I Mean, This Is What I’m Up Against

We have this old printer’s drawer mounted on the wall as you go up the stairs.  It is full of all sorts of little miniatures and transient pieces of nature.  Sometimes items will disappear for use in play elsewhere and then make their way back to the shadow box. 

I know decor-wise it’s dated perhaps to have a shadow box, but I like mine.  I like it very much and every so often I dust it out and visit all the little characters and creatures in it.  Imagine the double-take I did as I passed by it this morning on the way upstairs with an oversized basket of clean laundry.

I mean, this is what I’m up against around here!  I try as hard as I can to keep things neat and clean and presentable should someone drop by.  It’s bad enough that the shadow box desperately needs dusting, but a partially eaten pretzel stick sitting in it.  My word.

On a sweeter note, the kitties have taken to climbing up into the cinder blocks that hold up one of our water barrels.  There are two “cinder block hotels,” each one two blocks high, so there are eight rooms to three kitties.  They move around as they see fit.  This kitty was so sleepy he could barely open his little eyes.

So he promptly closed them again and curled up into an even tighter little fluff-ball and want back to sleep.

I did a cute little project today for a corner of my home office where I needed to post little reminders and notes regarding my job.  I definitely wanted something small, and I found it when I found a perfectly good cork board for 50 cents.

I painted the frame, hot glued a piece of fabric over the cork, and wrote a couple of verses from Proverbs 31 around the frame.  (It won’t hurt me to glance at that throughout the day either.)  Princess of the Universe helped me glue some treasures on at the four corners and some buttons onto some pushpins.

I really like it!!  And it’s small enough to sit on the back corner of the desk in very clear view for me.

I’ll leave you with a reminder to work on those things that can be worked on:

“Patience with ills you can cure is the greatest evil.”  Margery Ashby

Lynn