Big Girl Bedroom Project Part 2

Question: Do the rest of you find that the more you have going on, the harder it is to blog? I get so overwhelmed when I feel like I have lots to share! Should I do a lot of little posts? Or one big post? I never know. With that being said, I chose to do one big post this time, so hang in there with me!
A lot has happened since I last updated on the progress of the "big girl" room - painting, finding, rethinking, arranging, redoing etc. And there is still more painting, finding, rethinking, arranging, redoing, etc. to be done! I would say that we are 3/4 of the way done, and that feels great! Let me take you on a little tour...

On Painting...

My mom found this great pair of vintage bedside tables at a local furniture consignment shop. They were the style and shape that I was picturing for the room, and they were the PERFECT price! $120.00 for the pair, the exact amount we had made at our garage sale the previous weekend - such a God thing! I love that He is in all the "little" things. Since most of the other furniture in the girl's room is white, I thought it would be fun to paint them "Martha green", I really love the way they turned out!

On Finding...

Ok, this is just a funny side note that I have to share. Inside of one of the bedside table drawers was an assortment of old photographs, receipts, and this envelope marked "Rare Coins and Weapons". My mom found it first and gave it to me. Immediately upon reading the envelope, I thought "Score!" - followed by "Should I call the consignment shop if this contains something priceless?" I hadn't reached a "moral conclusion" before I opened the envelope and examined it's contents... brothel tokens!!! From "Miss Stella's in Nevada", which I'm sure is a very classy establishment -and shoot we just left Nevada! ;) The details on the tokens are pretty explicit, but I will tell you that some are "good for all night"! So I decided not to track down the owner of these "rare coins", if he's not already deceased (probably from an STD) his wife would most likely kill him now! I decided to spare him. I did, however, wash that drawer really well and then updated my cootie shots! Circle circle dot dot... ok, now back to decorating!

On Rethinking...

I love my childhood vintage lamps, but when I put everything together it just was not working - bummer. So I searched the web and found my "dream lamp" on Posh Tots for $180.00 each - not exactly what I was hoping to spend, but I just fell in love with that pagoda shade because it went perfectly with the Chinioserie inspired fabric in the room! So I checked around for something similar. I went to Marshall's, TJMaxx, Target, Stein Mart, and eventually Kirkland's (where I would have never thought to look except it was next to Stein Mart) and I found these! Perfect! They only had two left and were marked down to... $12.99 each! Again, a God thing! Little pagoda shades and everything!

On Arranging...

I finally found time to hang the girl's Sarah Jane prints - yay! I also picked up an assortment of pink and green frames at Marshall's and put 2 on each bedside table. A small accomplishment that took a crazy long time to do!

On Redoing...

My Nana painted this sweet watercolor for my first birthday. It was in my room as a little girl and then I used it in Evie's nursery. I wanted to use it in the "big girl" room, but the mat and frame were not working with the other art. I painted the frame white and then went to Hobby Lobby (aka the Christian Crafter) for a pre-cut white mat. When I got there, I was disappointed to find out that I needed a mat that was just millimeters off of a standard size. I showed the painting to the framer, who loved it and quickly got wrapped up in its sentiment. He said "Well I'll just cut you a new one", and my thought was "Great there goes $50.00", but no! He gave me the pre-cut price of $2.99 and then gave me the pre-cut 50% off discount special!!! So I got a custom mat for $1.50! Plus he let me bring Evie in the back room to watch the machine cut the mat - like a field trip! I love that place!

So what's left to do?

Here is Anabelle sitting with a few things that have not found their home in the room yet. I'm still thinking about the perfect spot for each of these. I often stand in the room staring, in very deep thought, trying make decisions. I'm starting to wear myself out :)My mom has graciously offered to make window treatments (in addition to painting the room, making the headboard, and upholstering a chair - yes I am spoiled rotten) and we've agreed that we like these from one of my inspiration rooms. Precious right?!!!I also need to make a plan for these blue initial plaques from the nursery that need some sort of redo involving some combination of pink, taupe, and/or green.... hmmmmm. I'm looking at Candice n Katie's Art for some inspiration. I would love to be good at this kind of painting, but I'm terrible - even at stripes. We'll see how I do!

I think I'm nearly done with the updates before the whole project is done and, yes, you can see a tiny bit of the headboard in some of the photos in this post, but I want to save some things for the big "Before and After" - the best for last!

Well now that I've pulled this giant post out of my camera and out of the files of my brain (fwew!) I will get back to blogging about regular life. We have a lot coming up in the next few weeks... we get the last of Ben's test results next week, my 2 brothers and sister-in-law are coming in town, my other sister-in-law is having a baby, Evie is starting pre-school, and a lot of us are having birthdays! So stay tuned! I'll leave you with a few pictures of the silly girls...