TWEENS,TEENS and PRE-TEEN ENTERTAINING TRENDS
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Tweens and teen girls are entertaining. Where are they having their get-togethers with their friends? Since malls have started enforcing rules about hanging out in stores without adults, we see more and more of these young ladies at home. That's right, teenage girls are starting a nesting trend out of necessity.
The benefits are that their bedrooms are decorated as reflections of their own unique personalities and they are safe havens where they can have fun without the danger of pervs and the need to dodge dangerous street activities. With droves of chicks returning to the nest, mom and dad may be pressed to give what had previously been a space for getting the required number of hours of beauty sleep a complete makeover.
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QUILTED SEAHORSES PATTERNED FABRICS AND FINIALS
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In some locations, the ocean is always azure blue and the sunshine is warm on the beach. The sad thing is that there are lots of teenagers stuck in the lands of ice and snow and these girls can only fantasize about lounging at the seaside or snorkeling alongside the kissing fish and seahorses that frolick in their underwater worlds swimming amongst the shipwrecks and coral reefs.
The way that many teen girls weather the long winter months without falling into deep, dark despair is to decorate their bedrooms like a tropical paradise. Seahorse finials on the bedposts and lamps that are shaped like swimming seahorses with starfish accents match the tropical fish quilted on the comforters and duvet covers. A seashell shaped bedside area rug is a nice touch that will keep those tootsies warm until spring break!
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HOT TINKERBELL GIFT IDEAS for TEEN GIRLS
If you need teen party or gift ideas for the teen in your life who loves fairies, but doesn't want to risk losing her edgy image with her friends, Disney cartoon star Peter Pan's sidekick, the sweet little Tinkerbell fairy, might be the ticket. Characters from children's storybooks might not be, well....cool and stylish enough to bring a smile to an older girl's face, but you can bet beautiful, blonde Tinkerbell is always trendy.
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Modern tweens and preteens are very sophisticated and even we don't want to give them items that are sexy or too mature they don't want the same stuff that they've been playing with since they were little. I've found some gift ideas will allow mom and dad to keep their girl's innocence for a few more years but won't embarrass her in front of her friends at the party. Indeed when she opens her Disney Tinkerbell Mix Max media player, every mom in the place will know that there will be pressure to stop at the local discount electronics store on the way home!
To ease the competition among the teens at the party (teen girls can go wild with envy for weird reasons), send them home with something cute (but inexpensive) with Tinkerbell pictures on it. All teenage girls like to dress up their cellphones, so here are some ideas for cheap Tinkerbell party favors on up. You could present some Tinkerbell cell phone charms that cost just a few dollars or spring for a cell phone case that would set you back ten dollars or less. A cell phone cover or faceplates for the girl's new Razr V3 would label you as the hostess with the mostest!
If you plan to go the faceplate or cellphone cover route, check with your guest's moms beforehand and make a list of how many girls have Nokia or Motorola phones as you will need to shop for your party favors according to brand. Return to Tween and Teenage Girls Tinkerbell Gift Ideas, Bedding and Bedroom Decorating Ideas
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Modern tweens and preteens are very sophisticated and even we don't want to give them items that are sexy or too mature they don't want the same stuff that they've been playing with since they were little. I've found some gift ideas will allow mom and dad to keep their girl's innocence for a few more years but won't embarrass her in front of her friends at the party. Indeed when she opens her Disney Tinkerbell Mix Max media player, every mom in the place will know that there will be pressure to stop at the local discount electronics store on the way home!
To ease the competition among the teens at the party (teen girls can go wild with envy for weird reasons), send them home with something cute (but inexpensive) with Tinkerbell pictures on it. All teenage girls like to dress up their cellphones, so here are some ideas for cheap Tinkerbell party favors on up. You could present some Tinkerbell cell phone charms that cost just a few dollars or spring for a cell phone case that would set you back ten dollars or less. A cell phone cover or faceplates for the girl's new Razr V3 would label you as the hostess with the mostest!
If you plan to go the faceplate or cellphone cover route, check with your guest's moms beforehand and make a list of how many girls have Nokia or Motorola phones as you will need to shop for your party favors according to brand. Return to Tween and Teenage Girls Tinkerbell Gift Ideas, Bedding and Bedroom Decorating Ideas
DINOSAUR BEDDING - NOT JUST FOR BOYS!
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Let's take a trip back in time to prehistoric days when beasts bigger than some modern highrise apartments roamed the jungles. Most kids think that circus elephants are huge and they are correct, but how do we go about introducing them to be ancestors of these pachyderms? One way to educate them and have fun doing it would be to decorate their bedrooms in stylish dinosaur bedding sets reminiscent of pictures right now of Jurassic Park!
