The world is being turned upside-down, and we decided to add wallpaper to our dining room.
You can’t see it in the picture, but we had some major dings and scrapes on the wall just from having the old dining table and chairs in there. They were just a wee bit too big, and the wall was showing the wear and tear.
how it began . . .
In cleaning out the garage, I ended up cleaning out a file cabinet that eventually found a new home via craigslist. It was two drawers of folders, the dregs of my past addiction to collecting information. We got a tote made for file folders and I settled down to sort.
Amidst the old letters, warranties and manual for things we no longer own, and just plain effluvia, I found a folder labeled ‘Things I Want”. Inside was an intriguing collection of pages from magazines, and scribbled lists based on places I no longer lived. A dresser (from back when I used boxes for my clothes because I’d just moved). .A ‘grown up’ jewelry box (because I was tired of using just random jars and such and wanted a wooden one with drawers. A certain kind of makeup promising flawless coverage. But mostly, there was a collection of pictures of clothes I loved that I wished I owned.
One, labeled Dressing for 2000, featured a floral tapestry skirt from the J. Peterman catalog. It’s perfectly stylish and appropriate today, I think. Don’t you?
Woven into our year of organizing are some very specific projects.