Flower Scarlet, Flower Gold

Here I am, still living in my head but liking it, I think. I’ve been trying to make my room into the space I want. The funny thing is how much I like having a small room. In my old room at the Motel, I always felt overwhelmed by the size, though I did love the window seat. But here I have my wooden chair by the window, and that is nice.

Where I always have a problem is with the wall space around my bed. My room is too small to put my bed anywhere but in a corner, so there is wall above the head and one side of my bed, which is just too much space for framed things alone. What I would love to do is hang an old window over the head, instead of a headboard, but that would be dangerous. Then I realized that, frankly, I always really loved having a canopy bed when I was little. I like my bed to be a little place of solace and hiding-out. So to combine my desire for a window with my love of canopies, I’ve decided to hang curtains on the wall at the head of my bed. Now I just need to get thrifting and find a good set. I debated using the ones that are currently at my windows…

and replacing those, but they are a pale yellow, and so are my walls, so unless I actually get the initiative to paint my room pale blue again, I’d have curtains that match the walls, which wouldn’t really create any visual interest. (I hate the phrase “create visual interest.”)

I am also kind of a fan of this:

I also want trees:

I am thinking of this for the wall at the side of my bed:

I suppose that’s all that’s on my brain. Oh, and I got a haircut: