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Projects and more projects 05.12.20

Are you working on long overdue projects at your house?  When I can motivate myself, I am.  This extra room in our house has had many, many purposes over the past twelve years that we’ve lived here.  I had thought that I would turn it into an extra bedroom, which is probably what we will make it before we ever sell our house sometime in the nebulous future.  But right now, I am giving it over to Liv as a studio space.  

As you can see:  it needs some help.  For the past six months I have been cramming Christmas stuff here.  I didn’t want all of my Christmas stuff to go back into the attic, because Denton and I have many “conversations” over it when I need it around Christmas time.  Our attic access isn’t one of those handy dandy, pull down jobs.  Oh no, the builders of our house, along with all of the others in our neighborhood thought it would be better to have to drag a giant ladder from the garage every time you needed to find something you have stored up there.  Sigh.

This past Christmas I informed Denton that he didn’t need to cart everything back up into the attic, which he was very pleased about.  Instead, I am taking over our Harry Potter closet.  Which has been a black hole of random things for more than a decade.  I have been putting this task off for MONTHS.  Would you like to guess how long it took me to empty the Harry Potter closet?  Thirty nine minutes.  My life if ridiculous.  I just knew it was going to take me days, to pull everything out of there and find a new home for it.

In actuality, it took a mere 39 minutes.  Crazy town.  That’s where I live.  The shelves are going to go serve their purpose in my laundry room, which will be another project, the guitar cases went to live in the den.  Denton hasn’t notice yet. 🙂   Most of the other things just needed to be recycled.  Do you keep your boxes from things you’ve bought, just in case you need to move and you’ll need the box?  Example:  Our router and a drum kit seat.  I called Denton at work and asked him that if we needed to move tomorrow would we need the box that our two year old router came in?  No and no.  Problem solved.

I love my vacuum.  Another inanimate object that has my devotion, because it does what it is supposed to do.  After emptying out the Harry Potter closet, I vacuumed it out and declared it sufficient.  You will see later that I should have mopped it too, but I will tackle that task at Christmas when I take all of this stuff out to determine what I am keeping and what is going to grace someone else’s home.  I would have decluttered it now, but my Salvation Army isn’t taking anything right now, so I decided if it all fit, it would be decluttered at Christmas this year.

Then I started on the extra room.  I started making piles of like things.  Such as:  478 empty boxes.  I have been keeping them so that when I finally get up the energy to list things in my Etsy shop I won’t have to shell out money for them at the post office.  But they can’t live in this room anymore.

I started carting Christmas stuff into the closet…..

And it all fit!  With room to grow!  hahahaha. Now that the Christmas stuff is out of the spare room, Liv and I can start assembling her studio, which will free up a LOT of room in her bedroom.  Does your house go through transformations like mine does?  When one space isn’t working anymore, we just shift and change and make it into what works for us at the time.  I wish I could go with the flow in my everyday life, like I do with shifting my furniture around!

I hope that your projects are going smoothly!  Stay safe and healthy!  You can see all of the other projects I’ve worked on here.

What are you working on right now?

Projects and more projects

When I can motivate myself these days, I am slowly going through my giant list of “to-do’s” and crossing some of them off.  Simple things that don’t actually take much of my brain power, because, I need all of my brain power to get from waking up to bedtime.  You understand.  Everyones new normal.  So here’s what I have accomplished lately.

I dragged a shelf that I had in the garage out and put a couple of couple of screws in my laundry room wall and – VOILA!  Now my laundry detergent can stop falling off of the dryer each time I do laundry.

Don’t you love my Clorox bottle?  I found that little gem at a thrift store for $0.95 about a century ago.  Sigh.  I miss finding gems at the thrift stores.

I also found this lovely basket there too at some point in the past and it holds my wool dryer balls.  I love those things.  The basket is hand painted and adorable.  Please ignore the hair.  My hair is everywhere.  I’m sorry that you have to see that.  But, it’s a reality here in my house.  Sorry again.

I have been in the process of switching out Liv’s dresser in her bedroom for what feels like 700 years.  It’s almost ready.

I had to look back in my phone to see when I bought this beauty.  It was February 10th.  Long, long ago.  As I normally do, when I spotted this gorgeous specimen, I immediately sent a photo to Liv and said “Yes or no”.  She immediately said “Yes.”  And then I called Denton and said I need you to meet me at the Salvation Army…..He was not pleased.  As usual.  Hahahaha.  $30.00 for a solid wood, lovely dresser that has beautiful handles, that she and I loved at first sight.  Oh yes.  He came right over.  It is missing a small piece of veneer that you can see below, that I will replace later when I can actually go into a store and find some that will match.  In the meantime, we don’t care that it’s missing.

I also replaced another light fixture in my downstairs hallway.

I had found the one I wanted to put up down there a couple of years ago for $3.99 and just put it in the garage until I had a few minutes to take the other one down.  And then I forgot about it.  The other one worked, I just liked the new to me linen one that I found on one of my hunts a lot more.

Man, I need to take the vacuum to my ceiling downstairs…..Or we can just call it “Antique lace” like Hayden and Liv’s Aunty Crystal does and move on…… And that’s what I’ve actually gotten accomplished over the last couple of weeks.  I have other projects I’m working on right now, and as soon as I get them completed I’ll show you here!

Stay safe and healthy!  You can see all of the other projects I’ve worked on here.

What are you working on right now?