Something
mysterious happens when you move to a new place and it doesn’t matter if the
new place is a rental or your very own, whether it's old or new, whether it is a bigger place or a
smaller place or whether it is an apartment, condo, townhouse, home, barn, tent
etc.
There is nothing that is exempt from this phenomenon.
So
what is this wonder I’m speaking of? Oh sure you can’t find your
favorite…whatever it is, but that is really just collateral damage.
What
I’m talking about is the fact that…
no matter how great you are at
Tetris and making things fit,
no matter how frugal you think
you are,
no matter how resourceful you
can be…
There is always a piece of
furniture
that no longer works in your new abode.
OR
There is an empty space that
needs
“something” you simply do not have.
OR
The plain and simple desire to
“upgrade” or “update” is pulling at your heart and creativity like a…like a
what? Oh, I don’t know, you just want new stuff really a lot!
The
worst part about this little problem is that just when you’ve decided to live
without whatever it is that will make your place
absolutely perfect!
The
Pottery Barn Catalog comes in the mail (because
that too mysteriously happens when you move to a new place) and because you have nothing
better to do (the hundreds of unpacked boxes aren’t going anywhere) you begin
flipping through the pages--you know--just to see” and “get some ideas”. Not too
long after you reached the end of the catalog you realize that you are way
worse off than you were before because in Pottary Barn, you WILL find exactly
what it is you were dreaming of and at a million times the cost you were ever
hoping to spend.
** sigh **
That
is where I was this afternoon. While my kids played “pretend” in their rooms, I
played “pretend” in my head. Eventually it became too much for me. I just
couldn’t take it. I wanted these things so much! What could I DO?!
That
is when google came to my rescue. The original search was so long ago I don’t
even remember what it was I typed in. All that matters is what I found.
Now
we all know, my serious blogging days are over - as is evident by how
infrequently I post. Well, when I made this realization I decided it was time
to clean my "google reader" house & free up some time so I dumped a lot of
the blogs I was following. What remained were, of course, all my dear friends
and family and an infant size handful of strangers that I considered to be
really, REALLY special bloggers. A new blog was added to that tiny handful
today.
Go ahead- take a look
I
can’t wait to clean out my garage….and get the baby out of my belly…so that Boy
and I can set up the tools and work bench and get started on…
the desktop letter hutch,
(I'll have to modify the bridge)
that I have desired to fill my “empty space” in our new place and also so that I won’t have
to hope over Pottery Barn ever again. But
before I start those, I may upgrade my queen to this king size bed-it looks a
little easier.
Ever
since I met my “non-blogging friends”, Lisa & Karen, (and by non-blogging friends I simply mean that
I cannot hyperlink you to their awesomeness) I’ve wanted to build things but I’ve been afraid and
I haven’t known where to go to find the plans. Both Karen and Lisa have said
that building is just like sewing (see I knew I'd be able to connect this post to the overall theme of my blog) - all you need is a pattern. Today I found my patterns and oh goodness….
THEY ARE FREE!
Anybody want to build with me?
