.: 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.