I decided to finally paint Alyssa’s room. I had wanted to do it as soon as we moved in (3 years ago), but it didn’t seem a priority at the time. And then I procrastinated. But it’s finally done…well almost. I have some leaves to paint and some branches to hot glue and well…well is any room every completely done?
I suppose it took me so long to paint her room because I couldn’t decide on the color…yellow…green…pink…white…green…pink… Well the pink won out. But I was nervous about pink. I like pink, but frankly pink walls scare me because I feel like they can go from cute on paper to tacky on walls. So I started out light. I stayed up all night painting light pink on the walls and I received the below responses.
This is how you know you’ve messed up royally.
Husband: Hmmm maybe we should paint the baseboards purple?
Alyssa: That is NOT pink…it’s like white pink.
Alright fine. I’ll get a darker pink, but I still couldn’t see myself painting the entire room a bright pink. So I kept 2 walls light pink and I thought about a 1/2 wall of pink…which turned into more of a pink mountain. It was supposed to be more of a canopy of pink flowing around her bed…kind of like one of those mosquito nets (princess flowy thingies?) little girls have around their beds…just a painted version. But it was confirmed by my husband that it is definitely a mountain…especially since there are birds painted on the walls. Apparently the birds confirm the presence of a mountain…ah well. Well there’s that and the fact that I painted the peaks wrong, so yes it does look like a mountain and I’m okay with that. 
I also added in a tree….I’ve always wanted to paint a tree on her wall and so I finally did it and it looks super cute I think…well at least it will when I finish the leaves. I also added in a few love birds. 
This little love bird below is all by himself on a different wall that you see when you walk in. I found some really cute white branches for him to sit on, but they keep falling onto the floor…so I need to use a little hot glue maybe? or super glue? I haven’t figured that part out yet. I’ll let you know how it went in part 2.
Here’s a little preview of her room…almost finished. She seems to like it much better with the bright pink. She wasn't so sure about the blue, but I convinced her that it was like the sky. She also wasn’t thrilled about the tree ESPECIALLY Since it was BROWN…apparently she thought it should be pink…but there was no way I was painting a pink tree. The lid is firmly on that pink paint and available for anyone to borrow!
Stay tuned for part 2…which might be a while so don’t hold your breath! hehe