Interior Tuesday

Menswear Monday will be replaced with Interior Tuesday this week.  I couldn't come up with anything I wanted to feature for boys, but did run across some really great spaces I couldn't pass up.  (Apartment therapy and Design*Sponge)

I really wish I had more furniture to play with in my apartment.  Someday a shelf could be nice to own.  Especially a shelf with a cool ladder!

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!

Silly Girl

Today I could go off on some sort of political diatribe, but I choose not to.
Instead I am going to share with you some life inspiration (lifesperation? perhaps), which has come about from watching television. Maybe this is the mark of good television, when it inspires you to succeed in life rather than be a money-chasing, celebrity oogling nitwit who thinks they have to sleep with every man to get ahead in life/have self worth. That could be pidgeonholing, but it makes my point. Anyway, I have been watching Lipstick Jungle and Mad Men. Interestingly they are set in the same city (New York) and somewhat in the same industry (media). Of course they are set about 60 years apart. It is remarkable to me what a difference sixty years makes. We get so cocky about how advanced we are compared to the way people viewed women and minorities, but I think in 60 years we'll look back and think similar things about other issues. I guess my inspiration comes from watching how women were thought of in the 50's and 60's, and then seeing in Lipstick Jungle how women have progressed. In the 60's, portrayed by Mad Men, women are intellectually inferior, flighty, silly, shouldn't be taken too seriously, and in general inferior to all things male. These days women are known to be just as smart as men, with equal ability to do business and hold high powered positions. On one hand it kind of does look nice to just be a 50's housewife and do nothing all day except have dinner on the table at night. I imagine that would get boring rather quickly and lead to having babies which would at least give you something to do during the day. Anyway, it all makes me want to be self-sufficient and not have to rely on anyone- male or female, anyone- for support. I want to be like the women on Lipstick Jungle who have it all, can pay for their own trips to the Bahamas, their own shoes, their own jewelry. Perhaps this is all a reaction to heartbreak and not wanting to have to ever be vulnerable to another person ever again, but I guess if it gets me where I'm going I might as well feed off of it.

Okay, lets break up this sea of text with something of a little visual interest. I FINALLY got a lamp for my living room yesterday. I cannot believe how much my house finally looks like a home with just that little addition. It looks like a lamp from my grandma's house=perfect. Let's play Top Design for a sec, eh?:

Here is some sort of art piece on my wall. I don't know what to call it, it's not a painting or even a photo... we'll call it a collage. It matches the theme of my living room, though.

My senior pics! Haha. I just think they are funny because college senior picture means nothing and it's such a big deal in highschool. I suppose everything is a big deal in high school though. Especially things that shouldn't be.

This afternoon I feel like doing not much. Therefore I am reading Vogue, drinking mimosas and blogging. I have an audition for a movie role on friday. The casting director really likes me and wants me to audition, so I'm going down there. Part of me doesn't want to get the part because I wouldn't be able to go home for my birthday/thanksgiving, but then again this is a huge opportunity I should probably take if offered to me.