So...this sorta just happened, and I couldn't be happier!

I LOVE Order. Love it. Crave it. Have to have it. However, I am sort of a nomad, which doesn't really naturally constitute order. I have lived in 16 different apartments in the last 11 years and that doesn't include all the times I have moved in with my parents in-between places. The ironic thing is that I don't like to move and I am total homebody. But for whatever reason I rarely stay put for long. I mean I've lived in Boston, what 4 months and I have already moved. I was debating how long I am planning on staying in this current house and if I really want to 'move in'. I was going back and forth again and again and I got some really good advice from my sister and my best friend. Both said to settle down. Move in. Make it your home. I am planning on being in Boston for at least another year, and I might as well not live in limbo as much as possible. Well I took their advice and I made my room my own. I actually painted!! I should show you the before pics but they are on my roommates camera. I will explain for now. The walls in my room were this gray green grossness and the trim and doors were a nondescript tan/gray/purple color. So so gross. I painted the walls white and the trim black and made the wall my bed is on an accent wall and painted it a deep turquoise blue. SO pretty! I LOVE how it turned out. I made that wreath, hung pictures on the walls, threw rugs on the floor etc. Here is a visual tour through my new, moved in, room.

Okay Here We Go!!

Here are a few shots of the details of the wreath I made. I got the fantastic idea from a blog I love called Our Best Bites!

Gotta Love Tulle!
also, notice the awesome color of my wall...

We are now showing a few shots of the 2nd entrance to my bedroom and the closet door set in this little nook. Very black and white. Gasp! I totally forgot to show you the inside of the closet door! Its awesome! Remind me and I will add a pic.

Oh whats that you say? Zebra striped purse? Yeah doesn't sound like me does it. Well thats because that is what I bought my best friend for her Bday and I just haven't sent it yet. Hope you like it Sassafrass!! (spoiler alert for Sass...guess I should have said that before I showed the pic huh?)

See this blurry photo? I got that little rack for free and then I painted it with left over paint from my accent wall. Perfect for my scarves!


This is a close up of a corner of my room. I hung up a few of my favorite photos. Amber and I snagged that little black table from the street the night I moved in. Clothes Hamper! Notice I put a cute basket under the little table for projects and stuff. Currently it holds 3 balls of yarn I got for free. I wish I could remember how to knit.

This is another sweet gem Amber and I snagged from the street!! I painted it blue one beautiful warm Saturday. Its amazing how good creating something can make you feel! Just pretend you can't see all those cords! I only have one socket in my room...just saying.

Here is a close up of the windows! The radiator is beneath this one but I just love how the black and white just kept on going and going! Not even on purpose!

When my parents came out they brought an extra suitcase full of my stuff. In it they brought these three magnetic boards I love! Underneath it is a white bookshelf. I will have to show you the insides sometime. The cover is actually a curtain I got on sale 2 panels for 6 bucks!

This is the other entrance to my room.
Again, notice the blue wall! How can you not love this wall!?!

I picked this bedspread up on sale at Target. It was the inspiration for the rest of my room. So full of drama! I covered that four drawer tupperware thing with discount sheer polka dot fabric, perfect fit with the theme 'cause you can see the white peeking through!
I love how the wreath grounds the bed.

Remember my obsession with order? I feel like this station will really help me implement order in my life. I cannot live without a whiteboard and a cork board!
See that awesome dresser? That's the one Amber sent me in the mail!

Hopefully things are piecing together for you. I don't want to brag, but I made that mirror! I got them at the dollar store then hot glued them all together. It turned out fantastic I think. and super cheap too!

Another picture of my order wall!

This concludes my room. I will have to take a few more shots of the details that I forgot!

I hope you have enjoyed this tour of my room. We work on tips so gratuities are excepted, there is a bowl on your way out for your convenience.


Thank you!!

I'm a grown up now!

SOOO I bought a couch the other day. No big deal. Just you know a whole couch, like a sectional. Again, no big deal right? Wrong! It is a BIG deal! I felt like a legit adult, buying real furniture. Not just IKEA furniture. I got it at a discounted furniture store here in MA and I went in with like 10 mins total and ran around with a salesman and my new roommate Cristina. I'm not joking, I literally ran up and down the isles touching as many couches as I could rejecting most by feel alone. A few lucky couches were blessed with my backside for a few minutes while I tried to imagine how it would look in my place now, how it would look in all my places in the future. My roommate's only question, "Can we eat popcorn on this couch?". Haha you see you can't eat popcorn on a light colored couch. I finally settled on a nice red one that had passed my texture test (for those of you who don't know, I have a thing for textiles and some say microsuede or whatever the devil its called is exactly that, from the devil, autumn had a stuffed pig that was that texture and I would hide it all the time 'cause I hated its texture!) Anyway, it was in my price range and I thought, what the heck its fine. but then as we were walking to check out, I saw it. This robin egg blue square sectional, I approached it holding my breathe as I reached out to texture test it, and BAM! It passed! Next test was the derriere and it passed there too! My roommate and I promptly took it apart and moved it all around configuring it this way and that and sticking both couch sides together makes it into one LONG couch! It was PERFECT!! and lets be serious, LOVE at first sight! The price was above my pay range but it was such a steal I tore off the tag and ran to the register just as two women came and sat on and admired my couch! The sales lady actually told them to get off the couch because I was buying it and it was not for them! haha! A few days later my roommate and her ahem soon to be boyfriend picked up my couch and surprised me that they could get it in one load! It seriously felt like Christmas! It was all wrapped up in plastic and it was all I could do to keep from ripping it off and flinging my body on it. But like most grown-ups, my rational side came out and I decided I should probably clean the 4 pounds of soot out of the fireplace and scotch guard the thing before sitting on it. I feel as if I have given birth to a child and I don't want anyone breathing on it, or touching it. I am a freak. I barely can sit on it I'm so afraid it might get you know, used! haha I'm slowly breaking it in. Problem is that my house is so cold no one likes to be in the front room. Next purchase (maybe for Christmas?) are some drapes for the front room. I'm thinking a plum-ish type purple. Anyway, here are a couple pics for your enjoyment!

Here it is!

Look at that clean fireplace!!

Its been way too long huh.

SO much to catch you all up on! SO much it makes my head spin, or maybe my head is spinning because I have a cold? Either way my head is spinning and I have a lot to say. I don't have a lot of time at the moment, but I have moved from my first digs in Boston to another place also in Boston, this time closer to the city though. I want to show you my new place! I love it! Also, a lot has happened. I got a job-I love it!! My sister got married, my other sister came out for a visit we went to NYC (where I got to see one of my closest friends, Hi Lizzie!), two weeks later my parents came for a visit, I moved, I changed wards, made some awesome friends, went to my first Red Sox game! became an official resident of Massachusetts, got a new calling in my ward, completely decorated my room, bought a couch and tried a million new recipes. SO, lots to share, lots to expound upon, lots on the horizon, like I am going to NaNoWriMo, don't know what that is? look it up! SUPER excited about this and only 4 more days till I start. I want to leave you all with a little visual teaser, I made this last week and I also painted that wall! I know the pic is blurry, my camera died shortly after this was taken and I couldn't find my charger so I will take a better one but until then here you go! I hope all is well with everyone!