Hello and welcome to Mrs. Lady Renaissance. I have been MIA lately because I have been studying long and hard towards completing my comprehensive exams to receive my MA in English Literature. I am tired. My days and nights have been a blur for the past 5 months. Fortunately, I have completed my three part exam. Unfortunately, I will not know my results until the second week of June, give or take a week or so. During my time as a dedicated graduate student, I have remained insistent on working on updating my home, but due to the fact that I decided to not write a thesis, I knew studying would be something laborious in passing my comp exams and with this dedication, I knew I had to let the projects and the blog rest for a bit. Luckily, I’ve managed to create these photo ledge shelves in between. I still need two more on the other side where his floor lamp and ottoman reside, but this is the room for now. What do you think of the room so far?

The lampshade needs to be cleaned and placed on this table lamp. Can you believe this only cost about $5 at the swapmeet–and I got two–What? I’m all for deals!

The box holding toys is Noah’s favorite thing. He calls it his “secret box.” In fact, you’d often find his sister’s toys that he hides in order to frustrate her.