Tween girl room

There are almost 5 years between her and the little sis.

One is 9 and the other, 4,  and the 9 doesn't play with toys so much anymore.

She would clean her room before school and by afternoon, it was a mess again.

Frustration.

Time for her own room.

Time for the fighting to stop.

 

 

 It all started with this little nightstand.

The Golfer's G-ma left it to us when she downsized from her house to an assisted living facility.

I follwed a Pinterest tutorial for making my own chalk paint.

Meh.

It came out alright in the end, but I would rather lay down the $$$ for the Annie Sloan.

I do love the color, however.

Periwinkle

And, the chalkpaint sticks to the hardware.

Bonus.

I really like the monochromatic look.

 Then, I scored this beauty off of Craigslist.

This rarely happens to me.

I am usually beat to the deal.

She said there were approximately 20 people interested if I wasn't going to take it.

Are you kidding me?

 

You people on the east coast, in the south and in the midsouth should really appreciate your abundance of "junk."

 

 

I wrapped it up tight with tape and hung it up to paint before I realized that I didn't have a before pic.

The part that is covered is actually wood.

 



 

Ahhh

much better.

 

And, after I had handled all of that newspaper and had left it on the floor in a pile,

guess who decided to crawl on out.

YIKES!

I have to give myself a little credit.

I am getting much braver about stomping the little buggers.

I didn't even hesitate.

 

These little owls were picked up at Ross

so cute.

And they're sitting on the piano,

which will stay in her room.

We don't have anywhere else to put it in the house,

and she's the one learning to play right now anyway.

 

Here's what we've come up with so far.

The gold mirrors were thrifted a little at a time from Goodwill and yardsales.
I found the bed on Craigslist....another lucky find for this area.
The pillows and throw were super cheap from Steinmart on holiday sales.

 

There are some things I'm not crazy about, but for now, it is clean and new.

She loves it.

I still need curtains, and I would love to slit the corners and make that bedskirt all ruffley.

One thing at a time.

 



 

I found this cute little dresser at an antique mall here in the valley.

It's just the right size for the space.

I would love the end table and the dresser to match, but I can't seem to part with either color at the moment, so they'll stay this way until I can come up with a solution.

 

She's such a good girl.

Rolls right out of bed in the morning,

gets dressed

and hops right onto the piano.

6:30 am people.

I can't believe she's 4!  She can't believe she's 4....she keeps telling others that she is 3.  The pajama party was a huge hit.  The girls loved it, and now Paige is asking for a similar party for her 9th birthday. 

 

 



 



The best part was the living room tent complete with twinkling lights.

 

 

The first thing they did was find the Barbies to bring into the tent

 

 

 

 

 

Breakfast cupcakes...vanilla with blue frosting as requested by the 4 year old

(the bacon is fruit stripe gum,

the egg is a candy melt with an m&m in the center

the pancakes are fortune-like cookies from World Market

the syrup is real )

 

 

 

 

 Little miss here in the pink nightgown would have nothing to do with the sausage.

It all evened out.  The little one in the blue ate both portions gladly!

 

 

 

Beauty sleep masks... more entertaining than anything.

 

 

 

Fruit loop necklaces

(Don't they just look like they're engaged in the most girly converstion!)

 

 

 

 

Mom, please can we open the presents????

How can I say "not yet"  to that cute face.

 

 

 

AWWWW!!!   Isn't it pretty!

 

 

 

Little miss in pink was so proud of the gift that she brought...how cute!

 

  

 I think little miss in blue wanted to take this one back home with her!

 

 

 

Fort kits for party favors.

 

 

We told her that the bacon on the cupcakes was real.  Ha!

No sausage or bacon for this one.

 

 

 

 

 

mmmm...good!

 

 

 

Colonel Mustard

So FOREVER ago, I posted a bit about Colonel Mustard, my $5 Goodwill find.  He has been made over.  My intent was to do it myself.  My husband calmly and kindly convinced me to hire Miss Ginger to do it for $60.00.  He is a smart man.  Once I had gutted the Col.  I realized that putting him back together was going to be much more than I had anticipated.  $60.00 was a small price to pay.  I love the result....the professional-looking result.

I was worried about the tufting on the chevron, but it looks great.

Colonel Mustard's new look

I've had a few spare minutes on my hands. . . it's rare.  I decided to tear apart my model from the blog header above, the old yellow chair.  It's innards and bones are now taking up space in my office.  I'm afraid that this may lead to a new blog header in the not-so-distant future.  Maybe a different old chair.  I have several to choose from.

Colonel Mustard is inevitably getting a makeover. 

I think I've finally settled on the chevron stripes.  We'll see if it ends up this way. . . but the visual sure makes my day.  Hopefully this all works out.  Wish me luck.  I've never reupholstered anything this detailed.

Everything from the board is already in the room, except for the chair. . . .(insert climactic music here) DUN, DUN, DUNNN!  If that doesn't leave you with a foreboding feeling in your gut, I don't know what will.

You may never see Colonel Mustard again.

Baby doll bed

I'm pretty sure that I have adequately covered the adoration that I hold for Ana's blog. This plan isn't from her blog, but the ideas now forming in my hubby's head, I will gladly attribute to Ana's brilliant idea-sharing blog. She has plans for a doll bed on her blog, but I didn't neccessarily want the farmhouse doll bed. Ours is a more simple version. It came from a rough little 15-minute plan. He put it all together for me in 2 hours the night before my shoot. I painted it and sanded it and prettied it up. We work well together.

I had been dreaming of a newborn shoot with a little doll bed. My sweet hubby killed 2 birds with one stone here. Photoshoot, check. Happiest little daughter on the earth, check.

You see, in my 1600 square foot house, my photo accessories have to fit into the decor. I don't have storage room for these goodies, so I make them work around the house.

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3 year old birthday party {water fun}

We had a great little party for Morgan on Saturday. Her birthday was actually on Sunday. On Sunday she was so confused when people said "happy birthday" or called to sing to her.

Saturday morning she got to go to Mabel's birthday party. They were born 4 days apart. Then in the afternoon, Mabel came to Mo's party. Pretty good trade off I'd say. She loved her water party. . . especially the crab cupcakes. tutorial found here. The other kids loved the watermelon shark. Tutorial found here. Mo was afraid of the picture of the shark online, so I tried to make mine smile. Let's just say that things could have gone better. Overall, it turned out really cute though.

watermelon sharkcrabby cupcakes - I was wishing that my sister, Marilyn could come help me save my runny butter cream. Apparently 110 degrees and butter cream don't really get along.

loving every minute of the happy birthday song.blowing out the candledevouring those yummy cupcakes

There actually were adults at the party too, but who wants to see that when you can see endless photos of cute kiddies with blue frosting faces!

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