Don’t you just love this dollhouse?  Complete with Ken welcoming you to come inside.  This dollhouse was in a little girl’s bedroom in this year’s Salt Lake Parade of Homes.  And truth be told, the decor in the dollhouse rivaled the decor of the house it was in. 

 Love the detail.  Notice the hardwood floors.  Those drapes would look good in my house.

I love the coordinating wallpaper and bedding.  Great color scheme too.  There is even crown molding.  Too cute.

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      I have never given a second thought to ceilings before.  Lately though, I have been obsessing about the plainness, the sheer glossy whiteness of the ceilings in my house and have decided  they just won’t do any longer.  Unlike my last post, I think I can do this ceiling myself.  How hard can it be?  (I am still in the middle of the last project I said that about.  Making slipcovers for wing back chairs with no  prior sewing experience is harder than it sounds).  I think maybe the kids  bathroom is a good place for this experiment.  I’ll keep you informed.

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I live in a tri-level house.  I would love to open up the low ceilings in my living room and kitchen and do this.  But first I am going to get new floors (the beige 20 year old carpet isn’t doing it for me) and update the bathrooms.

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     Call it rebelling against TV dinners eaten at the counter.  Or maybe it was just looking at the china hutch and thinking, “Why not use some of this stuff”‘  Whatever it was, I had fun coming up with this. 

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     This is my daughter’s room.  She wanted something more grown-up than her princess posters since she just turned ten.  We found these movable, dry-erase stickers at Home Depot.  They come in a wide variety of colors and patterns.  There is no limit to how you could arrange these.  They are easy to apply and easy to remove so you could try something new every day.  They do rip so I would only let older kids go crazy with creative arranging.

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     I love the creative use of molding in this master bedroom.  I saw this room in a model home a while ago.  I have been wanting to do this molding treatment behind my bed and even bought some molding and did the math to get even squares but at the last minute, I decided I wanted a brick accent wall instead.  I still might try it somewhere though.  If and when I do, I’ll show step-by-step instructions.

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     This dining room is in a model home that was featured in this year’s  Salt Lake Parade of Homes.  I particularly love the chandelier.  I also adore the tablescape.  Boy, if I didn’t have little ones I would steal that idea.

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     I thought this idea would work in a teen or tween girl’s bedroom.  I think an accent wall like this and the rest of the walls white or maybe this idea above white painted wainscot or board and batten molding.  What I did was paint a base of semi-gloss black and then stencil the flowers with a self priming off-white.  What would I do different if I was going full scale?  I would use a bigger stencil or one that didn’t have as much detail because I had a bit of trouble with the white bleeding under the stencil.

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     The forecast was for warm and sunny.  Yes, it was as cold as it looks.  And don’t even get me started on the water temperature.  We still had a great time though.  I got a tons of great shots of the ocean to replace the ones I lost when my computer crashed.  This one is one of my favorites.

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      Family vacation time.  My husband’s family lives in Vancouver Washington so each year we come up to visit for about a week. Today my husband and I left the kids with Grandma and Grandpa and went to Wine Country.  We spent the day wine tasting and antiquing.  A few hours without “Mom!” was enough but throw in the sheer decadence of  leisurely sipping wine (as opposed to gulping the last bit of lukewarm coffee as I run out the door because we’re late again) and you have a day that comes close to perfect. This is a picture of the Duck Pond Winery where we picked up an award winning bottle of their Pinot Noir. Cheers!

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