PURGING MY GUEST BEDROOM

I feel like I am letting you guys down....I am not very organized today.....or lately for that matter.  I used to sit down on Sundays and plan my post for the week....

Which has not been happening since I have been working most weekends.  All this being said I don't have much today but....a little glimpse of what my Sunday was all about.

I have this guest bedroom....that of course..... had become the biggest mess ever.  Left over fabrics and things ordered but not used for a project.....pillows....oh yes so many of those!

I just kept the door shut so I would not have to look at it.  It is a small room....about 11 x 11.  Just room for a bed and a chest.

On Sunday around 12:30 I just got a wild hair and walked in and started taking things out into the LR....which of course spilled into the kitchen and family room.  Y'all it was a mess.....worse than Christmas morning with 4 kids opening presents.

Here goes....the shame.

I tried to put them in categories but I was getting overwhelmed....

Cami looking at me....like WTF is going on Mom!

I mean how did this happen.....I ask....like I don't know....haha.

I was at it until 6 pm.....

I started selling things on a few Facebook Groups and that felt good!  

I also cleaned that room so hard.  Baseboards, bedding....all spider webs are now gone!  Every little dot I saw was a tick.....you know I am still jumpy!

Then I got distracted.  You knew that was coming.  After the room was clean I started styling....

What in the living hell is wrong with me?

All cleaned.

Lord....I need to be medicated.

So where are we you ask?

In the closet....pillow covers in twos only....

Pillows with inserts....still in this corner of my LR  as I am writing this.  Here is the problem now...I don't want to put anything in the room now....but that is not reality cause it's either in there or in my LR.

The good thing is I am still working on selling stuff.  It does make it less painful:)

I will tell you it gets overwhelming doing that because you have to pay attention so when you price something too low and 389 people start responding and you have to figure that shit out.

I was sweating a few times.

But all in all it's a good solution.  I will tell you this....the trick is to price to sell so you have to have a long hard talk with yourself about the end goal!

Letting go of the pillows....my first love..... is another whole situation.  That may happen last and I might need an intervention before it is all over.

Shaykickingbutt

 

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MY WEEK

What I really mean is last week.....the great clean of 2014.  It is amazing how dirty and worn a rental place can get in a year.  

I think because there are 4 bedrooms....it is perfect for 2 families so 10 people every week during the season will tromp all over that place.  

Don't even get me started on what constant sand will do to floors and rugs.

Now listen....some of you are thinking what a complainer.  At least she has a beach house.  Let me clear that up right now.  We bought at the height of the market never thinking there could be a recession.  At least not one like we just had.  So I am not even going to tell you the stinkhole that put us into.

Moving on.

I shampooed rugs and upholstery

Wiped down walls and baseboards [thank you magic eraser]

Washed all slipcovers and bedding and ironed.

Cleaned out every kitchen cabinet, organized it and replenished.  Why are there only 4 mugs left?  Why are there only 4 spoons left?

Painted a nightstand

Threw away skanky sleeping pillows.

Had the AC serviced

Had the bug man there

Went to HomeGoods, Marshalls, Walmart, Target, Bed Bath & Beyond, Lowes, Home Depot and Stienmart.

In 2 1/2 days.  Uh huh.  Thank you.

Started to leave on Friday afternoon and my husband was putting some of the drapery pins back in the holes on a traverse rod and pulled the whole dang thing down and broke part of it.

Oh good Lord.

While he was thinking we need to find the part [for a 10 year old rod...... good luck with that on a Friday afternoon] I rummaged through my tool kit and came up with a zip tie and some cork.  MacGyver baby.

Too late to leave.....open a bottle of wine.

Here are some of the changes.

This is how it looked....not really but for my pictures last year.  I could not get those stools clean.  Grungy.

So I grabbed 2 from Target and will get slipcovers made for the old ones later.  The pillows....again faded and dirty.

I ordered a new seagrass from Overstock.  Deal.  Pillows from mostly HomeGoods.  Stools from target.

  

I like the added color...... plus I only had 2 days to get er done.

Every year I say I am going to paint the console and every year I say screw it.

Had to stage this one a little.....because of course I did not have time to read a magazine:)

Love this tray from HomeGoods.

Can't have real flowers in a rental but thankful I found these just for some pretty.

This is pitiful....but I did it 5 minutes before we left.  I am so not creative in this department.

And this is the view Friday night after we finished.

So glad to be done for another year.  Oh yeah.....by the way we drove the new car down and had so much fun talking about it.  Goobers.

Is anyone coming in town for the Design Bloggers Conference?  I signed up for it cause it is 1/2 mile from my house.

Sahgyver

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