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May. 9, 2008

Show & Tell Friday: Gracie's Millipede

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I guess we're moving on from earthworms to millipedes. Gracie found this on our walk yesterday.

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Mar. 28, 2008

Home Makeover: The Children's Bathroom

Posted in Show and Tell Friday

(btw, in my latest baby names post, if you check under the comments section, Liz got both first and middle names right in her 2nd comment!)

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Our house is different. It's 3 levels but is not 3 stories. If you came to my front door, you'd enter what we call the "main level". On this level is my laundry room, living room, kitchen, dining room, shoe/game/coat/misc. closet and a half bathroom- the "guest" bathroom.

From the main level, you could go down half a flight of stairs to our basement, although it doesn't seem very basement-y to me. It has a huge picture window, a door that leads outside, a HUGE storage closet (big enough that we could almost turn it into a very small bedroom), our family room/toy room/computer room/school room. This is where we spend most of our time.

Now if you went upstairs from our main level, you'd find our bedrooms and two bathrooms, one of which is "our" bathroom in the master bedroom. The other bathroom is the "children's" bathroom. Company rarely uses that one so it's theirs.

The children's bathroom has been my least favorite room ever since we moved here. It had a grandma-ish floral print wallpaper on the lower half of the wall with an ugly, drab grayish blue blah paint on the top half of the wall. I've wanted to change that room forever.

Here are some pictures I took of that bathroom not too long after we moved in here.

A close-up of the wallpaper/wall color:

Blah. Doesn't look like a children's bathroom at all.

Here's one taken further back:

Notice the glass shelves? There isn't much on them in this photo, but that's where we've stored the hooded towels, washcloths and some of the children's smaller towels. It always looked so messy.

So my goal for the children's bathroom was to make it BRIGHT and CHEERY and to make it LOOK like a CHILD'S bathroom. However, I will admit, that once Kenton got the first coat of paint on the walls I began to wonder about my choice in colors. But once he put on 2 or 3 coats and then started getting some things put back in place- like the toilet, the baseboard, the chair railing and the cabinet that replaced those glass shelves, it started to look SO much better! In fact, I LOVE how their bathroom turned out! It's exactly what I wanted it to be- bright and cheery and child-friendly!

Here's the bathroom now, with the new cabinet, towels, paint, etc:

The sink area:

Another angle:

Bathtub area:

Okay, and I'll sneak one of me and my BIG ol' 25 week along (at the time) preggo belly. Please ignore my hair- I had just gotten out of the shower prior to taking these (I did blow dry my bangs anyway):

Accessories:

One more view:

Do you like it? I like it SOOOO much better!

And that concludes my Home Makeover series.... for now.

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Hi and welcome to my crazy busy world! I'm Alyssa, pronounced A-lee-sa. Hubby & I have been married for 15 years and we have 5 wonderful children and one on the way! Their ages are 11, 8, 7, 5 & 3, with the latest model due early July! Spend any amount of time here and I'm sure you'll quickly learn that I love photography! You'll find quite a mix of posts here- lots of photo blogging, some photography tips and tutorials, posts about home schooling and posts that will give you a glimpse to the goings-on in our lives. I hope you enjoy your visit! Thanks for stopping by!

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