I don’t do this very often, but I fell off the face of the blog world at the end of last week.  I really just needed to dive into getting things done and, as you can imagine, stopping to take pictures and write about it all slows things down quite a bit.  So, I took some unplanned time off to make some real headway in my studio (among other places) and I can’t tell you how amazing it feels to have some areas of the house put together.  Not finished, but put together.  Before I bailed on the blog last week, I shared that I had purchased four Billy bookcases from Ikea to hold my books in the studio.  We do plan to build shelving in the dining room to have a library, but that project might not happen for a while and, until then, I felt like I needed

One of the challenging parts about a home renovation following a move (in which things were packed up not knowing what house they were going to) is the stuff management.  I mean, we’re still not fully unpacked and definitely not even close to being organized.  Spending time on organizing even seems pointless when things will just be moved again.  Being the tidy person that I am, it’s a challenge.  I have to keep reminding myself that it’s temporary and there will come a time when I can dig it, sort through stuff, and feel on top of the stuff in our house once again.  But, there are hundreds of dominoes that need to fall before that happens. One of the areas that has crept higher up the priority list is my studio window as well as getting things a bit more manageable in my workspace.  Just as a reminder, here