University Packing List (Decor is fun.)

My Internet has been acting up to no end recently, so in the times when it is too slow for me to bear, I've taken to writing lists and lists, (nothing new,) of things I'm packing and planning to bring to uni. My best friend Lizzy leaves at the end of this week, so her packing has gotten me packing. We plan to have our last hangout on Saturday night watching Disney movies, eating cheese, and crying so hard our tears will flood hong kong. (loljk they would just evaporate in this heat anyway.)

One of my lists was "Decorations for Uni room," because I'm a sucker for personalizing and making things I own pretty: naturally, my own room will be the biggest victim of this.

Lately, I have become obsessed with decorative jars. I found this project on Designsponge and having seen the collections of cute jars available for cheap at Japanhome, have decided to attempt this. Even if this doesn't work, (probably, as even if I use candles, I suck at DIY,) I can use jars to store my ridiculous stationary collection and other things.

I have also, this summer, been slowly polaroid-ing photos on photoshop, because I am a great dirty cheat don't actually own a polaroid camera. Instead, I edit photos onto polaroids and get them printed as such, which works out well for me, as it means I can stalk myself back into 2009 on Facebook and choose photos which have attached to them fond memories, (aka photos I don't look hideous in.) I know it's such a cliché thing to have loads of photos up but I really love it, not just for the ooh-look-how-many-friends-and-fun-times-I-have showing off factor, but because It'll be a nice reminder of home and oh-my-god-I'm-becoming-nostalgic-already.

I've got a few sets of fairylights that will be coming with me, just to cement my room as a hipster-tumblr-room, (caught. I do actually spend so long lurking the decor tag on there.) So whilst those are sorted, all that I have to do is go down to Happy Valley and get my "polaroids" developed and buy jars to paint and decorate. I can't believe I still have over a month, that's so long. (My dad has said we'll probably book a flight for the 30th as he can't get work leave. Move-in day is 1st October. I foresee a few hectic days.)

And now my best friend is leaving and me and Es are planning the most amazing week as her last week. I guess a month seems like a super long time, but it might go by really fast as it's going to be my last month "home." Or maybe not, as, you know, whenever you look forward to something, time seems to just creep. And I'll have finished Game of Thrones by tomorrow - if the rest of the episodes download - so I don't even have anything to watch. Fuck.