starting to feel like home

Shaping the environment around me has always been an important part of my process when adapting to a new place.  Just ask my freshmen college roommate about floral contact paper.
With A LOT of help from my mom (window treatment seamstress extraordinnaire) and dad (curtain hanger par excellence), some homemade pillows and new lampshades, my living room is beginning to feel home-ish.  Did I mention the artwork by my sis?  And now ladies and gentlemen, I give you, my living room.

Ain't it hot??