A room fit for a tween!

This past weekend, I had the pleasure of working with a pretty cute, sassy, Lego & Barbie playing,

volleyball spiking and giraffe loving client…..my very own tween daughter!

She and I enjoyed a rare weekend at home with just the two of us -

Moms, isn't it such a treat to spend one-on-one time with your children?

Really a gift.

I had promised we would work on some styling in her room -

we painted it over the summer and had added the fun rug

but that was about it.  The walls were basically bare except her

bulletin board {where momma allows her to pin whatever she wants!}.

We had begun to collect some prints that were meaningful to her.  On Saturday 

we headed to Ikea to get some frames and look for some Lego

storage options….on ONGOING issue for my girl!

{which is a problem I am not going to complain about - 

I love that my daughter who turns 12 next month still plays with Legos}.

I love that I have these photos to look at, because on most

days it DOES.NOT.LOOK.LIKE.THIS.

And I have this to say about kids rooms……..

Enjoy the time when your children are small and you can decorate

their spaces however YOU like, but when they reach a certain age

help them create a space that has their own stamp on it even 

if is not what YOU would totally choose to do.  That's not to 

say there isn't a give and take.  For example, I really do not like

posters tacked on walls so I compromise by hanging a VERY

large bulletin board in my girls' rooms and allow them to tack up

anything they want on the bulletin board.  So when last year they couldn't

get enough of Justin Beiber and this year they love Louie from 

One Direction, the respective posters can be easily swamped out.

And that's all I have to say about that.