Decorating my Dorm with my Roommate: A How To

                

               This tutorial comes to you, because of my awesome roommate, Cristina. Who decided to decorate the room =). She also added the saying "Dismiss whatever insults your own soul" to her side of the room using the say technique. The hands and legs you see in the pictures are hers =)

    Before               

After

(It says "Normal is just a setting on your hairdryer)

Supplies needed:

• Letter Stencils
• Magazines
• Pencil/Pen
• Scissors
• Sticky Tack

 Step 1: Find a wall you would like to decorate! =)

Step 2: Lay out all of your letter stencils, so you can easily find any letters you need

Step 3: Take out your magazines

Step 4: Lay out your letter stencils in the form of the phase you'd like to spell. Just do the first couple words to keep and neat and also because you'll run out of letters.

Step 5: Select pages that you like. Try to avoid white, if your walls are white like mine. If not try to avoid the color of your walls.

Step 6: Lay your letter on the page that you like and try to get the most interesting part of the picture.

*Try to make sure that all the letters are oriented the same way on the magazine pages.

Step 7: Trace the letter on to the magazine dark enough that you can see it when you take the letter away.

Step 8: Follow the traced line and cut out the letters.

Step 9: Lay out the letters as you go, so you can make sure you are spelling everything correctly and you're not missing any letters. Once you have all the letters you can switch the letters that are the same to make the letters look nicer together.

Step 10: Use sticky tack or tape to attach the letters to the wall in whatever configuration that you'd like.

And you're done! =)

If you do this send me pictures! @ mylifewithyarn@gmail.com and I'll share them here =)

Hamburger Amigurumi

               Finished this little guy at 3 this morning :) he's so cute. I didn't have a pattern, I just thought it up as I went along

My New Dorm!!

I've been so busy with packing and moving that I haven't had time to post. So now that I'm all done and settled in and classes have just started I'm gonna show you my new temporary home.=)

First things first the common room! I took a panoramic picture of it on my phone. It looks a little wavy, because the feature on my phone doesn't always work for oddly shaped areas. There's a laptop bar, a booth, and the square things on the far right are some awesome seats that have mesh walls surrounding them. All the furniture is brand new this year and each of the floors have a different color. The first floor is tan, my floor is orange, the next floor is purple, and the forth floor is blue and green.The door on the far left in the laundry room

This is my bed obviously =) The really great thing in the picture is the wall decals I got last year are back up on my wall =) I got them at target  and most of them stuck right back on without tape. You can also see my stuffed lobster and dog.

My bed is lofted like super high so that I can fit more stuff underneath. I use the corner of my food trunk to jump onto my bed =)

These are my brand new wall decals =) Got them at AC Moore and they are so pretty and bring tons of color into my dorm

My Desk =) its so organized. I used this thing called the "Dorm Space Saver" it can go over your bed, but I decided it would do me more use over my desk =) 

All of my classes are color coded and in magazine dividers. When I get the books they will also go in the magazine dividers. 

Then I have a wardrobe (The one on the left is mine)

I had half a wardrobe left after I hung my clothes so i put my plastic shelves and the canvas box with my jackets in there also.

And last but not least you might be wondering where all my yarn is =) I couldn't leave home without my yarn. It was the thing I checked most to make sure everything was there, when I packed to leave. I couldn't find my favorites shirt and that was okay, but none of my favorite yarn could be left behind. The square box on the far left is all my yarn that's at school. The bag in front of it has some of the extra supplies. I explain this bag and my whole bag system in my first organization post. 

That's all for now =) Post again soon =)