Sunday Surge

Today was a whirl.  Up for church, then off doing some shopping to kill time.  Thanks to coming up with an idea for our home, plus a list of things we need we were able to buy some items that we needed/wanted (such as a bath mat for our guest bath), while avoiding spending needlessly.  Then it was back to church for a couple's prayer service and dinner.  We have only been married nearly 4 years.  The longest marriage there was 64 years.  And the husband (who served in WWII) stood up and said some beautiful words about what an amazing wife and mother his wife was.  Both awesome people.

(To keep things in reference as to how much younger we are than everyone else at our church, the next shortest marriage after ours was 19 years.  But we're loved and we love it there.)

Then it was off to Home Depot for a small dropcloth, some super glue, and some brown paper.  As soon as we got home we attended to the animals, and then it was upstairs to our office to begin with what turned into 6 hour madness.  I sat on the dropcloth painting the inside of some dresser drawers.  Six drawers, two coats each.  Then, being in a painting mood I went to town painting many a thing shades of pale blue greys.  

(Had to use the flash because it was super dark otherwise)

(photo from England, the iron thing is in the middle, partially hidden by the tulips.  It was dark but now is a pretty blue-grey!)

We were able to get the dresser put into the closet in the office, hooked up the printer, put in the boxes we bought at The Container Store yesterday, and I even added the beautiful orchid I picked up a couple of weeks ago at IKEA (yep, IKEA!).  The pictures I just added as we were playing with the look.

I am super excited that the dresser is pretty much finished (I want to touch up the cream and gold paint on the outside) because it means the large box of office supplies up in our suite can be moved down and put away.  It was just the kick start we needed for the office, and we'll be priming and painting this week.  We'll also be building a wall of IKEA bookcases with lights and glass doors (we finally decided that G building them would have had to wait until he got back, and we want our books put away).  The desk is being finished up (as we debate whether or not we love the color I think we're going to say it's okay for now), the sofa is being moved up, and the frame for the television is being hung to await a t.v. this fall.  I'm going to be thrilled when it's all finished as it will be my command station for getting the rest of the house done, as well as a place to write and read.

So, now it's nearly 3 a.m., I have an appointment with a specialist about my tailbone in 5 1/2 hours, so I think perhaps it's time to crash.  I feel like we accomplished a lot tonight (G pulled all our dvd's and alphabetized them and began putting them into a little box that holds the discs), and we're both looking forward to getting a ton done tomorrow.  Maybe we'll even finally get the Christmas tree taken down!*

*Yep, it's still up.  With all of our glass ornaments we have been debating the best way to store them.  Finally decided on tissue paper and small cardboard boxes.  Got the tissue paper and will be picking up boxes at the store tomorrow.  Then the little boxes will be stored in totes. 

This weekend I am painting my desk.  It's been a huge debate, because I wanted to sand it down and stain it, but it's just too big of a project for now.  I should be able to strip in later if I decide to and do all that, but for now I think (I'm indecisive, so this could change) that I am going to prime, paint and gloss it.  Deep Breath In.  


It's my great-grandmother's desk.  It's nothing hugely nice, just a piece I loved enough to wrangle it away from my parents in college.  It got beat up in the move to England, and needs some love.  But I've been afraid to touch it.  Afraid I would screw it up.  Afraid that my mother would shoot me if she found out what I'm gonna do to it.  But alas, I need to make it mine, a space to write.  A space to correspond.  A place of my own.  I've got the paint for the desk, the chair is going to be different, and I need to find fabric to recover the seat.  (and hardware, but that could take forever for me to make up my mind!)

I like these simple styles in chrome (to go with the lamp).

So I'm keeping my fingers crossed that after this weekend I will actually have some decent things to post.  I've got painting galore to do, lots of sanding down of some furniture, and cleaning (which thank God G will be tackling part of now that his schedule is back to normal).   We've got a timeline of events for the next few months that should really liven things up around here (the blog, not my life, my life is crazy enough already).  

So, let me have it:  hate painting wood furniture?  Think it's a great way to revitalize old damaged wood?  Tackled any fun project lately?  I know some of my readers don't have blogs, but was also wondering if any of you have any projects you might want me to post?  This could be exciting!

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