big girl room

some snippets of my big girls, new big girl room...

mmm unironed pillow case and all.. please forgive me, nope, not even going to pretend that i would normally iron pillow cases...don't.

She specifically wanted no other color than white (mamma's girl) in her room but we decided that we would incorporate her love of the good old doily into the theme for a little contrast

Her collection of pretties on her bed side table..

 the rock she made and wrote on without guidance, her own words, her own ideas..

and the fake flowers that she made me buy for her years ago.. 

I think she was 6 years of age...and begged me to buy her white fake flowers... 

The lamp she already had, we just hot glued a doily to it and made a sweet little doily flower and pinned it to the lamp..
The pearls - her addition after mumma had finished, only just noticed they were there when writing this post..

Glass jars from the op shop with doily's hot glued on..

mumma's rushed attempt at a little pillow for her bed... Don't look too closely.. I can sew but I am not careful, not patient and like a speed demon on that machine, eager to cross the finish line... I am learning to slow it down...

 my beautiful "big girl"

finding her groove, knowing what she wants..

I have also painted her buffet in her room and when styled I'll post it...

It was a little disastrous actually... I decided to mix my own hue for the cabinet...
I had to paint it twice, the first color was hideous.
She was not overly impressed with the second color either,  I coined the color - "The White Verandah greige blend"  she coined it "yukky greeny grey color"...
 I wooed her with a gorgeous floral curtain to break it up.. She is sold for now.

Now I have you intrigued.. promise I wont take too long to post it..

Melissa x

Craft Room Inspiration

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I have a confession - I have a new obsession, crush, love affair....

It is called pinterest and you can follow me by clicking on the source link attached to these images..
I am madly "pinning" craft room images and dreaming of putting it together...

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It is a dream come true for me - usually a mad magazine flipper and picture ripper...

This means I can now throw away my ridiculously large collection of magazines that is just taking up way too much room... It means I may have a massive clean out and actually not have to move them for the third time in 12 months - back breaking I tell you!

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Pretties

All images Pale and Interesting

I have been online ALOT the last couple of weeks, looking for inspiration for the house and i have been coming across some pretties that i just have to share... 

I stumbled across this online boutique homeware store that literally made my heart skip a beat.

White, glass, timber, iron

All of my favorite things....

Just gorgeous..

http://www.paleandinteresting.com/

Oh and french doors have been hung on the house, weatherboards nearly complete - more pics to come..