The carpet is installed and I love it. Everything is so new and clean except for everything that is in the garage, tub and sun porch! The thought of bringing all that stuff back in and sorting through it is just overwhelming. I did so well in the beginning at sorting and donating. Then the time started getting away and I just took stuff out. Today I am taking a break and visiting my blogs to say hi. I'm tired and the rest of it can wait.

I remember when Darnell of http://www.djkardkreations.com/  posted her picture of her paper trimmers on Valentines Day and I took a picture of mine to join up with her. She mentioned how many we all have! I have six and don't feel that any of them really give an accurate cut but maybe some day I will find one I like. Mary of http://carolinacardsbymaryh.blogspot.com/ gave me a tip on one to buy but it isn't on my immediate list.  This picture was taken on my old carpet. I hope to post a picture soon of the new. Be kind to one another and I'll try to get by and say hi.

My last chance to post for a few days. I will become Brenda - unplugged!  The carpet guys should be here any time. The upheavable is getting to me. I can't find things or just can't get to them. I know it will be worth it. I ordered the furniture and it will be six weeks before it comes. I can have the cabinet delivered any time because it is in the warehouse and I think I will so I can start putting things away. I'm tired and this is a day I can pretty much rest as they work. Tonight my sons are coming to move everything out of the sunroom so they can do that room tomorrow. That will be a job, you saw the pictures!

Today I want to share the last of the Valentines. They are just stunning. So much prettier in person as the pictures don't do them justice. Be kind to one another. I miss coming by and that will be my priority as soon as I'm done here.

Painting is finished and it looks wonderful. They did an amazing job in such a short time. Tuesday night they left without hooking back up the cable and I had no computer or phone service and I couldn't get in to hook it up. Yesterday I found they didn't plug the washer back in and I couldn't pull it out and plug it in to do laundry! They aren't good with details like that, but the house looks nice. I have been busy cleaning up after them with drywall dust and little chunks of mud. I had just done all the walls and baseboards before they came and now I'm redoing them along with polishing the furniture from the dust. I can't imagine what the carpet people will do! Everything I own is on the sunporch, in the sunroom, bathtub and garage. I'm showing you below. It started out so nice and tidy. As it got closer to the time they were coming things just got piled in. Took a long time to find my camera.

I miss sitting at the computer and really making cards most. The housecleaning is not the fun I imagined. I mopped the kitchen and both bathrooms on my knees just to make sure they were clean. I have one more closet to empty this morning and several little things to haul out and I am ready for carpet people. Some things I had to bring back in just to live here so it will have to go as well. At least the kitchen and bathrooms are back in business. I kind of like having no stuff in the rooms. It is bare but sure is easy to dust!The first three pictures are the sunroom. You can see the three windows but the room is smaller than the bedroom. The next two are the sunporch. I have the two outside chairs in front of the furniture so I don't have to carry them around to the garage. The last two are the garage. Keep in mind I carried all this stuff out. Now you know where I have been. I can't even think about bringing all this stuff back in. It just won't happen.  I'm afraid to move the car for fear I'll run over something when I come back. Valentines next time. Be kind to one another.

Time for lunch and I'm pooped already. I will share what I have learned from this experience. I live in a 1500 + square feet home. I have 5300 + square feet of stuff, excluding furniture. I am now in crunch mode and just stuffing things I find into boxes and drawers as I go. I will never find those things again. It is going to take a long time to sort through this mess. Next thing I learned is I am a terrible housekeeper. Everything is covered in dust and cobwebs. No wonder I have coughed through this entire thing. Number three is no one should keep everything just because someone gave it to you. I have every gift, card and chochtke that anyone I know has given me.  That may be spelled wrong but the dictionary is packed somewhere and I can't look it up. Last thing I learned is to plan ahead. I gave away both loveseats and now have no place to sit in the evening to watch tv. Oops. It will take 6-8 weeks if I order furniture. My son said "Mom, make a flow chart and see how things will go". I did not take his advice but in my defense when I decided to do this, I called the painter and he said he would start tomorrow. So there was no planning involved.  Bummer.

I am going to show you some beautiful Valentines I received over the next few days and I know you will love them. Be kind to one another.

Still at it and going strong. I took  paperbacks, magazines and craft stuff, along with Bill's and my old glasses to the library yesterday and donated it. I have a lot of hardback books to take Monday. I got a lot done yesterday but there is still a lot to do. You would not know I have taken anything out of my craft room other than to clean off the bookshelf.  Actually that is all I've done in there. Going to take a break today and go to grandson's basketball game.

I have one more gift to share today. I am truly overcome with gratitude from all of you for your gifts, cards, comments and well wishes during this hard time. This was a wonderful surprise package from another blog friend who I hope to meet someday. She sent a tin of tea, beautiful candle and two Penny Black stamp sets. The stamps are just gorgeous and someday if I ever get things back to normal (well, better than normal) I hope to make a card with them. She is just the sweetest. Be kind to one another and you all are.

Poor Molly, she doesn't know what to make of all this. Our son came last night and took the loveseat out of my craft room so there is no place for her to sleep now during the day. I went and got her little bed and brought it in for her. I can't believe the mess I have created in this house! It will be nice when finished though. I am embarrassed to show you today's pictures. I have made one trip to the recycle bin and I have a second one to do today. I have at least 300 magazines I am getting rid of. It is years of Paper Crafts, Creating Keepsakes, lots of Card Creations, even a few Ivy Cottage and Paper Cuts and Ten for Ten or something like that and all the Stamin' Up catalogs and supplements. I had all my Oprah magazines that I gave to my DIL and lots of Woman's Day and Redbook. Many of them I had not read. You get a subscription and then they give you one for another magazine for $6 so you do that too. Please slap me if I get another subscription. I won't throw them away (as you can see). I try to pawn them off or rather give them away to neighbors but no one wants them. So one more trip and it will be made in our wind advisory today. They will probably blow back and smack me in the face. I worked in the garage yesterday and swept and cleaned it out so there would be room to put more stuff in. I will show you the bathtub in the guest bathroom today too. It will crack you up. That's enough chit chat, I need to get busy. I will try to pop in and visit in the evening when I finally wind down. I'm really too old to be doing all this but believe me, there is plenty for the boys to do when they come. Be kind to one another.

Thanks for your help in finding my email. I tried all the tricks and my granddaughter was here Monday night and she tried too. Everything I tried from your information and everthing she tried ended in her saying "Gram, they are gone".  So please send your emails again so I can get caught up.

If you haven't heard from me you will see why at the end of this post. I have been working hard. I have all the bags of clothing ready for them to pick up Saturday and I have been working in every room getting purged and going through everything. The dining room table is filled with give away things and the floors are covered with things to get rid of. The shelves are getting bare and all the stuff is packed and moved to the sunporch. They are things that the cold won't hurt. A lot of things will be moved to one room and back again when the painters are done. I am going to pick out the carpet this afternoon and hope they can start on the 29th when the painters are finished. My sons are coming to make room in the garage so we can store things and not have to move them twice. I have been working in the garage too and have a lot set out for the trash pickup today.

Today I have a gift to share with you that I received from a dear blogger friend. It is a beautiful angel with the most wonderful verse on it. Her wings and skirt look like they have a doily edged in gold on them. This gal has been through a lot this past year too so this gift is extra special to me since it is from her. Be kind to one another.