It's been a week of pushing my body to extremes. My extremes are not those of a typical or normal 45 year old woman, granted. Rheumatoid Arthritis makes my limitations pretty great, but I am usually one to put a smile on my face and keep on going. When it comes to scrapbooking, my limitations are happily pushed! Since I got the GOOD news that Jabba is no longer going to need to move back in to our extra bedroom, we have been cleaning, painting and organizing my new scrap/storage room!
I will post pics when I get it a little bit more together. I should've taken pics of the room before the cleaning and painting. My 18 year old son left the room in a truly disgraceful state and I am still pretty angry about that. He left all of the clothing he didn't want, old toys he no longer played with but didn't want to relinquish to his younger siblings, broken stereo components and lots more. The walls were FILTHY, with food dripped down them, marker, chunks of unidentifiable stuff, knife marks from him and his friend using throwing stars IN THE HOUSE (!!!!), bb's from his bb gun (IN THE WALL) and so much more. It was a MESS to clean the dirty walls, fill all of the holes, carve out the bbs, and then paint over and over to cover the lime green he had on one wall. It's tough on my hands to paint at all, and I did it with my sweet husband for days! The once beautiful oak hardwood flooring is stained and filthy, so I have been scrubbing and mopping over and over. I will have to forego refinishing them for now because of $, but at least they will be clean!
We're now in the process of moving all of my scrapbooking stuff to the room (down at the other end of our home). I have enough stuff to open my own store - no kidding! - so it's going to take some time to move it all, organize it all and get it the way I need it for working, but it sure feels good to get all of this stuff out of our bedroom!
More on this soon!
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WooHoo! That's awesome news! You will feel SO GOOD when it's done!
Makes me tired just hearing about it! It'll be worth it, though.
On top of it, we got our new mattress, so we re-org'd the bedroom and between that and removing all of my scrapbook stuff from the bedroom and that, our bedroom looks like a tornado came through! It's coming together though and it really is going to be so nice!
yeah, i know the room drill..i have a 17 and 18 year old boy lol....cant wait to see pics of the new and improved room!
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