So we have a wicked cute apartment (apahtmehnt?) here in Alameda, and I really can’t wait for my couch to come so I can get totally settled and post pictures. I’m still looking for artwork for my bedroom walls, either one large piece or several smallish ones. I got some really great prints on Etsy for Christmas, but they’re still in Boston, waiting for my mama to ship them out. They’re these puffy cottony trees, in grays and light greens (click links to see ‘em! woo!). I’m excited to get them, because they’re pretty and whatnot, but I have a pretty big room here, and quite a bit of space to fill.I’ve been poking around Apartment Therapy, but all they’ve revealed to me is that I need an Apartment Lobotomy.
One of my favorite “design elements” (check me out, using the lingo) in my bedroom in particular, is a sort of hand-me-down vibe. When my parents cleared out my grandparents home last summer, I ended up with my grandfather’s high school diploma (Mechanic Arts, City of Boston, Class of 1940!), which I finally got around to framing and it’s now displayed on my bedroom wall between our TWO WALK IN CLOSETS (yeah folks, the combined closet space we have in this apartment would be considered a Beacon Hill studio, f’real.) and alongside some of my other more precious photographs and furniture and knickknackery: 
You can see the diploma up on top, and a great portrait of my mother and her siblings on the left and beach-boardwalk photo booth shots of Brian and I the first 4 summers of our relationship on the right. Below is an antique sewing machine, sans machine, that I inherited from a high school friend (hi, Marielle!) when I moved into an apartment after she sublet the summer. I’ve been using it as a desk for the past several years, and had to fight the good fight to even keep it (Brian wishes to exact vigilante justice upon it, for some reason) and it’s really one of my favorite things. Now it holds up all my little bits of fun that I’ve collected over the years (will have detailed photos later, if you even care as much about my knickknacks as I do) and just kind of sits there, lookin’ good.
Anyway. The smaller photos beneath were already in gold frames, so I got a gold one for the diploma. Combined with some gold lamps and shades, I feel like I have this whole gold-tone THING you know? So I want to continue that on the two remaining blank walls with any prints I might get. There’s a pretty cool frame shop chain here in the Bay Area called Aaron Brothers, and of course Ikea has a painful selection of framing options, so I’ve got that under control. I need artwork now.
Lately, I’ve been enjoying Gustav Klimt’s artowork. My tarot cards each have a work of his, and you know what? Dude was a gold-tone freak. So, I’m thinking maybe some of his prints: this, this and/or this? Do you guys have any suggestions for some great, framable artwork, famous or unfamous? Etsy shops? Stuff you’ve painted that I could buy? Let me know, girlfriend is in the market.