It all needs to be sorted, cleaned, and assigned a new purpose - does it stay or go? If it's staying, where will it live in the house? If it's going, will I donate it, give it to friends, sell it, or is it really just good for the bin?
This is tiring.
Stressful.
Draining.
And I've been doing it for the last four months :(
So naturally, I'm very excited now that our living/dining room is now void of these boxes...
And these...
These...
And these too...
I've lost count. In the last few weeks, I must have thrown out upwards of about 50 boxes of junk (and that's an approximate figure, not an exaggeration). I call it junk because it was everything from badly aged artificial flowers, magazines, newspaper clippings, small fabric scraps, broken toys... And more. Stuff that was intended to be sorted and fixed eventually, but no-one ever got around to doing it.
You can't even begin to imagine how heart breaking this is for me.
So many precious things.
Once cherished and loved.
Reduced to nothing but recycling and land-fill.
I have to keep reminding myself that I can't keep everything, and these weren't really the things that mattered to mum anyway. As it turns out, we've got space once again in our pretty little apartment, and it is filled with light once more...
Our entrance and dining area.
The lounge/living area.
Just a pretty little feature, inspired by our beautiful close friends who have regularly checked in on us and kept me distracted when I needed it.
You have no idea how wonderful this is. It was seriously so bad that we could barely walk around. We were even considering moving to a larger place just so we would have room to sort, because there wasn't even room for that! I got through it by just forcing myself to sit up at night and go through everything, one by one.
Phew.
So, did you spot that fabulous grandfather clock in the entrance way? My Bisou spotted that baby on Gumtree some weeks ago.
Would you believe it was only $60??
The poor bloke who bought it originally paid a few hundred for it, but apparently his wife made it very clear that she didn't like it and it wasn't staying... Troy snapped it up, and we love it. It's not working at the moment, but my clever little Bisou has been doing some research and thinks he can get it going again. So when I treated my Bisou to a couple of lovely new jumpers for autumn (and he treated me with some gorgeous new boots), I couldn't help myself but take a photo of him looking so debonair in front of our beautiful new time piece.
One of the things I love about us, is that between the two of us we have so many skills that there isn't much that we can't do together.
Oh yes.
I love Troy to bits :)
So that was one project out of the way. The other...?
I kind of had no bedside table for a while. Well, to be accurate there was a table...
This has been mum's kitchen table ever since I can remember. I love it. I couldn't part with it, but when we rescued it there was no room for it except in the bedroom! Once my bedside lamp got put on there it was destined to be around for a while, but because of its sheer size it meant that other stuff was just piling on top of it too...
Just awful :(
So... We didn't have the money to go out and get a couple of nice matching bedside tables, and it wasn't bothering Troy that he didn't have one for now anyway, so what was I to do? I had to do a swap somewhere around the house...
And then it hit me.
We don't use the table outside all too often because we find it a bit small, and we generally don't spend as much time on the balcony as I'd like either. I'd just have to clean it and paint it before it came inside.
Paint paint paint...
A bit of de-cluttering and getting rid of things that didn't need to be there...
And here's the result :)
A much much happier (and less cluttered!) bedside space.
Oh yes, I painted the chair too. I like white :)
I must admit, it's prone to change again sometime soon as this is by no means a permanent solution, but it is far nicer and much more liveable than it was before.
On my bedside is one of my most treasured photos... This has been next to my bed since Troy and I got married in 2009
Xoxoxoxo
My beautiful, gorgeous Bobby.
Xoxoxoxo
Another of mum's beloved little treasured. A dragonfly pin she used to wear as a brooch from time to time. Her little "libellule".
I love and adore you immensely my Bobby.
I miss you everyday.
I hope and pray that you are safe and happy.
Xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo
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