Pendant lamps for Tray's room

This morning we were up by 8am to head to the gym. While Matt was in his spin class, I took a little 3 mile jog in the early morning sunshine.  It was absolutely beautiful but very cold (40 degrees)!  I love my morning run with the Olympic mountains and Lake Union as a backdrop, even if I do run a lot slower than I used to!

After our usual Saturday morning after-gym routine (Whole Foods for iced coffee and a breakfast burrito), we spent several hours cleaning and purging.  It seems like we make a run to the Goodwill at least once a month these days!  Next, I got started on my to-do list while Matt made fresh baguettes! 

During our last trip to IKEA, we bought 2 different lamp pendants to try out in the nursery:  the knappa and the skimra (don't you love IKEA product names?).  Although we have hideous can lighting throughout our house, we recently discovered an adapter that converts a can light into a pendant.   We've already hung pendants using this adapter in 6 different places in our house.  So, after our neighbor, Ter, generously delivered his ladder up 2 flights of stairs to the nursery last night, we were all set to turn the 2 can lights in Tray's room into pendants too! 

Without even trying the skimra shades, we decided on the knappa shades.  We weren't sure if 2 knappa shades would be too much for the small room but with vaulted ceilings, we found the room was easily able to handle both.  Using the adapter really is the simplest process.  It takes all of about 5 or 10 minutes to do the conversion (and the more times you've done it, the easier it is). 

Here's the finished product:

We had previously installed a dimmer, which I recommend in every room!

And that's the latest update from the nursery!  Have a nice weekend!