TRENDY PLATFORM BED - COOL BED FOR TEENS BEDROOMS

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I usually lean towards platform beds for teens bedrooms because of the drawers underneath the mattress that offers storage. As well all know, teen girls have lots of stuff that needs to be packed somewhere and closet organization is usually not their strong point.

Plain wooden platform beds work just fine so long as the construction is solid. They are so easy to build that your teen could put it together with the help of a couple of her girlfriends on site in the dorm room or at home. The simple instructions for how to make a platform bed frame are included with the kit and are pretty self explanatory.

This platform bed doesn't have a drawer, but the contemporary design is just too cool to look over in your search for the perfect match for your teen's modern bedding set. Tuck in a solid cover (black maybe?) comforter, quilt or duvet cover under the mattress to let the metallic platform bed frame shine. Add some satin or velvet pillows and pillow shams and a flokati or faux fur area rug for the girls to lounge on and chat and you've got a modern platform bed with a cool look for a very cheap price!

While I mentioned a solid color black or dark color bedspread, that's just if you happen to have one on hand and are trying to decorate your teen's bedroom or dorm room with items you picked up for an inexpensive or discounted price, you are not limited to solid colors! Funky teen bedding with geometric designs, bold stripes or even fun bedding with large polka dots could all work with this particular metallic platform bed. I like the black and white bedding and comforters for teen girls bedrooms or maybe something in dark gray family because of the brushed silver metal on the bed frame. Royal purple would look fabulous in the room with the gray metal of the bed. In fact, something deep purple might be the best color to use! I'll see if I can locate some for you!

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UNIQUE PINK and GREEN BEDDING SETS for TWEENS and TEEN BEDROOMS

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You will be amazed at what a delightful set of pink and green bedding in bright spring-like colors and soft cuddly fabrics can do for an otherwise bland and boring teenage girls bedroom. Pretty green and pink bedding and bed in a bag sets is just one of many of the cool bedding sets for teens and tweens with multi-color stripes and polka dots on the teenage bedroom decorating scene today.

Whimsical polka dots on the top of the coverlets, sheets and comforters that resemble Lifesavers with a hollow center or solid dots and the design is repeated on the window valance. Yes indeed, spring is the very best time for inspiring teenage girl bedroom decorating ideas and for bedding sets in cotton candy colors offer a viritual dish of sweet delights for the rooms of teens and tweens in your home.

Let's see what decorating ideas for teens we can get from the pictures of the teens bedroom using this bedding collection. It's always hard to pick the best colors to paint the walls from photographs, but it seems that the decorator considered antique white or ivory not to be the best choice. The color that was used to paint the walls and the teen girl's simple small scale bedroom furniture seems to be a creamy yellow. The table lamp and rectangle area rug on the hardwood flooring are a creamy yellow tone as well. The only other area in the decorated room where the print from the bedding set is displayed appears to be the window treatments.

If the idea of repeating the designs of the pink and green polka dot bedding all over the room isn't appealing, consider mixing it up a bit with striped window panels or tab top valances with stripes of coordinating colors. Here's a decorating tip from the professionals; curtains with stripes have the ability to make a room with low or average ceiling height seem taller and therefore more spacious.

When decorating a preteen girl's small bedroom you need all the decorating tips and tricks in the book box to make a small room seem larger, taller and more roomy. Everything you use in the project needs to be scaled down a size or two. Even the polka dots on the pink and green bedding should be according to scale.

The bed, chairs and every other piece of furniture that you use in the room should be smaller in scale than your average run of the mill furnishings. The bedroom's decorations should be chosen to give the illusion of space as well. The star of the teenager's bedroom should be the funky teenage girl's pink and green bedding set with polka dots. But the layout of the room is about scale and the visuals of your completed bedroom decorating project.

Another decorating tip that I'd like to share that will give your teenage girl's bedroom texture without filling it with clutter is to bring in a variety of fabrics. In addition to your cotton pink and green bedding toss in some accent pillows in soft velour or velvet. The decorative accent pillows can pick up the various shades of pink and green from the hard candy and striped print of the bedding fabrics and curtains and add a whole new dimension to the tactile experience and make the room so cozy and comfortable.

The smaller sizes of rooms in modern homes make learning to decorate a teen girl's bedroom or any room of the home with appropriately scaled decorations very important. Cute pictures of teen's bedrooms like this one teach a valuable lesson in decorating so study all the details and have fun!

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PINK and GREEN POLKA DOTS BEDDING for TEENS and TWEENS

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Do the pink and green polka dots bedding and striped sheets in the pictures of this bright and colorful teen bedding set remind you of the sprinkles on top of an ice cream cone? What a perfect set of bedding for a tween or teen girl's bedroom; one that makes you remember happy days sitting at a little bistro licking the colored candy off the top of a couple of scoops of ice cream.

The walls in the photo are painted lime green which is the best color to use as a background for the whimsical pink and green polka dot print quilted comforter. The decorator chose different shades of pink for the accessories. And didn't she choose just the best accessories? A pale pastel pink princess phone right out of the 60s sits beside a modern, chrome base teen perfect table lamp with a hot pink faux fur lampshade! Don't you adore all those big, fluffy pom poms on the round pink area rug? The flip flops might indicate that this teenage girl just came in from the beach!

A simple white cotton bedskirt makes quick work of decorating this bed that would be just right for a small bedroom or a cramped dorm room. A vintage ice cream shop table and chairs that have been painted white with pink and green accents would make a perfect study nook if there's enough floor space to pull it off.

A chain lamp hung over the center of the table top would make excellent task lighting over a teen's books. Light fixtures hung from the ceiling offer lighting for a specific area of the room without eating up valuable floor space. When square footage is scarce and there's no room for floor lamps or more table lamps, mount a molly hook on the ceiling, hang your teen's lamp so her eyes won't hurt from long hours of hitting the books!

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FUNKY FLOWER POWER RETRO TEEN BEDDING

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Here's a set of bedding straight out of the hippie's favorite summer of love. The flower power hot pink, orange, blue and purple bedding set will have your teens zoned out and painting PEACE SIGNS on their bedroom walls! The flower print is funky and perfect bedding for a teen girl's bedrooms, but there's more than just retro flower print fabrics; check out the yellow, orange and red tie-die designs on the pillow cases and shams included in this cool set of teen bedding.

