Decorating My Girls' Room

I don't know if I'm alone in this - I hope against hope over it - but I sleep way better if my house is clean. Particularly my girls' room. I don't know why it bothers me so much to imagine my children sleeping in the midst of a mess, but it truly does. I've straightened it in the middle of the night before ... I'm not even joking. It's a strange problem. Hubby says it's OCD and there's medication for that, and I say, "Why would anyone take medicine that made them OKAY with messes? Where's the medication for people who don't care about messes? THEY'RE the ones we should be worried about." We were both joking, but seriously. Why medicate a good thing away? :)

That all being said, it brings me great pleasure to make their room a lovely little place for girls to dream. Sleeping or awake. I've been meaning to put an alphabet on the wall for a long time, and I finally did it. With the help of a borrowed Cricut Expression, and the Linen Closet Stack of scrapbooking paper from Joann Fabric, I made this darling little collage:

I LOVE the colors. They're way cuter in real life than in this picture. I stuck plain paper to the wall above the changing table with fun-tak. Only the classiest of supplies for this little mamma. I'll make a sturdy alphabet someday, but for now this will do just fine. The other wall looks like this:



That heinous gold frame has been painted white since this picture was taken, thank goodness. And the black table you can see in the corner was a short-lived compromise with a toddler who wanted it in her room to hold a lamp so she could read herself to sleep. I put up snowflake-shaped white lights from IKEA (that actually look a lot like flowers) instead, so the table is gone too, thankfully.

It's just so fun for me to make our home a beautiful place. Right now while hubby is in medical school and we don't have extra money for nice decorations or furniture, it's an adventure to see how creative I can be with the beautification of each room. I figure if our home is clean and it looks like I put some effort into making it pretty, my homemaking efforts in that area are successful. And these sweet darlings will feel my love for them and know they are worth the extra effort.

And isn't that why we do what we do in the first place? I don't decorate for the people who come to visit our home, I do it for the people who live in our home. They are my treasures.