i think winter is not my best time of year...

today, the world was GORGEOUS outside!

it made me soooo excited for spring.

i have some pretty huge plans for the spring.

you see, i have a yard.

it's a sad, sad excuse for a yard, however.

allow me to show you what i mean:

 this shall be my art project for a few months... obviously there will be a need for some serious clean-up. i'll need some more grass seeds. some flowers. some stepping stones. some beauty. you know the drill.

you can't see it from the picture, but the numbers of our apartment are these super lame stickers that spell 1536. i'm going to take them off and put metal ones on the space between the door and the smaller window, above that bush. it seems like a more classy option.

i'm also going to paint the door. perhaps just white again. but better than it currently is. the door is nast. they painted it with brushes. you can see black paint through the strokes from the brush. i'll clean it up and make it cuter. maybe i need a red door. or a green door. it will be better, whatever the case.

 this shall be cleaned. perhaps i'll do an acid wash or something to get rid of the stains on the cement and give it a fun, weathered look. 

the blocks here must go. or at the very least taken out and placed more artfully...

add a couple lawn chairs, a little table, and perhaps a flower box under the window and it should be pretty cute.

 i'm thinking a whole bunch of cute little flowers along there. or maybe a little herb garden. obviously only by my house. if the other three apartments want flowers or herbs, they can plant their own. i'm thinking flower boxes will be a must for all the windows. perhaps even shutters! 

 those are logs and cider blocks. they will surely be removed. perhaps i'll use the blocks that are currently around the patio area as a way to separate grass and yard from flowerbed. perhaps i will plant a tree. there will definitely be flowers, hence the title "flower bed."

people always walk on the grass here. i'm thinking some serious clean-up of branches and leaves, a pressure wash to get the gunk out of the curb, and some cute little stepping stones will make this more tolerable.

just you wait...a couple months from now i'm going to have such a cute little house and yard!