My Incredibly Talented Sister

When we found out we were expecting last October, we realized that we would have to do some room shuffling at our house! Our bedroom is upstairs, and Payton’s is across the hall from us. There are two more bedrooms downstairs that were set up as a guest bedroom, and a play room. With a new baby, we decided it would be easiest to move Payton downstairs into the guest bedroom, and set up the nursery across the hall from us in her “current” bedroom. How do you ask your sweet, amazing daughter to move downstairs for the new baby coming? UGH!!

We decided it was a good time for a bedroom “makeover”. Payton still had the pink fairy bedding, rug, curtains, and lamp from when she was four. We brought up the suggestion to her of a new room makeover, and a move to downstairs, and she was very excited!! (PHEW!!!!) She told us she wanted a black and white room … cue my incredibly talented sister, Molly …

I called Molly to see if she could help me find some new bedding and accessories to make a “black and white bedroom” for Payton. Molly happily accepted the request, and decided she should talk to Payton directly to find out more of what she wanted. After a long talk, Molly decided to take on the task of creating a room for Payton very similar to that of her daughter London’s. I had no idea what my sister was planning, and the amount of work that would go into this incredible project!!

After almost 6 months of researching, shopping, creating, and sewing – it was the day of the big reveal!!

Ladies and gentlemen: Behold! The work of MY INCREDIBLY TALENTED SISTER!!

Hand-painted, and sewn pillows, drapes made out of tablecloths, an incredible collage of pictures on canvas, a hand-painted giant clock, hand-painted and distressed personalized boxes, kleenex box, wall shelf and SO MUCH MORE!!!!! The amount of work she put into this project is staggering.

Payton’s reaction on her first time seeing her beautiful new room:

This clock has been made from scratch by Molly by freehand. It says: “An angel among us, established the 15th of February, 2000″ (Payton’s birthday)

This is officially the coolest room in our house now!! A GIGANTIC THANK YOU to my big sister Molly for such an INCREDIBLE job! Clearly, this room was designed and created with so much love by our incredibly talented Auntie Molly.

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