It's A Private Space, Right?

Hey everyone!  Is anything off-limits to a blog post?  Okay, I think I may be pushing the envelope here, because I'm taking you into the bathroom.  Eek, I know, could be gross!  Well, I plan to keep it as clean as possible, but I really want to share with you how we've changed up our guest bath.  You may remember how it looked after I "dressed" it when we first moved in:

I used everything from our previous home's guest bath to decorate this one, which was okay.  I knew I would be making some changes down the road.  Well, that "down the road" time has finally arrived, but it's nothing "earth-shattering" or "super-grandiose," just some pleasant updating.  So here we go!

Bathrooms are certainly not great rooms for photographing, & sorry, no way to avoid the toilet!  This is as much of an overview of the finished room as I could get.  The lighting was changed quite some time ago, but we just recently removed the shower door.

It's so much roomier with a shower curtain & brighter, too!

It's very difficult to find an extra tall shower curtain, so I found one I really liked and took it to JoAnn's to find some coordinating fabric to add additional length.  You can't really see it in the pic, but the fabric I found has a tiny brown dot on the turquoise which looks perfect with the florals and butterflies of the curtain.

More toilet scenes -- YIKES!  What I really wanted you to notice is the window with glass blocks.  I have such a love-hate thing with those.  I love the light, but hate everything else about them!

Okay, this pic is all about Abby.  She likes to open that bottom drawer and play around with all the little guest soaps, shampoos, lotions, etc.  The Man actually put extra-heavy-duty magnets on all the lower cabinets throughout our home, because she was constantly opening them.  Try as she might, she can't open those, so she has moved onto the drawers!  Okay, enough of Abby!

See what's now covering the glass blocks?  Yes, shutters!  We are so happy we made the decision to get shutters made for both bathrooms.  The master bath has a much bigger glass block window that now has a shutter, too.  I'll be revealing that room some time in the near future.

We are ecstatic over how much nicer this looks -- much more finished!

Tired of looking at it, yet?  Sorry, just thought you would want to see it with the light on.....lol!

In case you haven't noticed, I really like turquoise!

I really like turquoise and green mixed together!

I love having this wrought iron tiered basket filled with all kinds of things that guests might need.

The candle flavor is "Island Getaway" and smells wonderful!

I had enough fabric left over from the shower curtain to add a band to some white towels.  The framed art above the towels was a bit of a craft project.  I loved the dark frame, but had grown tired of the print.

I removed it from the frame (boy, did that glass need cleaning inside and out).  I don't know exactly what this is called, but it is like a very thin wood that had this design super-glued onto it.  There is no way I could remove it, so covering it was the only option.

I went through some of my scrapbook paper and found two sheets that coordinated, and used 

Mod Podge to adhere them over the old stuff and then used the Mod Podge over the top, too.

Ta-Da! 

 I love how it turned out, and it looks perfect with the new shower curtain and the rest of the room.

Just one more look and last chance to see the toilet -- YAY!

I'm so happy that you took the time to stop by.  Hope you didn't get embarrassed looking around the bathroom -- if you just didn't have to have a toilet, it would be a much prettier room!  Oh well!  I know I kind of overloaded you with pictures, but that's just my MO and probably won't change!  I do hope you are having a great day, and will come by again, anytime.

I love to party with these fine bloggers:

The Tablescaper at The Tablescaper for Seasonal Sundays
Cheri at It's So Very Cheri for It's So Very Cheri Party
Karen at Sew Many Ways for Sew Darn Crafty
Cindy at Skip to My Lou for Made By You Monday
Kathy at Creative Home Expressions for Creative Home & Garden Hop
Cindy at Dwellings--The Heart of Your Home for Amaze Me Monday

Susan at Between Naps on the Porch for Metamorphosis Monday

Dawn at Creative Cain Cabin for Budget Decorating Party
Kathryn at The Dedicated House for Make It Pretty Mondays
Toni at A Bowl Full of Lemons for One Project at a Time
Maria Elena at Our Home Away from Home for Tuesdays at Our Home
Marti at Sew-Licious Home Decor for Sew Organized

