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Anonymous wrote:I hate words as decoration. So dumb.

Wait, so you don't tell people to "Eat" "Laugh" "Live" in your kitchen? How do they know what do do?

::snort:: YES. God. ::puke::

Anonymous wrote:So there's been a lot of talk about wooden letters, but what about decals like this:

I like it.

So there's been a lot of talk about wooden letters, but what about decals like this:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think it's that weird not to tell anyone the name until the baby is here - even your mom. Especially if she is critical. I think it's pretty smart.

People will say all kinds of rude things about names before the baby is born, trying to change your mind. Even if you don't change your mind, those things people say can sometimes taint the name a bit for you. They are much less likely to say rude things once the baby is here and formally named.

And it avoids in-fighting, especially when naming after family -- why are you naming after their side and not MY side. Blah, no thanks.

I don't think it's that weird not to tell anyone the name until the baby is here - even your mom. Especially if she is critical. I think it's pretty smart.

People will say all kinds of rude things about names before the baby is born, trying to change your mind. Even if you don't change your mind, those things people say can sometimes taint the name a bit for you. They are much less likely to say rude things once the baby is here and formally named.

I'm with the "I don't name them until I've met them" poster. We did put a cute sign on our first daughter's door a couple weeks later, but we just don't name our children in the womb.

It is a little strange that you are a person who does pick a name ahead of time yet refuses to share it.

The bigger question for me is why you feel so strongly about not telling YOUR MOM what name you have chosen.

Anonymous wrote:Done this for 3 of mine and will with the 4th. Not a teen mom, guess I am a redneck.

Me too! My kids (now 3 and 5) love having their names up. We also have pictures they've (gasp) painted themselves of their names on white paper in their rooms!

I'm pregnant with #3 and he'll get his name up too.

A craft-inclined relative made a very cute sampler for each of our kids, with their name, birth date, and whimsical embroidery such as flowers and cute animals. She prepared it so that she'd only have to add the date after the birth.

We display them proudly and our children love them. Yes, my son loves his sampler with flowers and cute animals. So does my daughter.

The classy, non-teem-momm, non-redneck crowd can clutch their pearl till the cows come home. We decided to go the way of what we enjoy and what makes us smile, not the way of what people think.

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Anonymous wrote:No. We aren't teen-moms or rednecks.

Way harsh, Tai. OP do whatever makes you happy. I don't think personally I'll put her whole name up, but my mom wants to paint a wooden letter of her first initial and put that up on the wall as part of a gallery wall or on the door to her room. I did not get the crafty gene so I'll let her run with that and anything else.

I just wanted to applaud the clueless reference here. That is all.

Love it!

Don't love decals, but something like the wooden letters pp posted or a sign from eTsy etc could work.

I got hand-painted letters off of Etsy. They are beautiful. I didn't keep my baby's name a secret from my mom though. Agree with others to just put them up after baby is born.

Anonymous wrote:Oh my god, people, it's a child's room -- it's going to be tacky in a year or two anyway! You can try to make it "classy" and then your kid gets some Elmo poster in a coloring book someone gives her as a gift, and before you know it, that's up on the wall.

I have always considered the nursery decorations for me. The baby doesn't care. So I do what I find appealing, not thinking about it as something that will look different when they are older. We also moved the kids out of the nursery and reused it for the next baby, so it stayed pretty much the same.

as for the person that says Pottery Barn does it... when I have seen it as part of a professionally decorated room, it looks ok. But I have never seen one in real life that looks well done. Usually the parents don't get the spacing on the letters right, not totally level, on some ugly curve, and/or the letters they pick out from some craft store just aren't nice looking.

There's a lot of things like that, aren't there? A professional decorator can make them look nice but when average Joe tries to replicate it, they just don't have the same attention to detail and/or access to the same quality products to make it look nice.

This is the theory:


This is the reality for most people who aren't decorators - if you look at pro pics vs real pics, you can tell most people don't have access to the nice font letters or don't think to go custom order them. OP, if you do it, get a modern font off Etsy, not what the craft store Sells.

Anonymous wrote:I hate words as decoration. So dumb.

Wait, so you don't tell people to "Eat" "Laugh" "Live" in your kitchen? How do they know what do do?

I also don't understand the trend, but I don't have a problem with it. Not my style, but it's not like I'd think less of a person who did it.

I'd just wait to put it up til after the baby is born, that way you don't have to keep people out of the nursery (because that would be the weird thing - No! you can't see the baby's room!!)