Moonlight - the best new comedy on television?

So Phillip and I couldn't resist and DVR'd "Moonlight" the new vampire show on CBS. It was everything we expected it to be and more: cheesy while trying to be serious, filled with terrible puns, and horribly acted. Right from the opening shot we knew what we were in for. In a dream sequence, Mick St. John (yep that's our hero's name!) is being interviewed by someone off camera. "So how is it being an actual vampire?" she asks. Mick: "It sucks." AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Nice one. No pun intended, right? Oooh, the dialogue was so bad in this show that it actually made my stomach ache. Who writes this stuff? Who greenlights it?? I just don't get it. This show was ripe for a little MST3K treatment and that's the only way Phillip and I even made it through to the end. We've decided that Sophia Myles (that blonde vampire from the Underworld movies and Isolde in Tristan & Isolde) is a low, low, low rent version of Kate Winslet and thinks that her acting is enhanced when she uses her hands close to her face. There was one entire scene where her hands truly never left her face area. It was hysterical. The lead guy is handsome enough, but the director tried too hard by dressing him in a really thin shirt so his muscles rippled through and keeping a fan on him so that his hair blows seductively whenever possible. Oh and even the music in this show was pun-tastic. The song used for the music montage at the end that tied everything up in a neat little episodic bow was "My Immortal" by Evanescence. I'm not kidding. Although I really enjoyed watching the pilot episode because I got to make fun of it so thoroughly and laugh more than I have laughed in a long while, I don't think I'll be able to make it through a second viewing. It won't last beyond a handful of episodes anyway. Oh, wait, this is CBS and "Ghost Whisperer" is still on, so maybe it will last. Maybe I'll catch it again some Friday night when I have nothing better to do and I need a good laugh.

TEEN BEDROOM MAKEOVER FOR LESS THAN $100

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You just decorated the dorm and once you got home, your teen's home based bedroom looked pretty dated in comparison. We know you blew the budget on stuff to decorate her home away from home. But, would it be possible to give your daughter's room at home a complete makeover and a fresh new look for less than $100? Actually by
shopping at secondhand stores and making use of eBay, garage sales and what you have stuffed in the closets and under your bed, you may be able to redecorate for less than that!


With several days work, working about an hour at a time, you can have your teen bedroom makeover done in less than a week and at a budget price. Won't she be surprised when she comes home for break? Here are some ideas on how to get started.

CHEAP TEEN BEDDING and ACCESSORIES
Bedding might be the most expensive decorative stumbling block that you encounter on your way to an extreme budget minded teen or tween bedroom makeover.

There are several ways that you can clear this hurdle and still have professional looking results and the funky bedding that will impress your daughters teenybopper friends.

• Buy yards of fabric in a wild print and make your own duvet cover. This is an easy do it yourself sewing project even for amateurs and what a bargain! We actually made a duvet cover out of three coordinating fabrics and got it all done for less than $10 because we had several lengths already on hand that were leftover from some curtain panels. We used the worn comforter for the filler for the duvet as there was nothing wrong with it, it just needed an update.
  
  
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  Using more of the fabric that we had on hand we used a staple gun to whip up an easy canopy that we hung. We attached it to the ceiling with a hook that had previously been used to hang a pot plant on the patio. We painted the hook black with spray paint and gathered the canopy by tying a tassel on the loose ends.
  
  
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  The décor called for a taller bed platform, so we jacked up the legs of the bed using some scrap lumber to make blocks of identical height placed under each after we removed the wheels. This raised the entire bed frame a few inches over a foot. This was the perfect height for some under the bed storage boxes.
  
  
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  Valances and decorative pillows came from the same fabrics that were used to make the duvet cover and pieced bed skirt. We simply covered the old pillows with the new fabric and added some fringes, fur and other fun notions.
  

So, there you have it! Teen bedroom makeover ideas that will get the job done on the cheap! Even if you don’t have yards of curtain fabric lying around you can pick up remnants or fabric that is the last on the bolt at the sewing center for a few cents on the dollar. Lime green or neon orange crushed velvet will perk up the most common cotton prints when paired with gold or faux fur trim. So don’t let your teen reject the layout based on any one fabric!

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PINK AND BLACK BEDDING for TEENS

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So far as pink and black bedding for teenage girls that would be be perfect for teens and tweens, you have several fabric prints to choose from. Not many, but a few.

That's why you have to love the ingenuity that the manufacturer displayed when they rolled out not only a
pink and black comforter sets in zebra fabrics, but a patchwork quilt that incorporates hot pink faux fur blocks with black and white zebra.

The possibilities for such an eclectic design are rather interesting to say the least. The play of graphics one against the other brings me around to a retro, kind of Andy Warhol (if teens care to take a look at his art they will see what I mean) state of mind.

I'm not sure how I feel about mixing the less dramatic, watered down shades of pink as seen in the area rug in the example picture, but I have to give the funky, pink and black patchwork bedding set a positive review. This just goes to show that patchwork quilts are not necessarily country by nature.

