Holly Aus Hannover!

Well as you already know, I'm here in Hannover on a sort-of staycation, though I honestly have so many guest posts to edit and post on decor8 that I'm hardly blog free. Oh well. One can dream of being offline 100%! Maybe I'll take a proper vacation in the Autumn... So remember my disaster that I showed the other day, my messy living room? Well, I've cleaned it a little bit though I still need to edit some things down and move a few tables around but for now, here's my clean living room where I blog and read magazine and watch foreign films and enjoy lots and lots of music.

This is a very typical "post war" German apartment... Nothing special at all. It's just 68 square meters and no charming details or personality really... but it made it all the more so of a challenge to take something boring and standard and create a Holly space. I know what I like, and so this room is somewhat of a reflection of me. Well "budget" me. When we move into a larger apartment with more rooms and of course, an older building with lots of charm and a balcony (I want one so badly for planting and sitting on!), I know all of my things will look much nicer! I also want the mirror over my sofa to be replaced by the artwork I'm shipping over but that will happen in the new apartment. The mirror really works in this place because it gives the appearance of a second window which was my goal because I have some nice tall "privacy pines" as I call them outside of my window. In the winter these pines look so romantic covered with a dusting of snow. For now, little birds live in there and sing pretty songs.

There I am with Princess Leia buns on each side of my head taking photos. he he.

These porcelain acorns are hanging from a shelf over my dining room table, they were given to us as part of a housewarming present from our friends in Boston.

We don't have much room for proper chairs, so I use cushions when I have more than a few visitors. Cushions are informal and fun and great for fondue parties! :) I really NEED flowers in this room, don't I? I have to go to the farmers' market to pick some up on Wednesday morning. So! I'm still trying to get some energy, I am SO super tired lately but I'm not one to sit for long which I think is part of the problem! I need to take some naps or drink tons of red bull or something because my energy level has been wayyyy loooowwww for the past few weeks. In fact, it dipped a lot when we moved out on the 1st and went to Boston. I felt like I was dragging myself everywhere in Boston that we went. Now that we're here I feel the same way. I wonder if it's like some kind of physical crash after experiencing moving and the death of my grandmother and that bad fall I took where I couldn't walk for most of May and June... I pushed through all that like a trooper and though I'd made it through with flying colors but now I'm freaking EXHAUSTED. I'm still doing all I need to do and I'm VERY happy I'm here (I still can't believe it!?!) but man, I'm yawning as I type this. Very un-Holly!!! I think I'll hit reformhaus (natural foods store near my flat) and ask for some energy boost vitamins or something. Anyone else experience this after a big move???? (photos: holly becker)