Tweens and preteens will be interested in the history and the adventure associated with the history, the wonder and charm of dinosaurs on their sheet sets as well as their walls and comforters. If you already have a jungle mural left over from the toddler bedroom theme, remove the contemporary animals that you might find in the zoo from the mix and substitute a Brontosaurus, Tyrannosaurus and others on their bedroom walls.
You don't have to have an predominantly emerald green color scheme to use prehistoric lizards and other creatures from the caveman (or cave girls) in your decor. There are dinosaur sheet sets and decorative accessories in contemporary colors of blue, red and maybe even some feminine styles in pink! Children need to know more about cave dwelling and the stoneage than what they learn from the Flintstones cartoons and realistic dinosaur pictures on the bedroom walls may be the best converstation starters!
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FAIRY BEDDING SETS FOR PRETTY PRINCESS BEDROOMS
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Fairy bedding sets are for the little girl that's not quite ready to let go of their teddy bears, baby dolls and stories of fairy tale princesses. For the young girl at the juncture between the preteen or tween years and the more sophisticated tastes of the teenage years, delicate beauty can sometimes suffice.
A responsible mom may not have been able to use her decorating ideas for her girl's bedroom earlier in the game with expensive or dainty accessories. It would be very disappointing to buy high end comforters, bedding or hand-painted furniture only to find them covered in finger paint or globs of play-doh.
However, the day may come when the sticky toys of children's games have been tucked away. This may be the best time for decorating with those silky fabrics and furniture with fine finishes before her girl decides she wants a style of bedroom decor that sets most parents' nerves on edge.
Fill the tween years with fairy bedding sets and decorating ideas for fairy wings and fluttering butterflies quickly before she reaches for the dark side of teen bedroom decor. Ornate iron beds with headboards painted with fantasy fairy princesses on swings combined with light and airy fairy bedding sets in pastels will delight mother and daughter.
Keep the colors of purple, pink and white with highlights of sparkling gold with fairy comforters and quilts made with preteens in mind. Or if you like hot pink more than pretty pastel colors, Laura Ashley has a lovely designer bedding collection for teen girls with touches of hot sugarplum pink as well as turquoise blue that will provide opportunities to accessorize and decorate your flower fairies bedroom with unusual and exciting color combinations.
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The Las Vegas Film Society and West Side Story
I went to my first screening as a member of the Las Vegas Film Society on Tuesday. It was really cute, the founder guy of the LVFS had a little table set up at the entrance to the theatres and he gave me an envelope with a welcome letter and a little laminated membership card. Then the founder's wife had to escort us into the theatre past the theatre employee since they don't actually give you tickets, all the while dragging her poor, young son along behind her. Kind of funny.
I met my friend Su for the movie which was quite surreal. Su and I were very close friends during my first few years of high school, then we kind of lost touch as teenagers tend to do, then ran into each other once about 8 years ago at Savers but Su was living in Portland at the time and was just visiting so nothing came of it, then about a month ago she found me here on myspace (it's CRAZY I tell ya!) and she's back in Vegas, but with the hectic holiday season we never could find time to get together, until now for West Side Story!
Su and I immediately started talking talking talking, catching up and up and up and were happy to remember that West Side Story begins with what feels like a 10 minute overture so we were able to keep talk talk talking. There were only about 15 people total in the huge theater, and that's including me and Su and the founder, his wife and son so luckily our talking wasn't really disturbing anyone since there was no one really around us. And we were whispering and the music was very loud. Do you get how I am trying to convince myself that we weren't disturbing anyone? I'm not quite sure that was the case, but I'm hopeful that it was. I know now that a movie was probably not the ideal place for Su and I to meet up at when we haven't spoken to each other for longer than 2 minutes in the past oh, I don't know, nearly 15 YEARS!! We did watch the movie a little too, but come on, it's not like neither of us haven't seen West Side Story plenty of times. Plus it's a classic Shakespeare story - everyone knows it! There were times when our rushed whispers stopped and we were brought back into the movie by some fantastic dance sequences and great songs.
West Side Story is just ripe for the MST3K treatment and we did a lot of that too. We tried to pick out all the members of the "gangs" that were obviously gay, which really wasn't too difficult with those tight pants and twirly dance moves. Richard Beymer who plays Tony really does have the most ginormous set of teeth ever. It's hysterical how in order to get Russian beauty Natalie Wood to look Puerto Rican they darkened her skin in a way that just made her look kind of dirty. And what was up with Natalie Wood's accent in this? Instead of sounding like English was her second language she just sounded like a dimwit. Oh and we forgot how much we both HATE the song "I Feel Pretty."
Oh and then I accidentally ruined My Fair Lady for Su forever by spewing out one of my endless tidbits of trivia that I've filled my brain with since birth. Here's how it went:
Me leaning over to Su, "So you do realize that Natalie Wood's singing voice in this is dubbed by Marni Nixon who also dubbed Audrey Hepburn's singing voice in My Fair Lady."
