the game no longer interested me.

I love crafty things and making things with my hands. I just wish there was more to inspire me to sit down and just do it. I guess having a working space would be a start! This little DIY advent calendar hanger is just too adorable. Ideas for next year!

Moving to Germany, I now have a bedroom about half the size of what I used to have. I didn’t think I would like it at first but once the bed was in, I really love how cozy it feels. It’s as if the walls help to tuck you in. I could see myself loving a space as small as this too. My own little napping closet!

I hate the term “age appropriate”… I have never understood that as children we dressed with imagination and color and textures and happiness. But when we get older, we start dressing like everyone else with far less color and textures. It’s like our desire to self-express is squashed by social pressures of conformity. I say boo to this. Happy hat on, glassless glasses on, and hell.. I might throw on a tutu for good measure!

Went on a trip to Frankfurt, Germany by train with my friend Jemimus this weekend. It was such a feeling of autonomy just hopping on a train and heading into a city I had never been before. 

I wish my spaces had a little bit more clutter. I have always kept my rooms very sparse, afraid to add clutter. But there is something about controlled chaos that makes a room very inspiring to sit in. I’ve had this idea for the past year to fill up my office with images produced by all my friends but not one item sits on my wall yet.

I dream of one day living in an urbanscape. Outside my window the view of life, a breathing vibrant city full of the chaos of people. Outside my door, the world of exploration at my feet. Human expedition!

In the house I grew up in, there was this built up compartment in the garage that was meant for storage. I think you were meant to store your lawnmower in there. My father never did so for the longest time, I got to hang a curtain and make it my own private space. I love little enclosures. There’s something comforting about being able to have a little space just for yourself. 

I love butterfly jewelry a lot. The butterfly is a beautiful symbol of being able to morph yourself from something undeveloped into an amazing creature that is full of color and can FLY!!! 

Whenever I’m stressed out, I like to look at calm and clean spaces. I have a thing for super OCD organized rooms, especially craft rooms or places that inspire creation like this one. I only wish I had a room I could craft in like this.