Welcome!

Hi. Hello. Welcome to my blog. My name is Julie, sometimes known as "The Crown Jules". I am 21, I live in New York City and I just graduated from college. A little bit more about me? I'm very high-energy and pretty loud. Some might say I have a bold personality (never fully understood if that was a good or bad thing, but hey, I take what I can get),  I'd say I have a rather obsessive attitude towards DIY/crafting/art projects... it's where I direct all this bottled up energy. Alright, maybe not an obsession, that's one hell of a statement, but definitely a much loved hobby.

Another thing about me? It's hard for me to focus, so please bare with my tangent filled posts... just a pre-warning for all you anal Annies out there. I recently moved into my Upper East Side apartment last month and haven't stopped decorating since the moment I walked through the door. It's been DIY heaven all up in here. I began my love for DIY/crafting/art projects recently, but as a young girl always loved to make things. Ever since I could remember, I've been the "artsy" type.  I'm not sure if it was the endless museums my parents dragged me to, or the fact that modern art always made me giddy, but I've consistently had a knack for the artistic aspects of life. In elementary school I belonged to an after school art club, in middle school I kept a consistant sketch journal, in high school art was my only AP class and at 16 I even studied studio art in Paris for a few months. You'd think with all this training, I would be quite the artsist, correct? Well, no. Definitely not. I would say my style is more "eccentric". Not so technical, as most of my art teachers would say. But like I mentioned earlier, I was more of a modern art kind of gal anyway. Whether it's art, crafting, DIY, whatever you want to call it, if it involves the left brain and creativity, I'm all about it. Through my blog, I'd like you all to hop on board "The Crown Jules" express, going non-stop to the DIY Kingdom, if you will. I'll be sharing my interior design ideas, art projects, general creative inquiries and anything else I feel is worth your time. I thank you for taking this journey with me and am humbled by your company. 

PS- To kick things off right, I've attached a few pictures I drew as a child. I want to give you all an idea of what's going on inside my brain when I "create". One is a picture I drew for my father at who knows what age, and the other is my very first self-portrait done at age 5.