Updating My Daughter’s Room

I mentioned at the end of 2012, that I still needed to finish up the room re-do I started for my daughter last year.

She’s about to turn 8, and she’s growing up way too fast.  She likes peace signs, animals, her iPod Touch and everything that is bright and sparkly.  She doesn’t really play with toys anymore and she is an avid reader.  She really is becoming a “tween” already — yikes! 

Before we painted her room last year, it was pink and looked like this:

She thought it looked too “princess-ey” and “baby-ish” and she wanted it to look more grown up. 

She wanted lavender.  Actually, she wanted bright purple, but I convinced her a light lavender would be better and we could go bright with accessories. 

She agreed to trust me and we painted the room lavender, bought a new bedspread, made new curtains and that’s about as far as we got. 

We’re still not completely done, but the room is really starting to come together.  Here are a few sneak peak photos to give you a taste of what’s to come. 

She is loving it and is sooo excited!  I think the room fits her personality perfectly and I’m anxious to see the final result, too!

We still have a few finishing touches before it’s all done.  We’ve created many things from Goodwill finds and even updated Hobby Lobby items to fit the color scheme.  Most everything we’ve gotten was on sale or free from our attic. 

Just to give you a taste of what we’ve done, the cute puppy picture above looked like this before:

It was $12 at our local Goodwill.  Originally, I was going to paint the frame and make a LOVE or PEACE wall decor.  But, my daughter had a puppy poster she bought from the school book fair that was getting all frayed on the corners from falling off the wall one too many times.  The little puppy had a gold tag on it’s collar that matched the frame perfectly, so we decided to keep it as is. 

I cut out the puppy and put it on some pretty wrapping paper I found at Wal Mart for just a couple of bucks.  I put it in the frame and VOILA! 

This cute little caddy from Hobby Lobby was an adorable shape, but the garden dragonfly design wasn’t really right for the room.

So, I bought some pink polka dot scrapbooking paper and traced the shape of the box on the back of the paper.  Then I cut it out and used Mod Podge to glue it over the dragonflies.  That was it!

I think it’s so cute!  And, it holds her diary, iPod, ear buds, flashlight, etc. and sits on the night stand next to her bed.

We also made this little picture out of a frame we already owned and scrapbook paper I had on hand.

I simply printed out a peace sign I got from Microsoft Word’s clip art and cut it out with my Exact-o knife.  I used an Elmer’s glue stick to adhere it to the blue paper and then put it in the frame.

All of these projects were so easy and inexpensive.  We were even able to work on them together!

We are so excited her room is almost done!  Now her big brother wants a makeover – ha! 

See…decorating is addicting!  Haha.

I’ll be back soon with a complete room reveal.  I hope you’re enjoying your weekend!