As a child did you have your own bedroom or did you have to share? What was it like? Did you spend a lot of time playing in there or was it reserved for sleeping?
There were 3 of us girls in a 3 bedroom house, so my oldest sister got her own room and Kim and I had to share a room until Diana got married and moved out when I was 11. Kim and I had bunk beds and I was on the top bunk. I remember that we would hang blankets up around the bottom bunk and play "tent". My imagination was so vivid, I would often believe that the things we made up that were outside the tent were really there. I specifically remember Indians (probably after watching some western on TV) and scary monsters. Kim figured out that I was young and gullible and she could intimidate me into doing whatever she wanted by scaring me half to death. LOL!
As I got a little older, Barbie dolls started taking over our space. The Barbie Townhouse was at the end of the bed and we would spend hours acting out events in Barbie's life. Then one day, when I was about 6, Kim came home from school and informed me that she was too old to play with dolls and dolls were for babies! I was devastated and had to learn to play alone!
When Kim moved into Diana's old room, my mom gave my room a makeover for my next birthday and I got a new canopy bed, bedspread and matching curtains, carpet, wallpaper and a new mushroom lamp (remember those?) My bed was white wood, the wallpaper had roses and blue ribbons entertwined which matched my red carpet. The bedspread and curtains were pink and the mushroom lamp was purple (not sure why Mother picked a purple lamp for a red and pink room, but I loved it anyway!) I have a picture somewhere that Mother took of my face when I walked in and saw my room for the first time. (She did it all while I was away. It was just like "Trading Spaces" except I didn't redecorate her rooms until much later when I was grown and married!)
I have so many happy memories of my room - sitting by the window and listening to the mourning doves outside while the sheer curtains blew in the breeze. We lived at the bottom of a hill, and my room faced up the hill, so I could see when my friends were coming and run out to meet them! : )
Every now and then I would get bored with it and move the furniture around (which meant a LOT of work because I had to clean out from under the bed! LOL!) That's a habit I still haven't outgrown (in fact, I'm typing this in my new office which I moved from the dining room to the sunroom yesterday, so I'm going to get off the 'puter and get stuff organized and put away!) : )
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
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I had a canopy bed that I loved and now my brothers step daughter uses it. Those are just so girly!!
you have great memories! Sounds like you had a really pretty room!
I sure remember the mushroom lamps...lol. You can still buy them....our generation is coming back...woohoo!!!!
Oh how lovely your room must have been....a canopy bed....dreamy, I've always wanted one. Now that I can have one, hubby said it's to girlish...So when we finish the bedrooms down in the basement for the grandkids....I'M GETTING A CANOPY FOR THE GRAND GIRLS.......I might even sneak down and sleep on it some night.......lmbo
God bless, huggers, Debs
I've always wanted bunk beds or a canopy bed! You were lucky to have both!
I used to have a canopy bed with a pink gingham bed spread and canopy! I loved that bed. What a pretty room it sounds like you had. When you talked about sitting by the window and watching for your friends it reminded me of Anne of Green Gables.
I never had a canopy bed growing up, but always wanted one. :(
Instead I bought one for my granddaughter and live in it through her :)
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