Finally

It only took me a year and a half, but I finally did what I set out to do.

Last summer (not the one of most recent past, but the one before that) I enjoyed some good ol' fashioned shopping for home decorating supplies while I was visiting family in Michigan.  Good decorating stores are hard to find here, so I took advantage of being in a larger metropolitan area.  I had a plan.

Then I got home.

Once I was back, I put the table in place and stored the new purchases in the basement with the other decorating supplies that didn't have a home upstairs.  Weeks passed, but the table sat there...naked.  Months passed, but still the table was alone.

Fast forward to this week.  Joerg is out of town, and every time he travels (for more than a day or two) I work on predefined projects.  For example, since his departure on Monday morning, I have scanned two binders filled with the kids' educational documents that go back to preschool.  I have sifted through old binders of house-building documents from seven years ago when we built this house.  I have scanned about one hundred old random photos to our new cloud, and I have "downloaded" thousands of pictures from their CD storage onto the cloud (two CD binders down, one to go).  Today, was 'decorate the entry' day.

It wasn't a hugely time-consuming project, but decorating (like clothes shopping) is one of those things for which I must be...in-the-mood.  Today, I was (for decorating, not clothes shopping).

I think I like the way it turned out.  I'll have to "sleep on it" for a couple of days before I call this project complete, but I would say it's a very good first draft.