Personalising My Life!

I am well and truly on the bandwagon of having a well put together bedroom, however after my room was decorated all 'matchy matchy' I felt like it looked a bit like a show room as opposed to MY room. Although I love it when people put effort into having a perfect looking room, I feel that it is important to have some personal touches to make you feel at home too. I have come up (I say 'come up' like I invented the things I am about to talk about, I didn't but hey) with some cheaper ways than buying priceless pieces of art to make you feel like your bedroom is truly YOURS (although actually, having priceless pieces of art in my room would make me feel a little nauseous and on edge). I am going to apologise for the picture quality in advance, I am taking these photos on an iPhone 4S because I don't have a fancy camera and it's easy to get my photos up using it!

Having a few things like pretty magazines and books on display can make a room look polished and lived in at the same time- I'm not personally into lots of clutter, but at the same time I don't want too many empty surfaces! This is cheap because you can literally use what you already have!

I keep my Lauren Conrad Beauty Book on top because I feel like it inspires me! Geeky but true...

FUNCTIONAL AND PRETTY?? This is awesome because it holds my jewellery, looks pretty and is hung on the wall so I don't need to have something to put it on... Like the thinking behind this!

I am an absolute sucker for cheesy quotes, it's terrible but I can't help it! My Dad bought me this and it looks lovely too which is a bonus!

Having photos of your family can make a room more homely, and frames like this can be bought really cheaply at places like Matalan or Home Bargains! I used old photos because I don't have any recent ones printed now we live in the Facebook generation where nobody prints photos!

This is a really small 8x10 frame and it was around 50p in IKEA when I bought it, I just filled it with photos that are small but have a stupid amount of background that isn't really needed. 

More photoframes, pretty self explanatory! The middle frame has a Welsh flag in it because I'm Welsh!

This is something I'm quite proud of to be honest... You can buy fancy cork boards now, or you can get a nice large photo frame, take the glass out and add cork instead to pin things to! I have a high school memory box, but I wanted things on display so I pinned a few of my favourite things up on here and arranged it to look pretty!

Again on the theme of having memory frames, some things I love that much I wanted them up all the time so I just put them in photo frames (all of which are from IKEA)

I did Camp America last year, so these two memory frames are little tokens from doing that! All of them are white because while I wanted things to look different, I wanted to keep to the theme of my room and white is easy to match frames to rather than a certain shade of wood etc.

Add quirky things to your room to remind you it is cool to be weird! (Right????)

 

I think this wire heart is meant for photos or like messages, but I use it to keep pretty things on, such as my old ballet pointe shoes, and other little bits and bobs that look nice!

That's it really.

If all else fails... Put a Bichon Frise on your bed, you'll feel right at home