It’s been a tough week to get into a groove for me.  On Monday, we took the boys to Hershey Park to squeeze some fun into the last days of summer.  The boys were home on Tuesday, which was a day filled with cleaning, laundry, packing book bags and getting ready to start the school year on the right foot.  By the time Wednesday hit, I was ready to get to work, but I was so behind and was feeling buried in not-so-fun business things like reconciling my accounts, staying on top of my e-mail and getting myself organized.  Yesterday was spent packing up look books to ship out. So today, I was really ready to unroll the new living room rug and do a little bit of creative playing!   Something simple like unrolling a rug energizes me.  I start seeing how the room is shaping up and I

This afternoon I was standing in my living room and I remembered a post I wrote three years ago about how much I spent on my living room…floor to ceiling.  The total was $758 and that included paint, refinishing the floors, the curtains, rods, lighting, furniture and accessories.  I was always pretty proud of that.  Now that I’ve been moving old things out and new things in, I wondered if the room was starting to move away from the budget-friendly space it once was.  I looked at each piece and realized that most of it was still free, from Craig’s List, a yard sale or antique store. I’m not going to do a full cost breakdown of all of the accessories, which gets a little tedious, but I thought I would share what I spent on the furniture and big pieces.  The paint, lighting, curtains and floors are the same