The Guest Bedroom is Ready For Visitors

Today is very exciting for me.  My sister and her 3 children arrive in a few hours.  I can't wait to pick them up from the airport.  It's also exciting because I have finally finished painting the guest bedroom and have the room all ready for her stay.

When I started blogging in May, I set myself the task of completing the guest bedroom for my sister's visit.  I may have only finished painting yesterday, but it's done and I feel such a sense of achievement.

It's so lovely to walk into a room and appreciate how all my individual efforts have come together to produce what I think is a pretty and peaceful room.

I put some pretty white roses in the recycled vase I made.

I added a gardenia and tea-died muslin ribbon to a vintage book my mother gave me.  It's a book on Donald Bradman (famous Australian cricketer).  It still has the hand written library code sticker on the spine.

I like that I have homemade things in the room like my heart button tissue cover

and the crystal beads I added to the curtain tie-backs.

I think even my vintage Rome pictures look better on a freshly painted wall.

The colours in this cheap Target print work so well with the rest of the room.

I still love my hydrangea lampshades

and my Pottery Barn inspired valance (bed skirt)

I'm so glad I painted the French Bed head

 and bedside tables (nightstands)

and call me silly, but seeing a freshly painted ceiling fan instead of a dirty old one, makes me feel better too.

So after all this hard work, I am spending the next 7 days sitting by the pool with my sister having a quiet champagne or two, while the kids and the dog play together madly and wear themselves out.

To all my Australian friends, enjoy the September school holidays.  We only have 9 weeks of school left for the year!!!!

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