100 Days of Wonder – #31

Ooh getting closer to Halloween itself! Here’s a picture that isn’t from Disney at all and there isn’t even anything Disney related in it. It’s the Window Decorations from my Birmingham flat from October 2022. Our windows at home now look similar! So how does this picture fit in to the 100 Days of Wonder series. Well, in two ways. Disney absolutely inspired the decorations in the flat and what you can’t see in the picture is the Mickey Mouse pumpkin ornament, a little Zero ornament that lights up and a Disney Halloween Wreath on the door. Secondly, the whole flat was very Disney. Basically all my kitchen utensils and plates etc were Disney, my bedding was Disney, my towels, tea towels, soap dispenser… most things really. The flat was a way of capturing the magic and creating a little oasis in an otherwise work dominated space. The point of the flat was so that I could work in Birmingham but it needed to be and mostly was a space where I could also escape work, set my inner child free and feel safe and in my bubble. It worked, it was perfect. And I have been thinking about that a lot as we are getting ready to sell it. It’s been making me think about our attachment to places and the strong emotions they evoke. My head knows that selling the flat is the only sensible play here but it still pulls at my heart strings. It’s hard to articulate why. It’s just a flat after all but in that flat amidst a whole load of craziness I always felt like me and like my world made sense even if nothing else did. That’s worth a lot and that’s what this tiny flat that looked as though the Disney store had exploded in it did for me. I hope it can do it for someone else now, too.