all the pretty details.

before i pack my apartment, i want to capture the pretty details that have made it my own little home for the past year. it's the first place that was mine.

{photograph of neuschwanstein, a relic of my grandmother's travels to germany in the 60's. it inspired my child-mind and she promised it to me once i was all grown up with a home of my own. my grandfather kept her word. }

{the birdcage shower curtain that brings whimsy to my mornings.}

{my bedroom. this image reveals so much: the curtains my dad and i had trouble hanging and laughed over for days, the framed poster from the national concert amber and i roadtripped to atlanta for sophomore year, the monogrammed blanket my mom gave me in middle school, the quilt that christy gave me last year, the winter candle on my nightstand that i burned all year long.}

{the red coat rack that greets me when i walk in my front door.}

{the kitchen where emory and i made culinary magic all summer long.}

{the tiny table that my great-great-great-great grandfather made. it was my summer project to spruce it up and it now displays the vintage stamps that i collected in ireland.}

{the framed letter that hangs over my desk. my great-grandmother wrote it to me when i was 15 and told me that, one day, i'd be a writer.}

{one of my two special shelves. the reading girl was a gift from my grandmother the day i graduated with a degree in english literature.}

{a refrigerator full of letters and postcards from my loves all over and magnets, courtesy of colin's travels. he always brings one for whitney and one for me.}

{my coffee nook, where my every days begin.}