completely unpacked or personalized my space. Looking around my room I noticed I had a lot of pictures. I love having pictures around me of friends and family. Being with loved ones is super important and it is hard being 8 hours (or more) away from my family and many of my friends. Even up here I feel removed from my friends. Living in the dorms last year it has been an adjustment not being 5 feet from everyone I want to see. So instead of having those people with me in person I have pictures of good times I’ve had with many people. However, most of the pictures were uninspiring, sitting on my desk and dresser in plain wood frames. My room was quite static. So this week I am taking the opportunity to make my pictures special.
This took two tries. I gathered up all my pictures…decided I needed more, went through the pictures on my computer, and printed out more, about 40 in total. I wanted to make a collage of the pictures, adding an element of fun to display the fun times. I bought photo corner stickers (essentially double sided tape for the back of pictures) and started arranging them on my wall. After about 10 pictures the whole thing came crashing down. Trial 2: still using the photo stickers, but putting them on a poster board, then putting that up. This time I took more time arranging the pictures on the poster board, laying everything out and then moving pictures over. After had all the pictures where I wanted them I cut the excess board away and hung the photo collage above my dresser. It is now the first thing I see whenever I walk into my room.
Seeing all my friends and family displayed in a way that I feel gives the pictures life makes me smile now every time I walk into my room. The fact that I took the time to arrange the photos and took the time to make them special really makes the collage mean more to me then the pictures by themselves ever did. By rearranging something small I have made not only the pictures special, but have added to the “making special” of my whole room. It is full of happy memories and warmth, something I can’t wait to add to.
P.S. My camera died so no pictures as of right now, but I will update with a picture of my collage this coming week or weekend :)
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