The sheer hot pink mesh canopy draped in a casual fashion over the head of the bed is just the finishing touch for a funky dream of a teen bedroom design. Decorating a room for your tweens and teens with this bedding set will be fun. If you ever spent time on the streets of San Francisco wearing flowers in your hair, this is the opportunity to share those memories with your teen girls. This room will have the girls draping love beads and painting temporary henna paisley designs on their faces for kicks!

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EXOTIC TEEN MOROCCAN BEDROOM DECORATING IDEAS

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If there's one thing that I keep going back to when designing teen girl's bedrooms it's the sumptious look of moroccan decor. The vivid colors, beads and sheer fabrics bring loads of funky teen girl bedroom decorating ideas to mind! The cool thing about the multi-colored decorations are that they are cheap! Carved wooden headboards full of hand carved mysteries imported from far away locations like Zanzibar and Mozambique are very inexpensive.

The color of the fabric draped over the tall headboard with the canopy rails attached is a color I can only define as electric lavender. The shade is not deep and dark enough to be called grape or purple but much to exciting and "in your face" to be called lavender. Note how colors from the intricately patterned coverlet have been both repeated in the neckroll pillows and accented with the coral pink, lipstick pink and electric lavender pillow. The mint green silk pillow and the blue background of the bedspread provide the cool colors to balance the hot pinks and corals.

If lots of color doesn't fit your decorating ideas for tweens and teens, harem style decor is not for you! I would encourage you to give it a try before you discount the reaction of your teenager and her friends when they see a bedroom completely decorated in this style.

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TEEN BEDROOM - COOL, TRANQUIL, SERENE and MATURE!

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The teen bedding and bedroom design in this picture is so simple and yet so tranquil and serene. This style of décor is for the young tween or teen that is sure of herself and has no need for the trendy, funky trappings of her more immature friends.

The color scheme for the room will be easy to duplicate for your teenage girl.

• The walls are painted sage green
• The crown moldings, chair rails are painted white as well as the plantation shutters (white wood or faux wooden blinds with two inch wide slats and matching white cloth tape will be a less expensive option)
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  The inspirational letters, words and sayings stenciled on the teen's bedroom walls are stenciled in a deep shade of peach pink similar to the color of the sheer panels and box pleated bed skirt decorating the black wrought iron canopy over the bed
• A white button tufted comforter or duvet cover is topped with plaid print accent pillows placed over tailored cheetah print pillow shams
• The wooden furniture in the room is painted green with accent colors taken from the plaid print on the accent pillows
• A small black wrought iron lamp duplicates the curved styling of the iron bed and canopy

The charm of this teen bedroom design lies in its simplicity. The easy mix of various shades of only three colors will move the decorating process along very quickly with very few decisions to be made as far as decorative accessories. I love the way they didn’t use additional curtains which would have taken away from the tie top bed canopy. The blinds make the teen girl’s room look so much larger and the canopy draperies stand out.

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Randomness

-THE most random survey you'll take, ever. (I don't buy this at all)
-I doubt you've been asked these questions before. (Try me)
-Don't lie, and don't get offended. (I won't)

1. What's the color of the soap in your bathroom? white, the color of fresh and clean!

2. Do you like cola? sure

3. What's the 15th contact in your phone? Holy hell, hang on while I look it up. It's Brendan.

4. Are you on IM right now? Nope

5. What's your opinion on Alvin & the Chipmunks? Well, I loved the cartoon when I was a kid and even had their records like A Chipmunks Christmas and a Country Music one where they sang "Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys (Chipmunks)" but I'm a little leery of this live action movie coming out. What the fuck has happened to Jason Lee? First "My Name is Earl" (ugh) then "Underdog" and now this???

6. Ever said the n-word to a black person? no, only to red ones

7. What are you doing tomorrow around 10:00 a.m.? Working - boo

8. Do you like writing in cursive or print, better? I'm a printer. My cursive is atrocious.

9. What are you listening to right now? Rilo Kiley's new album. I'm still trying to decide if I like it. Some of the songs are growing on me and some of them I really hate.

10. What's the most annoying noise in the world? That funky feedbacky noise my computer speakers make when my cell phone rings. I HATE THAT!

11. Do the speakers on your computer work? Yes, but sometimes they make that awful noise from above.

12. Have you ever written in wet cement? When I was a kid I did write my name in a sidewalk panel on my block.

13. Ever worn your underwear backwards? Inside out maybe, but not backwards.

15. Anyone in your family died from lung cancer? No, thank goodness.

16. Favorite Jelly Belly flavor? Cinnamon

17. Ever shopped for shoes online? Yes, I'm a girl, we shop for everything online.

18. How are your grades? This question makes me feel old.

19.What's always on your mind? Chocolate - it's a sickness seriously.

20. Don't you just HATE George Bush? Absolutely.

21. Do you follow your horoscope religiously? Not a whit.

22. How often do you go running? What is this "running" you speak of?

23. Are You Thirsty? Nah

24. Ever played Grand Theft Auto? Never, but I've watched it being played.

25. Do you like the person you copied this survey from? Yes, Ben's cool. He spins good music in bars that I like to drink in. And he always has a smile and a hug for me.

26. Do you get an allowance? Yes, I'm "allowed" to waste my time doing this shit.

27. Are you a bitch? Sometimes. Everyone is a bitch sometimes.

28. 50 Cent shows up at your door, what do you do? Ask him what he wants.

29. Last time you killed a bug? Yesterday, a gnat.

31. Where is your pet? Don't have one.

32. Favorite childhood game? Freeze tag!

34. When's the last time you had a slurpee? It's been awhile. I'm more partial to Slushes from Sonic.

35. Do you look through your old yearbooks a lot? No, but now I'm thinking about it.

36. What are you dreading right now? Cleaning the bathroom.

37. Have you ever painted a room in your house? I don't have a house.

38. Keeping any secrets right now? Off the top of my head, no.

39. What CD's in your stereo right now? I'm an iPod user so there is never a CD in my stereo anymore. I mean, I still buy CDs but then I download them and they sit on my CD rack. Right now I'm listening to the new Okkervil River album (Rilo Kiley is over).

