Pieces of a Puzzle

I hope you all had a fabulous weekend.  Weekends are always crazy as we try to cram everything we can into Saturday so we can rest on the Sabbath day.  It can get hectic but I wouldn't have it any other way.  It's so nice to have one day that we "chill".  In addition to getting things done around the house I was spiritually fed with being able to attend our church's General Women's meeting for the upcoming General Conference and see my children participate in our annual Primary program.  It was all very uplifting and filled my soul.

I am happy to report for todays blog that I finally got some of my decorating juices flowing again.  It's been awhile and long overdo in my book.

Decorating this house has proven to be harder then I originally thought.  It is truly like putting a puzzle together.  You try this here and that there, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.  Sometimes you try several things and nothing seems to work and other times you find several things that come together all at once.  For quite awhile I've been stuck in the "nothing seems to work" phase, but Friday I finally hit a spot where several things came together and I am liking where things are headed.

Part of the problem with putting this whole decor thing together has been the fact that certain things have to happen before other things can happen.  As a result, things look undone in one area while you wait for another area to get to a certain point.  Another difficulty has been that this house is much different than my last house so things I hung on walls and decorations I used on shelving just aren't working here.  Lastly, I take a long time to decide what I want and where I want things to go, but when things start to click, many things fall into place.

I'll show you an example.  Since we have lived here the computer has resided on this piece in the main living room of the house.  It became a dumping ground for paper work and other junk.  Not exactly what you want people seeing when they come into your home.

I lived with it because the plan was to put the computer in the pantry on a desk.  But the pantry has been under construction for awhile and has also become a dumping ground of sorts so I've been in limbo with making the switch.

I've come to realize that things in my house will hardly ever be perfect and so at some point I just have to move forward and go for it.  Friday was that day for me.  I took everything off the piece in the living room and transferred it to the piece in the pantry.  The desk in the pantry is not going to stay.  I eventually want to have it just be a floating shelf with corbels similar to these:

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But for now, this will do:

It's nothing fancy and who knows when the desk I want will happen, but I made the transition anyway because I was sick of looking at the mess in the living room.  Once I had the piece in the living room cleared off my creative juices were able to start flowing and I went "shopping" in my own house for pieces I had that might work.  I am really liking what I came up with:

I just may or may not have sat on the couch the rest of the night and just stared at it, it made me that happy inside.  My creative streak didn't end there and I figured out what to put above my piano and how to use a lot of pieces I had from the last house in this house.

Decorating and accessorizing is my favorite part of the whole design process, but you have to have good bones to make it look good.  We've been working on the "bones" for awhile and I like what they have set up for me to do.  Now I just have to put all the pieces of our house "puzzle" together.

It's coming, it's coming!!!