Moonlight - the best new comedy on television?

So Phillip and I couldn't resist and DVR'd "Moonlight" the new vampire show on CBS. It was everything we expected it to be and more: cheesy while trying to be serious, filled with terrible puns, and horribly acted. Right from the opening shot we knew what we were in for. In a dream sequence, Mick St. John (yep that's our hero's name!) is being interviewed by someone off camera. "So how is it being an actual vampire?" she asks. Mick: "It sucks." AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Nice one. No pun intended, right? Oooh, the dialogue was so bad in this show that it actually made my stomach ache. Who writes this stuff? Who greenlights it?? I just don't get it. This show was ripe for a little MST3K treatment and that's the only way Phillip and I even made it through to the end. We've decided that Sophia Myles (that blonde vampire from the Underworld movies and Isolde in Tristan & Isolde) is a low, low, low rent version of Kate Winslet and thinks that her acting is enhanced when she uses her hands close to her face. There was one entire scene where her hands truly never left her face area. It was hysterical. The lead guy is handsome enough, but the director tried too hard by dressing him in a really thin shirt so his muscles rippled through and keeping a fan on him so that his hair blows seductively whenever possible. Oh and even the music in this show was pun-tastic. The song used for the music montage at the end that tied everything up in a neat little episodic bow was "My Immortal" by Evanescence. I'm not kidding. Although I really enjoyed watching the pilot episode because I got to make fun of it so thoroughly and laugh more than I have laughed in a long while, I don't think I'll be able to make it through a second viewing. It won't last beyond a handful of episodes anyway. Oh, wait, this is CBS and "Ghost Whisperer" is still on, so maybe it will last. Maybe I'll catch it again some Friday night when I have nothing better to do and I need a good laugh.

TEEN BEDROOM MAKEOVER FOR LESS THAN $100

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You just decorated the dorm and once you got home, your teen's home based bedroom looked pretty dated in comparison. We know you blew the budget on stuff to decorate her home away from home. But, would it be possible to give your daughter's room at home a complete makeover and a fresh new look for less than $100? Actually by
shopping at secondhand stores and making use of eBay, garage sales and what you have stuffed in the closets and under your bed, you may be able to redecorate for less than that!


With several days work, working about an hour at a time, you can have your teen bedroom makeover done in less than a week and at a budget price. Won't she be surprised when she comes home for break? Here are some ideas on how to get started.

CHEAP TEEN BEDDING and ACCESSORIES
Bedding might be the most expensive decorative stumbling block that you encounter on your way to an extreme budget minded teen or tween bedroom makeover.

There are several ways that you can clear this hurdle and still have professional looking results and the funky bedding that will impress your daughters teenybopper friends.

• Buy yards of fabric in a wild print and make your own duvet cover. This is an easy do it yourself sewing project even for amateurs and what a bargain! We actually made a duvet cover out of three coordinating fabrics and got it all done for less than $10 because we had several lengths already on hand that were leftover from some curtain panels. We used the worn comforter for the filler for the duvet as there was nothing wrong with it, it just needed an update.
  
  
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  Using more of the fabric that we had on hand we used a staple gun to whip up an easy canopy that we hung. We attached it to the ceiling with a hook that had previously been used to hang a pot plant on the patio. We painted the hook black with spray paint and gathered the canopy by tying a tassel on the loose ends.
  
  
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  The décor called for a taller bed platform, so we jacked up the legs of the bed using some scrap lumber to make blocks of identical height placed under each after we removed the wheels. This raised the entire bed frame a few inches over a foot. This was the perfect height for some under the bed storage boxes.
  
  
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  Valances and decorative pillows came from the same fabrics that were used to make the duvet cover and pieced bed skirt. We simply covered the old pillows with the new fabric and added some fringes, fur and other fun notions.
  

So, there you have it! Teen bedroom makeover ideas that will get the job done on the cheap! Even if you don’t have yards of curtain fabric lying around you can pick up remnants or fabric that is the last on the bolt at the sewing center for a few cents on the dollar. Lime green or neon orange crushed velvet will perk up the most common cotton prints when paired with gold or faux fur trim. So don’t let your teen reject the layout based on any one fabric!