40. Who comments you the most? Dang is that a myspace related question or what??? No one really, my comments are pretty varied.

41. Is your basement dusty? HA! That's a euphemism if I ever heard one! And no, it's not.

42. Ever witnessed a hit & run? Yes, I was the hittee. I was riding in Cameron's car down Maryland Pkwy from UNLV where we had just seen a performance of "As You Like It" which coincidentally starred a boy I had crushed on majorly in high school. We were on our way to get a late night bite to eat at Denny's, it was raining slightly and this guy just totally rear ended us while we were stopped at a light, then put it in reverse and drove off! To our amazement, the jackass' front license plate was stuck to Cam's car!

43. What do you do when you're bored at school? Hmmm, another question that makes me feel old. I would daydream.

44. What's the last household object you broke? Probably a wine glass.

45. Does whatever happen in Vegas... really stay in Vegas? God, I'm so over this marketing campaign. When will it end??? NO! "WHATEVER HAPPENS" WILL FOLLOW YOU THE FUCK HOME AND RUIN YOUR LIFE!

46. Ever been to a football game? This is a dumb and boring question. Yes.

47. What's your most played band in iTunes? How the hell should I know?

48. Old ladies...? The Golden Girls.

50. When's the last time you looked in the dictionary? Aw hell. During this damn survey! I looked up leery on Dictionary.com to make sure it wasn't spelled "leary" which I totally knew was just Timothy Leary residual memory, but I had to check anyway!

Dang thunderstorms. . .

I was woken up at 4:15 this am by an enormous clap of thunder that set off about a dozen car alarms in the parking lot of my apartment complex. HA! For two seconds I almost typed "a thunderous clap of thunder" instead of enormous! That would have been pretty stupid, huh?

This storm meant business. I was sleeping with earplugs in and still woke up - it was that loud! Of course my eyes blinked awake and I wanted to just roll over and go back to sleep, but the clock on my bedside was flashing. The power had gone out at one point so now I had to reset my clock and reset my alarm for my normal 6:22 am, a mere two hours away.

Yeah, don't ask why I set it for 6:22. Seems like a pretty random number you say? Ok, fine I'll tell you my reason for it. My local Channel 3 News has "Traffic & Weather on the 3s" so I set my alarm for 6:22 so I can immediately flip on the TV and get the report at 6:23. By the time the report is over I am awake enough to get in the shower. Sufficiently oddball enough for you?

Now back to the thunderstorm. All this getting out of bed to find out the time to reset my alarm and then appeasing my curiosity by checking out the downpour by standing on our balcony and witnessing the consequential river of water running through the parking lot, all while flashes of lightning and more thunderous claps of thunder (ha!) occurred with frightening speed, meant that I had a hard time falling back to sleep.

Normally I love a good thunderstorm. But I love them in the afternoon, on a Saturday, when I can curl up on the couch with a book, The Sundays playing on the stereo (this is a rule: The Sundays must always be playing when it rains), and watch the raindrops fall outside the window. These middle of the night, wake me up, keep me up during my last two hours of sleep kind of thunderstorms just make me a sad panda and a grumpy girl all day.

MAKING A BLACK and WHITE TOILE COMFORTER SET APPEALING TO TWEENS and TEENS

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You can come up with some of the coolest decorating ideas for teens and tweens in the world and get shot down by your girl so fast it will make your head swirl! It's a fact, our ideas of perfect teenage decor and our little lady's vision of the coolest bedroom on the block don't always mesh.

Throw those conflicts and the lack of selection in cool comforters and bedding for teens and you're left with one more option: come up with some modern ideas for working with bedding collections that may work for an adult bedroom, but can be converted into bedding for teens with a little imagination and tweaking.

Take the set of black and white toile bedding in the pictures above and show it to your teen. She's not going to think that the decor is very cool at all, my friend. The busy, old fashioned wallpaper might be enough to make a young girl scream that her friends will ridicule her.

However, if you take that same black and white toile comforter and:

• Add a silky red satin bedskirt
• Throw some black and red faux fur accent pillows on the duvet cover
• Paint the wooden bed with glossy black enamel paint
• Hang a modern black chandelier or add some funky black lamps
• Consider some oriental black lacquer chests for clothing storage or hard black plastic modular furniture
• Add black metallic shades as window treatments

You may just change your teen's mind about a black and white toile bedroom design. By changing out the accessories and formal black and white toile window treatments in the picture, you got the elegant French toile comforter that you loved. Compromises will pay off from time to time in the realm of tween bedroom decorating ideas!

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COWGIRLS HORSE PRINT BEDDING and COMFORTER SETS

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Why am I so excited about decorating with horse print bedding sets? Do you really need to ask? Can you imagine a bed decorated with shams and pillows with pictures of horses in chocolate brown against a blue chambray or denim blue background? I think saddle blankets will be an excellent resource for decorating ideas for the window treatments and area rugs if I could just find a saddle blanket in blue to use for a custom window valance.


Your teenage daughter can dream of her next barrel race or equestrian competition with horses galloping around the bedskirt. All of the other sets of horse bedding for young girls that are in the market are categorized into horse print bedding sets that will appeal to rodeo loving cowgirls or English equestrian horse lovers. So, get ready to drag out the boots and the cowboy hats or the fox hunting pinks! We are going to use them as teenage decorative accessories!

I can see lots of aged leather chaps, boots, saddles and cowboy hats used as wall decorations and tabletop displays in this room. I'm not so sure I can appreciate shades of brown, tan and beige for teenage girl's rooms, but the combination of dark brown with girly pink might be cute! If colors of horseshoes, cowboy hats and saddles are your taste, then I would definitely go with dark brown pillows and stuff with a worn leather look and skip city slicker fabrics like satin or silk.

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BALLERINA BEDDING and DECORATING IDEAS for TEEN and TWEEN GIRLS BEDROOMS

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Every teen girl had dreams of being a ballerina at one time in her young life. There's no better time to create ballerina decor than before your sweet girl becomes a little lady. I just don't see many pictures of ballerina theme bedrooms for tweens and teens decorated for girl's past the early teen stage. What a tremendous waste of beautiful ballerina fabrics and accessories!



