Image Roundup: DIY Furniture Updates

I am really really missing working on my furniture so I am doing a Pinterest round up from my craft and furniture board today to ease me through my sorrows. I love using Pinterest because it makes my life so much easier and frees up a lot of memory on my computer (since I don't have to save all the things I like). Check out my House Stuff board and my Crafts board and tell me what you think! Hopefully when I'm back in Ohio I can get back to work (and I still may be able to convince my mother to let me at her furniture).

I would love to dress my simple bar stools up a bit with fabric and paint or stain

this is possibly my favorite before-and-after I have ever seen... I love everything about their final product!

this just blows my mind... fabric spray paint!!

mod podged, book page covered table. brilliant. 

mod podged lace fronts, and then painted over. I must try this

Thoughts on home décor: Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. - Henry Ward Beecher

Where To, Mademoiselle?

Nothing gets me quite as excited as buying new books, and let me tell you, I don't hold back on pleasuring myself this way. This past spring I bought 9 or 10 new hand-held expeditions, including The Hunger Games Trilogy, TheFountainhead, Atlas Shrugged, Anthem, Partials, and a number of poetry compilations (Robert Frost, JackKerouac...). This summer I have already obtained 4 new books. Woohoo! The Hobbit (which I have already finished, for the second time), TheSilmarillion, The Martian Chronicles, and a T.S. Eliot compilation.

If this needs spelled out any plainer, then I shall do so now: I have varying interests. There. I said it. Generally in life, I consider myself a sucker for the classics: I love Jane Austen and even took a course over her literary works, I am enthralled by Monet, and my favorite color for decoration is what I call Baroque Blue. I enjoy reading the old Scottish writings of Burns, and the quietly discontenting Dickinson. However, as you can see from above, I also have a taste for post-apocalyptic and revolutionary tales. They just get me.

But what I always want to know is what else can I read? If you know of some great books that would fit in or not fit in with my short lists above, please share!

'It is said that the Hornburg has never fallen to assault,' said Théoden; but now my heart is doubtful. The world changes, and all that once was strong now proves unsure. How shall any tower withstand such numbers and such reckless hate?

What are you reading?

Thoughts on books: You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me. - C. S. Lewis

The Southernmost Point

Yesterday we took a trip down to Key West. The whole drive was beautiful and quite the experience. We didn't get to do too much, but we played on the beach, so what else matters? After reading Baseball, Apple Pie and Driving Until You're Lost yesterday by Evan Rowland, I was thinking about what it means to escape. For me it's a good book, because even traveling isn't wholly an escape to me since every experience I have is crucial to staying creative.

So here is the photo evidence:

I spent much of the day reading. What's more of an escape than feeling as though your on the beaches of a completely different world?

What do you do to 'escape' everyday life?

Thoughts on escaping: No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality. ― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

Sexy Books

Well today is another day for poems, my friends. These are a few that I have written in the past month and are mostly about relationships and self-reflection. I mostly write when I am having weak moments, so these really don't represent my every day state of mind. Writing really is a great outlet for me when I feel overwhelmed and hopefully they will help you too. Please let me know what you think!

I Only Need Your Love Because I Gave You All of Mine

I cannot know

what you need now,

so I give you

time.

What bigger gift

could a person

give?

Yet it scares you more.

You need to know

that which scares you

(my emptiness)

comes only from being

so full

I had to dump my purse.

Now you have

my coins,

and instead of refilling me

you run.

Can I Kiss You?

I should have said yes

when you asked

so innocent and delicate

what held me back

I had never been asked before

only pressed

by any parting lips

whose fancy may have been

what was so wrong

that I said no

not now

not any day

because I ruined your

beautiful question

of can my lips

touch yours

My Robin

I walked right along

and so also did he

I thought that the robin

was walking with me

but it seemed when I moved

so also must he

until I moved too much

to stay comfortably

then he fluttered away

my robin from me.

#6

How do I look when I'm mad?

Only you'd really know.

Do I look like a child,

a girl who can't have her way

or do I just look tired

of arguing all the same?

What about when I'm depressed?

Are my eyes all puffy

after hours of crying

and your gentle hand on my back

and soft song over my fears?

On the Same Page

Your hand is around

the top of my hip

but you're grabbing

me like a book.

Flinging open the cover

and stealing all

the words, the ideas,

the big picture

of my pages.

You finger the leafs

with soaking, trembling hands

that rush

to the corners

as you smile

at me trembling too.

Your eyes melt 

the print with speed

as you consume

every breath

that ever held air

in my plot.

I am used and beaten

and tattered

but your body knows

that inside of me

is still

the same story.

About poetry: A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. - Robert Frost