The beautiful weather this weekend (and some time alone in the house) allowed me to finally get some photos of the pillows and curtains I made for the girls room last weekend. This room is hard to photograph! No matter what I do, the lighting is weird. I was hoping that lightening the walls would help with this issue, but not so much. The room is kind of longish with only one north facing window, but there's a house right there. Oh well. Even if the lighting in here was great, it's still hard to take a picture of a window. Period.
The curtains are made from Alexander Henry's Birdsong. My curtains ended up being a little bit longer than I wanted, but I still love them. I went with the silver toned rod and hardware because of the gray in the fabric (and I had silver on the brain from my living room accents). I think the silver makes it look a little more grown up. I carried that theme to the dresser hardware and the mirror above the dresser. I'd like to go back and antique the dresser hardware a little bit because it looks kind of shiny at the moment, but truthfully, I'll probably forget all about it.
I don't want the room to be super matchy-matchy, so we used the butterfly print, Canyon Flutter, that coordinates with curtain fabric. I only had 1 yard of that, so I cut two 22" squares (the largest I could cut with my yard), bordered them with the off-white fabric, then backed and bound the sham with lavender. Oh, I also lightly quilted the front of the sham. I thought the best option for these pillows would be shams so that we can take them off and wash them if need be (i'm sure there will be a need be at some point). The girls and I decided on lavender as the accent color. We're on the hunt for a lavender cotton blanket at the moment.
As you can see, my latest quilt has made its home at the foot of the bed. I have plans of making a quilt for this bed using bits of the curtain and pillow fabric along with lots of off white, lavender, pinks, and aquas. With that, I think the blue bed fits in just fine.
We still have plenty to do in here, including painting over this, finding art for the walls, assembling a bookcase and sprucing up an old lamp. I was hoping to finish the lamp before this post, but well, you know how that is.
I'm so happy with how this room is turning out. I set out to make this a room that both a 3 yr old and '8 going on 18' yr old would love, and I'm pretty sure I got it!





























