Guest Bath redo

I had been thinking the guest bath needed a punch up of color and a different look. It has been the same since we built the house in 2000 and it was the first room  finished. I had  done it in a smooth texture, and painted walls and ceilings sky blue with clouds, and the lower 1/2 of walls was two rows of wide border..so it looks like you are seeing pond life. Frogs, ducks, sail boats, little yellow submarine, fish.. Thinking cousins and visitors with little ones would enjoy the room..  A few years ago we did add the dark bamboo floors, and put in a new vanity top, and I just re-stained the solid wood  toilet seat with darker stain. Well this time I wanted  indigo blue ceiling, and pearl walls.  I did not want the boring texture .  SO first  I had to peel off all the wallpaper border. Yuk. That will turn you away from wallpaper for life.  Then I rolled on sheet rock mud that was  thinned with a little water to the consitencey of pudding.. just a random gloppy rolls here and there..and smush and streak a little more on.. I worked in sections, since I needed to let the mud set up a little... then I took a 10 inch wide trowel and  added a tad more mud to the edge of the trowel , and gently  went over the ceiing and wall to knock down the  mud to give me the old world texture. I taught myself this technique when we built the house, since we were going to do it all ourselves I needed a way to do it that I liked the look of.   SO this texture is in every room of the house and ceilings, except in the guest bedroom. 
  The  walls had to dry overnight.. then I primed them with  kilz primer.. that dried.. I then cut in the ceiling around the trim with 3 coats of blue, and rolled on 2 coats. Walls were primed and then painted oyster white, with 2 coats of metallic white pearl paint.. it  gleam so pretty in the light. I planned to reuse my mirror, but washed it and suddenly the paint came off to the plastic.. ughh.so i painted it black again, added some silver leaf, and then some silver rub n buff to keep it looking like the light fixture and the towel stand over the toilet.. FAIL.. it looked ugly.. so I painted it with the ceiling paint..UGHH.. fail.. gave up and ordered a new one. The  roll shade I wanted to decoupage some fun napkins too.. did that..but they  came right OFF.. never had that happen...so peeled them off and decided to try some alcohol inks in a water pattern.. FAIL.. I am NOT good at that.. so I cut off that part of the shade..and there was enough to just have a plain shade. So I didn't attempt to alcohol ink the white vynal shower curtain I had, I just ordered a new on. The plates I got in florida and glued  hangers on the back.. The  whale tails  canvas over the tub , I added some alcohol in to bring the indigo blue in . I framed a napkin in a 10 x10 frame. I was going to repaint the toilet seat a metallic blue..but that was a FAIL..I ordered a new silent auto closing lid one instead..it looks so nice and I like it enough to order two more for the other bathrooms. I bought a white ceramic octopus and repainted it with the ceiling paint, added some silver rub n buff.  Painted some indigo blue on the back of the door. I used a small cafe rod  and sewed a short striped valance to hide the roll shade.  I decoupaged the trash can, the toilet brush holder, and the light switch cover. Some indigo blue towels and rug, and the room was done.. It tool 11 days. I was distracted with failures, and frustration, and several days I wasn't even working in there.. escaped to town to shop.. or we just ran and played in the nice weather.  SO here are the before, during and after pix.

The peices of blue napkins with white coral decoupaged to roll shade..that peeled off, FAIL

My Dads fav hat... I used to hate it.. now I have inherited it..and love it.

Flower update to boho bedroom

I finally got these card stock paper flowers done. I downloaded  the templates for free, and watched this persons how videos and  read her instructions... Some of the intructions were lacking in detail and i I got frustrated, almost to the point of tossing the first 2 in the trash and walking away..But I finally gave in and did it best  I could her way, and then did it more my way to finish up.. I do like them now. I  am happy with the colors too. They will look good when I change up my bedding  and decor in the spring.