If you are Jamie, do not read this post.  Pretend like I didn’t buy any house decoration stuff.

This little decorating project started with a toothbrush.  We had this old Braun electric toothbrush that I didn’t like anymore, and my dentist and hygienists kept pushing me to buy a Sonicare.  So much that I think they’re getting a cut of the profits somehow…!  I had a gift certificate to Bloomingdale’s, and after 2 months of trying to spend it on shoes and clothing and everything I got sucked, I gave up and bought this.  Our old Braun was wall mountable, but this Sonicare requires a flat surface to live on.  Our only power outlet in the bathroom is on a wall, without any shelving.  The first step was to find wall mountable shelves which I found at Target – and if you’ve ever shopped at Target, you know you’re not walking out the door without spending another $100 on things that you don’t need.  So I ended up getting this shower curtain for our bathroom window and this mirror decoration set because we are on a polka dot theme here!  I was originally introduced to this awesome idea of round mirrors for decoration from this mirror set at cb2, but the target set is cheaper and I think it looks better without the frame.  Once the shelving was up, the toothbrush and my sonicdermabrasion dohickey (which is like $150 cheaper than the clarisonic one) sat on the bottom shelf, but the top two shelves were bare because I had nothing bathroom appropriate to put on it.

This led me to buy these alfie candle holders at Crate and Barrel.  They are on sale for 95 cents!!!  Here are some red ones also for 95 cents (which I bought 4 of, and you might have spied them on my dining room table).  I wish the purple ones went on sale, because I kind of love them too.  So there you have it, an economical redecoration of our bathroom for under $100, all thanks to a toothbrush.

Here is a full shot of the shelving.