How are you passing the gift of all of this time?  That’s how I am choosing to look at this.  A gift.  A gift that I should use to get all of the un-done projects completed at my house that have been waiting in the wings for way too long.

When I can keep my mind from wandering that is.  That happens a LOT.  I’ll start one teeny tiny project, see something else that needs to be done right NOW, and switch over to that.  So, I am making lists for myself.

It works sometimes. 😀   Here are some of the ones that I have actually gotten done so far!

I decided that I needed to get that one last piece of the landing in place so that I could put the trim back up.  There was a reason I had been putting it off….It took me almost two and a half hours to get that last piece cut to the proper width.  The length wasn’t a problem.  But its done!  Yay!  Don’t look at the stairs, just don’t.  It’s on the list.  While I had the paint out, I thought to myself, I should get that small bookcase painted.  I had bought it ages, and ages ago.  I think I may have paid around $3 for it, more than likely because it looked so bad. Liv wandered through about the time I started to paint and asked, Don’t you need to clean that thing first?  And I told her, This has been cleaned!  Pitiful little thing.

I had the perfect spot for it outside my kitchen where I had been piling my number one “to be read” stack of books, a la Martha Stewart style.  It always looks so much better at her house, doesn’t it? It’s amazing what a coat of paint can do.I’ve had one hook outside my shower for years now.  And I constantly put way too many things on it.I’ve also had these two cute ostrich head hooks floating around my house for a couple of years now with no real purpose.  Now they have a purpose…And my shower hook isn’t overloaded anymore.  This project took approximately 49 seconds to accomplish.  Sigh.

Last but not least.My dresser.  You’ll have to use your imagination and “see” this poor thing piled as high as the sky with clothes, random bits of things that did not even belong in our bedroom, because either I forgot to take a before or I deleted it by accident.  It wasn’t pretty.I have been resisting doing this project, because I knew I needed to take EVERYTHING out and do a major purge of all the things.  I hesitate to do things KonMari style because I get so overwhelmed with how much stuff I still have.  And probably do NOT need.  But I set aside an entire day and worked drawer by drawer.I LOVE having my t-shirts folded this way.  It’s so easy to see what I have and what I don’t.  I’m also going to try this with my pajamas too and I’ll let you know how it goes.I took out everything, and anything that said NO way am I ever putting you on my body again, went into a bag to dealt with another day.  Everything else needed a designated drawer or things like swimsuits that I only wear once a year went into a basket to live on the top shelf of my closet.  Why in the world I was letting them take up space in my drawers is beyond my comprehension. It was a long, tedious day, with many, many breaks for my mental health, but at the end of it all my bed was clear and everything was put away where it belongs.  Also yes, that IS another “to be read” pile of books!  Which is another project to add to my ever expanding list, because this pile drives me bonkers.  It was a great idea at the time, but I constantly knock them off and have to pick them up again.Another project I need to check with my Mama about.  I want to change out the pulls on this dresser, but I don’t know which ones are the originals on this piece.  It was my Mama’s Mother’s dresser and it has two different styles of pulls.  Wooden ones and metal pulls on the bottom drawer.

Another side note:  don’t you love my monkey?  He is quite ancient.  My cousin who is almost twenty years older than I am gave it to me when I was about two years old.  Thank you Johnny Ray for that sweet gift, he has been well loved.

Well, that’s it for my week and the projects.  The best part about all of these projects is that I had everything on hand to get them done.  Mostly my time.  Are you working on projects during this time of isolation?  If I can just stay on track, I may get quite a lot more accomplished!  Good luck to us all.

You can see all of the other projects I’ve worked on here.

Stay safe.  Tracie