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PINK AND BLACK BEDDING for TEENS

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So far as pink and black bedding for teenage girls that would be be perfect for teens and tweens, you have several fabric prints to choose from. Not many, but a few.

That's why you have to love the ingenuity that the manufacturer displayed when they rolled out not only a
pink and black comforter sets in zebra fabrics, but a patchwork quilt that incorporates hot pink faux fur blocks with black and white zebra.

The possibilities for such an eclectic design are rather interesting to say the least. The play of graphics one against the other brings me around to a retro, kind of Andy Warhol (if teens care to take a look at his art they will see what I mean) state of mind.

I'm not sure how I feel about mixing the less dramatic, watered down shades of pink as seen in the area rug in the example picture, but I have to give the funky, pink and black patchwork bedding set a positive review. This just goes to show that patchwork quilts are not necessarily country by nature.

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ZEBRA PRINT DAY BED COMFORTER SETS, CURTAINS and BEDROOM ACCESSORIES

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You may find zebra print day bed comforter sets to be very helpful whether you're decorating a dorm room or simply trying to save some space at home. Day beds are very popular and zebra daybed ensembles are big hits with teenage girls which provides the DIY decorating enthusiast with one of those rare, once in a lifetime moments of opportunity.

You can use the zebra daybed cover or comforter sets that will certainly appeal to the decorative taste of your teenage girl (as well as tweens and pre-teens) and make your case on why it's best that she sleep on a tiny bed in order to save the floor space. It might also be a good idea to mention that she will have more room to hang out with her friends and how you can expand the seating area by using the daybed as a sofa and throw some floor pillows on the floor for lounging.


Zebra print day bed comforter sets in stark black and white is a bold way to decorate and oddly enough one of most versatile patterns on the market at the moment. The black and white zebra stripe pattern is funky, flashy,fun and totally attention grabbing. As if all that weren't enough to sell you, it looks awesome with hot pink and purple which are two of the most popular colors in teenage girls bedrooms at the moment. In fact zebra bedding with pink trim is all the rage!

If that's not enough zebra striped stuff, here's some more until you're up to your ears in zebra stuff! Utilize zebra print rugs and lamps with zebra lampshades to raise the level of intensity in your safari decor.

If you want your horse in striped pajamas to hang out in the shower with you, hang some zebra print shower curtains on a black metal or painted shower rod. I love how they look with lots of potted ferns and greenery. The ferns love a hot, steamy room that doesn't get a lot of direct sun so there you are!

To top all this off, there are plenty of zebra print window treatments to match your zebra print day bed covers. However, I would lean towards a solid color curtain if I used other zebra bedroom accessories and vice versa. I know it's a teen girl's room and supposed to be wild and crazy, but enough's enough! Please for the sake of adult visitors, consider a solid color valance in black or white fabric.

Zebra daybed ensembles and bedding sets come in all sizes including extra long, queen, king, twin, and sizes specifically manufactured to fit daybeds so no matter what size bedding you need there's the perfect set of zebra bedding for your teenage girl's bedroom or even zebra baby stuff for the crib or nursery out there just waiting for you.

NAUTICAL LIGHTHOUSE BEDDING and DECOR for TEENS

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All the lighthouses in this set would be capable of lighting up the entirety of Cape Cod! No need to use more than one or two lighthouse decorations in any yachting or sailor girl's bedroom.

Play off the blues, grays with shots of bright red in solid colors or maybe a fabric printed with tiny anchors, flags or other nautical prints that visually blend at a distance would be best.

Throw in some polished brass lanterns, table lamps and maybe a life buoy and your lighthouse bedding will settle in for smooth sailing.

The lighthouse theme area rug might be ok so long as you could put it somewhere on the floor where it didn't fight for attention with the lighthouse medallion on the comforter. Maybe a bathroom would be a good place for it?

