Decorating: Prettying up my wall!

A few weeks ago I went to an anime convention in San Jose called Fanime. For me, it was more like a nice, relaxing vacation than anything else but I got a couple of art pieces from the Artist Alley there that I'm super in love with. I'm not one to try and justify paying a ton of money for art pieces, but when I see something I like I know I have to have it. Besides, cats from Sailor Moon and something related to League of Legends? How could I resist?

I posted this on my Instagram. It's sitting nicely above my desk. 

As you can see, there's not much on my wall. But that will soon change. 

Here's a close up of the artworks

(By CHIKADRAWS)                                                           (By JUSTDUET)

In previous times, I've always just put up random things on my wall but I kinda want to be more conscious of what goes up now. I loved framing these two and I think all my future artwork will be framed as well. Framing just gives it a nice, clean structure and doesn't seem so random. I've talked about it several times before, but I hate decorating when I know I won't be living in the same place for a long time. I don't know how long I will be at this apartment, but I don't want to fill my wall with a bunch of stuff only to have to take it down. At the same time, I want my home to be a place where I can feel happy and be proud to be at. Over time, I hope to collect pieces of artwork that I can really cherish for years to come. Of course, I'm not talking about Picasso paintings. Let's be realistic, even if I could afford a fine art piece, I wouldn't put it on my wall. I'd rather support not-so-well-known artists that create art pieces I really LIKE based off characters and places I actually admire.

Do you have artwork hanging on your walls? If so, what do they mean to you?

Pillow Talk

I've been on an 'Interior' decorating kick lately. To be honest, decorating and making my tiny apartment a 'home' was something I was always passionate about but I always thought that this place would be very short term. I really didn't imagine that my bf and I would be living in this apartment for more than a year, because this isn't exactly the 'nicest' place. It's not "ghetto" but it's just really tiny.

But I've come to accept the fact that financially, we aren't in the position to move to some bigger fancier place. And that's okay but I definitely want to design my home so that it feels like a place I want to return to each and every night. So I've been doing some research, trying to do some DIY projects as well as purchase some things here and there to make our apartment a home for us.

I'm currently obsessed with H&M's home department. They have so many inexpensive and cool/cute stuff for decorating. And it's really all about the little things: A cute pillow, artsy fridge magnets, quirky lamps and coasters. I haven't actually purchased anything yet, but I'm planning on getting a few things for our living room. Our couch isn't very 'nice' to say the least.....it's probably the cheapest couch at IKEA currently lol. But we didn't really feel like a nice couch was necessary because we didn't want to become couch potatoes glued to the TV all day. But when guests come over, that's when I wish we had a comfier couch. Nonetheless, I figured a simple solution may be cool pillows! I've been looking all over online and in stores for some pillows that don't look too weird on our plain couch but are comfy and still add a pop of 'fun' to it. feel free to throw any links my way if you know of any good places to get cool pillows from!