Miss Macchiato

Final grades have been posted online. Woo!

And another semester comes to a close! This was an interesting class, sometimes frustrating, because it’s a freshman level community college course and the teacher was trying hard to pander to a bunch of 18 year olds who really don’t understand what to do. But it was good and I’m fairly confident of an A.

Today [...]

For a long time now, Tom and I have been admiring the Blik wall decals from afar. I toyed around with the idea of putting the Space Invaders decals in our long stairwell, but since abandoned the idea because it just seems slightly inappropriate beauty-wise and also because the larger decals that would be [...]

A couple of weeks ago, my mom asked me what my school plans were for the fall. I had to be honest and say that I had been absolutely loving my time off from school. I wasn’t sure if I wanted to go back. I wanted to use every minute of spare time to write.

But [...]

I wish I had before and after shots of the kitchen, but I didn’t think to take any. Or maybe I did… but I have no idea where they are at now.

When we first moved into the house, the kitchen and dining room had the original wallpaper still up: White background with purple and [...]

Now on Etsy, buy pillows that look like Tribbles. Why?

Recycled from deconstructed clean vintage fur coats, these small pillows are high-design and beautiful but also very amusing at parties, adult or otherwise. The round shape is great on couches as a counterpoint to rectilinear design.

Dude, don’t give me your fancy talk about rectilinear design [...]

Today was the “big day” for my interior design rendering class. All 18 of us got up and presented our rooms to the class, the head of the program, and the two rendering teachers. I waited until the last possible minute and ended up being the second to the last person to go. [...]

I wanted to wait until I was able to post pictures along with this, but I think I just really need to get it out of my system: Yesterday wrapped up the first semester of Architectural Drafting.

For the first half of the semester, we learned basic drafting techniques (with pencils and vellum, not with CAD) [...]

Last year I went back to school and got a few of my art classes out of the way. I applied to the Interior Design program at my school, and started classes for the program this year. The Interior Design department only offers classes during the day, that is, during the usual business [...]