Maybe I should get some counselling after all

Everything has been driving me crazy lately. Not least of all, being three wonderful cherubs. Some days I think that I should send them off for a week or a month so that I could get my act together, and then I'd also appreciate them more again. Get my act together? Yes, my act. Like, my housecleaning act, my everything wife-ly and mother-ly and organizing-ly and renovation-ly and seamstress-ly, and all that-ly act.

My house has been especially annoying too. Ugly paint, and peeling walls is ok to live with when you know it's temporary. But it's been over a year now, and it's been feeling a little too untemporary by now. STILL waiting for the fabric to come in (hopefully this week if I'm not being ripped off completely). Maybe by this weekend. Once it's in we can have a better idea on exactly what shades of blue and yellow we want. And then MAYBE we can actually go nuts with the brushes, but until then...I decided to get some decorations to cheer up the atmosphere and to maintain what little left I have of my sanity.

I'm very pleased with my center piece. It looks great. But there are always too many books and papers stashed on the table beside it, which kinda puts a damper on its effect. Anyone have a gold colored magazine rack for me? And the candle lid can come off...but it is a scented candle. Why do all candles have to have girlie scents? I could use one that smells lie oil and gasoline exhaust. Like the chainsaw exhaust I enjoyed sniffing the other day.


I added this red ribbon myself, and designed it myself. So lovely. I am so talented--some days. Maybe one day I'll get around to making a whole bunch more smallish ones and add them to my two other decoration pieces

to sort of unify the look.
Maybe one day I'll get around to it.
Stay optimistic my shrink would keep saying. ;)