Finding Art for My Baby's Room
Shop the 40+ pieces I obsessively bookmarked along the way.
I’m determined to finally hang some art on the walls of my son’s bedroom, now that he’s been around for almost a year. I’m no art connoisseur, but I’ve really enjoyed searching Etsy and eBay for vintage pieces and items from small businesses or artists that fit together in a strangely harmonious way.
My “starter” piece was an oddball painting of a panda bear that I made in elementary school that my mom had the foresight to save. I’m planning to get it framed and hang it along with a hodgepodge of other pieces on the bare wall behind my son’s changing table. Over the last ten months or so, I’ve collected the following to go with it: a vintage “C” animal cartoon, a vintage embroidered doily (this is my most recent purchase and I’m going to reframe it since I’m not sold on the maroon mat), a bobbin frame with a liberty mat from this Etsy seller, a vintage cross stitch alphabet sampler, and a vintage turtle needlepoint (also planning to reframe this since the backside isn’t in great shape).
I’m pretty sure I’m done with the collecting part of this process now — lest the nursery walls start to groan — but there are so many incredible (and mostly one-of-a-kind) things I bookmarked along the way that still need to go to good homes. I’ve organized them below in the following categories:
Flora, Fauna, and Friendly Critters (vintage embroidered strawberries, hand-painted lady bugs, a perfect mushroom poster…)
Ceramics (hand-painted plates, frames, and a rare not-cheesy custom name sign)
Alphabet Samplers (one of my favorite vintage nursery art categories — I think these are so sweet to sprinkle in alongside more distinctly modern pieces)
Animals (a charming vintage needlepoint Noah’s ark, a gorgeous green lion, a sweet sheep in a hand-painted frame…)
Children’s Book Illustrations (vintage Beatrix potter, Winnie the Pooh, Babar the elephant…)
Miscellaneous (everything from a collection of framed vintage Valentine’s day postcards to a quintet of antique hot air balloon paintings)
And almost everything is under $100. Happy browsing!
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Flora, Fauna, and Friendly Critters