Marty at A Stroll Thru Life  for Inspire Me Tuesday

Leslie at House on the Way for Twirl & Take a Bow

Mary Beth at Cupcakes and Crinoline for Project Inspired

Suzy at Worthing Court for Homework Wednesday

Karin at The Style Sisters for Centerpiece Wednesday

Angela at Hickory Trail for Efforts and Assets

Kelly at Live Laugh Rowe for Live Laugh Linky Party

Richella at Imparting Grace for Grace at Home

Pamela at From My Front Porch to Yours for Treasure Hunt Thursday

The Feral Turtle at The Feral Turtle for The Aloha Blog Hop

Kathryn at The Dedicated House for Anything Blue Friday

The Tablescaper at The Tablescaper for Oh, The Places I've Been

Jody & Stan at Rooted in Thyme for Simple and Sweet Fridays 

Amanda at Serenity Now for Weekend Bloggy Reading

Alison at Mumtopia for Creative Home and Garden Blog Hop

I've Been Featured!

It is always so exciting to be featured, especially on a blog that you really enjoy.  Richella at Imparting Grace has a wonderful party every Thursday called Grace at Home.  I linked up my craft room last week, and here is what Richella said:

Carol at An Oasis in the Desert showed us the way she organizes and decorates her craft room.  Wow!  

Wish I had a craft room like this!

If you don't already know Richella and her sweet blog, you simply must go visit:  Imparting Grace for Grace at Home!  Richella has a beautiful, warm and inviting home, and you will simply die when you see her front porch; oh, and her kitchen, too!  Die, I tell ya'!

Go now, don't wait, shoo, scoot!  Why are you lollygagging?

"Mickey-land!"

Hey everyone!  Happy August 1st -- can you believe it?  We just got back from a fun little trip to Disneyland (or Mickey-land according to our little granddaughter) with our son, dil, and Little Miss and Littlest Miss.  It was the Littles first time, so The Man & I were in 7th heaven to be able to share that experience.  I didn't take too many pictures, because I was just having fun experiencing the kiddos' excitement.  It was quite warm (but not as warm as we've been having in AZ), and there were tons of people; but we had a great time.  Here are a few "happiest place on earth" pics!

We stayed at The Crowne Plaza Hotel & Resort.

We were on the top floor, so it was very quiet.

This is the pool, but we weren't there to play in the pool.  We had "Mickey-stuff" to do!

Met up with our son, dil and "The Littles" just outside the gate at noon.  This was the first time "Disney" experience for Little Miss and Littlest Miss!

Dumbo was their first ride and Nana was trying to take pictures -- not too easy to get a pic of that elephant and passengers flying around in a circle, going up and down.  This Dumbo was safely anchored and ready for photo opts!

It was REALLY crowded and the lines were pretty long, but Flynn and Avery were so good and didn't fuss at all.

Daddy and Grampa took Flynn on the Matterhorn Ride (she loved it) and Ally and I strolled around with Avery until she fell asleep, then we found a bench, a tree, and had a rest, too.  We had to wake Avery after a "nuclear power nap" to go on another ride.  It takes her a few minutes to wake up -- kind of like her Nana!

She's thinking "this ride better be good!" 

 

What could be better than "It's A Small World" -- really, anything?

Flynn was trying to take it all in & wanted to go again, but the line was just too long.  We went to Peter Pan's Flight instead!

One of the workers just asked if we would like to have a family 

pic  --  how nice!

Engrossed in watching the 2013 Disneyland All-American College Band -- they were really good, but I couldn't get a good photo of them.

Somebody needed some "ears!"

Princess Ears and Minnie Ears!  These smiles were still going strong at 11:30pm!   Shortly after this, the "Elders" took off to catch their hotel shuttle and the "Youngsters" headed for their hotel.  Both kiddos were asleep in the stroller long before they

they got to their resort.

It was such a wonderful experience, and The Man and I are so grateful for having been able to share this special event with

our son and his family.

Thanks everyone for letting me be a typical Nana and share all this "fun" with all of you!  I'll be back next week with a home decor post -- probably!