A Vogue Idea

Judging from my previous post, you can probably tell we are really excited to have a little girl entering our nest in October!  And little girls no doubt mean pink.  But, while I like pink and all, I am not totally the pink, ruffly, lace-y kinda girl.  My personal favorite color in green. I am not a super jewelry person or wear a ton of make-up.  But I love love love love style.  Always have.  I am borderline obsessed.  I like fashion and design like none other.  I wish that I had more time, energy and a cuter figure to stylize myself better.  And I love a styled home.  My favorite blogs are the home DIY ones.  So, of course, I have already started day dreaming about baby Scarlett's room.  This is semi-pointless.  We are a co-sleeping family for at least 6 months.  It is easier to nurse and with Porter, it just worked better for our family. But, this blog post is not rooted in reality. This is a day dream of sorts, so enjoy my jaunt away from what is into what could be. This is an eventual.  We aren't even sure how we will configure our bedrooms (we have 3 and a loft..... do we lose our guest room for her room? do they share? Hmmmm). See... reality not so fun. Back to the girl room stuff.

My point is, with baby Scarlett, while she may have a lot of pink, she won't have a pastel explosion in her room.  I cannot stand what I like to call the "marsh mellow" look.  The one where it looks like pastel pink exploded everywhere, there are tons of stuffed animals, bubble letters and lace. Blech.  Just not my style. But, I want it to be girly, just not quite so baby-y (like that word invention?!).  First I thought color schemes.  Brown and pink....... nope, too popular.  Pink and green.... love it, again fairly popular.  Purple.... maybe. But I love crisp and bold.  Even in a baby room.  I loved bright primary colors for Porter.  I let my mind wander (and we are talking about all this mind wandering happening the DAY I found out "it" was a "she". Mildly obsessed... maybe.  Again, we aren't in reality right now.  Enjoy.) and I have always loved fashion magazines.  Particularly Vogue.  I just love the photography.  I have loved them since I was a little girl.  I remembered that old vintage vogue covers used to be kind of cartoon like and not as edgy.  Light bulb!  Quick Google search and I came up with this.  Vintage Vogue. Cirque 1916.  My inspiration piece.



I just love the whimsical nature of it.  And so I thought doing a navy-ish blue, crisp white and pink.  Not hot pink, not pastel pink, more like a bubble gum pink.  I just love it.  Cute, fun, girly.  Kirklands also has really cute wire dress forms that I want to get for shelves and maybe some vintage mirrors.  I love the whole Parisian chic thing.  There are actually several that I found that I liked, so I may actually do a gallery wall above her crib.  I am going with a white crib and mabe simple navy blue bedding/sheets.  Here are some of my other favorites that are in the same realm as this one. 



So, eventually, I hope to see this fantasy come to light.  I would like to print off some of these gorgeous covers and frame them.  I am gonna look for (or do myself) a shabby chic, distressed changing table.  I have lots of ideas in my head about how I see it coming together.  It is so fun to daydream about.  I already LOVE having a girl!  And even if it is not the most practical thing, I will do her room the same as I did Porter's.  Bit by bit and on the cheap.  You can still have stylish space withour forking over tons o cash.  So this is my little jaunt from reality.  My style haven for me and my little Scarlett girl!