Nothing new here...move along

Two weeks to whip the house into shape and host the Mexican Train group here. We can do it!

More tag/labels than text here...it's all good.

It's a Frame Up

We nearly finished painting the living room outside walls. We ran out of paint with about eight square feet to go. The color is wonderful, especially with the glossy white woodwork. I hope an additional quart will match adequately.

I was able to shorten the glass curtains for two of the windows, hanging both but looping one upon itself while it waits for the corner cabinet to be put together. The striped curtains still need to be hemmed, but now that the wall is painted, it will be a pleasurable task one of these evenings. OK, several of these evenings.

We have put the illusions frames on paintings, and I snapped together the mix and match frames, discovering that one painting will need fillers on two sides to fill the frame, which is about a half inch too wide. Were it too narrow, I'd need new frame pieces. But the paintings look great framed, which they never have been, and the black frames set off their colors well on the kitchen walls.

Task List

Here are a few things on my To-Do list:

• Floor in the attic (yes, we have one...it is over the garage)
• Floor on the patio (it is a concrete pad), perhaps stamped concrete or limestone tile 
• Screens on the patio
• Paint bathroom wall blue
• Paint living room walls green
• Hang more art
• etc.

And how was the move, Mrs. Calabash?

The move is still not forgotten...the garage has not seen our cars since the weekend before the truck arrived with all of our goods. Phil's clever line: there is room in the garage for a car, but it has to go in sideways.

At this point, we have set up the house, painted a wall in the kitchen (moss green) and a wall in the dining room (golden yellow), and will paint two walls in the living room tomorrow (with luck) the same color as the green kitchen wall. The green is great with the kitchen curtains, which I have augmented with glass curtains (made of cotton), though the glass curtains need shortening.

The green will be wonderful with the drapes in the living room, which also need shortening...they pool on the floor right now. The ones on the neighbor's side reflect the same colors as Tan's painting of PEI, and the curtains on the patio side reflect the same colors as a painting I did long ago...turquoises and yellows. The painting over the fireplace needs a frame, as does the turq painting.

One discovery lately is Jerry's Artarama down in Willowbrook (18 miles away), and through the good graces of two Groupons, we have framed three items and bought frames for most of my oils (pre-made frames are lots cheaper, and hopefully will still look great).

But the garage is definitely more organized, with some more things to take to the storage unit (computer desks) and more boxes to open.

I wish I had the flat file here...it is still (I think) in Norwood. I have lots of things that could go into it.

But the move is still in progress. Rugs cleaned and on the floor, curtains hung (even those that need shortening, lengthening, etc.), and furniture arranged. Not too much extra, though some of my antique chairs will not be on the floor for a while because they need repairing.

I would put the chairs on the wall, if I had wall space. Between bookshelves for books and music and the artworks...Rafa's, mine, Joanne's, and inherited and adopted art, there is not a lot of wallspace left. Of course, up near the ceiling....