Make an elegant (and inexpensive) ballerina wall mural with these ballerina wall decals. The stickers are reusable vinyl and you can move them around for the next bedroom makeover!

If a complete duvet cover or comforter covered in ballerinas is just too froo froo or feminine for your diva, there are ballerina fabrics that bring in other motifs that will offset the tulle costumes and and rhinestone encrusted headpieces. One particular ballerina print that I like combines musical notes in black with the pastel pink background. Pink and black bedding is very popular with teenagers so run a length of that cloth by your little girl for approval!

Here's another ballerina dancer decorating tip. If your girl didn't get to have a ballerina themed bedroom before she considered herself way too mature as a teenager, decorate her bedroom in antique ivory, cream or white with a complimentary pattern like stripes with some ballerina artwork on the walls. Then design a powder room to feature your prints and wallpapers of ballet dancers! Dainty French slipper chairs and fluffy faux fur and feathers all will fit nicely into the most tiny powder room design. This is a really diplomatic way to slip in your ballerina fabrics for a girl old enough to think tutus are for babies! This pink beaded crystal lamp and elegant gold gilt chair don't shout Swan Lake, but they will fit right in!

Arrange some vintage ballerina figurines on the top of the powder room vanity to be reflected in the mirror to create space if your powder room is small. Return to Tween and Teenage Girls Ballerina Bedding Sets and Bedroom Decorating Ideas to find more tips on decorating with ballet slippers and toe shoes.

HORSE THEME DECORATING IDEAS and BEDDING

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For the tweens and teens shopping for bedding sets who believe they are too mature for pink bedrooms, here is a set of horse theme bedding in earthy shades of brown and sage green. The bedding set is cheap enough and they are even throwing in some free stuff. I don't ever think I can recall free stuff being included rather than the offer of a discounted price or free shipping. That's truly wild, isn't it?

Anyway, the horse theme bedding fabrics have pretty pictures of horses in natural poses on a field of light tan. The bedskirt and a few of the accent pillows are in a coordinating tan fabric. I think that the plaid prints would be great for a young boy's bedroom and for a tweens room you might want to skip the plaids and opt for something in a solid color. I suppose I'm old fashioned, but plaid prints especially in the color scheme of this set just looks masculine to me.

Whichever decorating ideas you get from the pictures, please choose a better paint color for the walls than they used! What a funky shade of teal blue (or is my monitor acting up)? The Equestrian artwork is ok, but I don't like the way they arranged it. I know that English horsewomen prefer elegant bedroom furnishings and wall decorations, but if rough and ready cowgirls were to use this bedding set, they might prefer some leather tack and rusty horseshoes for their decorative wall groupings!

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LUXURY TEEN BEDROOM BEDDING and DECORATIONS. TOO LUXURIOUS FOR WORDS!

We tend not to think of PoshTots.com
as a place to find really cool pictures of teen bedding sets and bedrooms, but here's proof that PoshTots.com
is not just a baby website and should not be overlooked for our pre-teens and teens! Not the place perhaps for cheap bedding, but if you are looking for sumptuous, luxurious pictures of completely decorated bedrooms for your tween or teens that will knock your socks off you should take a look at their gallery of designer rooms.

What drew me to the bedding set above was the purple and green silk stripe bedskirt. All of the tassels and decorative cording on the duvet cover and matching setee and accessories made me drool with envy! When I saw the four grand price tag, my slobber pretty much evaporated, but then I saw that for the price (I'm not saying it's not expensive) that you get a hand painted wooden bed that has a faux antique painting on the headboard.

The decorating ideas for this collection is about to make my head explode! I wish I was a decorator looking for a unique and elegant high end layout for a young girl's room because I would buy this in a heartbeat! As it is, I'm wondering could I possibly buy the purple and green dust ruffle and make it work? It would be a decorating sin to break up this set. Maybe I could sew my own copy of the bedskirt and duvet? Hmmmm....now that's a thought, but it just wouldn't feel the same. The thing to do is take a deep breath, run the credit card and block the price tag out of your mind because I'll be willing to wager that this item will sell out. Sometimes waiting for teen bedding closeouts and discount sales will cause you to miss out on that special look that you need to complete your decor.

OWL BEDDING, PILLOWS and DECOR

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The latest owl bedding from
Pottery Barn Kids
brings to mind the owl decorating craze from back in the late 70s. Everybody was painting huge ceramic life size owls with those knowing yellow eyes and fluffy feathers around their eyes. The owl decor obsession fell somewhere between the psychedelic print phase and the mushroom phase. Warm fall colors of brown, pumpkin orange and yellow seemed to be everywhere from the kitchen and den to the baby's nursery.
There were hoot owl canisters on the counters and plaques on the walls, but I didnt' start pecking on the keyboard to boogie down memory lane. You can take a look in your mom's photograph album to verify the style of decorating that your home was sporting during that time.

I just found a really cute (and modern: no nauseatingly warm tones of bronze and orange, thank you very much) set of teen bedding for your little night owl teen to lounge on when she's supposed to be asleep in bed! It's called Night Owl (duh). The owl bedding fabric has a snowy white background with a nautical blue and red pattern of sweet little owls. It's got the comforter, the sheets, pillowcases, an owl shaped rug and even some matching red, white and blue tab top owl theme curtains!

The comforter print has a periwinkle blue background if the pictures on my monitor are accurate. I would say the best place for getting accessories for this particular bedroom would be the ceramic shop. One of the decorating ideas that popped in my head was a shelf display of a collection of big and small white glazed ceramic owls. If you know a ceramics artist, maybe she would make some bright red or nautical blue owls to use as accent pieces! Take a look and see if you can offer us some decorating tips for a teen girl's bedroom using this funky retro teen bedding collection!

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MOROCCAN BEDDING! HOW TO DECORATE MY TEEN'S BEDROOM MOROCCAN!

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If your teenage girl has her heart set on a I Dream of Jeannie teenage bedroom theme that seems to popped out of the magic lamp and a big cloud of smoke, your best bet is to start with a exotic Moroccan style bedding set that you and your team can agree on.
You know, I don't have a clue as to what Jeannie's nationality was and it really doesn't make a lot of difference, does it? It's just that when I think of her round bottle that Major Nelson found on the beach with the harem inside it brings Moroccan decor to mind.

