Inspiration

Every room in my house has an inspiration corner.

 this is a place where i put all of the items that are my inspiration for the overall design and theme of the rooms.

Bathroom

 African themed

The beads are handmade and i believe are actually from Africa. An aunt gave them to me many moons ago

The floor mat is made from dollar store bamboo place mats

Toothbrush and soap holders from  dollar store

Canvas artwork from Ross(99cents) other artwork from dollar store items)

Current project is our shower curtain rings ( in progress because I'm currently out of twine)

Children's Bedroom

Liam's Side

Liam's side of the room is mostly inspired by color and by punk and funk

Suriana's Side

India inspired

this book led to the inspiration

( plus my daughter is half Indian)

Peacock feathers, gold, lotus blossoms and elephants....

the table cloth is actually waiting for a table to be used on in her room...

Painting her bed frame! ( in progress- update later)

Lots of lanterns, handmade pillows and bright colors

( the layout of the room has been changed since these pics were taken, update later)

Bedroom/Living room

( the reason it is both is because some of my decor for the bedroom is in the living room. i don't have enough display room or shelves in the bedroom)

This is my Asian decor in the living room.

the sake set was $6 at the flea market

( has one more pour and 2 more cups)

This is the decor above my headboard.

the pic is actually a postcard my husband had before we met!

the roses are palm leaves i got in Santa Cruz a few years ago

My pride and joy

a beautiful jewelry boy. found in a pawn shop for $15

smells like roses inside

i love the beautiful layer work done in the doors

Gotta have my Buddha

(he looks like he might need a bath)

LOVED Memoirs of a Geisha!! own the movie too

Found this book at goodwill for 50 cents.

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes is a non-fiction children's book written by American author Eleanor Coerr and published in 1977.

The story is of a girl, Sadako Sasaki, who lived in Hiroshima at the time of the atomic bombing by the United States. She developed leukemia from the radiation and spent her time in a nursing home folding paper cranes in hope of making a thousand, which supposedly would have allowed her to make one wish, which was to live. However, she managed to fold 644 before she became too weak to fold any more, and died shortly after. Her friends and family helped finish her dream by folding the rest of the cranes which was buried with Sadako and build a statue of Sadako holding a giant golden paper crane in Hiroshima Peace Park after she died. Now every year on O Bon Day, which is a holiday in Japan to remember the fallen ones of the bombings, thousand of people leave paper cranes near the statue. On the statue is a plaque: "This is our cry. This is our prayer. Peace on Earth."

Beautiful story and beautiful artwork

Coming out of the closet

Children tend to get alot of clothes..especially when you have a new one on the way. my daughter already had alot of clothes but very little dresser space. now that we no longer have her crib (had a 3 drawer dresser attached) we no longer have drawers. i put her undies ans socks and shorts in cloth 'drawers' that fit in her book shelf. the rest of her clothes were hung up in her closet. She shares her closet with her baby brother and the tons of clothes we received while i was pregnant with him (sizes 6months-2T, 0-6m in my closet). Between all of their clothes and toys their closet was stuffed. Since children's clothes are short, there was alot of space being wasted. 

I bought a pipe from Lowe's($ 1.25) and cut it in half. i used some nylon string and threaded it through the pipe and tied it to the existing rack.

 i already had the organizer($5 clearance at walmart) and used it to divide the closet. voila! extra closet space.

Now my daughter can even reach her own clothes. she enjoys picking out her own outfits and also hanging up her laundry(now if only i could get her to wash and brush her hair without a fight...lol)

India inspired...

i am currently in the process of trying to make my daughters room a bit India inspired. Ive been working on it a lil bit at a time, and i like where its going..
This is how it is currently looking.. still a work in progress...

The pillows are my favorite touch so far.

I sewed these two using the stuffing from her old pillows. she sleeps with them every night now..

I found these two at the dollar store. I plan on adding something, a jewel or button in the center.

I found the lanterns at the dollar store and glued cherry blossoms to one. my daughter loves these as night lights. it has a very prettty glow.

the curtains are currently the bane of my existance. I found them at marshals for 3.99. i cant quite figure out how i want to add my touch to them..

i started painting paisleys on them...wasnt a big fan.
i might add flowers to them or maybe a ribbon lining...

My favorite part is how i hung them. I bought a bamboo rod from walmart for $1.25 and set of hooks for 97 cents..voila, a cheap but unique curtain rod..


im still planning on making more pillows and getting a few more sheer curtains ( maybe purple or orange). Im also hoping to get her a new bed soon( a big girl bed) and then i am planning on making a 'canopy' over the bed.. im excited at the possibilities of what i can to in her room.. ( still limited though because we live in an apt and cant paint the walls or aything extreme..