Su, horrified, "What? That's not Audrey singing in My Fair Lady??????"
Me, a little bewildered, "Um, no, everybody knows that, it's common knowledge."
Su, completely crushed, "Well I didn't know it! Now My Fair Lady is ruined for me forever!!"
I'm sorry Su.
Overall it was a great time. It was really wonderful to see Su and catch up with her and feel like no time has passed at all and like I have magically gotten a friend back! I hope we do it again soon.
Next month: Raging Bull!!
I met my friend Su for the movie which was quite surreal. Su and I were very close friends during my first few years of high school, then we kind of lost touch as teenagers tend to do, then ran into each other once about 8 years ago at Savers but Su was living in Portland at the time and was just visiting so nothing came of it, then about a month ago she found me here on myspace (it's CRAZY I tell ya!) and she's back in Vegas, but with the hectic holiday season we never could find time to get together, until now for West Side Story!
Su and I immediately started talking talking talking, catching up and up and up and were happy to remember that West Side Story begins with what feels like a 10 minute overture so we were able to keep talk talk talking. There were only about 15 people total in the huge theater, and that's including me and Su and the founder, his wife and son so luckily our talking wasn't really disturbing anyone since there was no one really around us. And we were whispering and the music was very loud. Do you get how I am trying to convince myself that we weren't disturbing anyone? I'm not quite sure that was the case, but I'm hopeful that it was. I know now that a movie was probably not the ideal place for Su and I to meet up at when we haven't spoken to each other for longer than 2 minutes in the past oh, I don't know, nearly 15 YEARS!! We did watch the movie a little too, but come on, it's not like neither of us haven't seen West Side Story plenty of times. Plus it's a classic Shakespeare story - everyone knows it! There were times when our rushed whispers stopped and we were brought back into the movie by some fantastic dance sequences and great songs.
West Side Story is just ripe for the MST3K treatment and we did a lot of that too. We tried to pick out all the members of the "gangs" that were obviously gay, which really wasn't too difficult with those tight pants and twirly dance moves. Richard Beymer who plays Tony really does have the most ginormous set of teeth ever. It's hysterical how in order to get Russian beauty Natalie Wood to look Puerto Rican they darkened her skin in a way that just made her look kind of dirty. And what was up with Natalie Wood's accent in this? Instead of sounding like English was her second language she just sounded like a dimwit. Oh and we forgot how much we both HATE the song "I Feel Pretty."
Oh and then I accidentally ruined My Fair Lady for Su forever by spewing out one of my endless tidbits of trivia that I've filled my brain with since birth. Here's how it went:
Me leaning over to Su, "So you do realize that Natalie Wood's singing voice in this is dubbed by Marni Nixon who also dubbed Audrey Hepburn's singing voice in My Fair Lady."
Su, horrified, "What? That's not Audrey singing in My Fair Lady??????"
Me, a little bewildered, "Um, no, everybody knows that, it's common knowledge."
Su, completely crushed, "Well I didn't know it! Now My Fair Lady is ruined for me forever!!"
I'm sorry Su.
Overall it was a great time. It was really wonderful to see Su and catch up with her and feel like no time has passed at all and like I have magically gotten a friend back! I hope we do it again soon.
Next month: Raging Bull!!
THE NEED FOR COOL HEADBOARD IDEAS!
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I may seem to focus primarily on finding the perfect set of cool bedding for modern teen girls in my blog entries, but I want to let my visitors know that I do pay attention to the whole decorating package. I take care to design bedrooms for tweens and teens with ideas that will catch the attention from the minute the bedroom door is opened.
Focal points on the walls, floors, ceilings as well as the bed itself are very important elements in the decor. What good is a funky comforter if the rest of the room is plain Jane? Let's narrow it down even more and say that the rest of the bed itself should not be without interesting appointments and design.
The bed frame is not an issue because the bed skirt or dust ruffle covers it completely in most cases. A sumptuous padded mattress cover is a lovely addition for reason pertaining to comfort and protection of the mattress more than appearance.
This brings us to the subject of headboards.
The headboard of the bed could almost be considered the bridge between bedroom wall decoration and the bedspread. There are many popular styles of headboard from bookcase to luxuriously upholstered headboards. The kind that is right for your little lady's room depends entirely on your taste. Go classic with iron or brass or make your own headboard with instructions from any number of free patterns and videos found online with very few tools or materials.
One of the most creative headboard ideas that I've seen for a pink and frilly girl's bedroom recently involved a set of large headboard stickers or wallies that I found at American Blinds, Wallpaper & More at less than twenty five dollars each! This would be perfect for a coed's dorm room or apartment where you didn't want to haul lots of heavy furniture up multiple flights of stairs!
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