This week has definitely passed way too quickly! Hubby took some vacation time from last Tuesday, and we have been busily working on redoing our living room, and looking at the new furnishings we are planning on getting for it. The cleaning and dusting of the shelves was taking me way too long, because of my health issues, so yesterday I "stole" my friend, Dimple's, 2 children, Sam and Sara, to come and help.Hubby, and their dad, Scot, took the old couch and dumped it, and the kids and I wiped down, dusted and cleaned shelves, books and ornaments off of them. We accomplished a lot. still have a lot to do, but we made headway yesterday.
We have come a cropper with some of my original ideas. The screens that I had planned on getting, originally. I found reviews online that other buyers had posted, and it seems they are not as nice "in person" as the illustrations would have you believe. People have said they are flimsier and that the colours are not as expected, and they are unable to be cleaned as the print "runs". So, back to the drawing board on that one!
Tuesday's overstuffed recliner hunting proved that a recliner is not a good choice for me. getting into, and getting comfy, was good. Trying to set the seat back from the recline position ... nope, wasn't happening. Legs flailed everywhere and still the chair stayed reclined, and the side handle was no help whatsoever. So plans there changed too. First to an oversized armchair, and now looking at a loveseat or even a sofa for me to lounge on, and the recliner for hubby.
In other words, we now have no fixed ideas on the screens or the seating, LOL!
The "definites" so far are a live tree in a pot, for Christmas, an ivy that I can trail around the room like I had in Florida and in Germany, spider plants hanging, and some feng shui in the form of a water feature, and a bamboo stalk sprouting in a vase. Yes, making it a human-only zone means I can have some of my flora back in the house!
I am just so excited, and looking forward to this!
Today is going to be awesome too. We have friends coming down to visit from North Carolina ... our "adopted family" who were our next door neighbours in Port St John,Florida. The little lass that I babysat, who is now married and has a baby of her now, l'il miss Josie Jane. I will get to hold the little one today, and catch up with nattering with her mum and dad, and my friends Ronnie and Patty, her grandparents.
I am sooo looking forward to it!
Have a wonderful day, my friends :)
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