New Apartment and Mother's Day

Time for a photo update!

Here's what our place looked like as we were moving in...

And here's what it currently looks like (I'm still busy unpacking, but it's come a long way since Friday/Saturday!)

That thing under the blanket is our mirror. And that cool dresser is from Tim. Someday I'd like to stain it dark, but it works for now.

Tim's desk is in the living room.

The beastly bookshelf made the move! I was thrilled...that's my favorite piece of furniture EVER. We did have to sacrifice the top cubbies, but thankfully I can still run books across the top. Currently I'm still unpacking my books (Tim only had about 3 boxes worth while I have like 12 or something crazy), and it's quite the project. I'm trying to find a way to keep the same authors together, as well as not have piles of books in front of piles of books, like I did before. However, with Tim's 100 or so books being added to my almost 500, that may be impossible without more shelving (which we don't have room for).

I finally had a place for my magnetic poetry! We're already having fun with that.

So, I love the new place. It's a good building, pretty quite, and the neighborhood is nice too. I'm hoping in a few months to have things more organized, and come up with some creative ways to organize all my stuff (especially my desk stuff/stationery/art supplies), and also get some artwork hung up.

Now for Mother's Day...Mum took the girls and myself to Pickity Place (I haven't been in years), as a little celebration for her and for my birthday. The dinner was amazing, and I was able to take a few pictures of flowers too (my favorite!).

I think that's a grody spider crawling out of this flower. I didn't notice when I was taking the picture, because I definitely would have moved to a different plant. Now when I look at this picture it creeps me out, even though it came out pretty nice.

As usual, I think to myself that I will put these through Photoshop and try to use my limited skills (or maybe the help of a tutorial) and make them look a bit nicer, but I rarely get around to doing that, so we'll see.

Eventually, I want to get like a little flower encyclopedia so that when I post pictures, I can actually tell people what flowers I've photographed.

Happy Mother's Day! <3