From that point the Moroccan decorating project will get easier than you could've imagined in your wildest dreams. If I seem to have been hitting the hookah pipe here that me clarify my last remarks. The Moroccan bedding set might just be the only element of your teen or tween bedroom decorations that you have to dig in your pocketbook and run the old credit card for because it's possible to decorate your harem dancer decor in items you dig out of your attic or that you can pick up on the cheap from garage sales!

THE UNUSUAL and UNEXPECTED

Take a slightly less than perfect Oriental rug and use it to decorate the bedroom ceilings by attaching it securely on each end and then tufting it with carefully spaced tacks hammered in a few of the medallions to hide the nail heads. The effect will be that the rug is floating. What a cool (and sinfully cheap) teen girl's decorating tip for a 60s, 70s or Moroccan decor!


LIGHTING WITH MIDDLE EASTERN MOROCCAN MYSTIQUE


Remember Aladdin's lamp? Or do you remember those lanterns that everybody had hanging in at least one of the corners of their bedrooms back in the 1960s and 70s? Your mom or maybe even your grandmother probably decided that the colored glass lanterns with the gold plastic electrical cords threaded through them were tacky shortly after she received them as a Christmas gift. However, being a good mom felt guilty tossing them and all their fake imported antique splendor in the trash because one of her precious children gave her the treasures. Now's the time to go digging in those boxes and bring those vintage light fixtures back into a place of honor. If you have absolutely no ideas in your head as to what I'm rambling on about, here's a picture of a more tasteful and modern antique replica of a Moroccan lantern.


Hang a beaded canopy over your exotic Moroccan bedding set by an ornate hook drilled into the ceiling and drape the gauzy fabrics on each side of the bed and everywhere else in the bedroom that you have something to hang it on. If you have lots of silky fabric in rainbow colors on hand you can gather it on the walls.

Now, throw some large floor pillows on the floor in coordinating jewel tones and your work is done! Buy your teen a belly dancer costume for Halloween and let her host a harem party in her fabulous Moroccan theme bedroom retreat.

BEACH PRINT COMFORTERS and BEDDING - PICK THEM UP NOW AT DISCOUNTED PRICES TO USE NEXT SUMMER!

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I know that you've been looking forward to getting all the sand out of the corners for about a month now and are ready to make visions of the seaside, ocean vacations and tracking your teen girls down at the beach a memory. I certainly don't want to be an unpleasant decorator and blow hot air on your bliss, but now's the time to pick up beach print comforters and bedding sets on sale at deep discount prices.


Late next spring the tweens and teens will all be begging for a beach themed bedroom makeover along with a fresh new wardrobe of teeny-weeny bikinis. Swimsuits and flip-flops are probably on sale right now, but I would hesitate to purchase clothing on sale for girls in the belief that they would fit into them next season. Young girls don't always grow at a predictable rate and fashion trends in bathing suits don't always stay stable from one year to the next, so nix the clothing sales and let's hit the teen bedding closeouts to see if there are some cute beach theme bedding sets for teens.


Beach print comforters and bedding sets are classic favorites and one of the most popular teen comforters sets as well. There are so many cool fabric prints for teenage bedding and bedroom accessories like

• Seashell Comforters in shades of peach
• Pink Surfboard Fabrics covered with colorful surfing motifs
• Hawaii themes with Hawaiian hula girls dancing in grass skirts on the beach under a full moon
• Flip flops in every color of the rainbow (pick up some cheap flip flops and use them as 3D decorating accessories!)

If you have a pink toile bedding set that you want to update or re-decorate, take a look at the picture above and see what an amazing transformation can be achieved with the simple addition of a beach theme pillow or two. You get a beach room theme for an extremely CHEAP price and you used the comforter that you had on hand.

There are so many really cool ways to get your bedroom and home decorated in fine beach theme decor using bedding sets that teens will love. There are so many chandeliers, lamps and other beach theme decorating ideas that you can use! Here's my teen decorating tip for this entry; find the best beach bedding set at a discounted price and then you'll have more left in the budget for additional beach style room accessories.

QUADRANT GREEN BEDDING

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This Quadrant green, black and gray bedding has such interesting shapes and patterns that the fabric color is almost overlooked. And to overlook the interesting combination of colors in this bedding fabric would be a shame. It's rare to come across such a blending of chartreuse, shades of gray and black. Doesn't the full modern print of the comforter look nice with the shiny sheets printed with a subdued stripe pattern? Think of all of the interesting(and cool) accessories that we can surround this collection with that will bring it around to a style of decor that your teen will love.

No matter what size bed that you are decorating there are comforters, duvet covers, pillow shams and decorative pillows to cover the entire surface of your girl's bed if you so choose. To make this comforter set appealing to the teenage crowd, the window treatments and the accent table cover will probably have to be tossed and replaced with rich, textured items including lots of fuzzy faux fur rugs, pillows and accessories.

Another way to decorate a bedroom for a young girl using this contemporary teen bedding would be to use metallics. You could pull the pewter tones from the bedding print and use it in selecting your table lamps, chandeliers or maybe some tabletop accessories. As there is just the tiniest sliver of silver in the fabric, shiny chrome accessories might be best. These are just basic decorating tips. The best way to proceed would be to select your favorite items in each finish and place them around the room in strategic locations and see which colors work best.

Select your decorative items on a temporary basis until you have an opportunity to make a visual appraisal of each. Once you decide whether you will be taking the chrome, pewter or even black wrought iron direction then you can begin to make decorating decisions on your more permanent decorations such as chandeliers, sconces and other light fixtures.

Here are some textures that I would love to try in this room that would make it less for an adult's bedroom and more for a teenage diva queen bee:

• Black Satin Pillows
• Black satin sheets
• Black faux fur pillows and rugs

If it seems that most of my decorating tips for this bedroom involve BLACK stuff and lots of it, it's because I just love the contrast between the lime green bedding and black fabrics. Give it a try and send me pictures for the gallery!

