What's On My Happy List?

Birthday Girl!

 This is my Emmsie and she is officially 14!!!! I love her so much. No other child of mine has forced taught me more about remaining calm in the face of exasperation more than she. When she is not in one of her typical teenage moody spells {which I won't say how often that is...haha} she's a dream child {truly} and such a pleasure to be around...

 

Kyleigh and Emma share a room, and have for years. It was past time for a spruce up! Since they both have February birthdays we did a little redecorating as a joint birthday gift. We choose a Paris {of course}/classic movie star/black, white and pink theme....This picture of Paris that we already had was our inspiration.

                       
                                                          Audrey Hepburn 
                                                                {love her!} 
I believe every living space needs a statement piece. This picture of Hepburn called "Pink Lips" is the eye popping focal point in their room.

  This vinyl quote from Audrey, which couldn't have been a more  perfect fit, is on the wall next to her picture.  

 This antique table, that Emma painted pink in the summer, was pulled in from the playroom so she could use it as her bed side table. Found the lamp at Target.

 

 Above Emma's bed is Lucille Ball. I spray painted the wooden frame {found at Micheals for $7} black and added pink fabric for the matte. Pillow I found at Ross. One of my favorite places to scour for cheap treasures...

 Kyleigh got this picture of "the IL DIVO boys" when we went to their concert in Vegas 2 1/2 years ago. It was high time we got it framed!
 
















I swapped them dressers because mine matched their room better then the one they were using... I decided it was worth me not having to paint theirs...I've redone enough dressers in my life to know I didn't want to attempt that again.  

 This is our cheap substitute for a chandelier in the room....

 

On their shelves I added pink and black zebra print duct tape..

Kyleigh's holds my favorite picture of those two together...

I took this picture over ten years ago in a field behind our foothill Riverton home...kills me! 
 
                                  Look at them now! Stop growing would ya!!!

 This Paris picture {I cropped it to fit the frame} the Mr. and I got when we were there 10 years ago with his Executive MBA class from the U so it holds special meaning...

One of the walls has a collage of other favorite classic movie stars along with a fleur de lis vinyl decal....
                                                      
                            My goodness! Cary Grant...Isn't he just plain yummy?

Kyleigh is such a huge John Wayne Western Fan, just like her dad. We didn't think a pic of him in his cowboy attire in a saloon was going to match the feel of the room so I was lucky enough to find a picture of him in one of his classier movie roles...

                                                                   Audrey...again.

 And the infamous Sean Connery as James Bond... We could have added more like Frank Sinatra, Grace Kelly, Rock Hudson etc. but we ran out of room. :)

                                              The room was a ton of fun to do!
   
We took the birthday girl to the restaurant of her choice to celebrate. She has been dy'in to try a waffle from Bruges Waffle and Fritz downtown. It's more like a hole in the wall but I'm telling you, it has some of the best food in Salt Lake.

    She devoured her waffle and I licked the plate!
We went next door to Caputo's to browse the market...fun place!

She and I did a little shopping earlier in the week together. She choose to have Grandma's raspberry and peach cobbler instead of a birthday cake. I understand why. It is de-lish! {I would know because I think I ate half of it.} She did baptisms for the dead on her birthday and got to eat in the temple with the youth. She had an awesome day at school and got a lot of unexpected attention from her peers. It was a good day! much much better than last years....