New Dorm Room

After three very stressful moves I finally, third time lucky found the house I'm (fingers, toes everything crossed) staying in for the college year. I've won the lottery with the lovely lady I'm staying with with have great gossipy chats and the house is an adorable little place where I can come in from college and cook up a bit of dinner, do work and chill (chilling being she just got me a tv in my room and is letting me use her Netflix, HELL YAAA!!). 

The bedroom is adorable with a skyline window looking out on the countryside and a big old bed that I'm not using to having (me, boyfriend & dog squished into a single at home). 

I learn't this year to not go crazy and bring so many things so I kept it to minimum decorations such as my candles and incense. 

 

Trying to back lightly was an extreme challenge for me but I settled on bringing just six books (that's not a lot okay don't judge), the basic college things, laptop, pens etc, and minimal make up as I don't plan to go out too much here, its my golden year here (we'll see how long that lasts).

Bookstagram

I have become addicted to following bookstagram people on Instragram who daily upload pictures of their 'shelfies' and being a book lover and someone who thinks organizing by colour is simply genius I got on board and have organised my own books into little categories.

My animal books are first on the shelf as they'r he main ones I use. After putting them in colour order I placed some of my animal ornaments around the books to emphasize this is the Animal Section. 

Although this is a mixture of books I do like this section as I love dark mysterious looking things and I think this shelf has got this. I kept my favourite books the Morganville Vampire series in order along with a Charles Dickson collection then the rest are random books.

I was worried about this looking a bit cultured as I tried to capture the Harry Potter shelf that many Bookstgram accounts have. It obviously includes the series but also any Potter memorabilia I have including posters and letters  I made, my wand and my little Ron vinyl Pop figure.

I also put my potion bottles that I collected and was given on this shelf as it adds to the Harry Potter theme.

 

Lastly my recipe books which annoyingly I just noticed aren't in colour order but this shelf is an issue as short girl problems come into play when trying to reach this shelf as it is so perhaps I will let the colour order rest for this shelf. 

Our Adventure Book: The Summer Page

I've been planning this all Summer. 

Every trip we went on I've been recording little clips and now that Summer is over I've combined them all into a little movie and put it on a disk to keep in the book. I kept this page simple as I wanted the main focus to be on the DVD so I kept with bright writing to be Summery and noted down a few of the little trips we went on.

I've planned to surprise my boyfriend with this and the book on our last day together for a little while while we go to college in different county's.