Nursery Reno Dilemma & Check out the Preggie Ticker! ——>

I dunno if you’re as shocked as I am, but I’m 34 and a HALF weeks pregnant already!  Sometimes I feel like it’s dragging on (especially at this “uncomfortable stage”) and other times I realize how fast it truly is going by too.

All very very exciting nonetheless!  I’m feeling much better the last few days and I think that in part has to do with getting busy on getting the nursery done!  It’s so fun and exciting and I can’t wait to share it with you when it’s all complete!  I ran into a bit of a snag with the paint though.  I accepted an offer from Dutch Boy paint to send me their paint to use in the nursery since I was going to be sharing it with you all on the blog.  I thought it was a fun idea and one thing preparing for motherhood has taught me is to save pennies where you can!  We still have a crib to procure!

Well, the paint has arrived and I am now realizing that I kind of sort of messed up on how many of which colours to get. 😀  They generously offered to send me four buckets for the purpose which was more than enough for the size of the room, because I was anticipating each bucket to be bigger for some reason.  Because of this and because I am using two colours in the nursery, I figured since two buckets should do the job (one of each colour), I could also pick our two “other” colours to use for another project rather than be left with “leftover paint” (whenever that would be). 

Well it turns out I didn’t realize how small each bucket was and it looks like I won’t have enough of one of the colours for the nursery.  No problem I says! I’ll just go out and BUY some more, right?!  Well, not so fast, as it turns out, you can’t buy Dutch Boy Paint in Canada!!  Huh??  Wha??  I could have sworn that we could!  We have Sherwin Williams who owns and makes Dutch Boy, but I contacted them and they don’t sell it in Canada.

So it looks like I will have to colour match with another brand if the need arises (which I’m pretty sure it will) which makes me feel bad because:

• I would have had enough if I didn’t start getting all these wild crazy ideas that I would have all of this “leftover” paint and how to make the most of it.
• They sent me the eggshell finish which is perfect, but it’s this really neat “Refresh” product that apparently helps with odour control with baking soda, so we shall see if the finish on another brand (hopefully Sherwin Williams to keep it as close as possible), but I feel bad bringing in another brand since they were good enough to send me more than enough to begin with!

I’m totally pulling the “baby brain” card here and hope that Dutch Boy will understand! :-S