September, storage room and sickness

Well this month has not gotten off to a good start. I came down with a rotten cold the very first weekend. Many hours spent coughing and sneezing and sleeping but finally the end seems to be in sight. I don’t know how we expect scientists to cure cancer when they can’t even cure the common cold.

The sky this morning was full of blotchy little clouds, so evenly spaced as to look unreal. It was one of those skies that if you saw it in a painted picture, you would have dismissed it as too amateur an attempt at painting clouds!

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So here’s an another room that we have been wanting to tackle. Check out the striped wall paper with all the pretty green accent paint…oh my. This is the storage room right off the kitchen and adjacent to the laundry. Handy little room but quite the eyesore. I think we should get lots of credit for looking beyond the color schemes that were in this house and imaging our own don’t you? We have started with very plain walls (that gorgeous white left over from the bedroom, that is really beige) and have covered some of the green trim but not all of it yet. Definite improvement and not quite so glaring to the eye as it was! We have also been working on some little “hangers” like one in this room for canvas bags (BYOB) It has recycled wine corks as the bag holders.

This side of the room with the giant green shelving has stayed the same for now, but I do believe its days are numbered! My favorite piece in the storage room is the plastic bag holder that Patti made. The base or hanger part is from an old trophy from days of yore. For as often as we remember to take cloth bags along for shopping we sure end up with a lot of the plastic bags too. They are handy for different things but the planet would be better off if they were banned for good. Or could you live without them? What do you think? Leave comments by clicking on blog title! Happy September you’all!