the one where I get crafty

This year I moved into a new apartment and I changed roommates. I had been living with the same two girls for the past two years and we had everything covered in our apartment: furniture, decor, dishes, electronics, etc. Since that all changed, my new roomie and I needed to fill in the gaps and make our apartment a home, but do it without huge costs. I mean, we are poor college students. I asked my family and friends for weeks if they had any furniture they would sell/give to me, but alas nothing came up. Luckily, Makenzie (my roommate) was able to get some free furniture from her grandparents and her boss and my brother got married so he gave me his old kitchen stuff. My sister had given me some things the previous year, such as a tv, entertainment center, and dresser. When we moved in, it seemed we were set.

And we were...except for the decor part. You should see our living room: beige walls, beige couch, beige recliners, beige papasan chair. I thought I might go insane if we didn't incorporate a little bit of color into our life. So that's when I started searching...thank goodness for Google. I wanted to paint something, but the trick is I'm not creative enough to come up with ideas on my own. So I googled canvas painting images and saw something really adorable that I couldn't wait to paint! I got the OK from Mak and off to Hobby Lobby I went! It was a pretty simple project, I just bought two canvases (canvai? what's the plural?), some brown paint (I had the other colors), and found some old magazines for the leaves. It took me a few days to complete the project and I'm really happy with how it turned out. Let me know what you think!



My artwork!