These are so beautiful, White Fay! I love the use of blue, just exquisite. Imagine to see the originals. And there is a lady in the first one that has a hat that I deeply covet.

Your room must have been so charming.

My bedroom story:

When I was 14 I fell in love with a picture of a bedroom in a magazine. It had lattice-looking wallpaper on the walls and the ceiling was covered in wallpaper with big cabbage roses on it. It was supposed to look as if you were inside an arbour. My, I loved that room. I still have that magazine too.

So on my birthday I came home to find that my sister and mother as a surprise had tried to recreate the room for me! They found a green wallpaper with lines running vertically for the walls, and some lovely rosey wallpaper for the ceiling.

Unfortunately, the walls in this old house (and I am back to living in the same house!) are crooked and slanted, so they had a really hard time putting the paper on. Neither of them had wallpapered before. The walls were all mismatched and they gave up on the ceiling about half way through. LOL! And that's the way it stayed for years as the wallpaper slowly became unglued and started dropping down in strips. Finally some years ago dh and I removed it all, but it was with a pang that I did so.

Because I was not an easy teenager in some ways to live with, and they were sooo excited to do this for me, and when I got home and saw it they were tired and crestfallen at how it looked.  But I loved it and valued it, nobody had ever done anything like that for me. I don't know if anyone has done anything so special and meaningful for me since, really. We lived in a very plain house, no such thing as decorating took place then, and I was always yearning after pretty things. I used to lie in bed and look up at the roses over me and feel like I was in my own private rose garden.