Artsy

Jeff and I get a lot of questions on whether or not we've started the baby's room yet. The answer to this is….well….sort of. The future baby's room happens to be our only guest room, and while I'm very much looking forward to welcoming Baby Sweet Pea to our home, I'm still in mourning over the loss of a proper room to house our guests when they come to visit. We're in the process of planning some solutions to address this loss (read: on the hunt for a great sleeper sofa for the back room), but in the meantime I just can't bring myself to give up the guest room until the due date is much closer. Also, we plan to have the baby in our room for the first six months or so, and therefore I'm not really feeling an overwhelming sense of urgency to put up a crib.

However, that being said, we ARE pretty focused on what we want the room to look like when we actually get around to it. We've agreed to keep the color neutral and decorate with as many original pieces of art as possible. Mainly I figure this will be made up of photos that Jeff took around the house this summer, matted and framed in groupings, with the thought of presenting "home" in a different perspective.

And then, we hit the Uptown Art Fair, in all its glory. We were overwhelmed by all the art. We couldn't help ourselves. We just HAD to have a few quirky, well placed pieces for Baby T to feast her eyes upon. We found Anthony Pack's booth, and while we were first drawn to a piece like this:



We decided that perhaps, while whimsical and hilarious, it was a just a touch on the "I bring you nightmares when the lights are off" side for a baby. So we settled for this:



After that, we made our way through the booths, and finally landed on Allan Tegar's famous Bodyscapes collection, which we've been admiring for several years. I find Allan's art to be both provocative and hilarious, and Jeff has long wanted a few of the more iconic pieces for our house. We bought a couple prints for the bedroom, and then Jeff zeroed in on this:



How could this NOT hang in Sweet Pea's room? (Look closely, and you'll see that the hill the stork is standing on has a belly button...)