Saying goodbye to the apartment

Moving day is getting closer and I already started feeling a little melancholic for leaving our apartment. While packing I re-lived memories of simple and special moments we spent here.

There are memories in every room of our small and cozy apartment:



1. Watching some memorable films. We love to watch movies and I even remember crying with some of them (yes, I'm that sensitive).

2. Sharing at the tiny dining table with our friends and family when they came to visit (we loved to have them over).

3. Burning some foods. It doesn't take a gas stove to ruin a meal. I admit it, I'm a bad cook!
4. Growing sunflowers, which eventually died, but at least Ella got to see them grow.

5. ♥ We just loove this bedroom and won't ever forget it! ♥

6. Playing some games with Ella, brushing her hair and reading her stories.

We will always remember our first home and we will surely miss it, but I'm sure we'll build beautiful memories in our new house.

Already packing!

Yes! We already began packing, but we still have a few days left in the apartment so we are starting with the things we are not using lately. Like some of our books. I'm also going to pack all the decorations, Cd's and movies we are not going to use. We didn't want to leave packing for the last minute so we started already.

 

While packing the books, I realized that I want to put them on this shelf exactly how they are now, so I took a picture of each shelf and the order of the books, that way when we unpack we can look at the picture and see exactly how we're going to arrange everything.

Ella's bedroom

Ella's bedroom is her wonderland, she just loves every detail of her room, and the best of all is that it wasn't expensive at all to accomplish the room she loves so much. This room is full of DIY in which she also collaborated. From her artworks to her nightstand, her room is a place she can enjoy and knows that many of those things were made by her. 

The big artwork over the bed was made by us.

Another project of our own is the garland under the big fabric artwork. It started as a game and ended up being a decoration for the room.

On this wall we hung some of our favorite paintings made by the little one, is something like her own art gallery so she can admire her artworks and feel proud of them.

Oh! give me a home

Finally, after a long wait we've received a call from our realtor saying that the banks have approved the short sale. Hooray!! So we have to start getting everything ready. We have to make some calls, hire some people and ...uh... spend some money, (not that we're too enthusiastic about that last one). Anyways, we're very excited. 

Here's a picture of the house.

The house is dark gray with a lovely red door, which I love. Eventually we will paint the exterior, do some landscaping and many other things, but for now is OK, we will make the house look our style step by step (for budgetary reasons). 

Work from home

Everyone needs a day off once in a while. Well, for me working from home is like a day off every day. I am a freelance graphic designer, mother and now blogger, and all of this I can do it from home. I only need my computer and sit anywhere in our apartment to start working. I really like to work in an environment I am able to control, as opposed to working in a cubicle or having a schedule to comply.

If you have small children and you want to spend more time with them, then working from home  is an option. More and more people and companies are taking this path. There are many jobs out there that you can do without having to leave your home.

I really feel very fortunate I got to spend time with my daughter since the day she was born until now that she's turning 4 and going to start school.