-I just have piles of hoodies. Like, I have so many hoodies
that I don't know what to do with myself.
Hi. I'm Anna Shumate.
I'm here with Refinery 29, and welcome to My Dream Digs.
But wait. Before you come in, let me get comfy.
All right. Come on in.
Welcome to my room. This is my closet.
And I have color coordinated all of my hoodies.
I have an obsession with hoodies.
This is a pretty large collection.
There's like over 100. This is the first time
I've ever, like, put posters and pictures on my walls,
but I feel like it just represents, like,
who you are and your personality.
I feel like Pinterest is your best, like, outlet.
But, otherwise, it was just like,
what are some things I've always wanted to put in my room.
I love music and I love posters and I love all this fun stuff.
So I'm just going to throw it up on the wall.
We've got Jake from Adventure Time.
I used to watch this show all the time.
And that's one of my favorite artists, Frank Ocean.
You probably know who Frank Ocean is.
If you don't, take a listen. These you'll see all over.
They're -- I just rip them out of books.
And they're, like, good sayings that you can just read
and be like, hmm, I relate to that, you know.
My best bedroom find is definitely my mirror.
That mirror is like my prize possession.
This mirror that I'm standing in right now is the infamous mirror
that all of my followers, fans, supporters,
whatever you want to call them, they all know this mirror.
I do create TikToks in my bedroom space.
Sometimes I'll be in bed and I'll create them.
I love to put my phone, like, right here.
And I shoot it this way because they get, like, the whole room.
And if I want to do something like super funny,
I have so much space to do something super funny.
This is possibly one of my favorite things in the world.
So it's a 365 jar.
And one of my very best friends Thalia, she gave me this.
There's a little description.
This jar contains 365 notes just for you.
And there's like a little key.
She's a very big person in my life.
Every time, like, me and my friends
hang out or do something,
I print out a bunch of these little Polaroids
of maybe me and my friends or just me.
Here we have the fake plants
and one of my favorite smelling candles.
Here's some more pictures of me and my friends.
I just like to see, like, the things that I love.
Like, when you wake up in the morning
or when you're going to bed, you're just like,
I love those people; or, like, ah, this is totally me,
like the posters and all that. It's pretty great.
So if you notice I don't have blinds.
The no blinds is because I love the natural light.
And when I wake up in the morning,
I can actually wake up in the morning.
Good smelling candle.
Elmo because I think almost really funny,
and I also love Sesame Street.
If my bedroom was like a character
from a TV show or movie, I'm going to go with SpongeBob
just because he does what he wants,
and he does not care. This is my own wonderful family.
This is my mom, my stepdad, my older brother,
my really funny younger brother. This is my bookshelf.
This is a nice little pride flag because, you know,
I am a part of the LGBTQ+ community.
So going to represent me and my people.
Last time I went home and visited my family,
my little brother came home from school.
And he was like, I made this for you today.
He says, Anna, with a heart; and then he gave me bananas.
And he said it took him forever to get this to, like, stand up,
and he was really proud of it. And then I almost cried.
Little Star Wars. As you know, I love my Star Wars.
My favorite one is Revenge of the Sith.
So, if you're wondering, it's that one.
But we've got the Empire Strikes Back.
It's like little CDs, you know, and you can play them.
And it's also like in a book. Pretty cool.
My Nintendo Switch light. I used to play this all time,
like, last year, and I think it's super fun
because you can get really good on Mario Kart.
Got a candle, a clock, some film because I love my pictures.
And then this little Coach hahaha Snoopy bag
is from my uncle.
And, essentially, he gave that to me when I was super young,
probably 12 or 13 and --
because I was obsessed with Snoopy.
So this is one of my best friends from back home.
Her name's Amy with my little brother, too.
And this was our senior homecoming.
My little brother is, like, basically in my friend group
back home, which I think is really funny.
So whenever, like, I hang out with them, he's always with us.
This dude is 10 years old now.
This right here is like my child, alongside with my dog.
Another sentimental thing would be my film camera.
It's pretty crazy because I've always loved photography,
but I never did anything to, like, start that and, like,
actually, like, take it seriously
and take pictures and do what I want to do.
And when I got that camera,
I literally was, like, dumbfounded.
These are my kryptonite.
I just don't know what it is about these,
but their pictures are so gosh dang good.
This is baby Grogu. It's huge and squishy and fun.
It's like how can you not love a giant stuffed animal.
This wall's probably the most meaningful wall
just because it's like most of my friends.
And then, like, the quotes and the artists,
the artists, like, super, like, really impacted my life.
So this one's like the more random wall.
But it's like pretty things, and I love it.
My friends and family will be probably very surprised
by all the posters we got going on here
because it's just like I would never go out of my way
and put those up back home.
But, here, it's like the creativity runs wild.
Got books. This top look right here is my journal,
so that one never gets open by anyone else.
I don't go out of my way
to, like, tell other people my feelings.
So this is a great escape to just go ham
and write everything down.
Now, the rest are just, like, books, whatever.
Do I read them? Not really. Do I want to? Very badly.
I have a thing where I want to do things a lot,
and I just never get to it. That's that.
These are my drawings. Some cool dragons.
There's something about drawing. It's very therapeutic to me.
It's like you're just in your own world
for however long you're on --
working on this art piece. Then there's my bed.
I think my favorite part of my bedroom is my bed.
I love the corner of it because it's super cozy;
and I can, like, really snuggle up in there.
But a thing from my childhood that's in here
is I have a hacky sack.
And I just love playing hacky sack.
My mom's been in my room back home
and here, and I love it.
Since I don't walk around in, like, my normal, like,
outdoor shoes, I have a pair specifically for the indoors.
They're my indoor shoes.
These are the only shoes that are allowed on the carpet.
This is my bathroom.
The natural lights comes into the bathroom,
so it's even better when I'm, like, getting ready.
This is like my safe space because it's the room
that makes me feel most me. I feel like being 19 years old
and moving across the country is pretty hard.
So having a space in your place that just feels --
feels like you is really nice.
Thanks for checking out My Dream Digs.
Bye, y'all.