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2 Days in Paris

I've been a Julie Delpy fan since "Before Sunrise." I thought the screenplay she co-wrote with Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater for "Before Sunset" was a little piece of Heaven. But still, I didn't quite know what to expect from her writing/directing debut (well I think she has done some shorts before but this is her first full length). I was pleasantly surprised. Well written, touching, and laugh out loud funny (which I didn't expect), this film was a joy to watch. Delpy really captured a relationship with all its foibles; the tender moments and the moments when a pair are just plain mean to one another for no real reason. This was also the most endearing Adam Goldberg has ever been on screen. I just wanted to give him a big hug. And am I the only one who thinks Delpy is probably a complete nut in real life? How else can she write and play these neurotic characters so perfectly?

Oh and my favorite line in the movie? Well slightly paraphrased cause it's from memory:


Marion: Why do you even want to see his grave? You don't even like Jim Morrison. You don't like The Doors.

Jack: I know, but it's a famous grave. And I'm a huge Val Kilmer fan.


LOVE IT!

TEEN GIRLS PREFER SLEEK over COMPLICATED

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Contemporary beds and bedding are ever so popular with teen girls. Once upon a time the spare, futuristic designs were once looked at as rather cold and unwelcoming. That day has flown past and curlicues are now replaced with smooth, flat surfaces. In the modern teen's bedroom this furniture style is getting the credit that it deserves which is that it is very easy to keep clean as well as cool to look at.

Not many teenage girls want old fashioned, antique beds in their rooms right now. Stay tuned, the trend can always do a complete turnaround, but I don't see it happening so long as geometric and funky abstract prints are piled mile high on the store's shelves.

Does the slick design element of these modern beds correspond to an inexpensive price? Oh no, my dear. Exotic hardwoods and sturdy construction bumps up the price tag on some into what most would consider the high end furniture range.


Contemporary beds have an identical footprint in the bedroom as any other beds, but the eye tends to process the straight,uncluttered lines and label them as less intrusive in the decor. For teens with less than spacious bedrooms, this is a huge benefit of contemporary furniture design and one that's worth checking into.

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DRAMATIC ANIMAL PRINT WINDOW TREATMENTS

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These animal print window treatments are just teeming with wild jungle animal appeal for teens!

Whether you have decorated in wild animal prints like zebra, leopard or cheetah in your teen girl's jungle safari bedroom this dramatic valance should knock the socks off of your girl! There are combined panels of three different wild animal prints! The tab tops valances start out in zebra print fabrics with additional strips of cheetah print fabric that has been edged with leopard print fabric!
Elegant tassels have been attached at the points of the valance for a sophisticated finish.

The antiqued gold lion's head finials might be a little over the top if your teen's room is small, but you can dress this versatile window treatment up or down with less flashy drapery rods and finials if you desire.

You could add zebra bedding or other styles of jungle theme bedding sets with any of the other prints and a zebra rug to tie it all together.

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My Decorating Project Gone Down the Tubes

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If anybody's wondering why I haven't posted any new teen decorating stuff in the past week, it's because first and foremost my mom has been sick and needed my help. But if she had to be sick, it couldn't have come at a better time.

I needed a break. You can tell when you need some time off when you jump into a project and NOTHING goes as planned. I was hanging a fabulously beautiful pair of multi-colored silk drapery panels on some hammered iron rods and rammed a hole in the girl's wall. Yep, poked a hole big as a fifty cent piece right through the drywall and was that child ever miffed!

She calmed down once I offered to pay for the damage, but not a lot. To change the subject I told her we could spend the day together on Saturday shopping at one of my favorite wholesale warehouses and gather some decorating ideas for the rest of the bedroom. Whew. I don't want to lose a friend over a piddly hole in the wall!

We are going to look for some fabric to upholster a headboard for the bed. The wooden base has already been cut in a WILD shape and I can't wait! I advise all mothers of teen girls to consider a padded headboard as part of the bedroom decorations! The advantages are that they screw securely to the studs in the wall and you can match the fabric to the bedding and curtains.

Here's an instructional video that will help you get started on this cool bedroom upholstery project. Forgive the sick music at the beginning of the video and keep watching because the guy gives some good ideas on cutting a pattern and what foam to use and all that stuff.

