Show Us Your Life: Master Bedroom

I told you last week my house was old...and because it's old, it doesn't actually have a master bedroom. The master bedroom, therefore, becomes whatever room I determine is the master. And right now, I pick the biggest bedroom!

I've decided that while I'm still single and can do whatever I want...I want a purple bedroom. If I ever get married, we can pick a more guy-appropriate color. I redid this room about three or four years ago, and my entire goal was to do it on a budget. Mission accomplished!

I got this bed-in-a-bag on a pretty significant sale...and I built the rest of the room around it.

In college (freshman year, no less) I found myself nicknamed Princess by my new friends, and it stuck. So every now and then people give me "princess gear." Here are a couple of gifts that hang out on the bed just because they can. The bunny is a Build-A-Bear bunny that my former roommate gave me one year. I used to have this soft pale green bunny named Hippity, but after the tornado, I sent him out to my niece, since I thought she could use some Hippity. Angela decided to replace him with this guy. Loved it!

I ended up decorating for fall tonight, so here's one of the decorations that landed in the bedroom. I love this little cornucopia. A few years ago, my boss's wife started selling Homemaker's Idea (a home-based party business) products, so lots of people I knew had parties for her. As a result, I ended up investing in quite a bit of their stuff in a short period of time. This was one of those things...and I love it.

Another home party that I used to go to often was from the Party Lite business. (Candles.) This was one of my favorite things I earned free from that. The bottom is a vase, which I usually fill with glass marbles. And the top part holds a tealight - and can be its own holder or stack up like this.

Bought this for about two bucks a while ago when a bookstore was going out of business. I keep it in my room to remind me to pray for my Mr. Missing.

Mom gave me this as a gift several years ago. It's really supposed to be outside, but I didn't want it to get all weather-worn. I decided to put leaves under it to give it that outdoor feel.

This little table was a castoff from my parents. FREE FURNITURE!! :) I've used it in several different rooms over the years, but for now it's a bedroom feature. Behind it you can see the wall striping. That took forever, but I loved the way it turned out. I used three shades of purple in the room. The darkest purple and lightest purple are in the stripes, and the medium is the top part of the wall. Dad hung a white chair rail for me. Love it! The room is pretty dark, but I don't care because it's a bedroom.

I went with Mom to tour a show home and the designer had used one of these little jobbies for an earring holder. Loved it. Went straight to Hobby Lobby and bought my own! Now I can find my earrings quickly in the morning, which is important since I'm usually not the owner of many spare minutes!

My best friend gave me this oil lamp as a gift several years ago and I just redecorated it for fall. The vase part can have anything put in it to match the decor...and the top part is the actual lamp. I am having a hard time finding replacement wicks though!

My floors are hardwood, but Mom and Dad gave me this extra little rug just for fun. (Look who wanted to pose on it for pictures!) If you're reading along with the desert tale, you'll soon hear much about this rug. It became a huge place of prayer for me.

This is one of my favorite parts of the room. I found this idea on HGTV. When I first redid the room, this was the "headboard" to my bed. But I switched things around and now it's the backdrop to the dresser. The curtain hides an attic door.

Told you I love pictures everywhere!

And I know this is NOT the bedroom. You already saw the fireplace last week...but I decorated it for fall and I loved it so much I just had to show you!!

Thanks for reading along...adventures from the desert will resume tomorrow!