1,052 Ways to get Hubby Involved in Decor

Hubby really couldn't care less about the details in nursery decor. His philosophy is simple. He wants Yankees, he wants it to look good, and he wants me to spend the least amount of money possible. These are terms I can accept.
In the last post, I talked about my photographer friend that matted the Yankee pictures for the prince's room. His name is Jared and he takes amazing pictures. You can look at some here. Jared knows of my husband's love for all things Yankees and has recently given us some pretty great gifts that I wanted to share!

This is the first one he gave us. Hubby looked at the sign and its creator adoringly and simply said, "That's a long way to Heaven." Jared looked up the distance from our house to Yankee Stadium and it's exactly 1,052 miles. Love <3

He gave us the second happy last night. This one was to commemorate Derek Jeter's 3,000th career hit. This is a particularly tender subject for my husband. We were driving back from the beach and Hubs was watching the play-by-play on his phone when Jeter got the hit. Not only was it his 3,000th hit, but it was a home run...and he went 5 for 5 that day...and Hubs missed it. Needless to say, Hubby liked this gift very much.

Such thoughtful creations. No surprise to us, that's the kind of guy our Jared is.

By the way, the baseball rugs that are serving as the background for our new treasures, were found by my BFF, on clearance for $2.50 each. Here is a better pic.

They're probably 2.5 feet in diameter. Four of them, for the prince's nursery, for $10. Holy Yankee love.

We {heart} Yankees

Meet my prince.

Adorable, right?

By the way, that awesome picture was taken by the lovely Ashley D. Check out her site http://www.ashleydphotos.com/

Anyway...back to my prince. My husband and I both love Yankees baseball. So when we found out we were expecting a boy, we knew we wanted a Yankees themed nursery. I googled 'Yankees nursery' and found this. I love it. Being the DIYer that I am, I thought that I could probably do something similar. And so the quest began.

The small town we live in has exactly one thrift store. It's open on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8 -11 am. That's it. You have to really plan for a visit to our thrift store. It's not very big either, so the variety is not great, but I always go in with an open mind. On this trip, I walked in and went right to the picture frames (like I usually do). There's always a lot of cheap plastic frames or poorly made wood frames. Rarely do I find a decent wood frame with the glass in tact. This day, I found two!

I know what you're thinking. The tacky, sun-faded mailbox print is a real head-turner. I would tend to agree with you. The nice lady at the thrift store let me leave the building with these for $5. I could have hugged her.

During the same visit, I came across this book:

I wanted this, if for no other reason, to have on a shelf in the prince's room. I realize our son will grow up knowing only of the new Yankee Stadium, and I'd like to be able to show him what it used to look like. The book had pictures of all the other MLB ballparks as well, but I don't really care about that. There was a great panoramic picture of Yankee Stadium. I was sold. And so was the book. For $3.

I primed and painted the frames black, pulled the panoramic pictures from the book, and handed it all over to a photographer and good friend of mine, that wheels and deals in matting and framing all the time. I had to trade a lifetime of servitude (actually just have to crochet a few new photo props for him), but he matted the pictures in the frames for me. He is awesome. No, really...go look.

This is not a very good picture of the finished product. I promise to take better photos for the complete nursery reveal, but this is what my thrift store treasures morphed into.

They are going to look amazing in the prince's room. I can't wait to get it all put together. Stay tuned :)