Robin's Egg

I have not updated for a while, it's been quite a hectic month of May! That doesn't mean I haven't been thinking a lot though! So I decided against putting up the vintage classroom map that I prowled after on ebay. Now it's just leaning against the column next to my desk at work, taunting me everyday. I think I may export it to my dad's garage in CT for the day I move into a loft and have the space to put it up in a common area.

I have a good reason for not putting this map up... it just didn't feel right. It seems like a very permanent thing to install in my rental apartment, especially over a brick wall. Everything seemed very committed about it - the friend who was going to expend his time and energy installing it for me, carrying it home for me, putting holes in my brick wall... I felt like I would have no freedom of choice to like it, considering the guilt I'd feel after a friend helped me with it, and also, if there is something that is almost as bad as getting seriously injured by a falling metal map weighing 30 lbs, it would be forcing myself to like something that I just didn't. I am a terrible faker. In addition to all this, the map is really bright. It would be quite the focal point of my room and I wasn't sure I wanted that. I want my bedroom to be a relaxing happy space where I can daydream, work, and read peacefully.

So. I decided to paint the wall behind my bed a very pale hue of Robin's Egg Blue. Then I will outline the world in silver (or gold?) - That way, I kill all these birds with one stone.

- color
- texture
- saving myself the cost of 1 wall of art/mirrors
- no danger of being killed in my sleep by falling art/mirrors
- geography

And if I hate it, I'll just paint over it. At least I wouldn't feel guilty about that. This is the front door of designer Miles Redd that I saw in Domino Magazine that I just loved. I will probably go the same hue but in a lighter shade.

I have many silver accessories/frames/lamps in my room so I am really leaning towards the silver outline of the world.

Now where can I get a projector for me to trace the world on?