When areas of my life seem a bit too out of control for my liking, I feel I must take control some where. Most likely something will be cleaned, organized, or purged. This weekend I did a bit of everything and checked a bunch of things off my list, which made me feel so much better. First off all I cleaned up the living room and got everything to right again after the holidays:
I include this photo because I don’t think I’ve shown you that I finally made up the green curtains and hang proper rods (sale the discontinued doorknob line at Restoration Hardware). I never did get around to painting all the tedious parts of all the windows in the place, and since we’ll probably get new ones soon, I don’t think that will happen. I do need to make some pillows that actually match, and try to work with that pink a bit. That couch and chair set have been in our family for quite a while and I really would like to recover them. I have some more plans for this room that I hope to start working on later this week. Oh ya, so those green curtains up there, I made ones like that only turquoise for the Ribbon Jar. I took all the ones already up down so I could properly finish them off, and to be out of the way for some painting. It was like this:
part paint, part primmer, part nothing where I had the waterproofing done, for too long. I now give you:
Ah it’s like a green paradise. Bj and I moved everything over to one side of the room while I worked on this side. Touching up the ceiling, walls, and scrubbing the floor. No, I don’t think I’ve waited the required time for the cement to cure, but I just couldn’t hold out any longer. I’m sure I’ll re-paint it every couple years any way. The black strip on the bottom is part of the waterproofing. In case a window broke, or something happened where the walls got wet, the water would go down behind this black stuff and into the drainage system. I’m going to play off the black and white for the stairs and stairwell area. I also made up curtains to hid the tool shelves in the laundry room, lined my bathroom curtain (no more shows for the neighbors), and knitted a bit of lace for the window on the front door.
I feel so much better getting all of this done. I mean I know owning a house is kind of like a never ending battle, but checking all these things off the list (while Bj read off 1300 songs for the Dj’s list) makes me feel really good. I’ll update more as I hang curtains and finish off this Ribbon Jar area for good!
Celebrating crafts, kids and the everyday through photographs.
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Be still my heart I love this basket. And since Briana asked about it, that of course means I have an opportunity to go on (and on and on) about how much I love it. Which I do realized I’ve done a bit before, but who that has seen me in the last two years or so can blame me? One of these baskets is almost always with me. They go with me daily to the post office, hold a picnic at the beach, bag my groceries or other shopping, and have even been my carry on. So to answer your question Briana, I got the first one up there at Garnet Hill a while ago (like two years ago now?) and that second one at the Container Store. I’ve also seen them at Sur La Table and some other random places . They only came in four colors or something so I got the most "wild" at the time, red. I’ve added another one to my collection because one is almost always full of something, and they’ve made a key upgrade. Before the little plastic boning that held up the sides was free to slip out as it liked, but now there are little knobs that snap into it and keep it up, love this new feature.Since getting the basket I’ve gotten a few other things from the company (Reisenthel). They have a good environmental policy, which I like. And the designs reflect that. All come very flat and are easy to put together. Smaller during transport to the consumer means they are easier to move, and have less wasteful packaging. The next things I bought were their laundry baskets.
These were perfect for when I was transporting laundry, they are very light, and the mesh part can be cinched up to close up the top. Again these came flat and I them together. Plus check out the wickedly cool green color. Yum! Then I got some of these:
Which gets the best response at checkout. Oh I have a bag, tucked right here in my Kate Spade. I open it up and Viola! Ohhs and Ahhs all around. I love like everything this company does (and I just saw they have covers for the baskets now!) so expect me to get more things of their’s in the future.Well that should answer that!
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I added captions and locations to the 2007 dailies, per your request. Kept the picture titles numbers though, because it’s easier, and dare I say, cooler.
Loved the comments on the last post. Hehehehe.
Updated my blogs I’m addicted to list over there, to reflect what I really keep up on (or try to at least).
Contemplating buying this audiobook version of Pride and Prejudice, has anyone by chance heard this version through to the end? I’d hate to buy it and not like the way the narrator does the character voices, the preview is only a clip of literature about Jane Austen. And I’ve watched the BBC version at least 20 times, so that’s the style of characters I like (new movie version = yuck).
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