CHEETAH PRINT BEDDING SETS for the WILD CHILD

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If plain brown, cream and tan cheetah print is hot this fall, pink cheetah print is SO HOT IT'S BURNING UP! Teen and tween girls are on fire for funky bedding with modern pink prints like pink camo bedding and now here's the latest trend in wild animal print fabrics: PINK CHEETAH!

This set comes in all sizes from twin to full and has lots of decorative accessories, some I love and some I'd change. The purple or pink round flokati faux fur trimmed pillows and rugs can hang, and I love the gauzy pink canopy over the upholstered headboard. I think that I would mount two antique gold cheetah (or lions or tigers) heads on each side of the headboard to use as tiebacks for the canopy panels.

I would drape the fabric over the sides and let the animals faces peek out from under rather than to use the headboard of the bed for this purpose. The dramatic effect of the canopy is lost somehow as is the pretty padded headboard.

I think that the bedroom in the pictures was decorated for a tween or a very young girl, but with some exotic accessories and a quick makeover it could be made into something fabulous for teens and even college age girls.

The curtain valance or drapery panels could be changed and the cheetah wallpaper border would have to go as well if you are using the cheetah print bedding for an older girl. I might go with a purple bedskirt, too.

All in all, pink cheetah print bedding is hard to locate and this is a set for a very cheap price. So if you have to change things up so be it!

Go wild and have fun with it by bringing in some seriously sexy elements in jungle animal motifs and other decorations with cheetah patterns. Dark wood furnishings would ground the animal print and give it a more mature look for the lady with wild animal tastes.

Take a look at the picture of the teen bedroom and send us your take on the best way to use this cool, pink cheetah print bedding! Return to Tween and Teenage Girls CHEETAH PRINT BEDDING SETS and Bedroom Decorating Ideas for more tips on decorating with cheetah, zebra print and more.

COOL DECORATING TECHNIQUE for the BEDROOM WALLS and MORE!

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Here's a cool and colorful teen bedroom decorating tip that dawned on me when I saw a big pile of neon colored flip-flops on the end of season closeout sale table at the local discount store. I was cruising down the aisle looking for some accessories for a lime green and orange bedding set and I had my radar set as such. When what do my wondering eyes appear but hot pink, orange, purple and lime green flip-flops for sale at deep discount prices.

When I say deep discount sale prices I mean DEEP discounts. My mind began to race and come up with cool teen bedroom decorating ideas for these cheap shoes in all the right colors.

What I came up with was some ideas to use big brightly colored flip-flops as wall decorations and I plan to try to use them to decorate a plain white ceiling fan. When I laid out the flip-flops I thought that they would lend themselves beautifully to a 60s theme bedroom. I can imagine them glued to the wall in a swirling vortex arrangement over the head of the bed or at some other part of the room where a focal point might be necessary. I could use the larger sizes in one color gradually decreasing the sizes the closer I got to the center of the spiral.

Another idea I came up with was to remove the plain white blades of the ceiling fan and hot glue a flip-flop on the side of the blade that faced the floor. One problem I might face with this particular decorative application would be if the additional weight upset the balance of the fan's operation. If the ceiling fan was not used regularly, there would be no problem whatsoever with gluing all the decorations for your particular theme onto the blades. Take care that you use a strong adhesive to glue the decorations to the blades. If the glue failed, your cute decorations could become flying missiles and that would not be cool at all!

I’m considering decorating the fan in a beach theme room that I’m working on for a friend’s teen daughter. I’m going to use seashells along with the flip-flops in the room as the fan is for decoration only. It doesn’t operate, so I can do all kinds of fancy embellishing along with painted pictures of crabs, fish or whatever.

If I have enough flip flops left over, I’m going to use them in a 60s theme room straight out of a Grateful Dead poster! Jerry Garcia himself would love this funky psychedelic decor that I’m designing! Stay tuned for pictures!

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TEEN WALL PAINTING IDEAS - QUICK and EASY!

