Shelves cause excitement around here

Happy Friday!! Tonight Pepa and I are putting up shelving in the living room! Yes!!! Shelves! We're having an especially exciting Friday around these parts, as you can tell.

To be honest I am entirely overly enthusiastic about the shelves. Lunch break just started and I've already spent the past 30 minutes looking at what kind of shelving I want to put in.

Unfortunately, we have a huge heater right below where the shelves will be, so I'm currently scheming ways that we can simultaneously hide the heater and work towards maximizing the space we have.

Since that wall is large and covered with boring wallpaper, I'm thinking of some long shelves that will span the entire room length.

Like this:

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Or maybe something like this:

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the second image obviously involves shelves that are broken up - which might add more interest to that boring wall. 

I think I'm kind of digging the second picture. We'll see which Pepa prefers.

But! Just when I'm started to feel like I'm obsessed with my home, we aren't having a completely lame weekend. Tomorrow is my arrival party in our friend's house. Lots of choripan, piscolas, and great company. I. Can't. Wait.

Tomorrow morning is also the farmer's market. 

We're actually having a great weekend, if I do say so myself. 

In search of light

Tonight I came home to an apartment that I'm wishing looked like this:

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With maybe a little bit of this:

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MadeByGirl

Awhile ago I bought this print:

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Sadly, its been sitting on the floor along with all the rest of my artwork since I moved to Chile.

I'm hoping I'll finally be able to find a home for it. I think it might be an over-the-bed kind of print. I couldn't love it more.

You can visit Jen Ramos, otherwise known as MadeByGirl, on her blog (madebygirl.blogspot.com) or in her shop, which I linked under the photo of her print. It's inspiring to see a woman promoting her artwork so successfully.

Feels like home

I've been listening to this song on replay for the past hour or so. It feels so peaceful so early in the morning.

After a ferocious storm during the night, we woke up to sun streaming in through the gaps between our curtains.

Today Pepa and I are settling into our new life together. After work we are finally going to finish all of the laundry we have accumulated from our travels through Florida and I am determined to clean our floors. We are slowly but surely smoothing out the corners of our little apartment and making it our own.

xoxo