#diroama

I made the wallpaper pattern in excel and printed it out on printer paper.

Then I cut it to size for each wall, cut out the holes for the windows and door, and glued it onto the walls (in retrospect I wish I had made the design smaller, but always learning for next time)

I also pulled up the popsicle sticks from the carpeted area. Initially I thought that I would just put felt over the popsicle sticks but when I tested it, it didn’t look good

Then I finished the interior walls with more stained coffee stir sticks around the edges and corners

And I finished the floor by cutting a square of white felt and glueing it into the pit left behind

Then I used watered down yellow and brown acrylic paint and dyed the white felt. While that was still wet, I painted yellow designs onto the felt to match Leah’s floor design. And then I painted more watered down yellow-brown acrylic paint on top to tone down the design. It matched Leah’s carpet enough lol

Next are some interior pieces that I’m super proud of!

The living room of my mid century modern room box.

I'm feeling a lot better today. Still ready to fight, and god damn terrified, but the anxiety from last night has left. I had a good day overall. I did not get a nap and that was sad but its fine.

I slept alright last night. No back pain thankfully. I woke up at 830 but stayed in bed until 9. I had breakfast and got a shower. Felt pretty good. I got dressed and was out of the house around 1030.

I worked in my studio until noon. I made another diorama, but it needs a bed and I have to wait until wither the one Sarah sent me, or mom, or amazon gets here. I think all of these daily dioramas I'm making will have tweaks and stuff over time as I get more bits and stuff. But I'm really pleased so far with the interiors. I need to get reference images for my outside scenes because the one I made is garbage. I also finally photographed my collections from the weeks I was out of town. I spent some more time editing my pictures and getting the first half on my USB and getting that ready to print this afternoon.

We had our townhall today and we had bagels. I would have rather had pizza but bagels are good too. They had that good honey walnut cream cheese that I love so it wasn’t that big of a deal. I just wanted a warm food. The townhall itself was fine, I took notes, but it wasn’t super exciting. We actually finished earlier than usual which was cool.

I bundled back up and went to talk to Don about how many posters/flyers I should print. He said 5, Meagan said 500. We settled on 25. I am still incredibly uncomfortable in the service bureau, and I ended up getting helped by the guy that makes me super nervous. I came up almost 40 minutes before my appointment to make sure my files were sized correctly. And he checked them and all but 3 were good. He made me really anxious about this though and was very snippy, like I was wasting his time.  I really should have come at 2 because he was done his shift then and Xiaohan was there and she's much more pleasant. I got the first 34 of my 52 pictures printed and trimmed and was on my way. Don let me keep them in his office for safe keeping. I knocked a bunch of his stuff over and he laughed at me.

I headed home after that.

I got home and changed but I didn’t sleep. I watched tv and laid on the couch. Cuddled with sweetP. I wanted to get chipotle for dinner and wanted to leave around 530. But I felt like I needed to go right then so I left like 445.

I went and got dinner and it was very good. I listened to a scary podcast and enjoyed watching the Crossfit people up in the 2nd floor gym I can see from the chipotle.

I left there and went to target to pick up my new cup!! It finally came. I love my grey/purply one a lot, but I really wanted the teal one too. That one will be for at work. The girl at the pickup counter was very sweet.

I had so much time to waste so I wandered around target for a while. Looked at stuff. But I didn’t want to buy anything so I headed out. I walked through the skyway and got to the dance studio around 615.

I was texting with my brother which was nice. It sounds like he’s doing okay, but honestly I don’t want to hear any different if its not true, no news is good news basically. But it was nice chatting with him.

I mostly stretched and stuff before class. And ballet went okay. I still have trouble counting but I felt a little more confident today. I still feel bad about my fat arms, but its something I'm working on. I should get one of those crazy stupid shake weight things. But I did have a nice class overall. Jumping wasn’t even so bad today.

I caught the bus home. a mom had her little girl sit next to me and I had to grab her arm from flying out of the seat when we took a turn to sharp, but she was so sweet and didn’t seem to mind.

I got home and I'm really tired. I did remember to wear my glasses tonight so no headache but I'm really sleepy. I was going to wash my hair tonight but I’ll do that after class tomorrow. I have work until 2 and then I will take a nap and then I give my presentation for thesis again. so many practices. Ugh. Its  going to be fine because it cant be anything else you know?