by Wendy Scheel | Jan 4, 2017 | Life
Let’s have a little chit-chat about New Year’s Resolutions.
According to about.com the top ten resolutions are:
- Spend more time with family and friends
- Fit in Fitness
- Tame the Bulge
- Quit Smoking
- Enjoy Life More
- Quit Drinking
- Get out of Debt
- Learn Something New
- Help Others
- Get Organized
Do any of these sound familiar? Yea, me too.
Except this year I would make my number one resolution: Stress Less.
And since we are already on day four of this new year, I am going to totally win the New Year’s Resolution game and NOT make ANY resolutions.
BAM! DONE!
Instantly less stress.
BUT if I had an actual resolution list, I would also have mastered number ten: Get Organized.
A lot of people are cleaning out, purging and fixing up areas of their home to make room for things or get the things they have into the right place.
Not at our house.
My forever tall and handsome husband finds organizing a stress reducer. (Bless his heart, right?!)
On any given day, I will hear him downstairs organizing something.
Yesterday, when I came downstairs to take a break from sewing I opened my pantry door and found this:
This is how my pantry looks 99.9% of the time. My Mom lovingly named this space our “bomb shelter” because the two of us could live for years in this pantry and never go hungry.
Okay so maybe I personally haven’t mastered the “Get Organized”, but Wade has and it allows me to Stress Less, so I’ll go with it.
~Wendy
by Wendy Scheel | Dec 29, 2016 | Life
We are putting the final touches on 2016 and now it is time to look forward to 2017. I have so many ideas in my brain, that I hope my pocket-book can keep up!
This is the project I am most excited about:
Our daughter’s wedding in August 2017!
Okay, so it’s technically not a “project” but we are DIYing a lot of the little things to personalize their big day. The closer the date gets, the more posts will be wedding-themed and the bigger my proud-Mom crocodile tears will become.
Another dream I have been milling around is tearing down this rock around the fireplace.
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The Family Room
The ideal design would be to move the entire fireplace insert to the right, put a mantel above it and then mount the TV above that. I would love to then place a window on the back wall making an entire wall of windows looking out onto the lake.
I like the stone fireplace wall but I don’t love the funky angle it sits at and how it is finished across the top. Plus the fact that putting the fireplace in the middle of the wall will allow for more furniture arrangements.
You know how I love to move furniture around!
(Quick story: Last night Wade went to bed to read a book and relax. Our bedroom wall and the family room wall are one in the same. I wanted to try a new furniture arrangement but to say that Wade doesn’t like to change the furniture around would be an understatement. So, I pushed our two lightweight love seats to where I wanted them and then clumsily wiggled the big bulky leather recliner into its new spot. I must not have been as quiet as I thought I was because an anxious yet wanting-to-be-supportive voice from the bedroom says, “Do you need help?”)
26 years of marriage….he gets me. 🙂
I am looking forward to 2017 with so many more things to share and all that life throws our way!
Have a safe and Happy New Year,
Wendy
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