Once upon a time . . .

Once upon a time I kept my blog pretty up to date. ;) I've been keeping up three journals - this one and a two private ones on another non-public site. Most of my ramblings have been going to the latter. Nothing exciting, just the mundane ramblings of my life - one journal is related to the shopping/renovating going on in the house and the other is just our lives. :) Life is just busy.

New carpeting is being installed Friday and then the real moving around begins. There are at least 3 new closet organizers to be installed and 1/2 of a room (which use to be my scraproom) to be disassembled. I haven't scrapped much at all lately; I got burned out of it physically and emotionally for awhile I think. When I do scrap, I still enjoy it, but I just can't get myself to DO it as much as I use to. So, I've made the choice to downsize. It'll need to be done in the end anyways since the guest bedroom will become a nursery in the next year or two OR the house will be put up for sale and I want people to see the room as a bedroom. The hallway/landing space. Ehhhh, that's expendable. I picked up a soothing green color for the one wall that will be painted a different color than the wheat bread brown. I ordered my elfa wall shelves, a new cabinet and some new accessories. Since my storage needs to go verticle now more than ever I want the storage to be attractive. There are no longer doors to hide everything. I had another cabinet where I hid all of the ugly steralite storage, but since I have to go verticle with my elfa shelves, gone will be the ugly containers. Luckily I scored some pretty inexpensive goodies. The accessories are all colorful and lively since the wall colors won't be quite so wacky anymore. ;)

Here's the clock I ordered:

These boxes:

This drawer unit from the Container store:

Everything is ordered, now I just have to wait for it all. This weekend is carpet rip up weekend. Exciting, yes?

Ah well, is spring finally around the corner?

Doesn't seem like it. It was -5 last night and they're calling for 3-6 more inches of snow tonight. BAH! Last week was more winter than we've had ALL winter; we even had two snow days. And while I usually allow for snow days to foster my creative energies, this year not so much. I'm just not feeling like taking pictures or scrapbooking or anything. Right now I guess the energy is all on the house. I've decided that if we cannot move NOW, since we really don't know that we're going to stay, I'm going to do the things I want done to have this place make me happier. Starting with new carpeting which will be installed ASAP. Measuring is done and Home Depot called today so we just need to go in and look at the estimate and decide which rooms to start with. :)

In other fantastic news, it's only Tuesday but this has been a smashing week. Monday my new 430EX flash arrived with diffuser and today we FINALLY got DSL. Insane that it wasn't available here in my corner before, but it wasn't. NOW we're all set up and ready to go though. That makes it loads easier to share and upload pictures, that's for SURE.

But, now, duty calls and I must be a slave to the stack of papers I brought home with me. It turns out that lugging them around doesn't burn quite as many calories as I might have previously thought. ;)