girl's room tour

Hey every buddy,

I know there are few of you out there ready to see pictures posted of the NEW place.

Well too darn bad.  I still haven't finished the "old" house tour!

Let me tell you what.  The first few days we settled in, the work went quickly - and the house came along nicely.  Things got put away with relative ease, and whatever didn't, we have an extra room to stick the boxes of books and craft supplies - to get to on our own time.  And, the house started to feel like ours almost immediately.  There is open space here, old windows, lots of sun coming in - all the things we associate with "home".

And then I went for a second trip back and grabbed the rest of what was left behind...  Oh you know - the stuff we either didn't truly NEED or care about enough to want to take on the first trip?  And now it's a mess again.  -_-  And my feet hurt.  And I feel like it's started back where we were last week.

So it's a process, but hopefully - this time next week, I will feel again where I felt this time last week.  And in this way we will move forward by moving backward.  See?

It's clear I'm delirious from hurt feet and heavy lifting and the first-day-homeschooling-jitters.  So let's get to the girl's room tour, because I have pretty pictures!  (And I truly hope to write more about moving in the near future, because I do have so much to write about).

Such a girl's Room.  Just about my favorite room in that house, even though it was the smallest.  It's oh so easy to fill a little girl's room with birdies and flowers, and lights, and sweet stuff.  So I did just what was easy.

Okay, so there's a door there behind that bed.  In my defense, if you'll scroll down, you will see that there are three doorways to this room.  (one doorway being this one, in which the picture is being taken FROM - I'm standing in it, but you don't really see a picture of it.)  We felt the room looked best with the beds facing this direction, and the kids wanted more room, so we just covered that doorway right up.  

The bed on the left was mine when I was a little girl, and my mum handed it down when I had a little girl of my own.  We purchased the bed on the right to match but not match.  I think it matches but not matches quite well, don't you?

The art is something I've been working on a while, and it's neeeeearly done, but we moved so I didn't get a chance to finish it for the girl's room tour photos - (which was, of course, the original plan).  I'll finish it one of these days.  I remember thinking and thinking about what I would want to paint for them.  What words would I want to convey to them that they would wake up in the morning and see, and read right before they went to bed at night.  Could it be "You are my sunshine"?  Would it be a Bible verse? But, it was the phrase "You are loved" that just seemed to keep popping back up in my mind.  As important as Bible verses are, this really is the whole message, isn't it?  So it just seemed to encompass it all.

This beautiful art of the girl looking up at the sky with the shield and the sword with the dragon silhouette in the clouds is from Elly McKay on Etsy.  I absolutely fell head over heels in love with her shop when coming across it months ago, and sat at my computer and "ooh"ed and "aah"ed at all the imagination and whimsy put into these prints.  She uses a unique method of creating her art, which you can find information about on her shop profile.

Can you see that the floors are purple?  This is actually a purple tinted stain, rather than a paint, and we just love it.  They, (and also the dragonfly clips clipped to the bed you see two photos up on the right) were actually inspired by Coraline's room in the movie, "Coraline".  Do you see the similarities?  The clothespin dragonflies are on the left, the purple stained floor on the right.

I know parents everywhere have differing opinions about the macabre aspects of this movie, but I've loved and respected the artistry of this movie and the attention to detail since the first popcorn inhaling, toe curling time watching it.  For me, it is breathtaking, and my all time favorite children's movie.  Yes, it's a little darker than most of the things I allow the girls to watch.  Other parents are probably right about this movie, but I just simply love it and love to share it with them, and sometimes that's all the excuse I need to bend the rules a little.  Suffice it to say, I have never offered myself to others as a parenting mentor.  :)

And here's this one again, just because it's my fave.   :)

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Our little gal this weekend was invited to go to a Fall festival with her best friend so we had to come up with a last minute-y costume.

All our craft stuff is packed right now, except the paint supplies - which seemed to be staring right at us as we were pondering ideas.   So this is what came out of that stare down.

I know, I know.  I've thought it, too.  It's a little bit obnoxious when the parent's dress their kid up in the costume THEY would want to wear, rather than what the kid wants to wear.  But let me explain - I have a four part argument to justify myself:

ONE - I think if I have to put together ONE more princess costume, I will cry.  Not even in a dignified, I look so sweet and fragile you feel sympathy for me kind of way - but a full on, unabashed, openly weeping - cry.
TWO - She loved this.  She really did.  In fact, we had another costume idea for Thursday night, and she liked this so much that she just said she wanted to just wear this another time.  Which means I have one less project to do during packing time, so done and DUN.
THREE -  The apron you see here was cut out of a $2.00 dish towel, and everything else we had lying around.  She WON a $5.00 gift card to Wal-Mart for a costume contest, which means we actually MADE 3.00 off this costume.  And that just makes me feel smart.

AND FINALLY -  It kind of reminds me of ye costumes of olde - you know?  The ones where kids dressed up with whatever was lying around.  Time was we had little hobos, toilet paper mummies, and sheet ghosts all slinging pillowcases to gather their candy (instead of the $15 blingy bucket from Target).   It seems there was a day when there was no buycostumes.com, and the parents half the time didn't even know what the kids were going to dress up as until the kids themselves used their imaginations and started pulling a red and white striped shirt out of the bottom of their closet and drawing mustaches on their face with marker to transform a pirate.

I do long for a charming, simpler time that those traditions were more common (Of course I would say that. I just dressed my kid up like a free spirited artist - I'm clearly a hipster.) -  but, this feels like we touched a little bit of what it might have been like to be a part of that.  I just like it.

featured on "simple moments stick"

Hey guys!

Just checkin' in once more to let you guys know our little cheetah was featured over here on Simple Moments Stick.  Thanks for featuring the blog, Susannah!  You've been a great blog friend!

On a side note, we should come up with some lingo for a friend you meet through blogging.  How about a "frog"? You know...friend from a blog?  Thanks, Susannah for being a great FROG!  :)  (Yep, it's gonna be a thing.)

Christmas Photo Dump

Hello everybody!  I hope everybody had a Merry Christmas!  We're not quite ready just yet for it to be over.  We are still enjoying sparkling lights and leftover Christmas carrot cake over here.

Here's a quick photo dump.  As usual, I got busy enough that I forgot to pack my camera along, so I probably could have taken more pictures - but here are some of the nicer ones from the last week or so.

 

 

Don't they look like girl "lost boys" in their new animal fur beanie deals?

  

 

That's me doing a few of my favorite things - laying under a quilt and ignoring the groceries I should be putting away.

 

 

Well, I guess it's on to the New Year now, eh?  I don't really celebrate because I love sleep so much.   I like to joke that, for me, staying awake to celebrate makes just as much sense as fasting to have fun.  But I do enjoy making new year's goals, so I am excited for the new year in that way.  Plus every year just gets better and better, so I am hoping 2013 won't be a rebel, and will just follow suit. 

Bring.
It.
On.

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