The upstairs renovations in our house are getting close to being finished. Which means I’m busy trying to complete, or at least get started on, all the homemade-ish touches I want to add to the girls’ new rooms, bathroom and play nook in the hall landing.
On one hand I’ve known it’s all coming for a very long time. And on the other hand I can not believe it is becoming a reality. I have kept a list of wants and dreams for this old house since we moved into it seven years ago. Minus a few emergency plumbing repairs, not many of them have gotten checked off until now.
So yes, I’m wanting to make this move a special one. As my little munchkins flee upwards, and sleep just a tad bit farther from mom and dad.
We spent our Labor Day weekend at home, playing, planning and dreaming of exactly how we are going to use the new space.
Here’s a peak into what I worked on during Labor Day – sanding this small, sturdy table I bought at Goodwill for $8. Or maybe it was an ottoman missing the foot cushion? I have no idea what it was supposed to be.
Soon it will have a two pairs of happy feet standing on it while the little girls use it as stool to brush their teeth.
While I was in Goodwill I stood on it, jumped on it, jumped off of it (because you know that’s what they do), and determined it was a perfect footstool. I was excited about the find! An elderly couple contemplating a sofa purchase just found me odd, I’m sure. But oh well.
Also in that garage is an oak school desk and chair that I am refinishing to be stained. Along with an unfinished shelf to file papers (because my oldest daughter is a HUGE packrat of papers, cards, school work and such), and an unfinished bookshelf that well get a coat of orange paint.
Then, the list goes on and on and on. And the ideas keep coming. And my sewing machine is waiting. And there is another round of canning I want to get done before my kitchen gets dismantled.
Good thing I have helpers! Well, sort of. But their cuteness surely keeps me going, in the best creative way possible.