Becoming Jane - A Review

It is a truth universally (well at least within my inner circle of friends and relations) acknowledged that I was going to hate this movie. Indeed. Well, there were some things in it that I quite enjoyed. Like the cast (except for Anne Hathaway, but I'll get to her later), the cricket scene, the portrayal of Henry & Eliza, and the scenes of Cassandra's loss which did make my eyes sufficiently well up. But overall I am quite disappointed in the film. I tried my damnedest, really I did, to watch it objectively, but then the filmmakers would do something that would get my Janeite brain going and dampen my spirits. For example, early on when Jane overhears Mr. Lefroy's dismissal of her writing and proceeds to go upstairs, rip up what she had just written as an engagement present to her beloved sister, and then go through all her other writing that she has hidden away in a trunk and question them too??? Give me a freaking break! Jane Austen would not have given a whit about what a latecoming, rude, stranger thought about her writing! Even if he was as cute as James McAvoy. And then later when she excuses herself quite rudely in front of Lady Gresham and her nephew in order to plop down on a bench and quickly jot down some notes for later use?? Um, no. Jane was a private writer. She wrote at her desk in her room and left the door to said room with a squeak in it so she would know when someone was coming in and could hide her pages away! And the idea that Lefroy widens Jane's horizons by giving her Tom Jones to read? I'm sorry but if you read the letters where Jane Austen actually mentions Tom Lefroy on which supposedly this film is based she compares the color of Lefroy's coat to that of one worn by Tom Jones in the book! Which would mean she had already read the novel before she even met Lefroy, not at all suprising since her entire family were avid readers and Tom Jones was one of the most popular novels of its day.

I know, I know, here is me nitpicking right? Ok, I'll try to leave the historical inaccuracies aside. How about Anne Hathaway's acting? Does she really think a furrowed brow is all the acting necessary to get across every emotion? Oh, in this scene I'm angry, I better furrow my brow. Now I'm sad, a furrowed brow will do nicely. Oh now I'm worried, again a furrow of the brow should suffice! Her accent was perfectly fine, I just wish she had a little more depth. I did love James Cromwell and Julie Walters as Reverand and Mrs. Austen. Perfect casting. I additionally enjoyed the actress who played Cassandra although I felt her and Jane's relationship was kind of put to the side. In real life these two sisters were inseperable when together and when apart, wrote to each other constantly. The filmmakers could have made that more evident. And don't get me started on the so-called Jane is an older woman epilogue!

I've decided in this review not to go into the particulars of the Jane Austen/Tom Lefroy flirtation that suddenly became a full blown romance full of secret rendezvous and near elopments. Obviously this was the route the filmmakers decided to take in order to give us Jane's story. I don't agree with this decision, but it's understandable that they would want to give the author of some of the greatest romances of all time a romance of her very own. I just hope that those that do not know Jane's real story will go in search of it now. Because it is a story worth telling without all the filler. Maybe someday Hollywood will do it justice. Now, I know what you are all thinking: I went in already predisposed to hate the film, right? Of course I wasn't going to like it with this attitude, right? Well, yes that's true! I can't help it! Jane Austen is my favorite author and dear to my heart! I admire her as one of my ultimate heroes! To see her portrayed inaccurately and with little of the wit and vivacity she herself wrote with pains me! So sue me.

CHEERLEADER FABRICS, BEDDING and BEDROOM DECORATING IDEAS

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Football and basketball season brings the need for cute cheerleader fabrics, bedding sets and cheerleader theme wall decals and decorations for our bedroom decorating projects to the top of our game plan. Let the sound of the cheering fans and the marching band be a reminder to you that it's time to start pulling out those cheerleading theme decorating ideas for your junior high or middle school cheerleader's bedroom.

The latest cheerleader bedding has all of the bright and CHEERFUL motifs of cheerleaders rooting for the home team in their multi-colored uniforms. The fabrics are embroidered and appliqued with popular cheerleading motifs that will take you straight back to your high school athletic glory days of teenage bliss.

What a wonderful positive bedroom decorating idea for a pretty cheerleader. Some wall and bedroom decorations that you can pick up and paint in your personal team colors would be

• Plush stuffed team mascots
• Pom Poms
• Vintage megaphones

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PAISLEY PATTERNS - STENCIL COOL PAISLEY DESIGNS on YOUR TEENS FLOORS and WALLS

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If you've already got your funkier than average set of paisley pattern bedding ready to roll, you may have had a brain fart where your other room decorations are going to come from. Paisley patterns are hard to match now aren't they, sweetie? Teens are not that big on exact color scheme matches but you want SOME kind of decorative order in that bedroom. Here's some cool ways to decorate a paisley theme teen bedroom room no matter what colors your girl's bedding fabric prints might be. C'mon lets hit the wall stencil sale!

You can use these re-useable laser cut stencils (free if you don't mind drawing some designs and cutting out your own stencils) to decorate the bedroom floors walls or anything you want paisley designs to be plastered on. That's right, no need to spend the dough to buy an expensive paisley rug. Get on your knees and stencil! There's even a combination of flowers and paisleys for you to play around with. The best paint colors come from your wildest dreams or on a more level thought plane; your comforter. Pull out some of the more bold, bright and beautiful from the paisley fabric designs and match them to use as accent colors in the bedroom.


Now you've got your instructions, go forth and decorate the room in traditional Bohemian chic with these sweet paisley stencil designs and patterns in the bedroom, dorm room or all over the interior of your hippie chick van.

PINK CAMO BEDDING - GIRL'S CAMOUFLAGE GOES PRISSY in PINK and GREEN

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Teens are loving pink camo bedding. For the mom in shock that wanted a frilly feminine bedroom for her preteen this may be the place to blend those girly, frilly decorating ideas with her daughter's demands for something a tiny bit more modern and cutting edge.

This full set of pink camouflage bedding down to a pretty pink bedskirt and even a lovely sheer canopy over the head of the bed goes a long way towards pulling pink camo decorating ideas away from visions of full military parade dress and combat boots, doesn't it? There are curtains and valances to match and the white dressers and armoires can stay in place ready for the next bedding pattern change.

The pretty green and pink camo bedding set is frilly enough to make moms happy and to let people know that the bedroom is decorated for a girl and the print is uniquely modern enough to make a tween proud! If you're in the middle of a decorating tug of war with your girl, run out and pick up a pink camo bed-in-a-bag and see if that's something that the two of you can agree on!

