Heather’s Bedroom Birthday Surprise

We have video! But before you watch it I feel the need to explain. I got up and pulled a pair of shorts over my PJs and started working on Heather’s room. She arrived while we were putting the finishing touches on. I never showered, got dressed, combed my hair, touched makeup ( or tucked in the tag on my cami, lol)…..there just wasn’t time. So please don’t judge. I’d say I don’t usually look like that, but I look like that most of the time these days while I fly through life by thttp://www.groceryshrink.com/wp-admin/edit-comments.phphe seat of my pants, having the best time. Anyhoo–here it is. First shot is me dashing in the room to grab my camera to catch her first face. Don’t be alarmed :).

Heathers Bedroom Reveal 2013 from Angela Coffman on Vimeo.

Now for a photo tour :).

Quick, she’s almost here. Let’s leave her a note.

Let me see that.

Oh, that’s a good one. She’ll like that.

Note the tiny little smily face under the big one–they were especially proud of that.

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Wall hook for bags and hats to the left of the door across from the clothes closet. Bags are VERY important to Heather–she NEVER leaves home without one.

Clothes closet to the right of the main door. There’s no dresser in this room so all her clothes are in Dollar Tree baskets with chalkboard labels. Heidi color organized the hanging clothes. The paper on the wall is her cleaning checklist.

I broke the floor trim in the corner by the closet–still need to buy replacement. But there’s so many beautiful things in this room no body will look at that :). We are waiting to put the doors back on the closet–to enjoy looking at the organization a little longer.

Details of the cleaning checklist. We bought her a swiffer for her new floor–need to update the vacuum bit 🙂

Clothes bin detail

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Detail of canvas art by the bed and window

First face–Disbelief

Second face–total elation

You did THIS in how many days?

Checking out the walk-in closet organization while Heidi videos

Walk-in Closet detail

Huge mirror on the left–for proper dressing

These pointe shoes were from her old room before we moved and have been in storage. I updated the frame with gold rub and buff. They hang outside the large closet door to the left.

Is my stuff really in here?

Her trash can from before perfectly matches the new curtains–Happy coincidence. We added the blue satin to make the curtains longer since I like to hang them high and wide. My only regret is not making the blue wider and cutting off more white. But I bought all the fabric that was left in stock.

See you have a tent.

How do you feel about your room?

No REALLY, How do you feel about your room?

Her favorite animals made the final cut

Funny story: When Grandma pulled up to the house bringing Heather home after a week, Heather saw her carpet rolled up by the side of the road (The trash company wouldn’t take it–grrr.) She said, “I hope that’s not MY carpet.” Now why would she say that? She hated that carpet. She begged me to take it out long before I did. But here’s the deal. I’m great at ripping out stuff, not great at the construction part (hence my heavy reliance on Mom and Darren this week.) I can sew and paint–that’s about it. At our old house I got a whim and ripped out the carpet–it took us a year of living on sub floor to put anything back–and that was only because we decided to sell. And look how long our kitchen project is taking! But this girl is special. I can push myself for her–I can change–and beg people with skills to help me :).