A look at my decor interests.

Each month Brie and I will be posting a style board we’ve made in Photoshop or on Polyvore.com. We’ll be sharing what has recently caught our eye, the things we have and the things we would like to have – basically, whatever we think is neat and would like to show you! So, I am a bit new to making Polyvore boards, and I will admit, my first creation makes that clear. But they’ll get spicier, I promise.

Here is a display of items I will use in decorating my room this year. Some of them I already have (or something comparable) and other things I will need to buy.

I’ve always been a collector. Stamps, rocks, keys, stickers, beads, old and foreign coins. Really, the list could go on, and on. However, I have managed to narrow down those collections over the years, and what I am left with I still love – antique skeleton keys and old glass buttons like the ones you see above. I want to display them somehow in a jar or in a shadow box, or maybe by some method I’ve yet to read in Real Simple magazine.

As of yesterday, I have a record player (twenty dollars at a yard sale). Yay! It isn’t as schnazzy as the phonograph, but it does the job of playing vinyls which is great. In fact, it is serenading me as I type.

Items that I have yet to obtain are: A platform bed; they always look so inviting, nice and low, just right to collapse onto at the end of a long day. Various shelves, to house my numerous books, and a comfy reading chair, to house me. Also, a pretty lighting fixture of some sort; isn’t that chandelier cool? Oh, and I don’t have that Vincent Van Gogh painting – shucks. I think I’d have to pull a museum heist for that one.

Can you tell I like brown? I do, I do. That, and a soft oatmeal color will most likely be two colors of choice.