sheppard girls

One more time

Enough with the bathroom right!?  We made it on to the second round of voting in the Apartment Therapy color contest. Thanks so much for all your kind notes, well wishes and votes for our little project

I know it was a huge pain for some of you to figure out how to vote, so don't obligated, but please do send out your kind thoughts tomorrow, as we go up against a living room from Columbus Ohio.  

Special thanks to my friend Suzanne who stayed until midnight in Los Angeles to be the first person to vote.  Suzanne, you can totally do your business in our bathroom whenever you are in town.

Also, I would like to point out how perfectly the packaging on my beloved Mrs. Meyer's hand soap matches my wallpaper.  Certainly that is a sign!

Time

I just wanted to check out the Facebook page for the Maiden Minnesota event that I am participating in November and I somehow found myself with a Facebook page.  I don't have time for that.  I have been wearing the same yoga pants for three days straight!

OMG!

and the "G" is for "goodness"!  Our bathroom is a northern finalist in the Apartment Therapy Color Contest!  Do you think this counts as having someone I don't know think my decorating is fun?  There are only 48 hours to vote for us, so please check it out and if you like it, vote for us! 

October 12

In between getting ready for the school carnival, which I co-chair and preparing for this exciting opportunity, I worked quickly to get all the fall decorations up.

I even made a cute "Boo" pumpkin.  Although once the dad found out it was a fake pumpkin, he didnt' think it was as cool.  I still MADE it.

Then it snowed!  "It is pretty, in a bizarre way" says the big one.

The shelf, part 2

Here is my lovely new shelf all decorated and ready to go.  Darn the children who keep depleting my carefully stacked pile of white hand towels.

Knitting

The big one's fifth grade class is learning to knit.  All of them.  Maybe then she can teach me.

Now for the small touches

The new bathroom wallpaper is in, and it looks so wonderful. 

While we waited for the wallpaper to come, we also replaced the toilet that had run continuously, every day since we moved in six years ago.  And like so many other things in this house, I don't think it started running THE DAY we moved in - Helen Larson.  

About the same time, the faucet, which we had already replaced once when we removed the ugliest vaniety and countertop to ever exist in the Minneapolis suburbs, broke off.  And sliced open my finger.  So by this time we basically have an all new bathroom. 

 

The wall color used to be bright pink, so the pale pink chair made sense in the weird corner space.  Now it looks bad.  I was a little stressed that everything was looking too shiny and new, so I was on the lookout for something not shiny.

 
  
Then I found this beauty.  The big one and the little one loved it.  My mother-in-law just stood in the doorway and said "uh-huuuuuuuh".  Success.