Transformation

This is our guest bedroom. The one with the closet full of junk. Remember my hoarding post? Yeah, so we did finally get that room cleaned up and it ended up looking like this.

Yeah there was a bed under all the junk. I was as shocked as anyone (just kidding - sort of).

When I started thinking about how to decorate the room, I knew I didn't want to change the paint color. You can't really see it but the room is painted a sort of light, bright green. Makes perfect sense right? It's not lime green, thank goodness, but it wasn't really the color we were going for when we painted the room. We were aiming for more of a sage green, but then we started painting and it wasn't really sage. However, being the wise economical people we are, we didn't just buy a little bit of paint to sample the color, we bought enough for the whole room, so we painted the whole room. It's all or nothing with us . . . that's how we roll. All the while I've always thought that I would love the color for a little girl's room, and so that was my starting point.

My other inspirations, so to speak, were these little birds.

These are called love birds. I've had them since I was a little girl. They were a gift from my best friend growing up, Happy. I've probably had them for twenty years, and I want them to be a part of my little girl's room. Aren't they just precious? (you must say that with a really thick southern drawl)

So I started browsing catalogs and the internet thinking it would take a while to find what I wanted. I don't like things to be too modern. I like a nice mixture of classic and country cottage. Low and behold one day I opened the PB Kids catalog and hallelujah, there staring me in the face was the perfect quilt for my little girl's room. The story of how I ended up buying the quilt can be found here. Long story short, I got a good deal on it. I decided to go ahead and order the shams, a pillow, and a lampshade to match. I have a fear of the stuff I need being discontinued. It happened with Andrew's bathroom. I bought the Dr. Seuss (One fish, Two Fish) themed shower curtain from PB Kids, fully intending to add the accessories. However, when I went back to get the accessories, they no longer had them. Grrrrr (exactly how many letter "r"s should I put on grrrrr?). Thank goodness the outlet still had some. So I stocked up. Anyway, sorry I wandered off on a bunny trail, I put everything on the bed this afternoon to get the full effect.

Obviously, there is still work to be done. The pictures from Hawaii hanging above the bed will have to find a new home as will the treadmill you can't see. The t.v. will have to go too because I have this thing about having televisions in kid's bedrooms. If your kids have one, I totally don't care, it's just a personal preference of ours.
Thankfully, we have a lot of time to get the room complete, but when our little lady finally does get to come home believe me her room will be ready.

And now, because I can, I'm going to leave you with some pictures. We got to hang out some friend's of ours Saturday night for barbecue, testimonies, and some good gospel music by the river. It was a lot of fun. And Andrew thoroughly enjoyed all the desserts.

Sorry ladies, neither one is on the market :)