I am so happy for the winter to get booted out and spring to be ushered in! As a true bred Californian, I feed off the sunshine, lazy afternoons, and color. For the past 4-5 months I have all but none of these things, so I may be a little starved of all things wonderful at the moment. This DIY removable spring floral wallpaper is great for those with non-permanent housing (i.e. renters or college students) and yet it adds so much color and originality to a room! I may have gone a bit overboard by adding the 'fairy' like white flowers over the window but, hey, it's my space! Overall, try to pick more mute colors for a base (i.e. various tones of green leaves/flowers) and then add that subtle punch with a few really bright flowers (for example, the occasional orange, purple, and yellow petaled ones in the picture). I bought a few large bouquets of fake flowers at Joann's when they were on sale for $0.99 each and just broke them apart to turn them into many small flowers. Lining the flowers in vertical rows also helps create a "wallpaper effect" and to organize the colorful, natural burst that has exploded on your wall. Feel free to experiment with colors and designs, though -- just be (colorfully) inspired!

MATERIALS YOU'LL NEED:

colorful plastic flowers

duct tape 

(the thinner the better!)

GRADUATION COUNTDOWN BUCKET LIST || NEW FEATURE

Just yesterday I saw an email posted by a fellow classmate. The subject title: "99 days until graduation." Immediately after seeing it I began to seriously consider how I've spent my time at Harvard -- what I've learned, what I've forgotten, what I missed out on, what I truly loved, and how in the world I actually ended up where I am today (alive and sane). As if right on schedule, once the countdown has begun and the days are seemingly waring thin, the desires to savor and relish and love and appreciate all start to kick in and knock out any remaining practical sense we've been hanging onto. To be honest -- I've waited until the last moments to truly explore the place where I have been living, studying, and procrastinating over the past four years. And I don't mind. Or at least, I've accepted that fact and moved on. I'm not trying to 'make up for lost time and opportunities.' I'll never be a freshman again, never go to that concert that took place two years ago, never run naked in the Yard before winter finals (okay...that still might happen in another context). For now, I'm preparing to begin. To begin looking for new chances, to be more aware of what's around, to experience, and acknowledge. And with that swoosh of philosophical hipster jargon nonsense, I've decided to start listing 99 things that I want to try during the course of the remaining 99 days I have left. I won't do one item every day. I may not reach 'em all. Yet, somehow making this public pushes me to accomplish at least one major thing this semester (#senioritisproblems). I don't really know what this will look like, but I'm ready to document and detail stories for you and for myself. Check in every week to see how I'm surviving the countdown!

In the meantime, anybody have ideas/places/activities I should explore? Send a note in the comment box :)