decor addict

we officially move in to our new place one week from today!!!

i'm happy to say we don't need to shell out big money to furnish it (been there done that last year thanks) but since we have a clean slate i'm getting completely psyched to add a few decorating details that will really make the apartment "us."

or at very least, a bit more unisex.  after hemming and hawing / weighing the pros and cons, we've decided to take the plunge and paint at least one room in the apartment.  chances are we will regret it when it comes time to move, but we're too excited to make the place our own to pass it up.  best case scenario it will be totally worth it, worst case scenario i'll throw a temper tantrum and we'll learn from experience that painting is a terrible idea.  since i already throw temper tantrums as often as i get hungry, we might as well risk it.

i am a very lucky lady to be receiving a gorgeous hand-me-down oriental rug from my grandmother (assuming it fits the dimensions of our living room).  we decided to go with yellow walls to match the marigold accents in the rug.  and isn't yellow the ultimate gender neutral cliche anyway?

maybe it was all the taxidermy we saw at the field museum last month, but i have my heart set on a cow skull to put over our new mantle.  so excited to get decorating!

pantone swatch in mimosa // cow skull // cafe lights // compass pillow // great lakes map pillow

happy hump day everybody!
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milestones are getting thrown at us from all directions

who is looking forward to memorial day weekend?

hope you all are getting geared up for a relaxing extra day off too!

if you didn't get enough graduation fun from the pictures i posted a week or so ago, we have more!  steve's little bro graduated from high school last night and we swung back to the zoo to watch the festivities.  we arrived about 10 minutes after the start of the ceremony (and had to scoot in front of a bunch of different people cloaked in our tardy shame).

apparently the new grad trend is bedazzling the f&%! out of your mortarboard with the emblem of your future college.  holy sparkles huskies.  it was surreal listening to my 9th grade math teacher retell the same dreadful joke he did in advanced algebra and hearing familiar last names of the younger siblings of alumni i knew.  as the youngest child of 3 and a former member of the choir (they sing at every graduation) i thought the 8th husky graduation i attended would finally be the last, but i have to say it was fun getting to watch with the new eyes of a semi-grown up.  perhaps #9 is the charm?  congratulations paul!

but mother of god tell me we weren't so tone deaf in 2008...  cringe.

fixing the hippie hair.  p.s. is steve's tie the best or is steve's tie the best?

grandparents!  yay!

and in case you are wondering why steve and i would be so rude as to show up halfway through the first faculty member's speech (didn't know who she was... feeling old)....

we were busy signing the lease to our new home!  we will be spending yet another year in ann arbor!  and though i can't say i wouldn't have been up for another adventure in another place, we've got lots of time for that in the future!  right now we are both just completely stoked to be getting ready to move in together!  a walk in closet, washer drying in unit, and a fireplace?  we don't feel too shabby.  grown ups ahoy!  check out our cute little one bedroom floorplan!

hope everyone has a very happy friday and a very lovely long weekend!