Origami art and painting the wash stand

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I wanted to share some more details in the <a href="http://anita-faraboverubies.blogspot.com/2014/08/girls-french-bedroom-reveal.html">girls' room makeover</a> so I thought I would show how my daughter and I made the artwork and how I painted the antique wash stand.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0Sj0sWtGXDJ0vXD-f2u9EhRUiwcCnil0IGMLy0es1UGV2gBY7qsiUHpiiVuvwDRdM0UGOeFz-tBQwwSVEyFxPy3iuuKAU15IyxeEcRIL_byhL-huExmC9hc6hKqexNeJ-K-rlVma7Rh4/s1600/2014girlsroomreveal21.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="446" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0Sj0sWtGXDJ0vXD-f2u9EhRUiwcCnil0IGMLy0es1UGV2gBY7qsiUHpiiVuvwDRdM0UGOeFz-tBQwwSVEyFxPy3iuuKAU15IyxeEcRIL_byhL-huExmC9hc6hKqexNeJ-K-rlVma7Rh4/s1600/2014girlsroomreveal21.jpg" width="640"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="javascript:void((function(){var%20e=document.createElement('script');e.setAttribute('type','text/javascript');e.setAttribute('charset','UTF-8');e.setAttribute('src','http://assets.pinterest.com/js/pinmarklet.js?r='+Math.random()*99999999);document.body.appendChild(e)})());" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Pin It" class="aligncenter" src="http://www.clickinmoms.com/cmprodaily/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/pinit.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"></div><a href="http://anita-faraboverubies.blogspot.com/2014/09/origami-art-and-painting-wash-stand.html#more">Read more...</a>

Origami art and painting the wash stand

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Girls' French bedroom reveal

<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Finally -- after six loooooong years of being the worst room in the house, the girls' bedroom might now be the prettiest room in the house:-)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD8DvhdX-wufpvzNo4ThmTPboBYiRu226rBseo1rNsE0ac9e9tBfdnO_W7EJuyKgZWaphAOCpnqwn2YkGcdPzxkJRptF4Dzet5lp2_HAmsi9OFUY99xtFp2sdHM_JdcuzqmO2IHF5euw/s1600/2014girlsroomreveal2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD8DvhdX-wufpvzNo4ThmTPboBYiRu226rBseo1rNsE0ac9e9tBfdnO_W7EJuyKgZWaphAOCpnqwn2YkGcdPzxkJRptF4Dzet5lp2_HAmsi9OFUY99xtFp2sdHM_JdcuzqmO2IHF5euw/s1600/2014girlsroomreveal2.jpg" width="600"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="javascript:void((function(){var%20e=document.createElement('script');e.setAttribute('type','text/javascript');e.setAttribute('charset','UTF-8');e.setAttribute('src','http://assets.pinterest.com/js/pinmarklet.js?r='+Math.random()*99999999);document.body.appendChild(e)})());" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Pin It" class="aligncenter" src="http://www.clickinmoms.com/cmprodaily/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/pinit.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><a href="http://anita-faraboverubies.blogspot.com/2014/08/girls-french-bedroom-reveal.html#more">Read more...</a>

Girls' French bedroom reveal

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Girls' Room Update

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">There is progress in the girls' room, and I *think* I can see the end!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1MqPeRRLgbkATXOVXj1xTFBJPBYUtSE338EQ4PJTqmU4R9LzaaVPebc4EEdFJH6qPKfhyphenhyphencD_f5hJuNX_VmxrJftfQdK_njEUBvBC3635HmBUxbnz44JMTsmlMLSpQGJrJgLppv1RUOA/s1600/2014girlsroom27.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1MqPeRRLgbkATXOVXj1xTFBJPBYUtSE338EQ4PJTqmU4R9LzaaVPebc4EEdFJH6qPKfhyphenhyphencD_f5hJuNX_VmxrJftfQdK_njEUBvBC3635HmBUxbnz44JMTsmlMLSpQGJrJgLppv1RUOA/s1600/2014girlsroom27.jpg" width="426"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="javascript:void((function(){var%20e=document.createElement('script');e.setAttribute('type','text/javascript');e.setAttribute('charset','UTF-8');e.setAttribute('src','http://assets.pinterest.com/js/pinmarklet.js?r='+Math.random()*99999999);document.body.appendChild(e)})());" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Pin It" class="aligncenter" src="http://www.clickinmoms.com/cmprodaily/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/pinit.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div></div><a href="http://anita-faraboverubies.blogspot.com/2014/08/girls-room-update.html#more">Read more...</a>

Girls' Room Update

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Progress on the girls' room...

