Ready for the new year

Almost done with the major arcana of my flora tarot deck. I'm having a little block. Used up my nervous holiday anxiety to  reorganize the entire studio.

I've been trying to get my husband to move the tonsu for over a year. It gave me an entire wall to work with. Made a cozy spot for the dogs also.

If I wasn't so pleased with the new space and paint cart I would point out to him that I would not have been bitching about selling this house so much if he had just moved the damn thing. Maybe he will figure it out himself. He also fixed a pole in my laundry closet so I could reach it. So guess what? This house ain't so bad after all...I do want a house someday that has a huge studio and don't really care about the rest of it besides I would prefer NO neighbors. We have been here for eleven years. Dang...

We picked the cart up at harbor freight a few weeks ago and he painted it for me. It was red.  I was going to use it for moving the sewing machine back and forth but it is a little top heavy. Embarrassed to say that this is not all of my paint.

Crinkle voile curtains World Market

Picked up my curtains today, had to pay more than they were the other day but at least I didn't have to pay $5.00 more a panel.  Really World Market?  I'm sure our wages haven't increased accordingly.  Come on folks, I was sure they were $13 a panel on sale.  Two days later, (they were in the process of a reset), they are marked $20 a panel on sale for $17.  I went to the old display and the manager found me there wanting to help me. Well, she didn't really want to help me because she scanned said panel and stated that they were on sale for $17 so I must be mistaken.  I reached over to the panel and pulled the $15 price and say, "Oh, look here, I thought they were cheaper."  She was livid and jerked the thing out of my hand and told me it was an old sign.  So, I didn't get the sale price off the $15 but at least I didn't have to pay that special sale price of $17.  She was rude and told me to have the cashier to page her.  She came and checked me out and was even ruder, I could smell her cigarette on her so that didn't even help her calm down. I'm surprised she acted that way because I would think any paying customer is better than no customers.  I am always polite because I have worked retail and know how you get treated daily.  I also know that two bucks a panel did not come out of her paycheck and if she had pulled the old signs we wouldn't have had an issue.

I didn't let it upset me because I love the curtains and they were way cheaper than that mess of velvet I ordered up on Overstock.  I won't be shopping there anymore.  I was charged an unbelievable amount for restocking those drapes plus the shipping.  Dang. Sorry honey.  So my blues still don't match but I like it now.  It reminds me of the colors of the ocean in here, green and blue which ties in well with the Ganesha.

My view

Painting done, cleaned and washed the Pyrex and did the displays above the cabinet.  My view is great!  I finally hung the stair picture on the stair wall.  I intended to hang it there when I painted it, I really like it there.  The drapes should be here this week!  Can't wait to see them with the tanker desk.  I told my husband that the next room needed to be painted before they arrived and he just laughed at me.  He does a great job but I'm sick of waiting for it to be done.  I'm sure we will move as soon as it is.  That is always the way it works around here...not that I'm not always ready for the next adventure.