Category: Personal

With only a slim agenda for the summer, it’s hard to stay inspired and motivated. I love to sit and read blogs all day on the couch… but what I’ll love more is having a few freshly made outfits or refinished pieces of furniture when summer’s over. So I’m trying to surround myself with pretty things, and I’m hoping they’ll remind me what I’m about, and the ways I prefer to spend my days.

This Andy Warhol butterflies print has been keeping me company since sophomore year, when I bought it at the poster sale. I hung it on my blue wall beneath my orange measuring cups: these were my “art”. Now I finally have it in the perfect frame, and it feels so good. So good to still display this small piece of art that I love, and so good to let it grow out of its college “tape it to the wall” days.

I found this mirror in the closet. Why did I put it there??! I covered the IKEA “Malma” square mirror with these “closeout fabric” stickers back in high school. Maybe I didn’t think it was cool then? But now I’m obsessed. Thank goodness I have more stickers on hand… I’m almost done covering a second one.

And this yellow lamp is too great. It’s metal, vintage, and bright golden yellow. I blogged it before in a thrifting recap (and looking back, the white frame is there too! i told you i’d use that stuff!). It appears to be missing a glass globe, so there was nothing to hold the metal shade away from the bulb. But rather than find a glass globe of the same size, I just chopped all the fabric off of an awful lampshade and have been using the wire frame in place of a globe! Perfect, and I love the light that comes from this guy.

Butterflies, bright colors, and making old things new again. Yes, I think these will be a good reminder of what I’m all about.