My laptop has been undergoing repairs.  This is the first time in almost two weeks that I have had it back.  Yahoo.  I have spent the last couple of hours just getting reacquainted, so to speak.  I found some pictures of our old house.  This house was only about ten years old.  Everything was nice, new, and in working order, unlike our new house.  Our kids put it this way, “Our old new house and our new old house”.  So why did we move?  Well, for starters, the old house was a little over 1100 square feet and that’s after we finished the basement.  We needed more room for our growing family.  Also, it was a very long commute into the city.

     Anyway, I found pictures of some of the accessories from the old house that I left behind for the new owners.  At the time it made sense to leave behind things that I loved.  The new owners wanted them. and  I didn’t have (or I should say, didn’t think I had) a place for them in the new house.  Now, I am regretting that decision.  There is always a place for things that you love in your home. 

     I guess what’s done is done.  The  picture on the left is of the entryway.  The mirrors were all hooked together and sold as one piece at Walmart.  The picture on the right is of the master bedroom.  I bought the decorative, white, metal piece above the door at Thai Pan Trading Company.  I suppose that I can always look at the pictures I do have and reminisce.

     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.

     I stumbled onto the website  Design Dump run interior designer  Autumn and fell in love with it.  I particularly like this helpful post on how to make rossete pillows.  I am going to make a few with her easy to follow instructions.  Check it out at…

Pillows

     Okay, maybe shopping trophy.  I love the ceramic deer head over the mantel.  I would never in a million years have a real one over my mantel (even if my husband were a hunter).  But this one is just the right touch for this rustic interior. 

  From the master bedroom of my favorite Parade of Homes house (so far).