MP3 Player Stencil

Laptop

Cell Phone Stencil

Here are a few teen wall painting ideas that will help mom in decorating the bedroom of a teenage girl, tween or preteen that seems to have a fixation on her permanently attached cellphone, Ipod MP3 player or laptop. Now you can easily decorate the bedroom walls with painted pictures of these modern wonders in technologty using these handy reusable stencils.

Electronic devices may not replace tradition teenage bedroom decor shoe as the style of choice. But there are nerds as well as members of the cool kids crowd that may like the idea of displaying the latest in electronics on their walls.


These decorative wall stencil patterns are the perfect decorating and teen wall painting ideas for the bedroom of a high school student that likes solid colors, broad expanses of black and white accented with lots of chrome. And another bonus is that you can use any colors that you want. Think how cool they would look with monochromatic black and white bedding or if your girls are still into purple bedding, so be it! Voila, Ipods of any color under the sun can magically appear on the walls of your little techno freak's bedroom in minutes.

Like it or not, teenage girls, boys and technology go hand in hand these days, so why not use these motifs as inspirations for your teen wall painting ideas? I've already pointed out how versatile they are, run it by your girls if you can get them to slow down and approve the change in decor so you can get to work.

When it comes to the best, cheap ways to give the bedroom walls a makeover, stencils are my favorites for the simple reason that for a few dollars you can give the room a whole new look. And a custom, personalized look at that. Go ahead, get the go ahead to start stenciling and you might want to consider stenciling the letters of her name on the wall while you're at it.

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BLUE and BROWN BEDDING WITH POLKA DOTS!

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I couldn't resist including this set of blue and brown bedding covered in polka dots for the teen girl that inherited her mom's impeccable taste. Certainly it's more expensive than your run of the mill bed in a bag set. But as I haven't found anything to compare to the rich chocolate brown and blue in the cheap lines this slightly retro color combination is worth the few extra dollars. Why wait and take a chance on decorating your teen girl's bedroom with a less luxurious comforter and bedskirt set just because it's cheap?

I must confess that I'm not that crazy about the bedskirt they have shown in the pictures. Somehow it doesn't fit into my idea of the best colors to match the comforter and accent pillows. It seems to be an off white fabric with a band of brown at the hem. I believe that I would have opted for a solid color bed skirt with a crisp tailored box pleat over this plain piece with no decorative details.
I suppose you could figure out a way to embellish it with some cording to match the comforter, but I'm not sure that's the best way to proceed.

This blue and brown bedding set with polka dots is a relatively contemporary color scheme. Personally, the colors above are my favorites! If you teenager doesn't like it, indulge yourself. You deserve a pretty bedroom with elegant bedding too!

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GIRL'S DORM BEDDING SHOPPING TIPS and IDEAS

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Are you in a rush for time to get your teenage girl’s dorm room ready? Here’s a quick and easy way to decorate your teen’s home away from home. Dorm bedding in a box is the co-ed equivalent to the familiar bed in a bag that we’ve grown so accustomed to for use in traditional bedrooms in homes and apartments.

Decorating a teen’s bedroom in your own home can be difficult enough, but decorating the dorm is so more public. Your baby girl is now past the tweens and teens. She now has a distinctive personality and has her own decorating ideas and pictures in her mind of what her bedroom decor should be. It’s likely that funky, wild, geometric prints in purple, green and blue have replaced the horse theme bedding or the pretty pink pretty pink Betty Boop bedding set that she had enjoyed in her early teens.

Don’t make the mistake of heading out to the store or beginning to shop online without your daughter by your side. Let her begin her first venture into the adult world as independently as possible and allow her to make some of her own decisions. Selecting her own dorm room bedding that reflects who she perceives herself to be is an excellent place to start. You may be surprised that her choice in decorations reflects your own good taste. Save your energy for the really important battles and decisions. Set a budget for her dorm room bedding and make out a list of all of the items she will need from comforters to sheets and pillows that you expect her to buy with the allotted amount and turn her loose to do her to do her own bedroom shopping.

Tell her that if she has some money left over after purchasing her bedding that she can have what’s left for something special. You may be amazed to find that she knows her way around the discontinued bedding and closeout sales.

