Holiday Decorating

Quite awhile ago, my friend Claire was describing the way her friends used to decorated their dorm room doors for Christmas.  They'd buy wrapping paper and bows and wrap it up like a big present.  I thought that sounded amazing, so we decided to do the same for our place. 

We have real candy canes taped up.  I suppose people could take them, but they're really old.

I, however, wasn't satisfied with that, so today, my friend Ruth and I ran around to dollar stores and bought more decorations to deck out my home.  It's nice to have little things to keep me in a cheery holiday mood as I slog through my finals.  Plus, my roommate might not be able to go home for Christmas, so I thought she should have a festive place.

I thought, since I hadn't really described where I live yet anyway, I'd share pictures of the results with all of you! 

This is the living room. The things on the windows are snowmen and snowflakes.  I miss snow.

This is the wall to the right of the picture above.  Those doors lead into my bedroom.

This is the wall opposite the first picture.  Left, out of frame, is the hallway that leads to our kitchen and our front door.  Right, out of frame, is the hallway to the bathroom and Julie's room.

The little Christmas tree in my room!

Looking into my room.

Next to my desk I have these cool shelves with glass doors.  And that painting of me was done by my amazing friend Boram as a birthday gift.

At the head of my bed is another shelving unit.  It's where I keep all my books.

My desk and the artwork above it.

Ruth and I had extra garland, so we decorated our neighbor's door.  I'm sure they'll love it.