Back in January, Reid and I decided this would be the year we completely "de-cluttered." So my ongoing project has been attacking the clutter like crazy. It has felt amazing to haul off boxes to God's Marketplace or give away clothes that I knew I would never wear again post-baby girl and see the empty space. (Not necessarily because of "Oh I'll never fit in this again" but more because of "Okay, I am not in college anymore and no one with a degree and/or a child would look appropriate in this.") I've also been repeating the mantra I came up with of "Less Stuff=More People" to remind myself over and over that I'd rather have more dinner guests than another dinner serving piece. (And you know how much I love fine china...)
My second (still maybe a little ongoing) project was getting part of the basement a little better organized. The basement is currently home to Reid's weight lifting area, everything from the Tignall kitchen, a ton of stuff from my house in Warm Springs and pretty much everything else that we're not using upstairs but won't go in the barn. It's nothing to brag about but I just started from a corner cleaning and making space to put boxes from the stuff I packed up from upstairs. Basically, the basement is just a cleaner and a little better organized staging area for now.
The next few "real" projects we have going on involve finally painting this wood paneling in the main room:
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| After the first coat of Kilz |
Painting the front door...
(I'm not sure why I started with the front door when the whole room has to be painted...maybe because it helped the front porch look more finish....)
And lastly, worked on some "landscaping" projects so that we'll have the outside of the house looking pretty good when Labor Day weekend rolls around. This is the side garden and the flat concrete area leads into the basement entrance. I'm hoping in the next couple weeks I'll get the opposite side planted with some flower cover. Then use matching pots to go under the basement windows along with some other items to create somewhat of a "cottage garden" type feel. (It will be amazing if this comes to fruition giving Reid's lack of enthusiasm for flowers and my lack of experience gardening...)
So that's all I can report for now. We've got a couple trips coming up and then we'll be hitting harvest time in the big garden...which means a crash course in putting up fruits and vegetables for me and less time to work inside. Which means...
Who wants to come help paint?
