This Christmas Anne Marie was in for a BIG surprise! We decided to re-decorate Anne Marie's room for part of her Christmas present. She was currently sleeping in a toddler bed - and she was getting a little too big for it. She still had all the "old" decorations from her nursery and she has lately been talking about wanting pink and purple butterflies - with polka dots. Well - I looked & looked & looked for these three things. I finally found something that I thought would make her very happy. And I must say that pink is NOT my favorite color - however it is hers and I knew she would love it. Once I found the quilt (light pink, hot pink, white stripes on one side - polka-dots on the other side with butterflies sewn in) I remembered the kite that we bought for her while we were in China. We bought a big box full of gifts from China - enough to give her one every year until she's 18. Usually we give her these gifts on Forever-Family day. But this year, we decided to add it to the room & be part of her gift. So, we went with an Asian-Butterfly theme for her room. And if I do say so myself - it turned out cute - and she LOVED it!
Her face when we brought her into her room to show her the surprise!
The new bed - it's a trundle bed (which she'd been asking for) & a "princes" drape over the head of it (it's a Asian parasol w/ pink fabric draped over it. -- and PINK polka-dot curtains.
I found this print on ETSY -- I fell in LOVE with it & it went SOOOO well w/ the theme of the room!
We hung her Chinese butterfly kite from the ceiling.
We found cute little butterfly frames from the $1 store - she'd been asking for pictures of her friends in her room, so we added a picture of her with each of her friends in the frames. We also added some Chinese decorations to the shelves above.
We also bought some paper lanterns in the three colors & hung them from her ceiling - right above her dress-up corner we created for her.
Anne Marie LOVED her room -- especially the princess drape over the head of her bed. It was so much fun to do (even thought it was CRAZY trying to get this together in 24 hours - with the great help from my mom & her husband!!!) And it was fun to see her face when she saw it for the first time!
7 comments:
That is so wonderful! What joy you all give to each other.
This is amazing!!!! I know I saw them on your camera, but I was able to enlarge these, and WOW, just STUNNING!!!! If I told you all my favorite things I would be typing all night. Suffice to say I am impressed.
P.s. I will probably be stealing these to post on my blog since I couldn't take my own pics, but I'll give you the snapping credit!
LOVE IT!! You guys did a great job...and 24 hours...whew!! I love the lanterns and the little dress up corner...she will surely enjoy it!! What a great Christmas!!
Oh my goodness! You are super-parents!!! So stinking cute :) I bet she was tickled pink!
What a beautiful room! And I love the idea of hanging the kite as a room decoration. We have one of those in a box in Ky's closet...
I found you blog on a friends sight and love how you decorated your daughters room. We have a three year old and I would love to find that print or one like the one in the white frame. I looked on ETSY but couldn't find anything like it. Could you give me the sellers name. Thank you!
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