Baby Steps

On Tuesday I was still off work so I launched into some tiny projects around the house. Adam was out in the drizzle, shoveling manure and watering it down with rainwater from his barrel system. More on that in another post.
I addressed the chaos that is our back porch. It's not a large space. I moved that bookshelf (with the paper towels in it) down, and put up two coat hooks. I'd bought them years ago and never used them in a previous house. Sometimes it's useful to be a packrat. I'll hang one more hook there.

I have almost no closet space in this house -- one small closet for Adam and me, and an itty-bitty closet in Julia's room. That's it!! So hooks galore is one solution.

Alright ... next project:  the kitchen window. I loathe nasty old mini-blinds.

A kitchen window is important. When day-dreaming while doing dishes, the window is essential for pleasant thoughts, occasionally even enchanted day-dreaming. Rusty mini-blinds do not enchanted day-dreams make.
Mr. M. was clearly afraid his mini-blinds would come down in his dishes. He nailed them in.

And he screwed them in. See the bent screw up there?

It was fun ripping all that out!

I'd been inspired by a kitchen window photo from my friend, Melissa:

I hope she doesn't mind my lifting this photo from her blog. I'm not quite sure if it's her kitchen or one she found online. But isn't it magical? J'adore the shelf and tea things! (((Sigh))) And the little cafe curtain. And the fall berries and leaves. If I were standing at that sink, I'd be drooling in it.

Anywho, after a trip to Wally World, I returned with the correct rods to hang curtains on doors. This is the door to the back porch from the kitchen:

And right behind it, the back door to the deck. Those are matching cafe curtains, but I only had two ...

So I had no curtain left for my wannabe-magical kitchen window. I went digging around and found some tea towels I never use. Wrinkled of course.

Somehow I love a magical look, but I'm a bit challenged in making it happen in my house, haha!!

At some point I'll find the right lacy curtain for there. Or a better, bigger tea towel. Magical curtains should have some POOF!, and this towel arrangement lacks poof.

Our crazy weather has confused my gardenia bush, so it's blooming. "Is it by chance spring yet?" it is wondering.

My Japanese magnolia has one lone bloom too, poor thing.