So Kellie and my Dad asked why I hadn't been blogging.. Today is best friend growing up's birthday... Amber... Happy Bday! Had a wonderful thanksgiving. I went up to Dad and Lorie's... It was way yummy. I spent the weekend puttering on my house. I move crap from one location to another and I am pretty sick of it.. I need to just get rid of stuff... Design Sponge the blog that I look at constantly. I look at it and they have sterile environments. I really like that look but don't know how to get there...I also have this genetic defect that contributes... I like to have stuff.. There is an author (Henry David Thoreau) , he wrote about Walden Pond. He would decorate his table with three rocks and when they got dusty he would throw them out and start with three new ones.
Status of my house....
Huge Huge thanks to Lorie, she has come to my house, which is so helpful. I get to points when I am like WTH, I don't know what to do... She came and gave me marching orders... Which I am so grateful for. Who knew that I would like to be told what to do.. :) so happy about it
My bedroom is done... There are a few things that need to be done, but they are cosmetic. Well and if would quit putting stuff in there..
Office furniture is in it... I have a old metal file cabinet and I have literally moved it five times. Well this weekend I decided it is going out of my house, it just doesn't work in the flow of my office... (it is all about the flow) I am going to move two book shelves in there and put my cook books there.. Maybe I will actually cook.. Wow that would be so cool. I moved a whole bunch of stuff from the familyroom into the office, to go through and the familyroom served as my office.. I also moved a whole bunch of clothes into my bedroom, that I need to go through (dry cleaner stuff) Hence the move stuff ... from one location to another...
Hall is done. I even did the floor this weekend.
Main Bathroom - Needs toliet/mirrors/lights... Need to also go around wood trim with goof off/and old english scratch cover
Master Bathroom - Needs toliet/mirrors/lights... Need to also go around wood trim with goof off/and old english scratch cover
Livingroom - Lorie needs to touch up the beige paint.. she is the master toucher upper... I can start moving stuff back into the room. Although I had a rug in the familyroom that I want to move into the livingroom, until I find one that I love.
Familyroom - is pretty much cleaned out... I need to clean the rug and I am painting a end table/mirror thing/mirror trim/drawer/stool/lights for bathroom/in the familyroom. I hope to get that started tonight... I would love to get it finished but not sure will make it with the hours that I have tonight... Then I have to sand...
I told Lorie that I keep finding jobs that I like less than the last job... for example... I hated removing wall paper/then I hated sanding/then I hated painting/I really hate the clean up from all the painting.. that is my least favorite so far..
Lorie also was looking at a paint job that a "professional" did and she was like paulette and I better than the professionals... We aren't for hire..
Familyroom -- then texturized - primed ( 2 hours) - painted (2hours) - painted (2 hours) - the clean up - putting the furniture back/which I will need help because some is in the garage and Shaun and Kevin moved it out when we did the floor. - decorate..
Kitchen and diningroom is going to take forever because it has been my staging area and full of stuff from all the other rooms. My tile floors are trashed because of the all the paint and stuff on it.. ought to be fun to take care of. Plus the dust.. You wouldn't believe the dust in my life... Not sure that I am ever going to get rid of that.. :(
Laundryroom bathroom- mirror/light/toliet
Laundryroom - finish about a quarter of wood work with old english scratch cover / i also need to clean out the closet so I can put things away properly... (Yeah I know novel concept)
Objective is still to have it done by christmas morning.
Seriously, don't ever do nine rooms at a time... Insanity.. I am going to be so happy when it is done.. I can't visualize that... being done.. it seems like a wonderful dream.
I will try and be better about blogging... but I get overwhelmed with how much I need to do and how long it takes, plus my computer is still not completely hooked up... Wish me luck on that.. :)
I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving.
Lots of luvs,