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I think I can, I *still* think I can. Repeat. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Things are progressing in the girls' room...slowly but surely.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We finally chose a paint color, and it was not easy. I wanted a lighter gray tone, but the light in the room just made them all look either too warm or too blue.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6QqgxYuIleNiOaUY6dgwGOtPg3VezzETJJ92kukq1r7FELUiK3s-BsodJOs_a7sQtwBE_jLrKiAqaqiM1O1ijXnSrYnU9kW7bG5iKQcqNfGp8zYccvM4xrY4x0QD70IbYWrLJIN1VXw/s1600/2014girlsroom15.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="452" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6QqgxYuIleNiOaUY6dgwGOtPg3VezzETJJ92kukq1r7FELUiK3s-BsodJOs_a7sQtwBE_jLrKiAqaqiM1O1ijXnSrYnU9kW7bG5iKQcqNfGp8zYccvM4xrY4x0QD70IbYWrLJIN1VXw/s1600/2014girlsroom15.jpg" width="640"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="javascript:void((function(){var%20e=document.createElement('script');e.setAttribute('type','text/javascript');e.setAttribute('charset','UTF-8');e.setAttribute('src','http://assets.pinterest.com/js/pinmarklet.js?r='+Math.random()*99999999);document.body.appendChild(e)})());" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Pin It" class="aligncenter" src="http://www.clickinmoms.com/cmprodaily/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/pinit.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div></div><a href="http://anita-faraboverubies.blogspot.com/2014/08/progress-on-girls-room.html#more">Read more...</a>

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I think I can, I *still* think I can. Repeat.  Things are progressing in the girls' room...slowly but surely. We finally chose a paint c...

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Choosing a favorite photograph and progress on the girls' room...

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So many people have been asking me about buying the beautiful photographs my husband captures, that we have been looking at vendors for canvases and prints. Ironically, I was also contacted by two different companies about canvases and had to choose some for printing. Those of you who know his photography from my <a href="https://www.facebook.com/AnitaFarAboveRubies">facebook page</a>, know what a hard choice that is to make! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">For hanging in the house, I prefer photographs that look as if they could be paintings, so I chose this one of the pier in Carolina Beach, N.C.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggBHjWm2Oq3i-c_XwVL0ZYmC08q0xJ73jcwxtikcIHXbLFBDY2zEfUIgOZiE0Xqem4th1eEkQDZybomV1Ua3UhIpXdaOghjweu-8rdMRbY8RImO9BDR6PLJITHtIhePsp11mQ6AkUbMA/s1600/photo_Carolina+Beach+pierforFB.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="510" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggBHjWm2Oq3i-c_XwVL0ZYmC08q0xJ73jcwxtikcIHXbLFBDY2zEfUIgOZiE0Xqem4th1eEkQDZybomV1Ua3UhIpXdaOghjweu-8rdMRbY8RImO9BDR6PLJITHtIhePsp11mQ6AkUbMA/s1600/photo_Carolina+Beach+pierforFB.jpg" width="640"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="javascript:void((function(){var%20e=document.createElement('script');e.setAttribute('type','text/javascript');e.setAttribute('charset','UTF-8');e.setAttribute('src','http://assets.pinterest.com/js/pinmarklet.js?r='+Math.random()*99999999);document.body.appendChild(e)})());" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Pin It" class="aligncenter" src="http://www.clickinmoms.com/cmprodaily/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/pinit.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><a href="http://anita-faraboverubies.blogspot.com/2014/08/choosing-favorite-photograph-and.html#more">Read more...</a>

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