My First Apartment

I moved into my first apartment in the summer of 2004. My health was cooperating (at long last), and I was finished with grad school and ready to embark on this new adventure. It has been fantastic! Here is a bit of a tour of my place and some of my favorite photos.

The Big Tour: Living Room, Kitchen, Bathroom, Bedroom, and Walk-In Closet (oh yeah!)

A Few of my Favorite Things

One of my favorite things about my apartment is that, everywhere I look, I see something that someone has given to me. My parents gave me some key pieces of furniture, and other friends sent purple bath mats from overseas and a great Mickey Mouse colander. During the first weeks in my apartment, I often came home to such neat housewarming treasures that had arrived in the mail! Here are a few photos of some of the items that help make my place feel like home.

My great-aunt gave me her table and chairs, and then two of my Mom's cousins sent table cloths for it -- one handmade table cloth in a fall harvest theme, and one plaid table cloth in a spring theme!

The frog is a gift from a dear family friend who said that if I am ever talking to myself in my apartment and feeling weird about that, I can just say, "Hey, I was talking to the frog!" And the beautiful wall hanging was made for me by one of my friends who I met in college.