Over the past few days, I’ve been trying to get my house cleaned and back together post Lucketts.  While cleaning is sometimes a total pain for me and I am a part of the laundry-loathing club, most of the time cleaning is therapeutic in a strange way and gets my creative juices flowing.  I put on some good music, pick up the clutter, vacuum the fur balls (created by my wool rugs) and that almost always leads to rearranging something.  Or several things. When I added the child’s hutch to my desk a couple of weeks ago, that meant rearranging the pictures and plates above. That meant removing one of my favorite family photos and leaning it against a wall until I found a new home for it.  (The little girl with the big bow is my great-grandmother and my mom still has the rocking chair they are sitting in.)

Two more projects are checked off the list.  The first one I finished yesterday was a set of pillow shams.  My editor asked for something Pottery-Barn-ish.  I checked out their site for some ideas and kept coming back to these… source So, I did a little figuring and came up with these…   The PB version is $39/sham.  My version costs about $10 for both.  A tutorial will be available soon at HGTV.com. The other tutorial I worked on today was crown molding in the master bedroom…   It is the perfect finishing touch to the plank ceiling and fabric wall.     Tomorrow, we’re pulling out the kitchen sink, so I can finish the tile back splash.  Thursday is right around the corner…