I've been wanting a full-length mirror for a while, and mentioned it in passing while taking a walk with my mom and grandma yesterday- A couple of hours later, my dad finds one with a nice wooden fram on the street(or in the lobby of my building, not sure)! It's big and totally cool. "Funny how that works out!" said my grandma (in Swedish). Today I sanded it and cleaned it- Putting a new finish on it is too much of a pain in the neck, so I'm going to paint it white, and maybe paint something cute on the panel in the bottom. Pictures soon, I'm totally excited.

I'm guess I'm working towards a kind of dreamy, pseudo-princessy feel for my room. Girly but not saccharine, and classy. I'm not going to forsake my nerdiness (I've put away some of my plastic figurines but some are still on display). I want my room to be an oasis where I can relax or focus on work, and be inspired. I have issues focusing and tons of clutter and stress-inducing mess really doesn't help. I arranged all of my stuffed animals into a big giant pile on a corner of one of the shelves over my bed, and it's pretty cute. A good start!

Room Purge

My mom and grandma have been helping me out with a large scale purge/organization/beautification project on my room lately. It isn't done yet, but already looks much better. I had a ton of clutter and mess.

My mom scared me a few weeks ago by making me watch an Oprah special on hoarders. At first I got up to leave and was angry, feeling like she was insinuating that I had hoarding tendencies, when my room wasn't even really that bad. But she made me stay and while I was watching I got kinda scared- what if I ended up like that?

I actually came home around 8 on a Saturday to my mom and grandma completely turning my room upside down. "You came home too early!" I was alright with it and tried to help out, it was kind of a relief, actually. But all of the hustle and bustle in my tiny room, my mom picking things up and saying "can I throw this out? What is it?" started to got to me and I got a huge headache and started to get really stressed out.

However, I was able to be realistic and let go of a lot of things that I had kept for several years and didn't need or want anymore. I guess part of the mentality that I had was "what if I'll want to wear this shirt again?" even if I hadn't worn it in 2-3 years, etc. Some of the items I had a sort of obligation to keep (party favors, bad gifts...), and in general I just felt overwhelmed and somewhat helpless to go through all of the things.

My room's looking great so far and I'm really grateful to my mom and grandma. I'm still working on going through things and either keeping or getting rid of them, and organizing what I've decided to keep. My next big project is my giant bookshelf that has tons of unused room. I'm thinking of taking some books to Book-Off and a local used book store to see if they'd want to take some of my unwanted books. Okay, messy-room-rant over.

Woah new blog!

I've decided to make a separate style/beauty etc blog! I don't exactly want to post outfit shots and hairdos and related things on my art blog- I feel like it'd be kinda inconsiderate to those who are just there to see my art, and I don't want to bore anyone!

I made this hair related post on my art blog the other day.