Exactly a week from today our party is happening and I have TONS left to do. It's funny that I have sent nearly 200 invites out and only a handful have bothered to RSVP. I am going to have to just plan food on the assumption that all will come!? That is weird but what do you do. The family helped to get the tree up but I still have boxes and boxes of stuff to put out. That is really the easy part but I do have to do it. Then I can tweek the house and shelves and stuff. I have to make it perfect as it is an open house. My plan is to also set "my room" up as a kind of gallery and maybe hang a few of my pieces around the house. What an opportunity for an art show! Maybe I can sell some stuff. That would be AWESOME!
My mind is just swimming with stuff this morning. I was up at five with Clayton and just could not go back to sleep. The party, and next weekend is B's Alliday Show at the fairgrounds and I have to set up my booth. That is kind of blowing my mind right now because I'm not really sure I want to do it but I need too. Last year I had a lot of prints to sell but I'm not going to do that this year. I just don't want to get into the PRINT stuff. I just want to paint and sell paintings. I don't want it to be a "business", I want to create. I do have note cards and those are easy and sell nicely.
This month, December, I plan on fulfilling the plan to post everyday, I hope. I did pretty well for posting everyday of the year until about September then I just gave up. I think because my body was in so much pain that I couldn't write. The knee thing is a memory, although I still have the arthritis pain some, I am pain free. I've gone back to the exercise but I don't overdo it because I am still post-surgery and have another 6-7 weeks of healing time internally. There are times at the end of the day when it is telling me "STOP and rest!" This week won't be an option for me in that regard. It is full steam ahead.
The house renovation is complete, inside and out...well, the out is not quite complete but by Tuesday it will be. The landscaping is done and the new sod will be laid on Tuesday, then we can call it complete, at least till spring when my new vegetable garden will be set up. I've adjusted where it is and have plans for some of the flowerbeds along with Sue from The Garden Trug.
When we were planning on getting some more landscaping done the guy who did the front yard was a flake and left us with new flowerbeds overrun with the zoysia grass. We couldn't get him back to replace plants that were the wrong stuff or to fix our problems. I had HAD it with him and I told The Hubby that I was going to be in charge of the yard stuff. I love gardening and when I first went to college at the age of 24 my first class was horticulture because that is what I wanted to be briefly. I knew what I was doing. He let me, although he couldn't help himself for trying to horn in. That's okay because I know he is a micro-manager and he needed to be a part. Anyway, in our little three street area The Garden Trug truck was everywhere at 3 or 4 different houses and I saw that they were doing everything from fences to new flowerbeds. I contacted Sue and got things going and I am extremely pleased with them. They will also come out to clean out my beds in the spring and put more annuals, whatever I need!!!!! I am in control of the yard!
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I thought the RSVP problem was just a Seattle thing, but I guess it's here too. I just stopped asking for RSVP's and even for my daughter's wedding I asked for "Regrets, only" and told everyone I hadn't heard from that I expected to see them there. It was more accurate. Having been in Oklahoma just over a year, I haven't thrown any big parties yet, so can't test this out here.
I like your garden plan - just enough outside help, but you're still in charge. Sounds good!
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