Working but not realizing it...

Tangible evidence that you made a change to even something as simple as a room décor…

Sure the guys did all the heavy lifting yesterday but after they vacuumed the webs out on the patio I did the regular disinfecting and polishing, ya know? (Many items left our son’s home and ended up in his garage for a while.)

Arranging what goes where and what accessories might well improve the overall outlook of those new items in the home landscape, that’s moi’s job!

And one might be surprised on how placement of certain pops of color add to a feeling of a room, happy, drab or even a wee bit sad and every emotion one can think of that is why bringing it all together is just as important as choosing what is in there.

Some of the items need refinishing due to animals teething on or scratching on them and so even though they are in the place where they will be the process of sanding and refinishing will be in those places for the larger items but smaller ones will be taken into the garage to refinish and repair.

Hubby filled the holes of where I had a picture and decorative hand painted fish three hook hat/sweater holder purchased at one of the local art festivals years ago at Edison College now renamed Florida Southwestern and a hand painted in acrylics picture by a famous artist, Ray Stoy, who did the original  Fisherman’s Village in Punta Gorda Florida before Hurricane Charley had its way with it back in 2004, and I copied a more recent picture off of the net of the village and printed it out in miniature and coated it in a plastic cover to sit in the frame’s corner., and my straw hat that was perched on the pastel painted fish hangers, and my street find chair in painted white cane and striped seat of green, blue, yellow and white all relocated due to the Grandfather’s clock and their new locales are not cluttered, that is most definitely the trick!

That takes care of the foyer, oh, where did those items go?

Well, the chair believe it or not fits beautifully in the guest-room even with the larger pine high boy that was brought down by our son.

The picture is still in the foyer but now on my half hanging table under the floral metal mirror, it does fit well there and the pastel painted fish hanger with three hooks will be sent to Hubby’s bathroom that already has the fish theme with so many other wall items, but this is practical for that room to hang damp towels or clothes waiting to be put on etc. there. The pole lamp from the guest-room is now in the living room and the little marble based piano lamp is now on the white wicker étagère in there with the painted vase lamp that's echoing the new chair in there colors is on top of the pine high boy for a pop of color there!

That beautiful oak china closet is where we thought it would fit and it thankfully does where my old natural colored wicker étagère was with glass shelves but no real storage. The china closet has a closed bottom for storage and an upper portion with glass for display, and now I can put dishes only used occasionally in there and use their space in the kitchen cabinets for small appliances that were cluttering up my pantry! See shipshape!

I already started to put extra linens in the high boy’s bottom drawers with leaving plenty of room for the other drawers and shelves to be utilized by future guests, like our Number One Son etc. and whoever decides to visit.

Hubby bought the shed today at Home Depot an 8X10 metal one smaller than our other ones but just right to get our son’s items out of the garage so Hubby can get our car back in within the week I think. He already started putting parts together and it is his fifth one of this type. We had two in our backyard in good ole NJ and his Mom’s yard years ago and the one here before the hurricane.

With the six foot wood fence and it being up against it, it should be safer than the other that had just a chain link one at the time, if not it is all insured anyway plus we have been lucky these last ten years now nearly eleven with no more hurricanes hitting here.

So I did do some things too today.

On that note of new hope allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask all of you to kindly count all your blessings and share all those overages with you know you, and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!