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ZEBRA PRINT DAY BED COMFORTER SETS, CURTAINS and BEDROOM ACCESSORIES

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You may find zebra print day bed comforter sets to be very helpful whether you're decorating a dorm room or simply trying to save some space at home. Day beds are very popular and zebra daybed ensembles are big hits with teenage girls which provides the DIY decorating enthusiast with one of those rare, once in a lifetime moments of opportunity.

You can use the zebra daybed cover or comforter sets that will certainly appeal to the decorative taste of your teenage girl (as well as tweens and pre-teens) and make your case on why it's best that she sleep on a tiny bed in order to save the floor space. It might also be a good idea to mention that she will have more room to hang out with her friends and how you can expand the seating area by using the daybed as a sofa and throw some floor pillows on the floor for lounging.


Zebra print day bed comforter sets in stark black and white is a bold way to decorate and oddly enough one of most versatile patterns on the market at the moment. The black and white zebra stripe pattern is funky, flashy,fun and totally attention grabbing. As if all that weren't enough to sell you, it looks awesome with hot pink and purple which are two of the most popular colors in teenage girls bedrooms at the moment. In fact zebra bedding with pink trim is all the rage!

If that's not enough zebra striped stuff, here's some more until you're up to your ears in zebra stuff! Utilize zebra print rugs and lamps with zebra lampshades to raise the level of intensity in your safari decor.

If you want your horse in striped pajamas to hang out in the shower with you, hang some zebra print shower curtains on a black metal or painted shower rod. I love how they look with lots of potted ferns and greenery. The ferns love a hot, steamy room that doesn't get a lot of direct sun so there you are!

To top all this off, there are plenty of zebra print window treatments to match your zebra print day bed covers. However, I would lean towards a solid color curtain if I used other zebra bedroom accessories and vice versa. I know it's a teen girl's room and supposed to be wild and crazy, but enough's enough! Please for the sake of adult visitors, consider a solid color valance in black or white fabric.

Zebra daybed ensembles and bedding sets come in all sizes including extra long, queen, king, twin, and sizes specifically manufactured to fit daybeds so no matter what size bedding you need there's the perfect set of zebra bedding for your teenage girl's bedroom or even zebra baby stuff for the crib or nursery out there just waiting for you.

NAUTICAL LIGHTHOUSE BEDDING and DECOR for TEENS

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All the lighthouses in this set would be capable of lighting up the entirety of Cape Cod! No need to use more than one or two lighthouse decorations in any yachting or sailor girl's bedroom.

Play off the blues, grays with shots of bright red in solid colors or maybe a fabric printed with tiny anchors, flags or other nautical prints that visually blend at a distance would be best.

Throw in some polished brass lanterns, table lamps and maybe a life buoy and your lighthouse bedding will settle in for smooth sailing.

The lighthouse theme area rug might be ok so long as you could put it somewhere on the floor where it didn't fight for attention with the lighthouse medallion on the comforter. Maybe a bathroom would be a good place for it?

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2 Days in Paris

I've been a Julie Delpy fan since "Before Sunrise." I thought the screenplay she co-wrote with Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater for "Before Sunset" was a little piece of Heaven. But still, I didn't quite know what to expect from her writing/directing debut (well I think she has done some shorts before but this is her first full length). I was pleasantly surprised. Well written, touching, and laugh out loud funny (which I didn't expect), this film was a joy to watch. Delpy really captured a relationship with all its foibles; the tender moments and the moments when a pair are just plain mean to one another for no real reason. This was also the most endearing Adam Goldberg has ever been on screen. I just wanted to give him a big hug. And am I the only one who thinks Delpy is probably a complete nut in real life? How else can she write and play these neurotic characters so perfectly?

Oh and my favorite line in the movie? Well slightly paraphrased cause it's from memory:


Marion: Why do you even want to see his grave? You don't even like Jim Morrison. You don't like The Doors.

Jack: I know, but it's a famous grave. And I'm a huge Val Kilmer fan.


LOVE IT!

TEEN GIRLS PREFER SLEEK over COMPLICATED

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Contemporary beds and bedding are ever so popular with teen girls. Once upon a time the spare, futuristic designs were once looked at as rather cold and unwelcoming. That day has flown past and curlicues are now replaced with smooth, flat surfaces. In the modern teen's bedroom this furniture style is getting the credit that it deserves which is that it is very easy to keep clean as well as cool to look at.

Not many teenage girls want old fashioned, antique beds in their rooms right now. Stay tuned, the trend can always do a complete turnaround, but I don't see it happening so long as geometric and funky abstract prints are piled mile high on the store's shelves.

Does the slick design element of these modern beds correspond to an inexpensive price? Oh no, my dear. Exotic hardwoods and sturdy construction bumps up the price tag on some into what most would consider the high end furniture range.


Contemporary beds have an identical footprint in the bedroom as any other beds, but the eye tends to process the straight,uncluttered lines and label them as less intrusive in the decor. For teens with less than spacious bedrooms, this is a huge benefit of contemporary furniture design and one that's worth checking into.

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