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BLACK and WHITE BEDDING SETS

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Black and white bedding of some kind is always in style. The trend may be black and white dots, plaid stripes, toile fabrics or whatever there's no denying that you can't go wrong with white and black no matter how hard you try. There are even stylish decorating opportunities for teens using this combo.


Pick up a set of ultra-contemporary bedding with a black and white futuristic design and see where it takes you. Besides comforters with dark backgrounds are much better than pale pastels like pink for hiding those pesky little marks from ballpoint pens and the occasional encounter with mascara and makeup that are very common in teenage girls bedrooms.

The only problem with black and white bedding is that doesn't provide any real inspiration or decorating ideas for your teenage girl's bedroom so you will have to wing it on choosing the best colors to brighten things up a bit.

You might take a lighter approach when it comes to accent colors for tween and preteen bedrooms and use decorations in powder pink, lavender or blue. Once they enter the teenage years, get ready to field requests for hot pink, orange or neon blue. The older the girl, the more bold and funky they want their bedrooms to be.


Here are some ways you can jazz up your black and white bedding:

• Big Red Satin Pillows (think lips)
• Retro 60s Hippie Style Flowers
• Tie Dye Pillows and decorative accessories

There are not enough cheap bedding and comforters for teens so we have to take what's available and make it cute, funky and teen worthy!


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CHERRY BEDDING - BLOSSOMS and RED FRUITY FABRICS

Red, black and white are popular color schemes in lots of different bedding fabric patterns, but now I'm seeing black and white checks intermingled with lucious red cherries! Who would've ever dreamed that fruit print fabrics would migrate from kitchens to teen bedding? Any ideas on how to work with fruity teenage bedroom decorations?

Is the tropical headdress of the Copa Cabana coming back? Will we be decorating with bowls of bananas, grapes and cherries? Strange and just a little disturbing. I was always taught not to take food out of the kitchen!

COOL and COMFORTABLE COLLEGE DORM BEDDING and FURNITURE

Seems like yesterday that you had a pretty preteen. Then sassy lady hit her teens and now you are gathering dorm room bedding and furniture. How exciting...but scary and disturbing at the same time.


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What's the best kind of bedding to get for a college dorm room? Dorm room bedding should be easy to clean and as gross as it sounds; the fabric shouldn't show stains. She's going to wag it home every weekend in the duffle bag with the other stuff that got nasty through the week but there could be several days between the spilled salsa and a trip home. Cheap bedding and comforters for teens come in great colors, patterns and designs so if the coverlet doesn't make it through Christmas vacation, no sweat.

College dorm furniture should have the same qualities as the bedding sets we recommended: cheap, indestructible and capable of hiding a few mistakes in judgement.

Here are some comfortable ottomans or floor cushions that will make the college dorm seem like home. A cute little happy going away to college gift would be if you sent these little pretties through the mail with a note saying that you are sending her "LOVE AND KISSES"....and a place to sit other than on the bed!



This ottoman cover strips right off for a quick trip home to be run through the laundry.

Get it? The heart shaped ottoman is for the love you are sending your college freshman and the ottoman shaped like lips is for kisses from the folks at home!

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FUNKY PURPLE and ORANGE TEENAGE ROOM DECORATING PICTURES

The bedding in these FUNKY PURPLE and ORANGE TEENAGE ROOM DECORATING PICTURES are funky, furry and almost too cool for mom to share with her teens. Tell me how you adore all these super wild colors. Sure, it's hot right now but those young girls are going to be decorating their dorms and bedrooms soon and the funky teen girls bedding sets in these pictures are going to be the inspiration for more than a few of my own bedroom decorating ideas!

PAISLEY PATTERNS, DESIGNS and PRINTS for your HOME

Paisley print fabrics are one of those designs that just don't ever go out of style. The colors and patterns change with the times so that there's always a stylish paisley print that looks fresh and modern.

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Some cool decorating ideas for this funky set of teen bedding would be to get a lime green, hot pink or orange faux fur rug for the bed side and stencil some paisley patterns in coordinating paint colors on the walls in a similar grouping to the one on the bedding fabric.

If you are really aggressive and like a challenge, use a striping paint technique on the walls to match the dust ruffle!

Each new generation seems to thing that they came up with paisley. The hippie crowd in the 60s did paisley along with tie-dye and the 70s mixed it up with disco glam. In the 80s and 90s paisley designs took a more starched, dignified form. Now here we are in the new millenium with cool paisley prints showing up in teen's bedrooms as well as their purses. Paisley and polka dot wallets, coin purses as well as paisley bandanas and sheets are considered so very cool this fall. Paisley patterns are pretty classic , but the colors! WOW! Bright oranges are combined with shades of turquoise blue and purple for a brilliant display of traditional fall colors gone wild!

If your tween's bedroom has an adjoining bathroom, decorate the bathroom with paisley print towels, shower curtains and other bath accessories like these! Return to Tween and Teenage Girls Paisley Pattern Bedding and Bedroom Decorating Ideas

COOL PINK LEOPARD PRINT STUFF

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Here are some decorating ideas and ways to update existing furniture for a teen girl's bedding or bedroom with pink leopard print. Pink leopard comforters make a pretty large decorative footprint in room and you have to be pretty imaginative on ways to carry your wild animal print around the room without things getting out of hand. Here are some really cute pink leopard print decorative accessories and gifts that should soothe your teen's need for a walk on the wild side.

Get a special wooden personalized wall hanging with your tween's name cut out and painted with a leopard pattern in any color you choose. Keep reading for wall painting ideas and suggestions for this cool bedroom that's being decorated and accessorized right before your eyes!






Pink leopard drawer pulls could help put the finishing touch on a quick, cheap and easy makeover for a plain old dresser or makeup table. If you have a stained wooden piece of bedroom furniture you can instantly transform it into a perfect piece of pink leopard theme furniture specifically designated for a spot in this funky animal print room!



A pink leopard area rug would be very cute if you prefer your pink leopard print on the floor rather than displayed in your little diva's bedding or comforter sets.

I suppose you could paint your walls in a leopard pattern if you're a pro with a paint brush, but I would like for you to try another wall painting idea that works well in any bedroom, but will be spectacular in this teenagers posh pink dream room. If you are really feeling adventurous, mix and match leopard spots with zebra stripes and see how much a unique pattern mix can do for a bedroom!

