a big-girl room for lottie sue

So yeah, Lottie Sue is a big girl now. She has been in her new room for a week now and it's been a flawless transition - just PERFECT.

We have her room finished except that we are waiting on two stools to go with her table, they are on back-order but we hope to get them soon. I know I promised a "before & after" post, so here you go!

The room was just a guest bedroom, nothing fancy at all and we never put much thought into it. Matt and I are actually happy that it will be a functional room now, not just wasted space. We took the bed from this room and moved it into the bonus room. So now the bonus room is a guest bedroom, workout room, sewing/wrapping/craft center and ping pong tournament room. We worried it would be way too crowded but after moving everything around it's just great - room for everything.

Anywho, here is a "before" photo of the Lottie's room...

before the transformation

And here is the "after" - so cool!

a shot from the door

We had this bed and pink table (sans stools) for Lottie Sue already, the other furniture came from Ikea. I made the curtains and backed them with blackout fabric (BRILLIANT!), it helps so much with the sun during the afternoon.

another shot from the same viewpoint

here we have lottie's hamper, dresser and kitchen

this is her toy area

Matt thought it would be neat to post photos of family members on a board so we used leftover fabric from the curtains and covered two foam boards. We then printed photos of EVERY family member (we need photos for a few people but it's on my list of 'things to do' this week), we have family all over and this way Lottie can always see them. This morning she was naming people on the boards, so it's been neat.

the toy area with her table (imagine the stools here please)
- and do you LOVE the hanging lamp or WHAT

lottie sue's nightstand table with a lamp and doily
that Grandma (in Little Rock) made for her when she was born

And now some action shots for you...

lottie sue jumping on the bed

reading a few books from her library

And this photo was taken last Sunday, her first night in her big girl bedroom. She was VERY excited.

happy lottie sue

After we put her down I went in to my big girl bedroom and cried (um ok, bawled) - wah...Matt asked me what I was going to do when she started kindergarten. I can't even go there.

OK, that's all I have for today. Maybe I'll take a few photos of the bonus room so you can see what we ended up with. We are very organized, Matt made a gift-wrapping wall organization thing that I love so much, as well as a place for my sewing items. It ROCKS!

Enjoy your Monday!