So let's start in 2012. That was the year 12 year old me put up the giant M collage on her door. I don't have any photos of it, so let me paint a picture for you: At the very top of this door was a little paper-made wheel with four options; 'please knock', 'stay out', 'no boys allowed' and 'come in'. It was coloured in with four different coloured pencils and each word was written in messy bubble letters. Underneath this wheel was the huge collage consisting mainly of quotes, a couple of memes, photos of Taylor Swift and Katy Perry, and photos of cheezels and pringles and other logos of stuff that I really liked. All these photos were printed on paper, cut out and blue-tacked onto the door in the shape of a giant M.
This was probably my favourite quote at the time:
and here's one of the memes I used to find exceptionally funny:
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Describing my room in 2013, it was pretty much exactly the same as it was in 2012. My door was still exactly the same. I was having arguments with my mum about the corner of my room she had claimed to store an old doll house, a box of barbies and a stocking full of stuffed animals. My room had it's fair share of stuffed animals anyway though.
I had these two shelves, filled with the book series I was obsessed with at the time: Divergent, The Hunger Games, The Mortal Instruments, and a bottom shelf full of notebooks and diaries. On top of these shelves were laid bandanas from the zoo holiday programs in red, blue and yellow, and on top of these bandanas sat all the stuffed animals I couldn't bring myself to throw away. By this age I had grown out of them and was slightly ashamed, but I kept them there because I couldn't bear to have them gone. Somewhere inside me I thought that they had hearts and souls too, and that they deserved to be cared for. That's what watching Toy Story does to you.
I remember I started becoming more organised as well. I have this 3x3 pigeon hole shelf thing where I would categorise each compartment. I wrote labels in blue texta for both this and my two bookshelves, and stuck them on each bottom ledge with blue tack.
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2014 was when all the drawings came up. That was the year I started to sketch things in lead pencil, rather than the cartoony looking people I had drawn prior. Back then I didn't have a sketch book and I no longer used my folder entitled "M's Drawings", so every time I finished a drawing I would hang it on my wall.
As you can see I was still very much into books.
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When we got back from Malaysia in 2015, I had decided to have a major room makeover. I was very into pineapples at the time.
I had started using the polaroid camera my friends had given me for my birthday, so I made a string of polaroids, with pineapple pegs of course.
Above these polaroids were some DIY painted quotes.
Adding to the tumblr-ness of this room, I also added fairy lights that didn't stay up for very long.
Then there was the top of my shelf, which I finally cleared of the stuffed animals, which left me more space for other things.
The drawings also came down and were replaced by the inconvenient sticky notes instead.
This sticky note wall was forever changing. When I realised that I wasn't updating my to-dos and to-be-reads, I decided to put up hand-written quotes instead.
And then it was the massive collage, which I made straight after tearing down the M on my door, which was way overdue.
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At the beginning of 2016, my parents decided to take a trip to IKEA. I was going into Year 11 so I needed a new desk to replace the old, tiny, messy one I had at the time. While there, we also bought two new bookshelves, double the size of the two mentioned earlier. This obviously changed up the layout of my room.
As well as this, my giant collage was torn down, replaced with paintings bought in Italy and little things from previous adventures found on the bottom of my shelf, where all my memories were kept and are still kept. That's one thing about my room that has never changed.
So, how has your room changed over time?
Love,
M
This was probably my favourite quote at the time:
and here's one of the memes I used to find exceptionally funny:
*****
Describing my room in 2013, it was pretty much exactly the same as it was in 2012. My door was still exactly the same. I was having arguments with my mum about the corner of my room she had claimed to store an old doll house, a box of barbies and a stocking full of stuffed animals. My room had it's fair share of stuffed animals anyway though.
I had these two shelves, filled with the book series I was obsessed with at the time: Divergent, The Hunger Games, The Mortal Instruments, and a bottom shelf full of notebooks and diaries. On top of these shelves were laid bandanas from the zoo holiday programs in red, blue and yellow, and on top of these bandanas sat all the stuffed animals I couldn't bring myself to throw away. By this age I had grown out of them and was slightly ashamed, but I kept them there because I couldn't bear to have them gone. Somewhere inside me I thought that they had hearts and souls too, and that they deserved to be cared for. That's what watching Toy Story does to you.
I remember I started becoming more organised as well. I have this 3x3 pigeon hole shelf thing where I would categorise each compartment. I wrote labels in blue texta for both this and my two bookshelves, and stuck them on each bottom ledge with blue tack.
*****
2014 was when all the drawings came up. That was the year I started to sketch things in lead pencil, rather than the cartoony looking people I had drawn prior. Back then I didn't have a sketch book and I no longer used my folder entitled "M's Drawings", so every time I finished a drawing I would hang it on my wall.
As you can see I was still very much into books.
*****
When we got back from Malaysia in 2015, I had decided to have a major room makeover. I was very into pineapples at the time.
I had started using the polaroid camera my friends had given me for my birthday, so I made a string of polaroids, with pineapple pegs of course.
Above these polaroids were some DIY painted quotes.
Adding to the tumblr-ness of this room, I also added fairy lights that didn't stay up for very long.
Then there was the top of my shelf, which I finally cleared of the stuffed animals, which left me more space for other things.
The drawings also came down and were replaced by the inconvenient sticky notes instead.
This sticky note wall was forever changing. When I realised that I wasn't updating my to-dos and to-be-reads, I decided to put up hand-written quotes instead.
And then it was the massive collage, which I made straight after tearing down the M on my door, which was way overdue.
*****
At the beginning of 2016, my parents decided to take a trip to IKEA. I was going into Year 11 so I needed a new desk to replace the old, tiny, messy one I had at the time. While there, we also bought two new bookshelves, double the size of the two mentioned earlier. This obviously changed up the layout of my room.
As well as this, my giant collage was torn down, replaced with paintings bought in Italy and little things from previous adventures found on the bottom of my shelf, where all my memories were kept and are still kept. That's one thing about my room that has never changed.
As you can see, one toy didn't get the cut |
So, how has your room changed over time?
Love,
M