The Endless Project Completed

We began the process sometime in the spring, hopping from one furniture store to the next, discussing paint colors and styles, trying to convert the last room on our main floor from its ugly, monochrome taupe. On Memorial Day, we ordered furniture. Later that week, we settled on colors, moved the junk from around the cluttered walls, and set to work painting.

Two softening coats, a chair rail border, and we were ready for furniture whenever it came in. And from this ridiculous space, for the last eleven weeks, I have done all my writing:

 
(Can you even see the computer in this disaster area? We had to push through a maze to get to our file cabinets, and the keyboard has been disconnected ALL SUMMER LONG, even though I have a song I desperately want to finish!)

Until finally, on Saturday, the furniture arrived.

 

(Sorry for the chair in center shot…we were still working when I took this)

Top of my “thank God” list this week is: a wonderful new work space. How can I concentrate on writing when everything around me is so spacious, so uncluttered, and so pretty? I’ll just sit here and get warm fuzzies all day!

(Not.)

My list, #241-251:

A great big tax deduction
A dedicated shelf for my scrapbooks…out of reach of tiny Julianna hands.

 

An 85-degree day that feels like spring after weeks of blistering 100+.
Sleeping with the windows open, serenaded by crickets
Waking to find the house almost chilly at 72
Completion of a novel, ready to query (again!)
Anticipation:
            Of fun in paddleboats
            Of new clothes
            Of breaking into a new phase of life: school years
My poor, beaten aspen making a valiant attempt at a comeback after its summer baking
The list of thank-you’s I made in my head, which ascended to Heaven sometime in the night and are now gone 🙂

 What are you thankful for this Monday morning?