We are in the midst of our Thanksgiving family time here in Colville. This post was prepared ahead of time to publish until I gather the current family photos from activities we are enjoying in real time.
A ‘before’ photo of the queen size bed and accessories in the ‘Blue Room’. We sold this bed complete to my cousin who lives here in Colville.
We have two guest bedrooms in our Country Bungalow. We call this room the ‘Blue Room’. The other guest room we call the ‘Play Room’ because that is where any toys and books are stored for our Grands.
The Blue room was ready for an upgrade with a new king bed set-up. It was fun to pick wall art and linens for a new look. Most of the wall art came from Hobby Lobby on a week when they were all 50% off. It wasn’t as much fun for Greg to assemble the platform for the mattress. It also was a complete clown-show for Greg and me when we took off the wrapping on the mattress that came in a box, rolled up tight. It pretty much explodes into it’s flat king size shape. We were tossed about until we gained control of it and slid it on to it’s platform! Whew!
Andrew and Katie arrived here on Thanksgiving and got to enjoy the ‘new look’.
Here’s a recent photo of Katie with her latest hair coloring. By now we have taken many family photos while celebrating the Thanksgiving extended weekend together. I’ll be sharing those soon.
And in other news we had our first wee snowfall of the season.
We hired a couple of young men from our church to come and clear our planters for winter. Little did we know when we scheduled that we’d have snow to deal with. Thankfully it was just an inch of snow that melted quickly. The guys persevered with freezing fingers and did a great job for us. I’m so thankful to have this task behind us in time for Winter.
The Happy Wonderer ~ ellen b. 
The new look in the Blue Room is really nice, Ellen. And it’s good to see a picture of Katie.
…two of our guest rooms are overflowing with plants. Our daughter take a nap in you old room and enjoyed sleeping under a palm tree.
Tom, Haha, well that is fun!
Looking good in your blue room or should it now be the grey room. Love the art work. The mattress exploding made me giggle. B x
Good job hiring someone to do the yard work. You know how small my yard is and the best thing I did was to hire someone to pull the weeds for me.
I love a blue carpet! I guess that’s one thing you didn’t change 😉 but anyway, you reminded me of when my family lived in our previous house, and my late husband and I chose carpet for our master bedroom: BLUE! It was not quite the same blue as your guest room. I hadn’t thought about that in a long time, and no wonder, it being 35 years ago that we lived there.
It is always so satisfying to spruce up a room and make it pretty in a new way for guests. I see you did keep with the blue theme, too ❤
Hello,
I would think your guests are very happy to sleep in either one of your bedrooms. They look beautiful. We may see some snow on Tuesday! Have a happy weekend.
I love the colors of your blue room! My grandmother had a “blue room” as well, and we always enjoyed staying in it. Those mattresses nowadays are quite amazing how they unroll and fill with air! Love your decor, and the darling faux windows alongside the mirror. Really brings it all together in a lovely way! Trust you’ve had a wonderful Thanksgiving! Many blessings to you!
The guest room looks wonderful. I wouldn’t mind staying there. 🙂
Katie has your lovely smile!!
I’m sure the newly decorated lovely guest room will be enjoyed by many over the coming years! Happy snow!
Your “after” is lovely and welcoming to all guests. BTW, your daughter looks so much like her mother.
Your “after” is lovely and welcoming to all guests. BTW, your daughter looks so much like her mother.
I smiled at your expand-a-bed misadventures. Glad you survived to complete this new pretty blue room.
Pretty room!! The snow picture made me shiver!
The room looks very nice. Love her hair color too!