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Two surprisingly enjoyable films!

The past two days I’ve watched two films that I enjoyed more than I expected to.

The first was Douglas McGrath’s "Infamous." I’ve read Capote’s "In Cold Blood" which is an amazing true crime novel (oxymoronic as that is) and enjoyed Phillip Seymour Hoffman in his Oscar winning role as Truman in 2005’s "Capote" so I didn’t really expect to like "Infamous" that much cause hell, didn’t we just see this movie??? But Toby Jones’ performance as Truman Capote was a revelation! For me he reduced Hoffman’s performance to mediocrity at best. Toby was all flamboyancy, cattiness, and wit. This time around we got to see much more of Capote’s needling influence within his high society friends which enriched the character greatly. His Capote was so ridiculous that at first you didn’t think he’d ever be able win over the town folk of Holcomb let alone the killers, but little by little he does it and wins over the audience in the process. Plus, Toby is a tiny little man, like the real Capote was which helped the believability. I know they had tried to downplay Hoffman’s size and make him seem small, but it never really worked – which I didn’t fully realize until watching "Infamous." I will give the 2005 film one advantage over this new film and that’s Catharine Keener as Nelle Harper Lee. Keener is, of course, brilliant in everything she does. "Infamous" unfortunately had Sandra Bullock in the role and gawd she was awful. Even if she had been able to keep her Southern accent consistent, it still wouldn’t have been enough to make her performance believable. Toby swallowed her up. This, now that I think of it, is rather fitting, since Capote kind of swallowed up Lee in real life too. Daniel Craig was quite good too as the killer Perry Smith. "Infamous" played the Perry/Truman relationship up to sensational glory, taking it much further than "Capote" did, but it worked. Craig really pulled the tragedy and menace of the character off. Overall I felt that "Infamous" far outshone "Capote" in revealing what kind of man, lover, friend, liar, writer, bitchy little queen he really was – and with heart! HA!

Phillip and I finally watched David Fincher’s "Zodiac." We’d had it out from Netflix for a few weeks now, but neither one of us had been in the mood to watch a two hour, forty minute long movie about a serial killer whose case to this day is unresolved. We finally popped it in last night and wowza – we were pleasantly surprised! First off the cinematography and art direction were incredible. I really hope Oscar voters remember it when the time comes. The little period details from hairstyles to music to being free to smoke at work and on airplanes to the cars people drove – it was really well done. And some of the shots were fantastic, like the overhead shot that turned the corner sharply along with the cab, and the time lapse of the construction of San Francisco’s famous Transamerica Pyramid! The cast was also impeccable from the ever brilliant Brian Cox and Robert Downey Jr., the sorely underused Elias Koteas, the perfect Boy Scout Jake Gyllenhaal, and the continual impressiveness of Mark Ruffalo there would pop up in scene after scene someone else I was thrilled to see: Anthony Edwards! Dermot Mulroney! Chloe Sevigny! Donal Logue! James LeGros! Clea Duvall! For a movie about an unsolved crime the plotting still felt like we were continually trying to get somewhere and that we eventually would. There was still drama and tension and mystery and surprise. It was a great puzzle of a movie, slowly pieces would fit in one place and then you’d realize, wait, that doesn’t actually fit there, and you’d have to move it. For a movie with a really dark storyline it was actually a lot of fun!

SHOE THEME BEDROOM for SOPHISTICATED TEENS ABOUT TOWN

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I'm always interested in diva girl or glamour bedding and bedroom designs and decor for the more sophisticated older teen girl. The teenage or college age girl that this page will have decorating ideas for may have outgrown pastel pink flip flips and beach room themes, but still has a thing for shoes as all ladies do! For this girl, a glamourous high heel shoe and purse or handbag style of decor might be acceptable.

On this page we will share instructions on how to make some of the high shoe bedroom decorations.

