Tessa's Birthday

December my oldest turned nine.  The last single digit age.  (smile)  She is quite a grown up little girl, who isn't into toys at all... unless they are electronic.... so presents for her are always a challenge.  Tessa moved into the guest room in September so that Dan and I could use an upstairs bedroom for an office, which is just about the best thing that we have done in this house.  Anyway, the room was not her... it had brown pony walls and "grown up" bedding.  The ceiling was wood boards in their natural state therefore brown, and the whole room was kind of brown.  Not nine year old girl cool by any means and really the only room in our house that we are using that had not got any attention yet.  So Tessa requested a "new room."

Tessa slept in the old play room with all our junk which used to be in my "craft room" for the week and was not allowed in at all.  Dan drew the fun flowers etc. on the wall which he copied from the lamp shade that we picked up at Ikea and I painted them in.  She is very happy with her new room and even has closet doors now instead of a curtain.  It is still our guest room until the basement gets redone, but don't feel bad about booting her out, she's pretty proud of her beautiful room and doesn't really mind.