints you used! I need to keep an eye out for some cute ones for my future photo wall!

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