I am with you, Socks. I am trying to reduce the stash I have made up of my skeins and what I inherited from my sister and a friend because I ran out of storage space. So I have been knitting up a storm just to use up what colors I have. The Baby Surprise Jackets use up all sorts of color odds and ends. I have used up a few variegated colors I stashed for years unable to find a pattern that I liked for them, but they made nice BSJs. We have new babies being planned for the next year or so, and I have a head start on possible gifts this way. The trouble with BSJs is that I really don't know how well I like the color combinations till it is done.

Well congratulations!!!! How exciting for you!!!!! Were you thinking of incorporating a theme on the walls or in the bedding and accessories? I think I might keep the walls simple, and leave your options open for changes at the next birthdays, Christmas, etc. If your grandson falls in love with Thomas the Train for example, you can surprise him with a Thomas quilt one day -but that isn't so easy with the walls being part of the theme. And I can imagine your little granddaughter in about two years, voicing her opinion and wanting horses, or princesses or some such a thing, LOL! But if you do want to do something on the wall, maybe wall decals, which are easily changed out. I've included a link to Etsy, one of my favorite sites, for you to browse.... Have fun!!! Here's a link to a pretty neutral colors for a nursery. http://www.ohdeedoh.com/ohdeedoh/nursery-colors-2007-entries/entry-8-babyos-ode-to-color-034770 By the way, what are their names? Here is a link that might be useful: Etsy

One way to paint with resale in mind and still have color in rooms is to paint the most difficult ones in colors considered "acceptable" for your market and to reserve the color you want for easier-to-paint rooms. As an example, our master bedroom has a beamed ceiling, with the beams set into the walls. That means that there are three wall surfaces per beam requiring cutting in. Sixteen long beams, including one at each end of the room running across the length. This room had been an uninteresting white, and I redid it in a neutral mushroom color. For the cutting in required around the beams -- white to mushroom means two coats, so that worked out to the equivalent of 64 beams to meticulously paint around. Part of the wall in which five or six beams were set was on the other side of an open stairwell. So, regardless of what other colors I might conceivably have envisioned this room, there was no way it was going to be anything other than a classic, warm neutral! I do agree with posters who argue for painting for yourself. I knew within weeks of moving into our former house that it was a huge, huge mistake. Roughly 18 years later, we moved. The whole time, I lived with neutrals that weren't particularly interesting because every year I thought: THIS is the year in which we move. But are neutral rooms always necessary for resale? Someone bought an 18th C. stone house on the river with the intention of reselling. I saw it under its previous owner and was charmed by its quirks and character. The new owner has certainly improved it both structurally and mechanically, and floors are new, as is the paint job. Alas, there is absolutely no charm left. Every wall is an off white, all the trim is white...the owner may have thought potential buyers would easily envision their own things in these spaces, but I thought that every room required a new paint job. Isn't that back to square one? By contrast, one of the best real estate agents in the area lived near our former house. She sold her house very quickly. The outside was purple, with deep lavender trim. I recall a dark red room, or maybe it was orange. Another room was a bright green or bright blue....Granted, the town is one in which people want to live, not too many places come on the market, and the market itself was very different. But still...orange...blue...in fact, there may not have been a single neutral room in the place. I think the sunroom was a dark green. If you crave color but think you might want to move, just remember, too: with some exceptions, painting doesn't take very long.

I believe in the bold, contrasting color for stimulating the babies eyes and brain activity.... I used a bold Disney Towel to place on the ceiling above the crib. It was a bold Mickey Mouse on a huge beach towel with red and black as background color on towel. When my son laid in crib the contrasting colors of towel kept him busy. He's now 22 years old. Been a straight A student thru high school and is a junior at University of Cincinnati majoring in engineering. Just adding lil more info.