Phase 1 - Complete!

So it has been a while since I have posted and I apologize to my 3 readers. I have had a lot on my mind, and a lot on my calendar. As a grown girl, it's funny how summer has become almost stressful due to and overwhelming amount of options for entertainment. I have always resisted the compulsion of overbooking myself or planning things months in advance, but I have finally succumbed to it. While I sometimes stress as the dates approach, when things are scheduled too closely together, I have allowed myself to accept the fact that I always feel better afterwards having following through with my commitments and happy that I have seen everyone I love.

Between all the big events; my 30th birthday, a trip to the bahamas, a weekend in the Berkshires, heaps of friend dates, beach days and Finer Thing Club meetings... I found the time to FINALLY paint my wall.

I found a couple color chips from our color lab that reminded me of a very soft robin's egg and tropical ocean - I passed them to my aweomse cousin Bobo who works at Sherwin Williams and mixed up a few quarts of what he thought were close. Byte Blue hit my idea right on the nose, and one day after a particularly distressing day at work, I came home, threw on some shorts and a tank top, moved my bed away from the wall, threw down a drop cloth and went to town on my wall with rolling brush. It turned out spectactular. I even had enough time that night to walk down to Tasty Hand Pulled Noodles on Doyers Street to have dinner with Emily and come home to clean up and push my furniture back into place. I went to bed that night feeling so accomplished, tucked into my clean bed with everything right in place and with a freshly painted minty wall behin me.

It's been almost 2 weeks where the wall itself has been a shining achievement to me and I am very anxious to get to the next step. Which is locating/borrowing a projector and outlining the world map onto the wall.

I am deciding between a few ways of marking my map.
- With small painted animals in the continents/areas they are indigenous to.
- With red strings extending out from NYC to the places I've been to, anchored by little map pins
- Basic topography markings

Ideas?

XO,
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