Progress!
The storage room is totally painted! DH had wanted to put up the storage loft and shelving that is going in the room, but we have decided to wait on that since it’s nearly the end of March!
Sunday my brother came over (DH was on a double at work) and we managed to move most of the stuff out of the nursery and into the storage room. Yesterday DH helped move the rest of the major stuff. There are a few boxes and bags of things that I need to dig through and decide what to do with, but compared to what was in the room, there really isn’t much left. We even moved the wardrobe and bureau to the work room in the barn so that DH can work on repainting them to match before they come back inside.
Once I clear out the final bits of stuff, DH’s piano will be the only thing left in the room. Its an old, upright and not a bad piano, but several things, including the size of the doorway to the back door, have been changed since it was moved into the room so it won’t easily come back out again. DH has to decide if he wants to try to remove it in functioning order, or if it will be chopped up and removed. His piano, his call.
We have a friend who does plastering and he will be coming over (hopefully Saturday) to take a look at the room and then will be refinishing the walls. They currently have a textured plaster finish and we want the walls of the nursery to be smooth . . . once he is done DH will be painting . . . I’m considering adding a wall paper border and we still need to order the rug . . . but then the furniture can come back in and we can start really getting the room ready! I’d like to have it basically done before the end of May so I can spend June doing things like fussing over decorations, hanging curtains etc.
Since the “log-jam” cleared this weekend on finally being able to do something about the nursery, I’ve unfortunately, gotten nothing else done. I’d been waiting so long to start getting it ready that I just couldn’t help myself! I’d been getting rather nervous that we wouldn’t be ready in time at the rate we were going, now I feel a little better.
Knitting update
I have been working on the “Leaf Lace” shawl. Progress has been rather slow, a row here or there . . . but it is progress and I hope to have it finished sometime soon. Once that is done I may have to turn my focus to knitting baby things since I’ve done almost none for this little one and do have a number of things I’d like to have knit up before our child actually arrives. . . . and I still have to do the sweater for our nephew . . .
Well, off to drop DH for work so I’ll have the car to go to the post office. I’ve got a few orders to gather up when I get back and then we will be doing a mailing . . .
