Wait! What's That on the Horizon?

Apartment ho! We have touchdown. Lease = signed. Keys = mine. Parking spot = assigned. Mine, all mine (for a year at least). I will start moving things in tomorrow, and start looking for a mattress.

What I am most excited about: arranging everything, picking up decorations at Ikea, the kitchen, dancing around my new apartment for the first time.

Timely Soundtrack: "You Know I'm No Good" by Amy Winehouse.
Quote Trapped in My Head: "I only cause irreparable damage // because you let it be so // the wall chooses to fall // the back decides to break"
What I Learned Today:

Art?-Deco Madness!

Even though I still have not found an apartment, I have accumulated a fair amount of essentials and non-essentials to go in one when I finally do. Besides what I detailed here, I have accumulated:
Have:
Flower Salad Plates
Aqua Salad Plates
Kitchen Canisters
Cookware
Cutlery Set.
Sheets in Ivory and for $38.50 on sale.
A 45-piece stainless steel Flatware set from Rogers & Co., bought for $7.50.
Ottoman Set - yes, I got them.
Of course, you can always want more.
Want:
Desk Chair
This comforter set OR
This one OR
This one. - Love this last one!
Bed Frame and Set
Sun Wall Clock
Etched Mirror
Etc.
Timely Soundtrack: "Turn on Me" by The Shins from Wincing the Night Away.
Quote Trapped in My Head: "Don't let it whip-crack your life, // And bow out from the fight...Now, get back on that horse and ride."
What I Learned Today: What a Gu and a Zo are.

Ornamental, My Dear Watson

Ideas for decorating my apartment:
Place lace as a wall border around the bedroom or living room.
Get plain-colored shelves and paint them shades of one color.
Paint plain shelves in ombré style, many colors.
Use photographs and/or pictures from magazines as a wall border.
Paint plain wooden or cloth blinds with colorful scenes or figures.
Get plain storage boxes and paint them with scenes or cover them with small mirrors/tiles.
Use the sari(s) I have as wall tapestries, wall borders, tablecloths, or to cover open bookshelves and unsightly areas (such as my stereo).
Use perfume bottles as decorations - place on rotating shelves.

What I have so far:
Bedding Part I
Bedspread/Slipcover
These in teal.
These in light blue.

What I want:
Bedding Switch-out Option 1
Bedding Option 2, only with beige sheets.
Bedding Option 3
Toy Box
Handy Blue Boxes
Star Lamp
Storage Ottomans - the poor woman's furniture AND closet!

I need blue salad plates and mugs.
A bed frame and mattress (and boxspring, I think).
A TV, TV cart, glassware, flatware, lamps, pillows, curtains or blinds, office/desk chair, picture frames, art frames, matting board, toaster, cutlery, bathroom rugs, blankets, towels...etc.

Timely Soundtrack: "The Moment I said It" by Imogene Heap off of Speak for Yourself.
Quote Trapped in My Head: "...In wilderness is the preservation of the world." - Henry David Thoreau.
What I Learned Today: What a Pyrrhic victory entails.