Paint your wall in a shade of pale brown to match the fabric print on your comforter. Using a chalk line, draw off equally spaced diamonds and paint them in a pale pink paint color to match your pink leopard print. The diamonds give a welcome break in the wild animal action yet allow you to stay in the same color family.


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EXOTIC TEEN GIRLS BEDDING and BEDROOM DECORATING IDEAS

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A theme in shopping in any of the online stores or websites that specialize in contemporary teen bedding and accessories you know that they equate funky prints with an expensive price tag. There's lots of places that you can buy cheap comforters and duvet covers but will your teen think that it looks cool, funky and stylish enough for her to show off to her friends? One decorating trend for older girl's bedrooms has been to use very bright and colorful print fabrics for the bedding and then to calm it down with statues of Buddha and other vintage bronzes.


Here are some tips and ideas on how to make your teenage girl's bedroom as trendy as she wants with a price tag that much less expensive than you might expect.

1. Sit down with your teenage girl and get her to show you what she likes either in a catalog or in one of the online stores. Turn down the pages with the pictures or bookmark the pages with the pictures of completely decorated bedrooms that tickle her fancy.

2. Discuss fabrics. Does she like sleek and shiny silk and satin fabrics or does she prefer rustic and nubby textures? Will you need something that's easily washable or is your teen ticky and capable of dealing with a high maintenance duvet cover that's made from fabric that might be ruined if her friends smear onion dip on it?

3. Take note of basic color schemes that she seems to favor. Could it be that one will work with the current wall color? If you don't have to pick out new wall paint colors, that's a bargain!


Now, check out the discount bedding sites or shop the closeout sales for discontinued bedding collections. Don't waste time searching for bedding sets for teens, they are few and far between. A more beneficial use of your time would be to see what's available at discounted prices and see what could be done to make them appealing to older girls. Take note of decorating ideas that you could use with each set and how expensive it will be to put them to work in the room that you are decorating.

For example look at pictures of the average set of paisley bedding. Most have lots of browns, shades of camel tan and burgundy or blue.


At first glance it would only appeal to an older person, right? Ok, now imagine that set of bedding with bright orange, red and cobalt blue silk, satin or even leather throw pillows. An Indian throw with sequins that's been embroidered in wild colors thrown over the foot of the bed would liven things up as well as a dust ruffle in a coordinating, but eclectic print and you'd need to replace that stodgy canopy and header with something right out of the latest Bratz movie or off the set of DeGrassi, too. Fringe is cool, so check out some bolts of purple or turquoise to see if they would work while you're in the notions section of the discount store.

Decorative accessories can be a large bronze colored Buddha, Indian elephant end tables and brass lamps!

A sculpture of Buddha brings a sense of peace and calm and is the perfect decorative balance to your psychedelic bedding design as well as coordinating with the boring brown print that you started with.

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Mikhail Baryshnikov

I'm not sure exactly when my obsession with Mikhail Baryshnikov started but I'm pretty sure it was sometime in high school. I took ballet classes very briefly as a small child, as most little girls do, but that was it. I was not and am not a dancer myself, but I have always loved everything about the dance world: its grace, its beauty, its strength, its magic. The classical ballets were my favorites: Giselle, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker. I fell for Baryshnikov after discovering the movie The Turning Point. He was just so gorgeous and no one danced like him: great flying leaps where he seemed to hang in the air longer then seemed natural like some freaky ballet superhero!

My dream of seeing Baryshnikov dance live came true when I was nineteen. He was peforming with his White Oak Dance Project at UNLV's Ham Hall. The day before the show I got horribly sick with a virus, and ended up at the performance with a high fever. My boyfriend at the time went with me to the show and he was actually very sweet and took care of me during the performance, making sure I was awake whenever Misha was on stage, because I was so sick with fever I would kind of doze off in my seat. Suffice to say, I don't remember that much about it. I do remember Misha doing this little like golf routine, very cute and quite funny.

Anyway, I was so excited when I saw that Baryshnikov's new Hell's Kitchen Dance Project would be performing in Reno as part of their month long arts festival Artown. My dear friend Amy, who lives in Reno, was a ballet dancer when she was young and I knew she'd be thrilled if I came up so we could go to the show together. It was incredible. The Pioneer Center in downtown Reno is quite small, and we had amazing seats about 10 rows back from the stage so could see everything perfectly. The minute Baryshnikov walked out on stage the entire room kind of gasped and then held it's breath in anticipatory unison. The first dance was called “Years Later” and on a huge screen at the back of the stage they showed footage of a very young dancing Baryshnikov and then our present day live Baryshnikov danced along with the footage. There was a light in the very front of the stage so that it projected his shadow on the screen, and he could move up or downstage to make the shadow bigger or smaller so that there were sometimes three Baryshnikovs dancing: the young one onscreen, the 59 year old live one, and his shadow. It was quite touching, and even a little bit sad. The onscreen Baryshnikov was the young strong dancer, doing all his great jumps and leaps that the now older Baryshnikov has a hard time doing. He would even make fun of himself and laugh along with the audience as he bent over holding his back like an old man, throwing his hands up in the air like he won’t even try to keep up with his young self anymore. Baryshnikov is so humorous and down to Earth - it's really refreshing and interesting considering how superhuman he truly is. The final dance featured Baryshnikov again along with the dozen or so young dancers in his hand picked company. It was wonderful but again quite touching and sad, a passing of the torch kind of thing. He would dance with them, but also watch them in amazement and with a bit of nostalgia and regret in his posture and demeanor. You knew he was envying their youth. And then it's not like Baryshnikov blends in with these dancers. It's very obvious: there's freaking Mikhail Baryshnikov dancing onstage, 30 years older than all of the other dancers, and although some of them are excellent, they will never be as good as he was and still is. But this dance titled “Come In” was like Baryshnikov inviting them to give it a damn good try. All in all, it was a great experience getting to see him before he stops dancing altogether, something I will always cherish. Clumsy old desert rat me got to experience the greatest dancer that ever lived, Mikhail Baryshnikov, live in person, not once, but twice.