Blessings From Home

Nesting Mission-Day 2-Living/Dining Room-Updated

Ok, so the kitchen is done, and tired as I am, I fully intend to keep on going with this mission. It brought such satisfaction to go to bed last night with a clean kitchen, knowing there wasn't a dirty dish left in the house, and not a single sticky spot left unwiped on my cabinets.

The kitchen got cleaned, a nice meal was cooked, and my husband was much appreciative of both. I also managed to get the fabric and one pattern prepared for the girl's dresses. I apparently misread the pattern thinking it had sizes from 2 to 8, but found out it was only up to size 5, thankfully though I have another similar, though not exactly the same, pattern to make for my oldest daughter. The tea towel was ironed and the iron on transfer was applied, and I started  working on it during the few moments I had to sit down last night.

So today's goals are as follows...

~Regular Routines

~Basic Homeschool with Kids

~Maintain Cleaned rooms-Kitchen

~Clean Living/Dining Room from top to bottom

~Laundry- I need to get at least 2-3 loads done up today

~Projects-Today I want to get the other pattern prepared and start cutting both dresses out. And work at least 15 minutes on the tea towl.

~Tonight's dinner is Chicken potato chowder and salad. We have some pumpkin muffins leftover for dessert.

So now onto the before photos of my living/dining room. I will tell you, I am not proud of this room. It's the first room you see when you walk in my house and it is such a mess. I've gotten into the habit of walking on past it and not even looking around. We spend no time in there, and since moving here in July, it has become a catch all for the yard sale stuff we've been gathering, the empty boxes, and other stuff I haven't taken the time to deal with. It's shameful really, but, like I said, I promised that I would share it, in all it's ugliness...so here it is....

Here is the view of my front door, taken from the door that leads into the kitchen.

And now the view from my front door. That door is the kitchen door, and to the right, which you can't see, there is a door that leads into the hallway. The only furniture we have for this room is the dining room table, a chair and a side table, my cedar chest, and the china hutch. The green chair you see is barber chair that we got for $5 at goodwill. I cut all my family's hair and then some, and this chair has made it a lot easier, if  I can only find a more permanent place for it, otherwise, it may have to go away. Not that a regular chair wouldn't work, but when you're cutting at least 9 heads of hair a month, it sure is nice to have a chair that goes up and down. I would like to get a small formal loveseat for this room, but won't buy one unless I can find it at a yard sale or for free, so for now, my goal is to just get the boxes cleaned up, the dining room table useable, and everything that has a place where it belongs. We intend on having a  yard sale first thing in the spring, but for now, I need to find a place for all of our junk, it may go to my parent's storage building for now if there is room, we'll see. I'll post my updated pictures this evening or first thing in the morning, for now, I'm off to get to work. Have a blessed day!

***Update***

Well, yesterday turned out to be quite productive. The living/dining room was a bit more work than I anticipated, but I still got it all cleaned up with the exception of a few boxes. I didn't get to any of my crafting projects, but I'll have more time and energy for that today. So without further ado, here is the completed pictures of my living/dining room...

Here's the view from my front door. My dining room table is all clean and we're going to enjoy our dinner their tonight.

Here's the view from the dining room table to my front door. The boxes there, sitting on top of my cedar chest are all yard sale things. I was going to take them over to my parents storage building, but I figured that I would find a lot more things on my way through the rest of the house, so they'll stay there until I've gone through all the other rooms.

Here's a nice little sitting nook where I can sit and read my bible in peace and watch the sun come up on my front porch.

And one of my favorite items, my old treadle machine, still in working condition. And now it isn't buried in the junk and I can actually practice using it.

Cleaning this room was another great blessing to my family and I. My husband was so shocked to walk in and find this. Now when people come over to see the baby or otherwise, I won't be so imbarassed to bring them in and let them walk through the living room and kitchen to get to the family room.

I also managed to maintain the kitchen as well, and it still is so nice to wake up to a clean kitchen, and I'm finding it so much easier to keep up with on a daily basis. My hubby was so pleased, he even took me out to eat at my favorite resteraunt. So the chicken potato chowder is on the menu for tonight's dinner instead.

sara

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{ 12:16, Thursday, November 20, 2008 } { Posted by a1health }

Nesting is so great for the rest of the family too!

blessings,
farrah