the bookshelf

i'm slowly and continuously re-arranging, arranging, re-arranging, imagining in my apartment.

and i needed a bookshelf.

"don't buy that!" aaron cried.

"i could make that for you in an hour and a half!"

so he did.

and i fell in love with him forever.

another cool thing, and this one involves my apartment

cool.

remember this post about wanting and dying over these wonderfully inspirational posters

from etsy?

yeah.

i wanted.

and i died.

and they're wayy more money than i have, which is none. 

and then i got even more broke

and even more impatient

and am very eager to actually fix up my apartment the way i want to

(which is, of course, hard when you're broke,

but EASY when you have such good friends and loved ones!)

and i decided to make them myself.

so i did.

and i'm not gonna lie,

i cried

when i painted

"the best is yet to come."

i have nothing, but everything, ahead of me.

i'm standing right in the middle of my beautiful life,

full steam ahead,

and i literally, have nothing

but everything

right now.

the best is yet to come.

ALSO.

everyone.

i decided to be a lazypants

and not prime, rule, or practice what i drew.

luckily, lazypants is apparently my style and i'm SUPER happy with how these turned out.

i bought canvas.

one brush.

(told you i was broke.)

black paint

and pink paint.

and then painted.

if you look closely at the tiny ones, you can see that my brush was obvs wayy too big.

man oh man, did that ever give me trouble.

**spoiler alert!** i also began my fabric canopy last night. aaron hung it, and it looks AMAZING, except that it needs ONE MORE DARK, SOLID COLORED SHEET before it's perfect. pics soon, i promise, and if anyone has an old sheet laying around they'll let me have and chop up, i'm accepting donations. :)

an apartment is happening

so i'm getting an apartment soon

by, "soon," i mean well, asap? and hopefully as soon as i get a real job and stop fretting about money all the time.

a real job would be a real boon to my psyche.

i'm a temp, now, and it's cool, i can pay my bills

but i'd like to sell out my "fret" factor, and actually plan ahead in my life.

but the fact remains that i need a place to stay.

and the fact remains that this place to stay is going to be barebones, at most. :)

and the ever-present fact remains that i want to move to a busier, more bustling city

so, a small investment here will lead me forward and onward to a big investment down the road.

as part of this thing i like to call "an apartment," i want to be able to create a space in which i wake up every morning inspired and capable to stride forward in my life.

i'm thinking the above three prints would be perfect in a bedroom.

 this one would be perfect in a bathroom.

and this one, a happy reminder, right next to the door.

excellent parting words as i breeze into the world.

i've loved these prints for months now, from the big harumph

and cannot wait to make them mine. :)