nesting
I’m a little embarrassed to admit the wild hunt I had for a place to change diapers. It all started with a source-less photo on Pinterest of a changing pad in a shallow basket with handles. After several hours of fruitless querying DJ and I decided that this was a thing that did not exist. I’m fairly stubborn, though. I spent my spare time for days looking at image results for various types of basket. Eventually I discovered that the one in the sourceless photo is a Nantucket Shaker basket, made on a mold in China and at that time only available through a single eBay listing. Oh, and it cost the world.
I might have even paid the world for it after the obsessive search, except it only came in one size and that size was much too large. Still stubborn, I went looking for custom basket weavers. Several days and many e-mails later I found Theressa at Creatively Woven. She shared my enthusiasm for the idea immediately, but explained that a molded basket actually does cost the world for a reason. She offered to do something similar with her usual technique and a custom cut solid wood base. Handmade takes a while, so I waited. We exchanged e-mails every now and then so the wait didn’t seem so long.
Oh, it was worth the wait. The very custom basket arrived last week, and even with oversized shipping it was only about half the world. Then it took me a few days to make a changing pad and sew a few showercap-style flannel covers. My sister pointed out that this is a place where Very Bad Things will happen and a fancy place to change diapers is probably foolish. She may be right, but I’m excusing my foolishness as first-time mom naivete because I really love how it turned out. Now all I need is that baby.
(The empty/missing frames are for maternity/baby pictures. Kim of Bowtie Photography spent an afternoon after Christmas dealing with my smug gestating self, but that’s a different story.)
it looks just perfect, and even though bad things can happen on it, i think it’s worth it
Um… LOVE IT!!
Your nursery is so lovely! The basket is darling. And if Bad Things happen there, well, that’s why the baby’s clever mom made extra flannel covers, right?
Can I ask how much the final project cost? I am expecting in July and really want to do this. What size did you get etc?