We signed the lease on a new home this afternoon. Our official move-in date is in two weeks. In that time, I have to finish packing everything in this house (or throwing it out/giving it away, which always fills me with disquieting glee), clean this place, clean the new place, and paint at least one of the bedrooms at the new place. Have I mentioned that my children are 2 and not-yet 4? I foresee much chocolate and mead in the next few weeks.
With the upcoming move, I've discovered a new fascination with interior decorating. My first big project will be the littles' room. I have it mostly plotted out (I'm a writer! I plot everything, not just stories!), and I'm so excited to put it all into practice. I also have set myself a budget, so I'm being forced to get creative, which is fun. I thought I might do a post or two on some of my ideas - the concept, and then the reality.
This house has four bedrooms, so not only will Carl get a study, I will get a room to myself, for writing and sewing (and also a guest daybed, because company has to sleep somewhere, and I'm not terribly likely to need to use a room for writing or sewing if I'm playing hostess). After the perfect writing room at my grandmother's house, I'm even more looking forward to having a room of my own. And one of the windows looks out into the branches of a big tree!
The theme of the littles' bedroom is going to be a fairy forest. Nothing too over-the-top, and nothing Disney, but I did already pick up some vintage Cicely Mary Barker and Molly Brett postcards (oh Etsy, how I love thee) to use in decorating. And because of that, I'm rediscovering my old love of fairies. You know, the kind that are mostly disdained these days - that live amongst the flowers and ferns, and use fireflies as lanterns, and ride on rabbits' backs, and all that. It may be old-fashioned and dreadfully twee, but I really did used to believe in those sorts of fairies, and I think a small part of me always will (seriously, fireflies really are uncanny. Don't tell me you can watch them without feeling a thrill of magic).
Speaking of Etsy, my sister has also returned to her roots, so to speak, and after three college degrees is starting up her silver jewelry business again. If hand-crafted, one-of-a-kind silver jewelry is your thing (she also does gold-filled, but I don't think she has any of those pieces up for sale yet), check out her shop, Designs by Lis. I've jokingly dubbed myself her business manager, and have found that my eight years in retail gave me a surprisingly keen sense of what will sell and what won't. It's also been loads of fun helping her with this.
And finally, the littles and I all got our hair cut today. Grace's is still a mass of curls, just slightly shorter and more bouncy, but both Joy and I went for something a little more polished. And for once, both came out just as I hoped!
(I snapped the picture without warning her. She was not pleased with me.)
(I did warn her, and she looks like she's not pleased, but she cracked herself up as soon as I was done, and went on to pose for about five more pictures. She likes to tease.)
(Stacked bob! Why can't my hair look as gorgeous as my kid's?)
(Structured bob. Easy to maintain, still looks nice. Pretty much win-win. I'll probably be bored with it within a month.)
(This is me looking mildly sarcastic. I don't remember now what prompted it, but I'm sure it was Carl's fault.)
What's new with you this week, month, or any recent and upcoming period of time?
love the haircuts! mine's about the same as yours right now only with long bangs. i have a feeling i'll be going back to a pixie in the fall.
ReplyDeleteI definitely want to go shorter soon, too, but for the first time getting it cut at a new place, I figured it was safer to go with something simple. I've had too many bad experiences with new stylists making my short hair turn me into a mushroom head!
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