Small space living...

The annual Small Cool contest is underway over at Apartment Therapy. Have you ever seen this? They add new entries every day during the contest, and they're in five categories (Small, Little, Tiny, Teeny-Tiny, and International). I love checking it out each year and seeing how people make the most of their space. You can get some great organizing ideas. My favorite is the Teeny-Tiny category because it makes every other place seem huge by comparison.

This comes at a great time for me because there’s no way the DC apartment I find will be anywhere near as spacious as my place in J-town. But hey, if this girl can make it work in 312 square feet, I should be able to survive.

Quirky little souvenir

Whenever I leave the country and I'm sending some postcards back home, I always throw in one for myself. It makes a cool little souvenir. You're reminded of how much fun you were having when you wrote it, and you get a stamp and postmark from the country you visited, all for the price of a postcard and stamp.

I think one of the aunts first suggested this to me in Italy, but I can't remember which. Any takers for this good idea?