The things on my walls (Part 1)

Oops, it's been a while! I blame my intensive uni course on analytical analysis and modeling, it was... fun.

But now we shall take a look at some things on my walls! *waaahhhh, the crowd goes wild*

I think I have a phobia of bare walls, unless they're in some big space where they add to the feeling of space, or somewhere like a toilet, where i guess it's ok to have a bare wall.. though I would like to have some artwork in my toilet, now that I think about it...

In my apartment i have a total of 17 walls (not counting the balcony, that's still a work in progress after 2 years of living here... krhm...). Of those 17 walls, 2 are huge windows, 3 are covered by built-ins (bedroom closets and kitchen cabinets), 4 are in the bathroom so they don't count, and the rest? The other 8 are covered in stuff, the things on my walls!

I will now share some of those things with you.

Here is my elephant wall. The elephants are cut out of postcards I've gotten over the years. I debated with myself about what animal would be the star, other ideas were horse, bird and i-forget-what.
I finally chose the elephant, because a herd of elephants (or do they have some fancy name for themselves? Like how groups of crows are called murders, etc.?) looks pretty fabulous, and elephants never forget (which ties in nicely with the postcards i've received, from people who have remembered me, and also with the when-walking-out-the-door-don't-forget-the-keys thing).

Here's something i made just to fill up the wall with something for my housewarming party. I ended up liking it so much that it's been there ever since. Also, I'm probably too lazy to take down the 63 squares of paper/cardboard (mostly cut out from the Carhartt magazine Rugged (R.I.P), those free postcards they have at movie theaters in Holland and club advertisements) that are individually bluetacked to my wall.

Below are bits of my kitchen walls. My kitchen walls are one of the (many) black holes of my apartment, where stuff just randomly accumulates into something that could probably look better, but oh well.

(you should see my fridge door...)

The shelves are dutch fruit crates from the 60's and 70's and I've used old glass jars as picture frames. The recipe book was a handmade gift from my sister. The teacups are part of an ever growing collection that I've scavenged from the local Kierrätyskeskus (a recycling center, one of my favourite places).

I own about 50 pairs of earrings, some of which I've made myself (will make a post about those at some point), and they have various homes around my house. 

Most of them live on my retro tennis racquets (also from Kierrätyskeskus!) 

The rest of my earrings live on a diy cup cake stand (made out of an old candlestick and a plate) and this clay-twig-thing that I made, and the rest are in various stages of revamping.

I bought this cute owl from the Bärenpresse stall at the christmas market in Bonn, Germany for about 3 euros. You buy them as pieces of cardboard which you then cut up and join the pieces together yourself. I bought the dragon home as well, but that ones a bit more work than my owl, so will make it when I have time to actually focus on all the cutting, bending, glueing etc.

They're lots of fun to make and awesomely old school! Speaking of which... must get back to studying! Until next time, toodles!

Whoot whoot!

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