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I bet you guys were sick of looking at that rice or cous cous, whatever it was. Well, as you know, I am on the Historic Home Tour list which is coming up in a couple weeks. YIKES! So, today I've been doing some decorating projects in preparation. Mostly window treatments and some light gardening.

What we have here is my primary bathroom. It used to just have the mini-blind (which I hate but have to have till I can come up with a better privacy-yet-light-filtering solution) till I snagged the curtain from the red living room and put it up. The rod was a challenge, as it involved my electric drill (2nd time I've used it).

This is not a great picture. Sorry. What you are missing are the adorable colors. The wall is a real pale turquoise and there's lots more going on in this tiny room. But it's really tough to photograph.

This next photo is of my red living room. I finally moved the gauzy sheer with the baskets of flowers OUT of there and into a more appropriate room (see above). I replaced it with this awesome antique white linen sheet I forgot I had. It has a gorgeous embroidered hem and a monogram (?) which turned upside down, make a beautiful bottom hem for a curtain. The sheet was too long for the window and I did not want to cut it, so I decided to "gussy up" the extra into a valance. Do you think the rose is too much? Well, you'd kind of need to see the whole room before you decide.

OOH! I just had an awesome idea. I'm going to move those little tassels to the middle of the scallops so they make a gothic V instead! That will diminish the slight grandma look it's got now. I might also change the ribbon on the rose to black. Still playin'!

I also used that giant wicker vase I used for my derelict Christmas tree to house an arrangement of stems I've collected over the past several Christmases. I have to put something on top of the armoire. I'd like to put some shorter items around it too.

OK, here's the revised version: