the corner office

One thing I really like about living in Kentucky is that you get a lot of rental bang for your buck. We're really enjoying the new apartment we moved into in August—it's definitely the nicest place we've lived since getting married. The let's-move-to-a-new-apartment-every-year game can get pretty tiring, so I'm happy that we have this place to call home for at least the next three years.

And I finally get a functional office/craft room! So nice to have a space set aside for telecommuting and sewing. I wasn't planning on posting any pictures this soon because everything is still a work in progress (e.g., cord management problems and the other side of this room is a mess), but I can't hold back my excitement about these chartreuse chevron curtains:

I made the curtains using a simple tutorial for tab-top curtains from The Purl Bee. I omitted the tabs from my version and hung up the curtains using curtain rings. Didn't want to deal with a ton of yardage, so I got just enough fabric to hit the bottom of the window's apron. The medium-weight chartreuse chevron fabric, as well as the insulated white lining, are both from fabric.com—a great deal at about $7 and $4 per yard respectively, and free shipping to boot. Not too shabby, eh?

What's next for this room: put away the rest of the mess, finish and hang a wall quilt, find some under desk storage (I like these red filing cabinets from cb2), and get the Airport Express wireless printer setup up and running. I haven't been able to get it to work since we left Santa Barbara—I've reset it and fiddled around with a bunch of settings, but the last time I tried to connect it the home network slowed to a crawl and it took about an hour to print a page. I guess I'm not the most network-savvy person out there, so if anyone knows what the problem could be (cough JohnE) let me know.