Decided to start getting some photos to post a little house tour on here, based on some feedback I received. I may do it over the course of a few days though, so it's not one big mile-long post. Which it seems this one might be anyway.
That being the case, I figured I'd get Bryn on board for cleaning her room since, well, the bed is rarely made & clothes are always all over the place... mostly the floor. And if I'm going to post photos, there should at least be the illusion that her room is untouched by a teenager. Nothing but realness here, folks. Honestly, I've given up on arguing about it & most of the time I just close her door so it's out of sight. I'm all about the old trick that if I can't see it, then it doesn't exist. However, if she caves & gives me a clean room once a week, I'm good.
So we had this conversation...
Me: Soooo, Bryn... I need you to do me a favor.
Bryn: What is it?
Me: I need you to clean your room so it's photo-worthy.
Bryn: Why is a TV station coming to film it?
Me: laughing... Uh, no, but that's funny. And is that the only way I can get you to agree?
Two things are funny about that...
- Is it too much to ask for a kid to clean their room without a tv crew coming over??
- It is probably weird that we have had that happen at my old house twice.
Great Day St Louis came over to film my craft room back in 2010 & 2011. And I went back to look at the links I provided on my blog, but I guess there's no archives for video that far back on KMOV because apparently it's been deleted. Which stinks since I have no recording of it either.
But I did save this screen shot from the 2nd episode on their website. Bryn & I were both sitting at our desks pretending to be working...
Another illusion that I sit at home in high heels to do scrapbooking. Only on TV, folks, only on TV...
The topic for that episide was "mom caves" so they did an interview & video about the entire craft room.
The first time they came over though was to do a shoot on my wrapping paper station. A friend of mine knew Claire Keeling who used to do their interviews back then & she told her about my craft room, so they called me. Here's some pictures from the prep for that shoot. The drawers I had installed were extra long so they could hold rolls of wrapping paper. And all the cards on the counter were cards that I've made. She asked me about the larger of the two card spinners. It was actually an old paint chip card holder from a paint store that my sister didn't want anymore so she gave it to me...
The room was pretty big... 565 square feet of bliss. If you were ever looking for me back then, it was highly likely that I was in that room. I have significantly down-sized to a small bedroom for my craft room/office, but I love it just the same. You can see the old room in it's entirety & read more details about it here.
And here's my current room. It's a lot less pink & green, and a lot more white. And it's a lot smaller. The zebra print rug HAD to be there again though even if it does take up almost the entire room. I love that thing...
I'm not crazy about the scrapbooks being in all different colors/patterns. May invest in the same color for all of them eventually. There's even more inside the walk-in closet too. I've used that closet as an extension of the room, so it's where I have my printer, cutting board, card spinners & additional storage. Not quite like the other "wrapping paper station" I once had, but I can close the door to the unorganized non-pretty stuff so that makes me happy...
You'll begin to notice that I have those gold polka dots on the wall in a few of the rooms in our house. They're self-stick decals that I found on Etsy. I love them. It gives the illusion that I have a wall-papered wall, but much easier & they're removeable if I ever get sick of them. Bryn sarcastically asked me at one point if I was going to put them in every room. I said, "Well I don't know... I just might!"
She's got a really great eye for design, but her advice on polka-dot excessiveness fell on deaf ears.
Kind of the same way she ignores my request to clean her room...