Mediocre Makeover

I don't know if you even notice a difference, but I'm pretty proud of myself. 

Between  carving out time for the VS fashion show, getting distracted by flipping through every yearbook I've ever had, watching wedding videos for 20 minutes (Seriously. I have no idea how that even happened. But there were tears everywhere.), and the necessary pinterest/facebook/wikipedia tangents, I managed to clear up some clutter and move some things around in the ol' bachelor pad.

You know how things have a tendency to spiral out of control and the next thing you know, it's 2 AM and you're sitting in a pile of magazines you haven't flipped through since 2006 (wait... that was SIX years ago?!). 

Maybe I am a hoarder. O.o

I moved an old bookcase I had gotten from Target over by the door and have used it as additional shoe storage (this isn't even the tip of my shoe iceberg, but it's a start). This is the bookshelf that previously housed all of those yearbooks and old magazines I felt the need to keep but haven't opened in six years.

I also cleared the scraps of paper off my desk from my last crafting adventure and busted out a decorative bowl and potpourri (I realize how old that makes me sound, but Home Goods sells some seriously yummy-smelling potpourri). I got this desk from World Market years ago and I love it! It was a great price (just under or around $100) and has done a superb job of being a desk.

There are some shelves that are built in to the walls, which is why I have parked my desk near them, but I moved an additional bookcase-ish thing over there too as a sort of arts and crafts headquarters. Things are kind of crazy on those built in bookshelves since they serve as additional desk space (the lovely World Market desk doesn't come with much for $100).

Those mugs? They're the ones from Anthropologie I was telling y'all about on the gift guide. You can never have too many! That little fella next to the mugs is a robot pencil sharpener. He's cute, but he kind of sucks at sharpening pencils, so I guess he's just a robot.

Back to the cleaning! I'm hoping to clear enough junk out of here to get a new couch and a create a wonderful makeshift painting studio in the unfinished part of the bachelor pad (aka the basement I reside in).