laura_drewry (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} laura_drewry) wrote,@ 2008-03-29 15:58:00 |
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my new office
What a day I've had!! Started off as any other Saturday with having to get the kids ready for soccer, but I was also blogging over at Petticoats & Pistols which was a lot of fun! Anyway, I went to soccer, ran a few errands and came home to find my BIL's truck in front of the house. Not unusual, really, I just figured he and the DH were loading the boat to go fishing.
WRONG!!
Inside the house, the BIL and my sisters had completely done an "Extreme Home MakeOver" on my office. You have to understand that for the first 16 months or so after we moved into this house, I was working out of the crawl space which was fine, just cramped.
So last month, the boys moved all their toys and gaming systems out of the little hobbit room upstairs and I moved all my stuff up there. I did have pictures, but for some reason I deleted them. RRRRR Anyway, it's a very small window-less room that has a sloped wall and patched together carpeting. But it got me out of the crawl space and up to where it was warm.
So when I left for soccer this morning, my office was a thrown together little room. When I got home, this is what I found:
Look at that - a real desk!!! They took a door (yes, a door!) sanded it down, stained it and turned it into a real desk for me! My laptop and keyboard can both fit on the same surface now without me having to sit sideways!!
I have a shelf to put things on. That picture you see there was from my sister's 40th birthday and we were all crammed in one of those photo booths. Hilarious!! And that little devil guy was a gift from my buddy Lori Devoti.
They hung my coverflats EVENLY (I can't hang anything in a straight line) and the BIL drew, cut out and painted the Marlboro Man for me. How hilarious is that??
My neices found this super cool mirror and then used glitter to write "home of happy endings" around it (might be hard to see with the angle this picture's at)
And here you can see how the wall slants over my desk. Look at that fun lamp and that clock! Oh, those are paper flowers my kids made me hanging off the wall. I hang all sorts of their art work and gifts up there.
Now I ask you - is there a better gift for a writer than coming home and finding a real office waiting for her? I think not! I LOVE IT!!!! Apparently, my DH was a little concerned because they swooped in and took all my books off my shelves, which is fine, but they weren't going back in the same order. Apparently I've given people the impression that I"m an anal freak of some kind. ha! I don't care because they built me a shelf for the books,too!!! Everything fits in here now and I actually have more room to cram more stuff!
It's a beautiful thing!!!
What a day I've had!! Started off as any other Saturday with having to get the kids ready for soccer, but I was also blogging over at Petticoats & Pistols which was a lot of fun! Anyway, I went to soccer, ran a few errands and came home to find my BIL's truck in front of the house. Not unusual, really, I just figured he and the DH were loading the boat to go fishing.
WRONG!!
Inside the house, the BIL and my sisters had completely done an "Extreme Home MakeOver" on my office. You have to understand that for the first 16 months or so after we moved into this house, I was working out of the crawl space which was fine, just cramped.
So last month, the boys moved all their toys and gaming systems out of the little hobbit room upstairs and I moved all my stuff up there. I did have pictures, but for some reason I deleted them. RRRRR Anyway, it's a very small window-less room that has a sloped wall and patched together carpeting. But it got me out of the crawl space and up to where it was warm.
So when I left for soccer this morning, my office was a thrown together little room. When I got home, this is what I found:
Look at that - a real desk!!! They took a door (yes, a door!) sanded it down, stained it and turned it into a real desk for me! My laptop and keyboard can both fit on the same surface now without me having to sit sideways!! I have a shelf to put things on. That picture you see there was from my sister's 40th birthday and we were all crammed in one of those photo booths. Hilarious!! And that little devil guy was a gift from my buddy Lori Devoti. They hung my coverflats EVENLY (I can't hang anything in a straight line) and the BIL drew, cut out and painted the Marlboro Man for me. How hilarious is that?? My neices found this super cool mirror and then used glitter to write "home of happy endings" around it (might be hard to see with the angle this picture's at) And here you can see how the wall slants over my desk. Look at that fun lamp and that clock! Oh, those are paper flowers my kids made me hanging off the wall. I hang all sorts of their art work and gifts up there.Now I ask you - is there a better gift for a writer than coming home and finding a real office waiting for her? I think not! I LOVE IT!!!! Apparently, my DH was a little concerned because they swooped in and took all my books off my shelves, which is fine, but they weren't going back in the same order. Apparently I've given people the impression that I"m an anal freak of some kind. ha! I don't care because they built me a shelf for the books,too!!! Everything fits in here now and I actually have more room to cram more stuff!
It's a beautiful thing!!!
