Project of the Day!

My room needed rearranging. Like, a lot. I’d bought some cool new stuff at Goodwill with that in mind, and then I cluttered up my room with them but I didn’t incorporate them. Today was the day to deal with that.

A “before” picture.
Cluttered dresser

The pancakey thing to the right is the paper shade to my new lamp. Which is just to the left of it, bare. Oh yeah. Needed to work on the room today.

Here’s the bed in the old position. Skidoo, the Colossal Rainbow Squid, is always ready to help. Or eat anything that annoys me. Which is helpful. In this picture he is investigating the possibilities of eating the cat.

Piled Bed

At last, curtains! It only took me two years of living in this room to put curtains on the windows! Also, I fell off the stepladder hanging the first set.

Also also, you can see my beloved drill on the windowsill to the right. The kid took a lot of pictures of me wielding my drill, but those are on “her” camera.

Curtains

Umm…this was about when I decided I didn’t want to do this anymore and it just needed to…fix itself.

Big mess

Brief pause to admire a lovely sunset…

Sunset

I took this one with the “sunset” mode. I think it caught the light better. While the first pic is pretty, this one looks more like the sunset I was watching.

Sunset with special mode

I have to mention my plant. I have a Madagascar dragon tree. I’ve had it some eight years, and it’s huge. Here’s a picture from this morning:

Dragon Tree

Here’s what it looked like after a dreadful encounter with my ceiling fan, as I moved it out of the way of my rearranging.

Maimed tree

Here’s the part I removed. I’m so upset! (yes, it’s on the stove. Yes, there’s a telescope in my kitchen. And you know what? It’s still there.)

cut part

And…finished! For tonight, anyway. Although my daughter rightly points out it looks like a teenager’s room. It used to be very sparse! Perhaps it shall be again. I’m not sure I can take this much color, being such a drab soul. (The wallscroll is Hagi and Saya from Blood+, if you care. The one behind my poor maimed plant in the last pic is the assassin team Weiss from Weiss Kreuz.)

Finished

Oh–and here, at last, is my put-together lamp, next to my poor abused tree. I’m so sorry, Spike!

lamp

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need some ibuprofen. And perhaps a heating pad.

Ow.

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