I have been so busy I can't even remember the last time I posted here. (Apparently it was April. And then before that October...) I am still working full-time at Nordstrom and have accepted a second, part-time job as a librarian at a retirement community and I am in my last year of library school. I'm also trying to have some semblance of a social life... This past month has been especially challenging because of the Nordstrom Anniversary sale. Very exciting, but also means increased stress and increased workload for the reporting team. I am really looking forward to a morning where I wake up and the first thing I do *isn't* log onto my computer.
As a treat for myself and to help make my apartment a little more filled in and finished, I've signed up for
Apartment Therapy's Style Cure. Apartment Therapy is a neat little website full of great ideas for your home, whether a teeny tiny apartment or three bedroom house. Every once in a while, they do these "Cures" that are essentially month-long intensives that help you focus on one or two problems in your home and fix them. Last January, the Cure was focused on de-cluttering and organizing your home. I was busy moving then and some of the steps were out of my budget so participating didn't really work out. This Cure has to do with finishing up those unfinished areas and working towards a unified style in your home. I'm looking forward to coming home to a more put-together space.
Each day, there is a new post from Apartment Therapy with instructions on what to do that day (or that weekend). Day 1 was pretty easy. I just had to fill out a little "style quiz". While some of the questions seemed a bit silly and I left blank (favorite restaurant?) I get that they were on there to help hone in on what style I really like best. I thought the most useful questions were focused on what rooms I already liked best. Anyway, here's
the quiz and my answers:
- List your favorite in each category: (This part was tough! I don't really have favorites...)
- Actor: George Clooney?
- Actress:
- Artist:
- Writer: Connie Willis? Guy Gavriel Kay? Neil Gaiman? Jane Austen?
- Music: Singer-song writer?
- Restaurant: New places! Gastropubs especially.
- Automobile: Classic Bentley (Or, you know, anything from the first half of the twentieth-century that probably comes with a chauffeur...)
- Movie or TV Show: Downton Abbey? Buffy the Vampire Slayer? American Beauty? Bridget Jones' Diary? Pride and Prejudice? Dr. Who?
- Clothing:
- Furniture:
- Choose three words to describe your personal style.
- Clean lines, feminine & occasionally floral, classic
- Think back over all the homes you've lived in. Which rooms would you choose as your favorites and how would you describe them?
- The basement in Walla Walla: cozy, organized, everything went together, distinct spaces, room to entertain, tidy, no "junk" just hanging out
- Whom do you consider a role model? What three adjectives describe the qualities that you admire in this person?
- Kate Middleton? Put together, Classy, Infinitely presentable
- Every home as areas that are "just right". Which three spots or things in your home do you feel are beautiful and feel proud of, right now, as is?
- Couch, sofa back table, votive candle holder, and mirror
- Porch (but maybe needs lights?)
- A month from now, at the end of the Style Cure, how would you like your friends to describe your home?
- Put-together and classy, but not stuffy and too formal. I still want people to feel like they can sit on the furniture.
I'll work on getting some Before pictures up here as well. Looks like I'll be doing some cleaning...
