The Royal Bedchamber

Well, it is finally here. The day to graduate our little princess from her nursery to her big girl room. After much planning and ordering and lastly, preparing myself mentally, we are ready for her to see it for the first time!

Her nursery theme was Poodles in Paris. Her walls were pink with white trim and her furniture was black. I really wanted to try to keep it the same, but just couldn't find the bedding I liked for the price I wanted (found a really cute one, but way out of our budget). So, the only criteria moving forward from that plan was to keep the walls pink and use a theme that would work well with her Eiffel Tower lamp base.

BEFORE

As you may remember, we chose Pottery Barn furniture and bedding. We are going with a fairy tale/princess theme. So, are you just dying to see the transformation? I wish I had some way of doing a sprinkle of pixie dust to make the pictures go from before to after like on the Oprah show makeovers...but I don't, so you'll just have to scroll down.

So, without further ado, welcome to her majesty's royal bedchamber (imagine trumpets blasting dun, dun, da, duh...hehe)!

While the furniture was delivered, Cate was at a neighbor's house with her little friend, Brooke. Once the furniture was set up and I had a chance to make the bed and accessorize, I called my neighbor and they brought Cate back. My neighbor and I were in the room to get pictures and video and Max brought her in for the first time. She was a little confused for a few seconds, but then squealed with excitement.

After a celebratory lunch with Brooke and her mom, we headed home for the first nap in her new bed. I have to admit, I was a little nervous...would she go down, would she cry, would she stay in the bed/room! So, I laid her down and rubbed her back for a few minutes, then closed the door. About 15 minutes later, I heard a few noises coming from the monitor and went to check it out. She was still in the bed, but sitting up reading her Disney Princess Storybook. I told her it was nap time and to lay back down. Luckily, she didn't fight me and laid right back down. I left and within about 10 minutes, this is what I found...

Yeah!!! One success down, bedtime to go! At this point, I wasn't sure if she would just come downstairs when she woke up or if she would just cry or what. Two hours later, I went to check on her and I opened the door to...

As I write this, we are about to go upstairs for bedtime. I hope that it will be another success. However, I am prepared for the worst...getting up multiple times and coming downstairs in the middle of the night! We'll see!

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