introducing....the crib!

the crib finally arrived this past weekend and we put it together last night.  i woke up this morning just dying to try out all the nursery bedding i made for evan.

and then.....ack!  the crib skirt did not fit right! 

because i made continuous pleats at the corners, there was no place for the skirt to hang down because of the metal brackets that were attached to the crib.  basically, i needed to cut the pleats at the corners right down the middle so that the crib skirt could drop.  easy fix, right?

not so much.

the metal braces holding the mattress support to the crib are a couple of inches wide, meaning the skirt would not fit right at the corners.  in my desperation, i pondered just stapling the crib skirt to the bottom of the frame and calling it a day, but instead i cut the pleats and it fits well enough for now.

the bumper pads fit perfectly, except that because the crib we bought has a thick wooden piece in the middle, the ties at the middle would need to be moved to either side.  i did this by removing the middle ties and adding some extra ties to each side of the middle part of the bumper pad.  no problem at all.

here is the finished product...