Hey guys.
I wanted to share this new addition to my room.
It's a corkboard map
where I'm gonna store all my precious memories from travel and life.
I'm super excited about it.
If you've seen my room tour video, you know that
I've kept my walls white for the longest time because I was scared to commit.
But today I'm just gonna take you to decorate with me.
The first step was to take out the corkboard pieces and arrange them in the right way.
This was pretty fun.
It’s kind of like a puzzle.
To decide where to put it on the wall, I decided to use scotch tape first
so that I could change it if I wanted to before committing.
Once I felt like it was right, it was time to commit.
I love that these are peel-off stickers
because it just makes it so easy for me to stick on.
I was kind of being a little perfectionist.
I wanted to get everything at the right angle,
at the right distance and spacing, just to the best of my ability.
Now it's time for some polaroids.
I did not use the camera, but instead,
I used this Instax printer that prints photos from your phone.
I thought that was super cool.
It's so convenient because we have so many great photos on our phone
and you can also reframe the photos to however you like
and then print it out, which was really, really helpful.
I already pre-selected photos to print out.
These are photos from my travels,
and I mostly focused on the people from my travels and the memories I created with them,
instead of focusing on monuments and things because to me, people are more important.
These are people that I love in my life.
They're near and dear to my heart,
so I wanted to remember all the moments of joy with these people
in all of these different places.
The exception being Milan: I decided to print the Duomo
because I studied abroad in Milan and it's a place that's near and dear to my heart.
So here are all the photos.
And now it's time to put the pictures up.
So I wasn't sure
if that was Iceland, but since it looked similar to where it would be,
I put my photo from the Blue Lagoon up on that part of the map.
I had a photo that we took from filming Picture Taipei and I realized
that there was no Taiwan on this map, because Taiwan's a small island next to China
so I decided to put this photo where Taiwan would've been.
Next is a photo of my parents.
My dad lives in Shanghai, actually,
so I wanted to put that picture in Shanghai when we went to visit him.
And this is the point where I realized these polaroids are really big,
and the map is too small, so we're just going to take up all of China here.
Italy looked so small on the map as well.
Putting up Milan for the memories.
I had a photo with my friend in Verona.
I realized that I should probably
pin the two photos under one area because they're both Italy, technically.
Next up is this photo of my mom and my cousin when we were in Japan.
It's a photo of them laughing while walking up the stairs,
and it's an actual candid photo and it makes me so happy to look at it
because I love them both so much and they just look so happy.
Then I have a photo of me and my girls having high tea in London.
I realize that just three photos take up all of Europe.
_ map will look like.
_ be able to see the map after I add more photos to this thing.
I decided to put a picture of my family on the right on top of China
just because I felt like it balanced it out, plus I had another photo of us
that I was gonna put on the California side.
By this time I realized that I have too many great photos from California
and not enough space, so I picked four: one of Coachella, one of my cousins,
one of my boyfriend, and one of my family.
And I put those four as close to California
as I could on that side of North America.
But obviously, there's not enough space
but I still feel like this looks really cute and it's really simple.
So far, this makes me really happy to look at and I can't wait to add more photos
and more precious memories onto this map.