Home Happiness

Made some recently "needed" acquisitions that sweetened my last week:

• Hand Vacuum: At an attempt to create specific areas in my studio, I purchased a rug without realizing the kind of upkeep it needed. In true cheapskate style, I tried to get by cleaning the rug by brushing, sweeping, "lint-rolling"(ie: SCOTCH TAPING). All of the above took too damn long so I caved in an purchased a hand vacuum. Recently finished with it's initial 16-hour charge, it is patiently waiting for me at home so I can give it a test drive tonight. 

• Suction Fixtures: tried to stay away from this for the longest time as I've always found them kinda tacky. Unfortunately, I can't drill holes into my walls without having to go through the trouble of plugging up the holes when I move out. And between suctioning something to a wall, and drilling holes- suctioning was an easy choice. Hee hee. Thankfully the fixtures I found weren't too much of an eyesore. And now my mind is soaring with everything else I can adhere to walls via suction / strong adhesive. I currently have a small shelf in the bathroom and a "towel" rack in my closet. The bathroom fixture's main purpose is to provide me with a place to hang up a hand towel and my jammies, PLUS make use of some badly used space in an already small bathroom. The rail in the closet was a solution to hang used clothes for reuse (ie: jeans, etc). Will need to add an additional rail above that, as well as some "S" hooks for my necklaces. Weeee! Excited. 

• New Sheets: I borrowed really lovely sheets from a friend. I changed them recently with some sheets I purchased at IKEA when I first arrived here. While visually quite lovely, it feels incredibly different to the touch. Magnify that by my body's surface area. While I didn't think it would make too much of a difference, my body apparently felt differently as I tossed and turned the whole night :) So while I didn't get the exact sheets I wanted (bloody expensive!), I did get some sheets which I do think will be a nice middle ground. Never mind that I discovered I purchased a size too large when I went home, I'm excited to try them out in a few weeks. But "bloody expensive" sheets - I've got my eye on you. I'll own you one day!

I was wondering why I've recently not been too excited to purchase clothes / shoes / bags. Looks like the girlie need to shop is still there, I've just expanding the objects of my desire.