crazy woman

 I spent most of the day on Tuesday moving furniture in three rooms.

There are some days where I have so much energy, I'm literally working

from the moment I get up until about midnight.

In case you think I'm Superwoman, I was pretty darn tired on Wednesday. ;-)

I'll show you two of the rooms for now ~ the spare bedroom/office

(which used to be Phil's room) and the master bedroom.

First, I moved the dresser from the master bedroom into the spare bedroom -

which still needs blinds and curtains. We take forever to completely finish anything!

Our master bedroom is small - 12x15 - and our furniture is huge.

Our bedroom needs a complete makeover anyway, so my first step is to

get the furniture out of that room so that we can pull up the old, gross

carpeting and paint the walls.

I have to tell you about this beautiful dresser.

I don't know where it originally came from. All I remember is that it was

my sister's dresser when she was growing up. I believe it was painted pink,

then white. Never gave the dresser a second thought until I was pregnant

with Phil, and a wonderful, older woman from church said that she

had my sister's old dresser and was going to re-finish it for us, so that we could

use it for the baby. So, this dresser then belonged to Phil his entire (too-short) life. 

And I see that Clementine, as usual, photo-bombed the picture.
And yes, this room still needs blinds and curtains, too. And a round rug for
the middle of the floor. Always something!

 This pretty little white cabinet used to be on the other side of the room, underneath

the window. If you look back at the picture above, you will see there is now a vintage

black and gold table there - the one that belonged to my grandma, that used to

 be in the living room.

 I then had to move the bookcase from the area where the dresser now is,

to the blank wall by the closet. That necessitated taking everything off the

shelves, dusting it, and putting everything back on.

And...in the closet, I only had one of these craft storage towers. The other

was next to the desk. Now with the dresser so close to the desk, there wasn't room

for the storage tower. So into the closet it went. Which meant there wasn't enough

room for my hanging cardigans. (My husband uses the back part of the closet

for his work uniforms.) See how one project leads to another?! So then I

had to clean out the master bedroom closet to make room for the rest of my cardigans.
The large beige cloth bin on top of the craft storage towers is filled with my purses.
Unfortunately, closet space is at a premium in this house.

Now on to the master bedroom - which I'm actually kind of embarrassed to show you,

since we have so much work to do in here. Do you recognize this console table?

It used to be in the living room. Since I moved the dresser out, I needed something

for the little TV, books, and framed photos. I actually kind of like this set-up.

Funny that the TV was on when I took this picture. I hardly ever watch TV,

especially during the day. But if I'm working in the bedroom while Jeopardy

or Ellen is on - the TV goes on.

So here's what the one side of the master bedroom looks like.

Yep, no curtains in this room either. Never did find ones I truly liked or that

were the right size. And when we had the room painted last spring -what we thought

was going to be a light blue  - turned out to be a color where it looks like the Easter 

bunny threw up on the walls.

The wall space to the left of the window is where the dresser used to be.

Barely enough room to open the drawers without hitting the bed.

And that HUGE oak headboard you have a glimpse of? It is two ginormous

pieces stacked on top of each other, made for a king-sized bed. Not a good

choice in a small bedroom. We bought this from my aunt when we first got married.

Now we can't even get rid of it! We have emailed used furniture stores, asked

all our family and friends, even put it out there on Facebook. No takers!

We have to get rid of this "elephant in the room" before we even think of pulling up

the carpeting and painting all over again. I'm "dying" to get a new, smaller headboard.

Would love to get one of those elegant, tufted ones.

 Whew, I was really long-winded in this post. Thanks for visiting and following

along with my latest projects. I'll show you what I did in my living room in a couple of days!