Finally In Our New Home

We are finally settled in our last home.  Just a few unopened boxes remain.  Today I’ll spend most of the day planting perennials and then later this weekend painting our master bedroom… one of the only rooms that I never got around to.  Definitely not looking forward to that, but I just think about one wall at a time to get through it.  

Just a couple of pics of our progress.  More to follow once I get my tripod up and I can figure out how to take photos with lots and lots of light - like the pros do.  We’ll see if that works.

But for now — a non pro shot of the most challenging room.  :-)  Tom’s not crazy about the striped chairs.  Me - I love them.  I did try to find a solid print like a green or gold, but with such a busy rug they both looked lost against it. And a solid blue was worse - looked like I tried too hard.  

I knew it would be a risk to go with so much pattern, but I just went for it and I’m not disappointed.  

Another challenge spot was the back of this monstrous sectional.  It felt so intrusive and I was convinced I would need a quilt or large throw to soften it - but I think the table with the stuff works. 

More pics to follow …  

A Small Sewing Project

A few pillow covers I made before packing up the sewing room.  These will go on the sectional that is down in TN.  

A local TN designer  picked out all of these prints with the exception of the stripe — that was my pick. Normally I pick out everything I buy, but I decided to go with the recommendations once I found that stripe.  To me — there has to be something to pull the colors together.  So we’ll see how I like them once the room is all put together.   

Moving day is Tuesday.  Lucky for us we sold all of the exercise equipment very quickly as well as the snowblower, various tools, and the lawn mower (which we could really use today — ha ha).   The rest of our big furniture pieces (including the plaid sofa in this pic)  we are selling through a consignment store.  

The weekend will be very busy - wrapping up the rest of our packing and seeing family one last time. Excited, but a little sad too.