1) Cute-ify a funky old desk and set it up in my kitchen. For instance, this awesome refurb from
J.Caroline's blog:

2) Sock Monkeys! Target has cool socks right now that would make some badass monkeys. Here's a sweet tutorial on
Urban Threads for making a stripey sock monkey. I think mine will be wearing buttons.

3) Finally, this is a project that really speaks to me:
Week in the Life Project from
Ali Edwards's blog { A }. The idea is to take pictures every day and record the lovely things that happen on ordinary days that should be remembered, or as Ali says, "
document the imperfect normalness of your existence." Cool. Specifically, I want to create my own version of Ali's
mixed-up-mini notebook thingy as a way to get started. I'll post a picture of what my first attempt looks like! xo melissa