Also yesterday, given that Misfits prep, changing bed, large laundry load, attendance at a couple of online meetings weren't enough, I had an idea.
About eleven pm, thinking about going to bed, I suddenly thought why don't I dump that unsightly task light with the dodgy stand and the expensive bulb, now flickering ominously?
To think is to do. I pulled out the furniture to reach the outlet, unplugged the ancient lamp and hauled it to the front hall.
Then I put all the furniture back and here's a better looking living room.
The farther away lamp is the newly-moved one, with the shade I decorated with an abstract landscape made from scraps of leftover handmade paper.
Then I went to bed, grumbling about my hip.
The ancient hinky task light is, as of this morning, out at the dumpster. This is why I make nutritious meals. A person needs her strength.
With sustenance from a selection of cake from a member's recent gathering
At the Friday knitting group, we had a full house, some great projects
Chat ranged over sheep and wool festivals, house buying, living alone, age discrimination in housing, HOAs, fall planting, chimneys, baking, trees falling, several streams of chat at once much of the time. Like being in a big family again.
Happy day everyone, speak up, your opinion is as good as anyone's.
Love your gallery wall in the living room -- it looks very chic!
ReplyDeleteIt's emptier these days since I gave away quite a bit of art. I think it looks better.
DeleteOh yeah. Your living room looks good and very comfortable.
ReplyDeleteThank you. That old lamp didn't do much for it.
DeleteI have a similar lamp though it has four roller feet and a circular bulb. the bulb burned out and the lamp went to live in the barn.
ReplyDeleteLacking a barn, I did the next best.
DeleteI also admire your gallery wall. Your room looks inviting. Why not move furniture at 11:00 pm? 😉 The quilt looks like someone is wrapped in it to me.
ReplyDeleteBy the middle of the night it was on the bed with me wrapped in it.
DeleteNothing like deciding to move the furniture at 11:00 p.m. Good job! It looks great.
ReplyDeleteThat yellow sweater is as pretty as a sunflower.
The sweater is a bit different from the photo, more olive, but a lovely one.
DeleteI love your living room art gallery. I was just talking about trees falling on sheep during wool festivals!
ReplyDeleteSmall world!
DeleteLife's too short to live with bad lamps! I do impulsive stuff like that too, though not at 11 p.m. I'm always asleep by then.
ReplyDeleteToo bad you weren't around to haul it out. The weighted base makes it heavy and lopsided to carry. We did get briefly stuck in the storm door.
DeleteThe lamp you have got rid of is just like the one I have standing behind my sofa for reading in the evenings. Son reckons it looks like something the dentist would have! Must admit I don't love it and the grandchildren like to bend the bendy bit up and down so it may not last forever.
ReplyDeleteThis one was about 15 years old, so the bendy part had fallen apart, and I wasn't sure how safe it was. It's time had come!
DeleteGood grief! I am in bed by 9 most evenings and you're still furniture shifting!
ReplyDeleteNine? That's the shank of the evening!
DeleteSue has a lamp of that shape. It had to do with her painting. I forget it's specialness, but it may have emitted colour-corrected daytime light. I am grasping at how to say it.
ReplyDeleteThat's why the bulb is so expensive to replace. Daylight type.
DeleteNothing like 'think it, do it' - but seriously 11pm?
ReplyDeleteSometimes the think it part happens at odd times. I'm a helpless prawn.
DeleteOh wow. You did really well to move all that furniture. I think a nice rest for your hip is called for. Love all the projects
ReplyDeleteYes, once in a while I like making a few changes and it usually involves moving furniture.
DeleteAn example of striking while the iron is hot...the inspiration, the will and the strength and vision. Well done!
ReplyDeleteThank you, yes, all that! You make it sound so heroic, wheee.
DeleteI like the new look of you living room. Had no idea this side even existed.
ReplyDeleteI think this is usually behind me when I do indoor shots.
DeleteWhy do we go off on a wild hare at bedtime? And then it leads to more than you expect (in our house we call it the 'galloping ick'). I really want to paint our living room because I never have liked the colour and sadly it's throughout the entire apartment but then I stop and realize that if I paint the living room, I will have to paint the entranceway too, and the hall that leads to the bedroom and sewing room. They're all connected so it would mean doing it all and moving every.single-thing in the way. Needless to say the colour is staying!
ReplyDeleteCurious to know if you painted the large painting in your gallery wall? Perhaps a future blog post could highlight some of the art pieces there?
Yes, that's my work. Someone asked a while back if I would do an art tour so maybe I will. Thanks for the reminder.
DeleteYour living room is very cozy. I love how you decorate with your own art. An art tour would be so cool!
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