Are you looking for something fun to do? I've come up with one solution.. IF you have the time and energy.

My sister recently moved into her own place. This is the first place she's ever owned. Usually she will rent an apartment or live with friends, but now she is a bonafide home owner and is very excited.

The only problem is the decor in her place is NOT her style. The carpet is green and the wallpaper is flowerdy.. not a pretty flower pattern either. :-/

Now, we can't afford to redecorate her whole place for her, and really a lot of it she will have to do on her own because different people have different tastes and opinions. But there is one area that we can help her:  the master bathroom.

My mom and I decided that we could redecorate her bathroom for her. We've been planning it for about a month.  My sister like elephants and she has a small collection of them, so we decided to do her bathroom in a jungle type theme with elephants.

It has been really fun planning this without my sister knowing. I've sworn my dc to secrecy, lol!

We've picked out the paint (after a looong discussion of which would be better, grey or biege.)  We went to a home supply store and they had a lovely rag-on design with biege and brown. It was perfect, so we bought the paint for that.

Later I found the perfect fabric for the window treatment, and we found a very nice painting at another store, but they wanted so much money for it that we didn't buy it.

Instead, I am painting one myself that is similar to it, while my mom sews the curtians. 

We also bought some new towels and washclothes to replace her old ones.

We plan to redo her entire bathroom on Sunday while she is at work. She works a 10 hour shift so that should give us time if we work really fast.

I will let you know how it turns out. I'm excited about it! I hope it all goes well and she loves what we do.

wish us luck!  :-D