I've always wanted to make my bedroom into a real boudoir...  The kind of place that when you walk into it, you know it's not only my sanctuary but a true domain of luxury where I can entertain guests.  Yet I've never really had the money to do such a thing, and I still don't, but this time I've put my thinking cap on and threw a few little glittery things together and came up with a little piece of palace luxury on the cheap!  When I got my new bed I was disappointed with the cheap sheets and pillows that came with it.  I already had a big collection of decorative pillows, some I've made, others I bought on clearance (no less), and the colors all together never really did match, but somehow, somehow I managed to find a gold brocade and velvet patch comforter set that literally has all the colors of my pillows in it!  It was originally a set worth over $100 marked down to a mere $59.  At first I wasn't going to go for the set, wondering if maybe it was put on clearance because someone had exchanged it for something else or maybe the comforter itself had some flaws in it.  On the contrary, I was assured it had not been opened before and that it was in tip-top shape.  So I grabbed it, took it home, fell in love, and all the pieces of my boudoir fell into place.  Seriously.  I love it when that happens.  When while decorating your home you can match your old decor with the new as if it was all meant to be.  And I think it was.  I had left over curtain sheers and a valance and I just whipped that up into a makeshift canopy.  I even hung up this little golden half moon man in the middle of the cieling and he casts lovely shadows, like having my own little crescant moon in my own private heaven.

You'll also notice here that I finally purchased my print of the Bayswater Omnibus and, for now, I posted it on my wall without a frame (frames are expensive!) surrounded by small Mucha prints framed in gold.  On the opposite wall, near my closet, I have a print of Zodiaque Le Taureau by Johfra a mysterious artist who is so elusive that there isn't much on him online (I should know because I just spent the last hour trying to find something, anything on him and all I got is a link to a French site selling prints).  So now whenever anyone walks into my boudoir, they're bound to have an experience.  I make everything as romantic as possible.  Now I sleep in such perfect slumber...

Maybe too much.  I'm still sick with a sinus infection and the medication I'm on to clear it up is making me drowsey to the point where I'm not much use to anyone, including myself.  I keep nodding off here and there to the point of such frustration, I'm left feeling such terrible defeat and isolation.  As well as making myself lonely because by the time I wake up, there's no one to see and nothing much to do in the middle of the night or early morning.  I actually forced myself outside today and experienced a slight panic attack on the way to the computer lab because I was just so anxious to get online so I can share my thoughts.  I hate having an anxiety disorder, but it does make me appreciate the days I don't have freak-outs. 

Another thing I'm most proud of about my new apartment now is I found a place to hang up my fox tapestry.  I had this big blank wall in the livingroom area.  I wasn't sure if the colors where going to be just right.  The fox tapestry had a rusty red, not wine red color to it but somehow the cream and brown colors seemed to be the right mix for the livingroom.  I even managed to match a few of my extra decorative pillows to go on the couch.  Just that little bit of wine color and that earthy green liven up my big black leather couch!

And I finally found something to go with my terrible blue and pink floral wall in the kitchen.  Somehow La Belle Dame Sans Merci  goes so well with that wall...