Tuesday-9am

Good Tuesday Morning!

And I have been awake for some sunrises--LOL!

We've had some sunny days the past week...

...and some rainy days.

So much has been happening lately.  I think when I left off McFamily had been here and Leah had been working on shelves and punch racks.

She got up the two small IKEA (picture shelves) at the bottom and five of the metal racks when she ran out of screw anchors.

But she had gotten these two IKEA shelves up over the ink pad shelf wall unit behind the studio door.

I had been baby stepping away in the meantime...putting up a shelf here and a shelf there in the bookcases as I went along.

Doing things like hanging the oriental brushes on the little carousel holder...

...and getting all my other brushes into the various mason jars they are divided into (watercolor reg, watercolor teeny tiny, acrylic/oil, junk brushes, etc).

I got some things in the closet cubes...

...and more things stacked along the wall in the closet.

Karma doesn't care for all the activity...

...but things will be back to normal pretty soon.

Dagan was coming over last Thursday night to help.

We had these last boxes to empty.

I got the rest of this paper put away.

Even got the kitchen table cleared off again!

By the time Dagan left we had gotten a LOT done!!  We emptied the boxes, Dagan put up shelves wherever I wanted them in the bookcases, we got all but the last box for the low cherry cabinet put away.  That's what is on the craft table there.

I didn't care where things went as long as we tried to keep the art stuff in the two bookcases on the one side and the craft stuff in the other two bookcases on the other side.

And we shoved a lot of stuff...

...in the cubes in the closet, too.

Then...yesterday.
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McFamily came over in the evening after Dagan got off work and we all went over to Slumberland.  Yes!  The chair was finally in last week...in two sizes, too.  And I ordered my new chair (the smaller version, in chocolate) and the skinny end table with the outlets for all my chargers!!  They are being delivered on Friday!!!  I am so excited!!  :):)
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We picked up dinner at Pita Pit.  Dagan took Ian home at bedtime.  Leah stayed and was here till after 11:30pm!  All this got sorted and Leah put it all away into...

...the low cherry cabinet.

She finished installing the racks and filled those.

Even installed my new book/magazine basket on the wall in the bathroom.  How fancy am I?  LOL!

We hung things on the wall.  The Tibetan tapestry above the TV...

...Serena's pretty, cheerful daisy painting above the far wall in the studio (we hung it high so I can still stack a few things on top of the bookcase)...

...my leaf painting behind the Chinese brushes...

...my sisters angel she stitched for me watches over me while I sleep again...

...the three colorful angels, the "believe in angels" heart, and my male door angel are all up.  (Notice a lot of angels in my bedroom--LOL!)

Leah also set up the rotating picture frame for me on top of the desk.

Oh, I saved out three of the dried roses.  The rest I took apart and saved all the petals to use in paper making.

Baby Phil really likes it here and is three times the size already, I swear!

So...not much left!  We have two more pictures to hang...but I was doing so quite precariously and Leah has some of the actual picture brackets at home she will bring over on Friday.  We'll hang them before the family comes on Saturday.  
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Leah's coming over to help set up the new chair and end table on Friday after it is delivered.  They are going to call me on a time window for delivery--so, depending on when that is, that will determine if it is just her and Ian or the whole family.
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In the meantime, all I have left to do is fill the turntable again with all our crafting tools (that's what all is in the box)...

...sort through the "tall" box (containing every odd tall skinny thing I couldn't pack anywhere else)...

...and the big black bag of sewing stuff.

After which, I can take what's left of the empty containers in my bedroom...

...and store the leftovers in my bedroom (still have some empty small drawers) or out in the garage.  And then...I WILL BE DONE!!!!  OMG!!!!  WHOOHOO!!!
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I am actually going to be done by Friday--and have my new chair to boot!  Kind of find it hard to believe, you know?  Been five months.  Three to pack and two to unpack.  Whew!!!  Perfect timing.  My family will be up to visit this weekend.  :):) 
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The past two nights I have been dreaming about playing in my art journals--LOL!  I will be too sore to actually do that for a while, but my soul is ready to go!
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This afternoon I am hoping to make it over to Leah's to have her cut my hair.  Tomorrow Caroline is coming to clean, and Thursday Caroline's supervisor comes for her annual visit.  (Angie's bringing a newly graduated young lady on her very first home visit--she thought I'd be a perfect person for her to have for a first client...although then she might think everybody is as nice, Angie said--how sweet!).  Friday will be the furniture delivery and Saturday the Johnson Clan will arrive for a visit.  After that...I think I will collapse for a month--or two--ROFL!
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Oh, and my Amazon deliveries and a very special craft item should be coming this week, too.  (I know--you think I don't need any more craft stuff--but you will see how much use Leah and I will get out of this particular gadget we've been drooling over ever since it came out.)
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In the morning when I don't want to open the blinds right away (still in my nightgown) this is what Miss Karma does.  She is not going to miss out on a sunny morning due to her snail-roommate and pushes herself between the blinds and the glass door--LOL!

You may notice my silver water thermos above on the end table...and my red thermal cup was right next to my laptop here before I got started on the blog this morning.  No surprises here for the ladies over at Elizabeth's T-Stands For Tuesday--LOL!  

Tried to take a last pic of the living room before this changes already (but most happily) with the new chair...

...but it was so sunny this morning that it is hard to see.  I'll have to take a better one once the sun moves this afternoon.  You can't see her but Karma is lying in a pool of sunlight behind the chair down by the window there--listening to the beeping construction machinery working on the third building of our complex. 
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Anyways, I am soooooo thrilled to be this close to the very end of the move that it can actually make my eyes well up--no lie.  I don't think you'll miss all the tons of pictures of both my places over this long, long move--LOL!  (But it will be fun for me to look back on one day.)  This entire moving adventure was probably more engrossing to me than to all of you.  But I will do a video tour like I promised when it is all finished--and I am not hobbling as noticeably--LOL!  Hopefully within the next couple weeks. 
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If I wasn't so sore...and stiff...and tired...and unable to master them even when I was young...I'd be doing cartwheels next week.  ;) ;)
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Not sure if I totally agree with this quote right at this very moment, but it truly has been quite a journey.  :):)  Have a marvelous, marvelous week!!  
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 "Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity, but in doing it."
Greg Anderson