Apartment Pics!

They're finally here- pics of my apartment! Let me give you the tour.

When you first walk in, the bathroom is straight ahead...

But if you take two steps to the right, you see the living room...

(notice how shiny my floor is!)

One morning I woke up and looked outside and saw...nothing. Completely foggy. Couldn't even see the ground (granted, I'm on the 18th floor...but still). See the nice, white "backdrop" outside the living room window? If only this was caused by a blizzard...

My tree again. I really like my tree, if you couldn't tell. Do you see the bright, sparkly star NEAR the top of the tree? Yeah, it's too heavy to go on top. If I put it on top, my tree does the Charlie Brown tree slouch. Very sad. So this year, I'm settling for a NEARLY-top-of-the-tree topper.

My beautiful candles... my tree has only red and gold decorations. No gold candles, so I went with red and white. Figured it was classy.

more candles...

Christmas packages!!! Can you see the tree "skirt"? Someone gave me 3 santa hats...so I put one over each "foot" of the tree stand. :)

Opening one box, but not opening the wrapped things.

More living room Christmas decorations...

My bedroom (if you're looking at the living room, my bedroom is off the left side of the LR).

My bedroom Christmas tree...

My guest bedroom, off the right side of the living room...

Behind the yellow curtains is a big corner window with a big windowsill. I want to eventually get big puffy pillows and some throw blankets and that'll be a little reading nook. :)

And finally, the kitchen...next to the guest bedroom. I'm not sure I like the see through cabinets, so I use cool looking gift bags to store things in. And I decided that I want each of my coffee cups to be one-of-a-kind, which is lots of fun. :)

At the end of the kitchen, on the left, there's a little laundry nook. The washer is there along with some shelves for laundry soap and stuff. It's great.

To give you an idea of what my apartment is really like, I think the owner did a lot of the decor shopping at IKEA. I find IKEA labels on a lot of things, and the other day I was at IKEA and kept seeing things that are in my apartment (like the bedroom curtains). I love it! :)

One of my friends, after visiting my apartment, said "your living room is so aesthetically pleasing. I just want to come over and look at your Christmas tree!" So if you can't tell, I LOVE my new apartment. I want to go home all the time! It's crazy to think about being in a place for an entire year- it's been so long since I've been so "permanent" anywhere. Feels good to unpack though.

Guests are welcome anytime! Come on over for a movie night! Some friends moved back to Australia and gave me tons of bedding, towels, dishes, etc. So I'm all set for visitors!