Whirlwind Wednesday

Whew. It’s been one thing after another today, but in a good way. There was a professional photo shoot this morning for a newspaper article I was interviewed for, a bunch of errand running, three special order necklaces made and sent out, and two more things accomplished from my February manini list. All between bouts of my regular work.

Today I chose one easy and one more involved thing to take care of. Since I had to stop by the hardware store anyway, I lingered in the paint department for a bit and got a giant stack of paint chips. As soon as I find myself with a couple of days in a row relatively free, I plan to paint the shelves in my office and the walls in the till (the latter of which also has a wallpaper border that has to go). But since those breaks tend to sneak up on me in the form of last-minute project delays, I want to be prepared ahead of time and not have to spend precious project time deciding on colors.

I have no idea which way I want to go with the shelves, other than that the shelves themselves and the trim will be my favorite bright white. For the back and sides, part of me wants to go really dark and dramatic. Another (small) part of me thinks, Hey, let’s go get some fun wallpaper! And yet another part of me thinks that I’ll get sick of those other two options rather quickly and should just stick with something in a midtone. The only thing I’m clear about is that the current dirty beige has to go. So yay, paint chips.

One of my other stops was Target, which had their inexpensive bookcases on ridiculous sale, so I grabbed two three-shelf units for $17 each. It took less than an hour to assemble them both in the guest room and move the fiction books from my office to there. That cleared up three shelves in my office. Things were starting to get tight in there, and piling stuff in front of other stuff is my gateway drug to chaos, so something had to be done.

I would have preferred something nicer in solid wood, but new isn’t in the budget right now, and I’m too busy this month for thrift store searching and refinishing. These will do for now, and when we get around to updating the furniture in that guest room, we’ll upgrade and pass these along to someone who needs them.

There’s a bit of rearranging to do in the office, but that can wait for another day.