New Art Shop

A blog that I follow, Mimi + Meg, just announced that Megan Biram, owner of Mimi + Meg, has opened her own art shop. The shop features original paintings by Megan inspired by her own boobs! Yes, you heard that right! Her paintings feature abstract elements with prints of her boobs. 10% of profits will be donated to support breast cancer.

Head on over to her shop!

My Apartment: After

Okay, for those who saw my post on Saturday on the before pictures, I hope you will be surprised with the turnout of the after pictures. A few parts of the apartment are not completely finished yet, so these will be posted later.

I am going to include a detailed shopping list later for most of the items in my apartment, because I have already had a few questions on Facebook about where I purchased things at.

Living Room

Living Room/Office

Office

Bedroom

Bathroom

My Apartment: Before

Hello everyone. Just in case you haven't seen on my Facebook page yet, I am almost completely finished decorating my new apartment (well, not completely finished. I don't think you are every really completely finished decorating anything). I promised I would post before and afters, so here are the before pictures (The layout is actually backwards because these pictures are not of the exact same apartment, but this one is the same size and layout, just backwards). It's a cute apartment located in Naperville, IL, an amazing city.

The challenge was definitely the size of the apartment. Although, there was a separate dining and living space, along with a walk-in closet and laundry room, this was much smaller than my last apartment. But, I looked at it as an exciting challenge to do something I hadn't done before, scale down. This forced me to sell my existing furniture inmy old apartment: a couch, coffee table, entertainment center, desk and side table. I purchased new, size-appropriate furniture and decorations.

Living Room

Skylights in Living Room

Fireplace in Living Room

Dining Room

Bedroom

Bedroom/ Walk-In Closet

I will be posting the after pictures on Monday. I can't wait to show everyone!

IKEA Dream Living Room

There are moments in my life when I am very decisive and know exactly what I want. But when you are pretty much handed the entire IKEA store and have to pick out whatever you want {staying within an entire budget, of course}, I get so indecisive! The issue that I am having right now is with my living room. Pretty much everything in the living room will be brand new: couch, coffee table, side tables, lamps, pillows, etc. All except a pain-in-the-butt chair that is way too ugly to even show! I will hopefully get the courage to reupholster it one day!

Anyways, back to the living room. I have been messing around with a couple of different design options, but still can not decide. I need help deciding what to get rid of, what to keep, and what to add.

By the way, only three pillows shown, one that I already have, and two from IKEA that I will be purchasing. There will be others soon. I am on my second pillow cover so far, so I am working into the ones I want on my couch!

So, here is option number 1:



Rugs, coach, coffee table and two black pillow covers from IKEA. Yellow Rosette pillow from Target. Flower wall paintings from here. Chevron wall paintings created by me.

And here is option number 2:



I am liking options from both. You will notice that the only thing I changed are the rug and wall paintings. These are my two "problem" areas right now.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated =)

First attempt at cording = Success!

Hi everyone!

I wanted to share the final product of my first attempt at adding cording to a pillow cover. Not to mention, this is only the second pillow that I have ever made! Not too shabby! I was going to also attempt to add a zipper, but I am thinking I should take it one step at a time, maybe the next one will have a zipper.

Take a look:







It even has 2 different fabrics!






Does anyone have any good tutorials to share from their blog? List them below!