Greetings, 2009!

I've been on a decor fix these past few days, delving through archives of Design*Sponge. Today I came across a lovely DIY from Mr. Peacock for decoupaging your ceiling! He used birds and flowers, but the possibilities are endless! I was thinking I couldn't do it because I rent an apartment, but he was saying that the decoupage will just wash off when you want to take the birds down. Brilliant. Check out his DIY here!

Also, check out these really neat calendars from norawhynot at etsy.

From the description: "The calendar is hand silkscreen printed onto recycled boxboard using hand-mixed inks to produce an original colour palette. Each month is separately printed with some months having as many as four separate passes, one of the colours being unique to that month, making all pages exclusive and individual - NO TWO ARE THE SAME."

Neat stuff for the new year!

I have to say, one of the banes of my existence (okay there really aren't that many...) is that I can't paint my apartment. Adding color to a living space really livens it up and makes it your own. I have tried quite hard to make my living space my own, however, sans paint. I can't tell you guys how excited I am for my first living space which I can make completely my own. Check out how incredibly this color transforms this little space! (design*sponge)

I think so many homeowners these days are scared of color. Houses are full of beige, white, and tan rooms. Color makes life so much more exciting. Live in color!!

Bob Ross

If you know anything about me, you know I have a healthy relationship with all things ugly and tacky from times before 1980. Give me anything avocado green, harvest yellow, burnt orange, or brown and I am a happy camper. Give me ugly old Bob-Ross-esque landscape paintings and my insides will squiggle with delight. Give me the lamp your grandmother had in her living room and... you get the picture. So imagine my wonderment when I found this:

Behold! A noteboard made from an old ugly painting!! I found this little gem over at Design*Sponge, and was so tickled with delight I can hardly wait to go to Value Village, Classy Rack, Goodwill, etc. etc. to find just the right painting to do this with. Check out her directions here. I thought it would work also as a push-pin board, if you put corkboard beneath the painting, but she does it as a magnetic board.

There are some exciting things happening in my brain of late, hopefully I will have some concrete things to share with you all in the near future!

Wishes and Dreams

I am getting so excited about going back to school and moving into my new apartment! I have been looking at stuff online to make my apartment lovely (however, truth be told, I'm too cheap for such expensive things. I will likely buy everything from thrift stores). Here are some delightful items that I could only dream of having:

Very cool journals made out of LP's!

These are wayy too expensive, but I like their simplicity.

And here are some lovely rocks glasses, pints, etc. I really like glassware like this (especially the Sailor Jerry ones):

Candles will surely be in order:

And some fun accessories:

All of these fun things were found at Urban Outfitters and Sailor Jerry.