Years ago I bought this bookcase. Bill was going to paint it, way back then, and never did.
So it has been in my living room for years, unpainted. I kind of got used to it. But suddenly I decided that it was time. So my handyman took it home with him, sanded it, and stained it with the same green stain that I used on my picket fence in the back yard. I had a half gallon of it left over, and I wasn't about to buy something else.
This was the chicken coop.and for a while, after I cleaned it up, it was a play house for
my grands. But they live a ways away, and don't get up here that much. So I decided to
do a little renovation.
The window used to be the cupboard door in my pantry (which is now the downstairs bathroom).
I found the windows on FB marketplace.
New plywood floor.
The wood on the walls came from my neighbor's little sawmill.
Everything else came from my house.
My youngest daughter asked me what it was for. I said, it's just for me.
It's a place to write, a place to meditate, just a little retreat.
I left the ceiling the way it was. I love the tin roof, and one day when it rained,
I went out there and sat. I was so glad that I had not put a wood ceiling up.
The sound of the rain was incredible.
There's a great view of my perennial garden.
It's just another place to retreat to. The hammock chair was $12.99 at Ollie's.
New floor and woodwalls in here as well.
And sitting in the hammock chair, this is your view.
This project just made me happy. Maybe it doesn't make a lot of sense to
anyone else, but it made total sense to me. It just felt good.
And after 6 weeks of PT, my shoulder is much improved, and I'm weaving again.
I am SO grateful. Weaving is what I do.
Classes coming up. They are always stimulating and fun, and I always
appreciate the little extra income.
And I get to do it in my beautiful home.
How blessed am I???
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