Hi Everyone,
It has been one more week already, but in a good way. I hope yours is going well also.
After being sick last week I was already behind on Monday but we were under the Big Chill so school was put on a delay Monday, then canceled completely on Tuesday. Miss L. was loving the schedule, but if you have ever tried to work from home with a kid of any age, you know it is challenging. Normally I will come up with chores and activities to avoid the technology black hole, but I gave up the fight this week. Luckily Miss L. has been on an Andy Grifith Show binge, so if she had to spend time watching TV I figured that was about as good as it gets.
On Sunday evening D. and I did a furniture giveaway marathon delivery session. We had several pieces of furniture that we did not need and were taking up valuable real estate in both our house and storage unit. I started just giving them away and we delivered them to their new homes Sunday. This made room for a major house overhaul that I am so excited about.
First, a beautiful old Victorian piece that belonged to D.’s great-grandparents now resides in G’s room. We have a drawer to fix and one missing drawer pull to replace but otherwise somehow this darling has survived some hard times and now looks soooooo much better in the room than the chest that was a discard from a friend many years ago. It found its way to a thrift store for its next life.
You know when you fix one thing that leads to another thing, etc.? Well, this process is affecting every room I think. The buffet that was being used as our dresser now has a new home and we were able to move D.’s dresser from my SIL’s house to our room. It is much more vertical and has more room. That opened up space for… MY DESK! Which opened up space in Miss L’s room to start moving in her “new” bedroom suite (it was her Mother’s childhood furniture that was intended to go to Miss L.). Cleaning out our storage allows us to move my son’s bed to storage and out of Miss. L’s room as well. And best of all, we can now go back to using our kitchen table TO EAT ON instead of me working at. Whew!
I’m so excited! But really tired of moving furniture!!!!
And folks, that’s not all. Check out my new baby easel! I CAN PAINT AGAIN! I can’t paint big canvases but I CAN PAINT AGAIN!!
So, I have to go now and clean up my work mess on the kitchen table so we can have a proper meal tonight and MAYBE squeeze in a little quality time with my paints just because I can. Do you hear the tapping of my happy dance?
Have an awesome week!!
Pencils, Paint & Paper 