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Showing posts with label decor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label decor. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Tropical Fauna

  Today went pretty well although I might have overdone it a little yesterday-- the headache tried to come back. I tried to be better today. I had hoped to do three things that didn't require big eye focus commitments in addition to all the screen time I could stand to answer emails and stuff. They were: clean out a small desk no one has done anything with in decades. A load of laundry. Make celery soup.

I managed the emails, I got the desk about half sorted and the laundry washed but not dried. I thawed the soup stock. There's always tomorrow. After I worked a little while I got shakey. Well, I just have to accept that. My eye did let me read a bit during the down times. I've listened to a lot of podcasts and things like that, but since audio is my weakest input channel, I'm getting really tired of it.

Anyway, sorting the desk included finding two clay birds that Omer's mother had brought us as gifts from Mexico. In the same place, I also found the conch shell that my grandmother had brought home from one of her trips.

Meanwhile, a couple of years ago, I had found a set of frog ashtrays that were my mother's. They have just been sitting out ever since, because I didn't want to lose track of them. I think they are humorous.

Now we have to switch and talk about what I did just under a year ago when I came home from my Jauary trip and found my bedroom a total mouse mess. I cleaned and redecorated. I still love it! You need the reminder that the curtains are a tropical print. You can see a link below with more pictures if you want. But the point is that I have that bright tropical fabric. I have four metal frog hooks on the walls (you can see two of them in this pic and a slice of the curtain.



So today I added the conch (Bottom shelf), and one bird and frog above that.
decoratuve tropical animals


A couple of shelves up are the other bird and frog. Incidentally, the shelf is a walnut plate display rack my mother had custom made (to go with the walnut dining table and bureau). I've tried to sell it, but no takers, so I just put it in a narrow space beside the big window.
tropical decor


I still want to make the soup. I'm eating almost normally, but not up to sandwiches yet, so another batch of soup will be good. I got some from the store, but even the low-sodium ones are way too salty.

Thanks so much for all the encouragement!
See The Project Done

Saturday, November 9, 2024

Date with a Polar Bear

  Here's my hot chilly date for the day.
polar bear costume


The polar bear was helping promote the local group that is forming called "Friends of the Pool," to try to influence the community college to save the swimming pool. I thought that whole issue was a tempest in a teapot, but apparently they are seriously considering closing it.

The event had pretty good variety. You could choose your holiday for which to buy decor.

Christmas of course.
christmas decor
christmas decor


But it's not Thanksgiving yet, so there were several people selling fall and harvest items.
autumn wreath


There was even patriotic stuff!
patriotic decor


Did OK- about as well as I expected. And I think I found one event to sign up for in December. A good enough day. But for whatever reason, I'm pooped. I'm going to go lie down with a book.

See Scottville Fall Festival

Friday, September 20, 2024

He'll Be Home Tomorrow!

 I thought I had a couple more weeks before Om showed up at home again. Nope. He let me know he'll be home tomorrow.

He's the one who cares a whole lot more than I do about a clean house. In fact, my threshold for cleaning seems to be only when I can no longer find things. That takes quite a while. Anyway, I wanted to demonstrate that the house hasn't completely reverted to chaos while he's been away.

OK, it took most of the day today, but you don't understand. Cleaning things up in ONE day used to be beyond possible. My friend Betty always said that she liked to keep her house only a half-hour away from being presentable for company. Haha! I was usually about a half-month away from that condition. But she did teach me a lot about getting organized.

Anyway, I can't find my favorite fall tablecloth (why isn't it where it belongs? Seriously, I'm usually good at getting things back in their homes when they have a home). So I visited our new Hobby Lobby for the first time. I checked out what kinds of things they are stocking here (it's not the huge stores of the big cities). I'm delighted to find that they have a decent fabric and sewing section, and a good selection of yarn. Art and craft supplies, as well as the usual decorative stuff. Well, they had a huge sale on decor, so I did buy a plastic tablecloth for $1.19, and a candle.

Then I got out my favorite fall/harvest/Thanksgiving collection that I bought long ago. Voila!
thanksgiving decor


The dining room is pretty clean. That especially will make Om happy. He really struggled with the mess during the years I was working on the trailer. I have a few things to sort in the living room and vacuum, but the kitchen is done and I have just a few things out of place in the basement (which is really his space).
dining room


The only walking that happened today was around stores and the house. But I did get the much-needed groceries. I mean, when you are out of ice cream, lettuce, and bread, it's time to shop!

See Thanksgiving Decor