Look, I remembered about this blog!
The last couple of weeks have been a slow burn of hectic – lots of things to do and think about and sort out because I moved into a new house and started back at Warwick for my final year and have spent most summer ignoring both of those facts. I had a couple of posts I wanted to add to this blog before I came back but I forgot. Sorry! But I will add them in due course, I’m sure. As the work load increases, so does the desire to procrastinate…
Instead, I’ll give a (probably rare) personal insight into my real life by showing you around my new room a bit. This is the first time I’ve had a double bed, the furniture is not from Ikea and, all in all, it feels like a grown up room. Or the most grown up I’ve ever had. Having said that, the best part of moving into a new bedroom is still putting fresh posters on the walls and I spent my first day here filling almost all available space with… stuff!
So this is a (frankly terrible) photo of the stuff up behind my bed. It’s an Etsy extravaganza! The bunting is from here and the posters, which you probably can’t see are film posters, are from my favourite ever Etsy store which you will see again in another bad photo further down. Even the little black frames are from Etsy (here in fact). I’m proud of this wall because the films I love are something I’ve never really expressed on my walls before, usually it’s all books and the people I love. Boring! This is way better.
This is the top shelf of my bookshelf. It includes all the best gifts I’ve been given since I started university: ghost Hedwig, strawberry Hello Kitty, Virginia Woolf (who is holding a knitted baby George) and Jane Austen, and my Peanuts mirror. Basically it’s a shelf of awesome. And I’ve put some of my favourite Philiographics postcards, which I got from their very successful Kickstarter earlier in the year. Also in shot are all the books I have to read in the next five weeks.
I promise that the picture is wonky rather than the posters. This is my map of the USA, which I bought in Italy (globetrotter!) and which is pretty useful when reading American texts, and also for Pointless. Underneath are my favourite postcards: painting of the roofs of St. Ives, the Met in New York, a bar in Houston (the second thing sent to me by my aunt Joyce after Baby George) and Van Gogh shoes from MoMa. It’s basically a huge list of all the places I wish I was, in map and painting form…
This is my only DFTBA offering on my walls, but it is a classic. It’s surrounded by mostly quite old photos of me and various other loved/liked ones. And underneath that some shots taken at the one ball we were all forced to attend in first year. So lots of photos in which other people smile much better than me while also standing next to me. Cute.
This is my chest of drawers, the first time I’ve had one away from home, and my favourite part of my room. It includes Bueller bunting, a Vagina Monologues poster, Bowie canvas (which I made from an old t-shirt like the crafter I am), Tardis and eleven, Brendan Benson postcard, Maurice Sendak poster (another Etsy find) and UK geography graphics. I just need to buy a mirror and it can be a dressing table too!
Next to that is another Etsy favourite, surrounded by more New York postcards, Frida and… more New York postcards. Do you get the sense that I still have it on the brain?
I’ve also since added a Sirius Black most wanted poster because (shockingly) there was nothing Harry Potter related on my walls! Who am I becoming? Well, except a little Dumbledore on my bedside table – I’m not dead inside!
Can you spot the blurry Headmaster?
So, that’s all my wall art. It’s all a little wonky and random but it’s also all mine. And I love it already. *cue end of the movie music*
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