[Shoshana]

the room is finished!

the walls are a chocolate-mint-chip-ice-cream color. The lower 2/3's is a medium light shade, the top 1/3 is medium, and the ceiling is light. separating the top and bottom of the walls is a 'crown moulding.' i nailed a piece of brick moulding to a piece of baseboard. it makes a 2 1/2" shelf around the perimeter of the room. The crown moulding is the darkest shade. i put all sorts of cute artsy stuff on the shelf.

i had had an older bureau with a big mirror painted white a while ago. i painted the frame of the mirror purple, and painted parts of the drawers pink, purple, & yellow. i also painted a night stand in these colors, plus blue. painting the furniture was VERY tedious!

the rugs are two small square rugs that have all of the colors in big squares.

around the base of the crown moulding i stencilled a white scallop. the valence for the windows (which take up a whole wall) will have a scallop too, at the same height as the wall scallop. the valence is white with bright squares of cute animals.

i ordered switch plate covers, ceiling fan pulls, and drawer pulls for the bureau from a really great online site - judes stuff . they're white with bright polka dots.

my mom is making the sheets, crib skirt, and bumper pads and of a really pretty batik that has all of the colors.

it looks GREAT! i can't even begin to tell you how much work this was (and i'm not the one doing the sewing)! i'd never attempted any project of this magnitude! if i could figure out how to use my new digital camera i'd post pictures.