Still At It.........

but at least now I can see the end of it! It can't believe it's been so long since I really scrubbed my house. I've managed to get the rooms upstairs cleaned and organized, including changing out a couple of light fixtures, closets, windows, screens, yada, yada, yada.

In our bedroom I did pull some old curtain toppers out of the closet and put them up but they are a little too ruffley (is that a word?) so they probably won't stay. The point was to have the curtain rods look like they actually serve a purpose. And also to help cover the tops of the roller shades we put in recently. At the time we paint in here, I'll probably put something a little more mature up. LOL.



In our bathroom I managed to get the closets reorganized and prettied up the bathtub area a little. I also put together this wall sconce and dried flowers. I'm trying to decide what color to paint in here. There is a sort of lime green in there now which isn't quite working for me.



In the "Jill" bedroom I finally got my favorite picture hung up, one of my dolls out (a 1950's, 21" Snow White), a 1889 antique wedding dress, and some vintage embroidered pillowcases and doilies out. In case you haven't guessed this is my girly room.



In the "Jack" bedroom, I made curtains. Yes, more curtains! The three small windows above the bed let in A LOT of light in the morning as well as a lot of heat on summer evenings. I wanted to do something that let some light in without closing them off completely. I made the straps so that they can be released and the curtain will drop when needed. I think this will work!



(BTW, we call these rooms the Jack and Jill because they have a bathroom in between them.)

In DH's office I also hung some curtains that I had in the closet. I'm not going to spend a lot of time in there because he will be moving his office downstairs and this room will become a bedroom and reading room. I did change the ceiling light fixture though.....all by myself!!

I wonder if I could get a job as a handy-woman???? Or maybe as an apprentice decorator/seamstress.

Well, that's it for now. I'm off to start downstairs. I need to have this all wrapped up by Thursday afternoon so that I can start shopping and cooking for DH's 61st birthday party on Friday.

I'm also working on cropping/editing some photos from our trip at Christmas, presents that I made my nieces, and some CQ pieces that have been finished/received.

And I haven't forgotten about the "Hope" bags for Haiti or the Pillowcase Project. No worries - I'll have those finished up and out of here by the end of the month.

Have a great evening.


Until Next time...Happy Needling!!!

Gerry