Show and Tell Time!

I have LOVED planning out my dorm room...loved it! For months I've been coming up with ideas upon ideas that keep piling up in my brain, and now it's go time! Have to make all of these dreams become reality.

Slowly but surely, it's happening. And I'm proud of my work...so I'm going to show off.

Here is my blank canvas--what the interior of my dorm looks like. My bed will be the one against the window.

My bedspread. Unfortunately won't come until September 20 ):

I'm obsessed with these cute twine flowers. I've been making a bunch, and decided to string them together to hang across my window!

For the shelving above my bed, I painted the inside of various size glass jars, and viola!

These will go like so in the corner of where wall-meets-window.

This frame collage will go above my bed. The glass jar arrangement will be on the shelf and sit right beneath where the white square frame is. Underneath the light pink circle frame on the right, this frame:

 will be sitting on the actual shelf. It is a shadow box that holds all my tickets!

The frame collage in and of itself is chock full of DIY projects! Only 2 of them didn't have to be painted or altered. The clock is a dollar clock from Ikea that I took apart and replaced with striped paper I painted. Genius points for that idea go to my mom! Turned it from an ugly cheap-o clock to a stylish cheap-o clock. 

I have a few projects left to do...

1. Sew pillow cases for the throw pillows. So far I have a big burlap one, a lacy white one, and a ruffled mint one.
2. Make these as pencil holders for my desk.
   
3. re-cover a lamp shade with ruffles also for my desk.

Hopefully you could paint a picture in your head that looks similar to the one in mine! There's a lot of aspects to my room, believe me I know.

 

Here are two organization projects I undertook!

The first one is a planner. I created my own pages to put in it, some of which include: A weekly overview, day by day planning, recipe ideas, notes, a monthly calendar, etc. The pages are in sheet protectors. I can write on them with dry erase, which allows me to use them over and over again without wasting paper!

Each day has my classes and space to write homework for them.

I'm excited to stay organized!! It will relieve a lot of stress.

 

My second project is to stay on top of finances. Another idea found on pinterest, it is known as the envelope system! I created a budget for each paycheck-- how much money I will need for different categories, such as housing, shopping, food, entertainment, etc.

This project gets a binder too! At each paycheck, you put the allotted amount of money into the corresponding folder. When the money runs out for the category, you're done! No taking money from the bank, nothing. Extra money from each paycheck will be saved and kept in the bank. It's so simple and easy, and very effective! I might be a poor college student, but I'll be a well planned one.

 

Oh, and here's my backpack.

Acid wash denim! I love it.

 

It feels like all of this is just the tip of the iceberg of what I've done to prepare for college. I haven't even gotten into all of my kitchen supplies, my amazing under bed storage plans, and yada yada. Maybe I'm the only one who even cares. But I've devoted my summer to all of these projects, and I'm super duper proud and in love with them. So they got a whole blog post. Can't wait to get to college and have it all come together!