I also bought a dresser at Ikea that was the perfect size and shape, but unfortunately only came in black. A black dresser was not going to work for the light and bright nursery that I wanted so I primed it and painted it a bright yellow. I had to do several coats on it as the black still showed through (I think I did 2 coats of primer and 3-4 coats of yellow). I repainted a shelf that a friend gave me a few years ago to a bright white (it was a dirty white before) and I also touched up the changing table and crib with the white paint. I did all of this in about a week after working half days teaching I would come home and work on the nursery and also stay up late after the boys were in bed.
The next weekend I started to work on Landon's nursery art. His "theme" was going to be the Alphabet, so I had been collecting letters for months, plus I bought these vinyl letters that matched his bedding perfectly on Amazon.
I had bought a bunch of Ikea frames and I painted and embellished them with scrapbook paper, buttons, etc.
I put this little lion in this shadowbox frame from Ikea.
I reused some old frames that used to hang in my childhood bedroom too. I loved the color of the frame but I wanted to update the picture and mat so it would look cute in the nursery.
Since it had a double mat, I just took out the pink mat and kept the white one.
Then I printed up a silhoette of a giraffe and cut it out of teal scrapbook paper.
I thought this yellow textured scrapbook paper would work well so I used that as the backing behind the mat.
And I glued my teal giraffe onto the yellow paper.
The completed product!
I did an elephant too.
Trying to reuse another frame.
I started to hang up some of my alphabet letters on the nursery wall (all of these pictures were taken at night so they aren't the best quality).
I used a lot of these Command strips to lesson the damage to the walls, but I also used nails for most of the frames.
This is how I started figuring out how I would place the letters on the wall. I did lay it out on the floor first, but it was kind of hard to figure out exactly how it would look on the wall and I didn't have a lot of time to really spend figuring this out perfectly. I was starting to get mild braxton hicks contractions and I was very worried that Landon would come out before this nursery was finished! So I placed the first few and last few letters on the wall to figure out how I would place the other letters in-between.
The other side of the room with some of the frames that I worked on and a shelf that was already in the room. I actually would like to someday replace this shelf and brackets and get something a little chunkier and wider in it's place. But for now it will do. 
I ordered these alphabet cards and put them above the changing table so that Landon has something fun to look at while he's getting his diaper changed.
The almost finished project! I'll be back to show the finished nursery soon!
