As I mentioned here, Hadley's nursery has been an ongoing project for me. When I started it I had hoped not to make it too similar to Layla's nursery but the color of the walls are basically the same bright blue and kept bringing me back to the sky. Her room is about half the size of Layla's room so I wanted to make sure it was bright and colorful to make up for that.  The mix of patterns helped a lot too. View from the door. All the furniture in her room was Layla's with the exception of the bookshelf, which used to be dark brown and was being stored in our basement. I had an epiphany one day and measured it and happily discovered it was the perfect fit for this weird little nook in her room. The LOVE print was one of the first pink purchases I made when I was pregnant with Layla - a few days after I found out we were having a girl.  The custom elephant artwork was a gift for Hadley from my sister, Lori.  She actually had it in a really nice black frame but I decided to take it out and border it with washi tape and put it directly onto the wall making it little less formal but still really cute!

It took about a million five coats of white paint to fully cover the dark wood.  Since the back was open I covered it with fabric that coordinated with the curtains to brighten up this corner. The bookshelf holds her growing book collection, a few toys, a family of owls I found at a yard sale last summer, her yarn letter and custom made pillows that I bought on Etsy.  So glad I found a spot for them, someday they'll move to her big girl bed. I love how simple and happy this "art" looks over her crib. Above, is a canvas I covered with Sarah Jane fabric.  I wasn't sure how it would turn out but it's pretty much the way I hoped! There was a lot of white space above the parade in the print so threaded some poms onto white thread and attached cut out letters that I covered in sparkly blue glitter. I love a parade! I also mentioned here that I had wanted to fill the "sky" with balloons and I think I accomplished that.  But when the embroidery hoops were up it just looked like something was missing. 

So I decided to add a few balloon riders.  I was inspired not only by the print but this quirky project I saw a few weeks ago. Layla has decided that this is me:) Be on the lookout for flying bunnies! Layla and my nephew, Cole, taking a break from the beach to create a masterpiece. Hope she loves it as much as I loved making it for her:) Front of CRS building CRS Lobby with installation by Clouds AOwhitworth ring top curtains CRS 3rd Fl White Room Foyer, photo by GIONlaura ashley curtain heading tape CRS 3rd Fl White Room, photo by GIONcurtains brechin CRS 3rd FL White Room, photo by GION.walmart soundproof curtains

CRS 3rd Fl White Room, photo by Christopher Pelham CRS 3rd FL White Rom 3rd Floor Therapy Room CRS 2nd FL Healing Room CRS Healing Room with massage table CRS Studio wood floor video screen CRS 2nd FL Studio CRS 2nd FL Studio w/ black curtains & theatrical lighting CRS Studio concert by Shione CRS Studio during concert CRS Studio during presentationjcpenney twill curtains Host your Event, Class or Healing Session at CRStension rods for sidelight curtains Published: Saturday, 12 November 2016city scene retro radar shower curtain in red Released by Eureka Entertainment Directed by Kiyoshi KurosawaWritten by Yutaka Maekawa, Chihiro Ikeda and Kiyoshi Kurosawa2016, 130 minutes, Rated 15 (UK)DVD released on 23rd January 2017

Starring:Hidetoshi Nishijima as TakakuraYûko Takeuchi as YasukoMasahiro Higashide as NogamiTeruyuki Kagawa as NishinoHaruna Kawaguchi as Saki Creepy is the latest feature from the prolific Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Written by Kurosawa and Chihiro Ikeda, Creepy is a dark and oddly droll adaptation of the novel by Yutaka Maekawa. The film opens in an interrogation room where a detective, Takakura (Hidetoshi Nishijima) is questioning a serial killer. The murderer is smiling and relaxed - Takakura is fascinated by this example of a ‘perfect psychopath’ and is eager to continue examining the prisoner. His overzealous professional curiosity brings about a harrowing situation, as moments later, the killer breaks free and ends up threatening the police and holding a fork to the throat of an innocent woman. Takakura fails to defuse the hostage situation and the result is that the smirking killer and his hostage end up dead and Takakura is himself seriously injured.

The story then divides into two parallel narrative tracks - A year later, having resigned from the force after this debacle, Takakura works as a professor of criminal psychology at a local university. He and his wife, Yasuko (Yuko Takeuchi) move into a new home in a Tokyo suburb with their dog. One day Takakura’s former protégé, a young detective called Nogami (Masahiro Higashide), drops by the college to see his old boss and to ask him for help on a cold case. It involves the unsolved disappearance of the Honda family, which left behind a mourning daughter, Saki (Haruna Kawaguchi) who claims to remember little of the events leading up to the disappearance. Intrigued, Takakura agrees to unofficially assist in reinvestigating the case. As Takakura questions Saki and pursues leads to solve the mysterious disappearances, his wife Yasuko attempts to settle into their new home, which includes trying to befriend the neighbours. They prove an inhospitable bunch, none weirder than a man called Mr. Nishino (Teruyuki Kagawa) who claims to be a financial analyst living with a sickly wife and a teenage daughter.

Out of loneliness, curiosity and politeness, Yasuko remains pleasant and communicative to Nishino, who, after initially being hostile, abruptly turns into a smiling, attentive and ingratiating charmer. This swift, unexpected change is itself a mystery, but it appears to have a direct connection to her husband Takakura’s rapidly developing cold case. Eventually, the story lines and characters converge and the mystery is revealed, although not necessarily explained. It does, however, tragically lead back to Takakura’s interest in the ‘perfect psychopath’. Creepy is classified as a horror movie and, on one level, it can be seen as such. Kiyoshi Kurosawa is a master of unease and of the gradual build-up. His movies are populated with malignant forces (living or dead) but the truly disturbing moments are not the goriest ones. We are often most unsettled by gradual shifts, that turn the mundane into the menacing and unfathomable. Somewhat like David Lynch, Kurosawa tends to merge the macabre and the everyday in a way that comes to reveal a lurking evil.