• Paint a red and white polka dot and purple stripe pattern on a large hatbox to be a platform for our jewel encrusted high heeled shoe to place on top
• Spray paint a sexy shoe in bright red (or use any funky color combination that you think your teen wants: pink, black and white polka dots will work just as nicely)
• Paste fluffy maribou feathers pasted on the toe
• Top the feathers with an antique or vintage rhinestone brooch
• Hot glue some satin ribbons tied in an elegant bow on the back of the shoe with a jewel in the center to cover the knot
• Loop some bright, contemporary lime green colored cording in bows on the sides of your hat box to add another color in the mix and to make it interesting
• Print an ornate label with your child's name on it in a unique font

Who would have dreamed that red and purple would look so luxurious in combination? Who has ever used an ill fitting platform shoe to decorate a teen's bedroom? Stick around, friend, and we give you decorating tips and ideas and do lots of cool, unique stuff that will make your teens think that you are a decorating genius with a professional interior decorator for a best friend!

What a treasure trove of unique bedroom decorating ideas you can draw from this homemade decoration that is so CHEAP to make! Now you will carry these colors and textures around the teen's bedroom or dorm room with spectacular results!

Maribou feathers and gemstones can be pasted on existing furniture and fixtures for a quick and easy makeover to take a girl's room from pre-teen or tween to teenage or college freshman!

Lime green tassels can be duplicated as curtain tie backs and it would be so easy to paint the walls a deep red semi-gloss with white painted circles or polka dots! If your diva has a closet full of high fashion Jimmy Choo's, chances are she will adore a shoe themed bedroom designed to be just as fashionable as her inventory of shoes!

Pick out some shoe themed artwork, some bright red lip shaped floor pillows and your young sophisticate is sure to be impressed with this unique bedroom design.

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MONKEY BEDDING for TWEENS and TEENS

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Monkey bedding for tweens and teenage girls doesn't have to be based on brown and beige. Why not give monkeys a makeover using purple and green? Maybe pink, purple, blue and green monkeys don't exist in the jungle, but nature doesn't have to have the final say when it comes to decorating bedrooms kids. Pre-teens or any young girls that want color and want a monkey theme can find bedding fabrics with whimsical prints with wild colors that will make them go ape!

Don't waste time feeling sad and sentimental on the day that your child announces that she is too big for her old Sock Monkey bedding set. There no reason to kick those cute monkeys to the curb. Embrace the moment and start shopping for comforters printed with monkeys in twin, full or queen sizes. Chances are that you may be able to recycle many of the bedroom's existing decorations and funny monkey pictures on the bedroom wall.

Monkey bedding fabrics printed with monkeys swinging through the jungle on vines snacking on bananas are lots of fun to use to decorate a bedroom for children. Whether you choose a bedroom design with a neutral background of beige or even painted green leaves reminiscent of the rainforest there's no rule in the decorating guide that says your monkeys have to be depicted in natural shades of dark brown and beige! In fact, wild colors are cool in monkey bedding sets. Purple, lime green and even hot pink monkeys are acceptable for a girl's room.

If you like to stick close with to the palette that Mother Nature laid out for us, it's possible to do so and still have lots of color. By designing your jungle bedroom theme with lots of parrots, tropical flowers and exotic snakes you will have a virtual riot of colorful critters all with realistic coloring. For you to design a teens bedroom around monkeys in weird colors I would recommend that you adjust your decorating ideas to let them be the star of the show or the focal point of the room. Let your funky monkeys be the most colorful objects in the room and not have to enter a competition for attention. Leave out the bright feathers and bugs and let your monkey bedding sets shine!

Oatmeal and shades of light tan would be the best colors to paint the walls. Bedroom decorations could include silk trees or if there's enough natural light in the room, real non-toxic green potted plants would be nice.

If you are planning to use blinds as part of your window treatments, consider blinds made of a natural wood such as bamboo. Rattan bedroom furniture or bent twig benches and chairs would look super. The headboard of the twin, full or queen size bed can be made of bamboo or rattan as well. Consider hanging an off white or natural, unbleached mosquito net canopy over the bed.

Plan an outing to the closest theme park or carnival and do your best to win some plush, stuffed apes to match the colors of the monkeys on your duvet cover or comforter to complete the total look of your funky monkey teen bedroom.

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