Amelia's Room

While we are in the transition period about to pack everything up and move into our new home I still have a few posts I want to share with you guys from the house we are currently living in. It is always fun for me to get to decorate my house and make it feel like a home. I especially love that my little munchkin, 3 year old girl, watches me work and build our home. She always without a doubt tells me, "that's cute!" I love it! 

Just yesterday I was staging the new house for our appraisal (pics coming) and she grabs one of my new items and says again, "that's cute!" It melts me. 

So I had some fun and changed up Amelia's room a little bit. I added some items I bought and some that I made. Check out the bottom of this post for one of the items I made. I changed up her room because I wanted to make it a little bit more girly rather then baby girlish. I really wanted a space for her to be able to come and spend some good time with her friends. For example, I incorporated chalkboards so that her and her friends could get creative. Another thing I wanted was a big open area so they could grab all of the basket of toys and just dump them all out. And it happens every time! Thankfully we have great friends that always help us clean up before they leave. I also wanted to incorporate a couple things that would make this desk area really personal to Amelia. Something to  reflect her and who she is. So I added the 3B because she is three and her last name is Brown. I found the cutest vintage bingo cards at one of my favorite antique malls and they say Milly on it. Milly, is one of my favorite nicknames we have for her. 

Anyhow, here is her room! 

I have had this thing for green moss lately. It is just adds so much to a space when you add pops of green. Green is one of the only colors besides neutrals that I actually use in my decor color scheme. And if you have seen any of my living room decor lately you can guess I have been obsessed with the & signs. So I had to put the two together and add it to Amelia's little desk area. I think it adds so much to the space, too.

This & sign was $1.97 from Walmart and the moss was around $3 at Walmart. So, it is pretty inexpensive. I still have quite a bit of moss left for another project, too.

Just get some of the moss out of the bag and ready to put on your sign. Then hot glue an area and put the moss onto it. 

Work in patches at a time so you can make sure you are gluing all of the moss down.

Just keep gluing and putting the moss on making sure you cover the edges. Slowly but surely it starts to all come together.

And voila! You could do this with letters, too! 

Amelia's Shabby Chic Big Girl Room

I have had so much fun planning Amelia's new toddler room. Once I wrapped my head around the fact that I was indeed creating her, toddler room, I was able to let myself enjoy it. It really helped me to think about how much fun she was going to have in there. I wanted to create a space where she could go and play with her toys whenever she wanted to. Somewhere she could feel safe and comfortable. I really wanted it to be somewhere she could be creative and feel inspired in. And I wanted it to be somewhere she could relax and fall asleep and have good dreams in.

I searched and searched for ideas on Pinterest. I thought about things I always like in my own bedroom. I thought about how to get her toys in there without it looking like a crazy space. I searched forever on how to make her (once toddler bed now crib) crib work for the room. Let me just say there was a lot of thought that went into decorating her little toddler room.

I am really happy with how her room turned out! She really loves it too! She has said multiple times how much she loves her new room! It makes this mama's heart happy. Actually, that is one of my favorite quotes for Amelia. She makes my heart happy. You will see that in some of the décor I used.

Before I started getting the décor I wanted for her room. I picked a couple colors I wanted to stick with. They say you should have three main colors to make your room look put together. So the colors I chose were pink, green, and blue, and then I added neutrals. I am loving mixing my neutrals lately so I am definitely incorporating that into Amelia's room. So I used all of these colors; pink, blue, green, white, gold (tan), and silver (grey). But since I am wanting to focus on mixing my neutrals I kept my pops of colors to a minimum so that those pieces could really make a statement without making the room feel cluttered.

Now this is a pretty small room. So I really had to figure out how I was going to make all of her furniture fit and look right.

Here are some things I knew I wanted in her room . . .
A collage right behind her bed.
A tall dresser being angled in the corner with the green box and the picture frame on top of it.
A big chalk board for her to color on.
Hanging up some of my old dresses in her room.
Hadving an accessible hamper.
Having her little chair with the dream pillow on it.
And then I wanted to add some special little details.

Here is the final result after I added all of those points to the room, and then I added other things to make the room complete. I still need to get photos for all of the new frames I got, but I am working on that. We are going to have photos taken! But I was so excited to share Amelia's new big girl room with you guys that I didn't want to wait!