Apartment pictures!

I love sharing pictures, if that hasn't been obvious yet, haha. Anyways, I thought I'd post some pictures of my apartment as it is right now. It's always work in progress, considering I love decorating and changing my environment periodically.

First, the living room. Excuse the exercise bike. There really is nowhere else to put that thing, haha.

The potato box thingy won't be staying there, I just don't have a spot in mind to put it yet. Gina brought up a good point, so I may put it in the kitchen for plastic bags or recyclables. Both of which are usually just stuffed into my dining room closet out of sight, lol. And that magazing is my Country Sampler, which has soooo many photos for me to drool over.

Next, I'll show the dining area. I don't often have visitors here and it's one of the few spaces I have to keep my crafting stuff, so it's more like a work area/eat-something-once-in-a-while area. Ignore the broken sewing machine. :(

This is where I keep all my fabric, sewing stuff, and extras. That apple barrel thingy is full of hay, exelsior, and spanish moss (which I bought right before my sewing machine bit the dust, so I have yet to use). Sorry for the mess on the floor. That's where the fan sits when it's not in a window, and I couldn't fit the rest of the Poly-fil in that little stand.

Now the bathroom. I warn you in advance, the color orange kind of threw up all over the place in there, so it's reeeally bright, but I needed a change from the mismatched blue, pink, and green back in my springtime phase... :/ It's also pretty hard to get a picture of the whole thing, considering that I can't stand back far enough to capture much. I had to get in the tub for the picture on the right, haha.

I will not be showing any of my bedroom. It's a mishmosh of Halloween/gothic stuff, band posters, and a few decorations I don't have a place for yet. Basically, it needs to be completely redone, but I don't know if that's something I'll take on, considering that I move out in five months... I will, however, show you the premade wreath I fell in love with from Michael's a few years ago (can you tell I love that store?) which hangs outside my bedroom door.

Thanks again for stopping in! Seeing all your blogs is so inspiring, really. The only problem is, I followed so many of you at once, that now if I want to go back and find something specific that I saw in someone's post, I have no idea which blog it came from, haha.

Anywho, I think I'm going to go visit my great grandmother for a bit and enjoy the cold air we have today from my swing in her wooded back yard... I love it there. :) Have a nice day, all.

Busy as a bee. A very poor bee.

Recently, I decided to "treat myself" a bit and splurge on some items to decorate the apartment (while searching for a new sewing machine to no avail so far). I'm moving out in January, so it seems silly to spend money to redecorate at this point, but I want it to be a very cozy last several months. Most of what I bought that has been put to use has ended up in the dining room/kitchen area. Anything else is sitting on my living room floor to await its fate...

Forgive the boring, blinding white walls in my pictures. As I said, this is a college student apartment, so nothing too glorious, but these ugly white walls keep me safe, warm, and dry.

I'll start off with the best part of my tag sale-athon Saturday morning - my new shelving unit. <3 It might seem silly, seeing as most of you already have lots of gorgeous shelves to put pretty prim decor on, but I've never had one until now. I always just hung stuff on my walls (I know, so boring!). I'm constantly changing the decorations on/in it, considering I don't have too many options right now.

I like that kettle a lot, for some reason. And that candle (Pilgrim Candle) is the most fragrant candle I have ever owned. It's clearly never been lit, and I can smell it from across my kitchen. It's amazing. Almost everything on these shelves is a recent thrift shop/flea market purchase. New stuff = happy Jess. And broke Jess.

Next is my little tin and sunflower setup. It's simple, but it's something very new to this apartment, and I'm quite pleased with how it looks. I'm not usually too big on sunflowers, but the night I put it up, it brought a smile to my face every time I saw it there. Until I whacked my head on it when I bent down to take the trash out.

Oh, so that banana holder I got? Yeah, it now has a purpose. An adorable, festive purpose.

I kept those corn cobs in the plastic wrapping for so long, but I finally decided to be brave and break them free after a few years. I am glad I did so. It's the little things in life. This is where I ended up putting my new cookie jar, as well. I want some nice fabric to put under it and hopefully some more autumn leaves tucked in the corner behind everything.

I borrowed a small table from my great grandmother's basement and tucked it in the corner for now. I'll hold off on a picture because I'm expecting some putka pods and rosehips with cinnamon sticks from Old Country Barn on ebay, and I'm sure I'll be dying to post new pictures of them. I can't wait!

I found this crafted sack of blueberries, wheat, cinnamon sticks, and some nut I'm unfamiliar with at a thrift shop and fell in love with it. The problem is, everything in my apartment is autumn. All year long. And this piece is very summer. But it's so beautiful and I love it so much, that I had to have it anyways. So I put it up in it's own special spot above my nightstand next to my bed. It makes me happy. Again, it's all about the little things in life.

Next is something I actually gasped aloud at when I saw it sitting on the floor at Salvation Army. I don't even know what it's called, but it's old, it's wood, and I like it. I have no idea what to do with it, but I like it. I want to take off the stenciled stuff with sandpaper, but for now, I present to you... my new box thing!

I also grabbed a neat new stand for a dollar from a tag sale. It's nothing special, but it's cute, and it sure beats what I had before...

Before

After

This one actually has four legs! I had that other piece of junk propped against the wall for a year, and no one ever noticed until I pointed it out. Yeah, I'm glad to see it gone. And this new one has cute moons and stars. <3

I put that other tiny shelf thingy from one of my earlier posts in my bathroom for now. It's boring and undecorated for the most part, but it's got an adorable, recently purchased little critter hanging from it. I absolutely fell in love with this owl when I saw it at Michael's. They had "bears" (which looked like rats to me), a green owl, and others. He's so cuuuute! *squeee*

Lastly, I bought another shelving unit thingy from a sweet elderly lady at the flea market today. I also decided to put a birdie here. Otherwise, he'd just be sitting around on some shelf in my bathroom, waiting to be cute somewhere else. I also bought this little guy at Michael's a few years ago. I got a couple chickens for my great grandmother, too, since she used to have several of them yeeeeears ago. Now that I mention it, I should grab a few for myself. They'd look good here...

Anywho, thank you to those who have taken a peek at my blog or been so brave as to step in and say hi. Sometimes I wonder if people in the prim blogosphere will be kind of weirded out because I look a bit different and I'm a young hooligan, but for the most part, I'm not too worried about it. I've already talked to a few super nice people, especially Gina from Cat Nap Inn Primitives. She's good to me. :D

I do have one question to anyone who may be reading at the moment: Where do you get your Sweet Annie? Would I be able to go to a Garden Barn and find some or is it an online-purchase sort of thing? I don't really want to grow my own. Seeing how much some people use in their prims makes me assume it's rather cheap and easy to come by, but I saw one little bunch on ebay for about $15 plus loads for shipping. Yeowch.