Home Shopping

We don't have much space in our little cottage so over the last couple of months, I have been moving furniture to create an efficient and pleasing flow.

I bought one new piece of furniture, but otherwise I have been "home shopping" and moving or deleting pieces.

I love my old classroom stool, but it got bumped upstairs to the attic after I bought a fun bistro chair - I'm sure on my next home shopping spree the stool will come back downstairs.

I hated to delete the ladder from the house, but due to space, it is now in the garage rafters.

This shelf on the porch got bumped to the garage where it holds paint and craft supplies.

The table holding the sailboat was moved from our bedroom 

to the porch and cut down to fit - the window had been waiting for a place to land.

The little white table in the garden house was moved to the hallway

where it takes up far less space than 

the sweet little green pie safe did.

The color is perfect in our bedroom, but it's not styled as cute - it's earning its keep by housing some of my sweaters.

This little cabinet was hanging in our bathroom before our remodel - after adding feet, it was moved to the garden house for storage.

It merely got bumped to the other side of the garden house when the little table went to the hallway.

This cabinet was pretty in the guest room, but there were too many tall pieces competing in the room.

It's now it's in the garden house holding linens - far more functional.

 The table in front of the door is now in the living room.

It's the perfect depth for the space, but just a tad too long so I'm on a slow hunt for the perfect skinny table.

The table holding the typewriter and the red bistro chair both got moved.

The little red chair is now in the entry and I don't think I will ever move it.

When the ladder went into the rafters, my grandmother's rocker came down - that's the little white table in its original green.

 I originally bought the table for the guest room and it looks right at home once again.

Wearing white, the rocker fits right in even though one of the rockers is broken - it's probably 125 years old.

The red cart from the living room is in the guest room and because the blue clashed with it, the door is once again white.

This vintage look shopping cart was out by the garden house- the cart seems to rotate inside and outside all the time.

With a more efficient use of the furniture and space,

 I will have lots more time on the beach 

and I can whip our garden into shape.

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Rainy Days

We have not had a real winter since 2012 - almost no rain and sunny days have been the norm.

But this year, El Niño is in full force and today we had heavy rain, crazy wind  (42 mph) and even an emergency alert on our phones regarding flash floods.

I used my indoor time wisely and finished up a bunch of projects.

I found this IKEA hamper in the attic the other day (my kids are great about dumping stuff at our house) and it's quite functional, but not my style.

 I thought I might make the hamper work in our house with a bit of drop cloth and the word laundry was easy to add with my metal Decor Steals stencils.

It amazes me how much better the hamper looks with a lighter colored bag.

I'll admit that I "staged" this pic (my purse doesn't usually hang here nor does the sign,), but I did clean out the stuff Steve had hanging there - he did not need 7 jackets, 4 sweatshirts and a vest.

Next up was finishing the cable knit pillow I decided to make after seeing a pretty pillow here that Lory of Designthusiasm shared a couple of weeks ago.

All I had to do today was sew buttons onto the back - I haven't knitted cables in years and had to play around with creating a pattern.

But, I'm liking how it turned out and with my color palette, I'll move it from room to room.

In my last post, I said I was going to make cookies and a rainy day seemed perfect.

I love this recipe card because it shows that it has definitely been used - the only recipe I use for oatmeal cookies.

I can't believe that I actually typed out the cards on a typewriter.

After eating a few cookies, I packaged them up into bundles of 6 and gave them to neighbors - otherwise, I could have eaten them all.

It was still raining so I grabbed my grandmother's school slate (circa 1890),

chalk and little metal stencils to write a new message.

The chalkboard triggered an update in the entry.

I had moved the red cart out of the entry, but I love it and I didn't get to look at it in the guest room.

So, the cart is once again in plain sight and Grandma's slate has a place of prominence.

By 5:00, I had the table set for dinner - Steve is making pork ribs tonight.

I had a very productive day and the wind is supposed to howl all through the night and tomorrow so who knows what else I might finish.