My Trip to the Inauguration

I am so full with joy and have so many stories that I want to share with you all about the inauguration! Perhaps the best way to summarize the trip is post in segments. Over the course of the next week, I'll add various memories in this order:


I. On the Way

II. Visit to Monticello

III. Inauguration Day














































IV. Returning Home

Time for a Reenactment!

I love...love...love...this movie! Tomorrow I begin my own Get On The Bus experience. My trip to the inaugual will start in the parking lot of the African American Museum of Iowa in Cedar Rapids. I want to document this entire experience.

Let's keep our fingers crossed that my camera's battery lasts.

Lest We Forget

I love this new cover...

 1. Barack Obama
 2. Michelle Obama
 3. Martin Luther King Jr.
 4. Thurgood Marshall
 5. Rosa Parks
 6. Barbara Jordan
 7. Cynthia Wesley
 8. Carole Robertson
 9. Denise McNair
10. Addie Mae Collins
11. Emmett Till
12. Susan B. Anthony
13. C.T. Vivian
14. James Meredith
15. Homer Plessy
16. Harvey Milk
17. Ida B. Wells
18. Malcolm X
19. Bayard Rustin
20. John Lewis
21. Mahatma Gandhi
22. Abraham Lincoln
23. Frederick Douglass
24. Cesar Chavez
25. Sojourner Truth
26. Nelson Mandela
27. Stephen Biko
28. Oliver Brown (Brown v. Board of Education)
29. Chief Joseph
30. Lyndon Johnson
31. Medgar Evers
32. Rev. James Reeb
33. Fred Shuttleworth
34. W.E.B. Du Bois
35. Ralph Abernathy
36. Viola Gregg Liuzzo
37. Marcus Garvey
38. Andrew Goodman
39. James Chaney
40. Michael Schwerner
41. John Brown
42. Jackie Robinson
43. Dolores Huerta
44. Mary White Ovington
45. William Lloyd Garrison
46. Wang Dan
47. Stephen Samuel Wise
48. Harriet Tubman
49. Dred Scott
50. Booker T. Washington
51. David Richmond (and)52. Joseph McNeil (Greensboro Four)
53. Martin Delany
54. The Little Rock Nine
55. William Still
56. Thomas Garrett
57. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
58. Samuel Burris
59. Thomas Paine
60. Abigail Kelley Foster
61. Jesse Jackson
62. Eugene V. Debs
63. Lucretia Mott
64. Paul Robeson
65. Henry David Thoreau
66. Shirley Chisholm

Credit: The Nation

My "Minimalist" Apartment

Here's my attempt at making the coffee table from magazines...first leg!

I like this...

Credit: Apartment Therapy

These little stands are made of magazines. I will try to make a coffee table. 

Ideal Design

So many of you may have noticed that "more than a passing notice" has been dead for several months. I lost my drive during the first semester of grad school. My head of swimming with all this "what if" stuff. Well, most of the "what ifs" happened and now it's time for me to get my head of out the clouds and back in touch with reality.



With that said, as the new semester begins I find myself in the same place that I usually am at the beginning of things--Thoroughly excited about organizing and preparing for new challenges.

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(Image Credit: http://environmentdebate.wordpress.com/2007/09/)

I love watching HGTV and designing spaces (in my head). My university apartment does not have the beloved channel so this is my compromise.

My new project is to use this blog to work on my space...room by room. Considering my apartment's current style is pretty...hmmmm minimalist, this yields numerous opportunities for new posts ;-D.

I'm going to post interesting design and style elements as I come across them. My apt, my way.