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Saturday, October 8th, 2016 12:06:06 GMT |
I've been doing much better since quitting caffeine and my electric blanket, which I believe was interfering with my sleep quality even more than caffeine alone was.
So, I was finally able to make my very cluttered room a lot nicer to live in.
Look how clean and organized it is!!!!! ;-D
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This is the best it has ever been.
That's the especially cluttery corner, next to my big window, which features my low-cost alternative to curtains - taped together pieces of scrap paper.
Part of my office chair is visible at the lower left, and the red thing next to that is part of my standing desk.
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My standing desk still needs to be decluttered. But the rest - well, it's hard to see how I could improve on that. ;-D
Quoted from another blog post:
The smaller, more colorful picture is a Thomas Kinkade print called The Garden of Prayer, and if I recall correctly, it also was just $2 - two dollars. Found it at a local thrift store.
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The shiny silvery blue metallic map of the world was from a local live auction in 2013, and it came with with a second map of the world which is in the second-nicest corner of my room. Both of them together only cost $8 (eight dollars) total, if I recall correctly.
I think the small vase on the right is made of very tarnished copper. It's quite heavy for its size. It might have been from a Goodwill thrift store or some other thrift store, and was probably under $4 (four dollars). I intended to someday clean it and probably sell it, but I still haven't gotten around to that.
The baskety vase was probably from a Goodwill thrift store and probably less than $3 (three dollars).
In the center is a greeting card or postcard.
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Actually, maybe this is the nicest corner of my room, because of those 3 lovely little works of art.
I originally bought those world maps with the intention of selling them, but, I ended up keeping them, since I usually am too busy with other things to try to sell things.
The blue/purple/etc. carnival glass was around $24 (twenty-four dollars) from a local antique store in January 2003, and that's the most I ever paid for something to decorate my room.
The pastel flowery vase was from a Goodwill thrift store, and was maybe something like $2 (two dollars).
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Original Picture without brightness, contrast, saturation, and gamma adjusted with mtPaint
The picture is part of a 1994 or 1993 Dinotopia calendar, and the red thing holding it up there is a screwdriver.
Now I have room to bellydance without having to stand on my bed!
And, I finally know where my towel is.
Now, the world will be my oyster. :-D
My phone's camera takes unrealistically dark, dull-looking pictures, so I edited these pictures' brightness, contrast, saturation and gamma (whatever that is) in mtPaint to make these pictures look closer to (or better than) how my room really looks.
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Here's the other side of the room:
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The wide painting isn't by me, and I don't know who painted it. Astonishingly, it was only $2 - two dollars - from a local live auction!
Here's the stuff at the top of that shelf:
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Here's the second-nicest corner of my room:
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Most of the rest of that shelf:
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And part of my 3rd and final shelf:
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Finally, junk isn't constantly getting in my way anymore. I can easily open my mini-refrigerator, and roll my office chair around part of my room! I can actually walk between my bed and door!
