Our Childhood Bedrooms: My first Linky Party!

As a child, I loved decorating just as much as I do today. My mother passed down this crazy decorating phenomenon to me very early on. I loved to change my wall color every few years, we even changed my bed 3 times before I moved out of the house. My first bed was a yellow four-poster bed, then we moved on to bunk beds for a few years, then on to my last bed that my mother still has in her guest room today. It is shown in the picture below.

I am the youngest of five children and THE ONLY GIRL.

Needless to say, I was spoiled rotten and my mother loved changing my room as much as I did. Maybe it’s because I had too much stuff-people loved giving me things (because I was all cute back then) so we had to rearrange sometimes just to fit it all in!

I wish that I had more pictures of my room. I actually had the master bedroom, which really wasn’t so “mastery” like the masters built today. My room did NOT have a bathroom attached, nor did it have a walk-in closet, and it probably only measured around 12x14 but it had the most room for all of my stuffed animals and girly things. In this picture ,you can’t tell but the room was painted a soft apple green. Good thing acid-free photo albums came along! My mother picked out all of my bedding, or else I am sure it would have been purple. Fourteen shades of purple to be exact!

I had LOADS of stuffed animals…and they all had names. Funny, now that I am looking around, everything had a hat on it! What's up with that? I'm not a hat person...

Did you check out the Miss Piggy poster? Anyone else have that? I loved the Muppets!

I had this bright yellow furniture throughout my time at “home”. I had the dresser and mirror and nightstand, and used to have the yellow four-poster bed, too. I remember taking off the bed finials and pretending to sing in them...shhhhh. I bet you did it too!

There was always a cat nearby….still true. At one time I had a Snoopy phone, see it on the nightstand? Then later I got a white princess phone (like Barbie’s) for a birthday present. I think I remember asking for my own phone line around that time, and I really wanted both phones in my room, but mother would not give in to that one. I did finally get a TV for my dresser when I was in senior high, it was passed down from one of my brothers, probably only like a 5 inch screen and I'm sure that the antenna took over most of my room--but I had a TV.

Since I can’t find anymore pictures, I thought I would share what else was in my room… A life-size poster of Shaun Cassidy!

He was the love of my life, and he hung on the wall in my room until my big brothers had the great idea to draw a mustache and beard on him—oh yeah, they colored in his teeth too! My poster had him smiling with a white jumpsuit on. They totally ruined Shaun. That’s my brothers for ya!

Let me ask….am I the only one who remembers Rex Smith? I have asked lately, and no one else seems to remember him! He was a one-hit wonder and he was hot! Wait…let me dig out his album…

He sang- You Take my Breath Away…remember now? Anyone? Anyone?

As bad as I loathe posters in my boys’ rooms, I had them all over mine. I also had boxes under the bed that stored all of my Barbies, and there were stuffed animals to the ceiling.

I know I have made a big deal about my first link party and really don’t have all the pictures that I can remember so well in my head, but I thought it would be fun to take a trip down memory lane. I am hoping you girls have more pictures than I do to share.

Please add your post to Mr. Linky below and be sure to link back to my blog to show off everyone else’s younger days as well.

Thank you all from the bottom of my heart for playing along. I hope I get to thank many people and I’m not the only one hanging out here : )

{{Big hugs}}

~Misti