October is coming to a close. I feel like it only just arrived, yet here we are, already needing to say goodbye to each other. I don’t know where the time went. I don’t know when the leaves all decided to fall. I don’t know when the warmth developed a chill.
Along with October went the time for all the DIYs I hoped to have accomplished by now — so I’m needing to detach myself from past hopes and timelines, to readjust, and to tweak my plans. Here is what I have decided:
From now until the first snowfall, or until the days become too chilled to work outdoors, I need to finish the projects I have started that cannot be done indoors. This includes:
- The black and wood mcm dresser (must be sold before the winter)
- The hutch (this is taking up so much room and needs to be sold)
- Sanding our dining room table top (so I can ditch the plastic italian nonna tablecloth)
I don’t know why I’ve spent so much of autumn indoors, working on projects that could be done on rainy, miserable days. I’ve failed to take advantage of the warm and temperate weather to make progress on my larger, messier projects. But again, I think I can accomplish these things before the first sign of snow. I think it doable.
My plan for the winter months is to do all of the small, DIY, craft-like projects I’ve had on my wind for ages. On my list are:
- The pleated lampshade DIY for my portable lamp
- The garlic crock thrift flip DIY
- The dried goods shelf just off the kitchen
- Reworking the pegboard wall in the kitchen (it has been driving me nuts)
- Restyling the shelves in the kitchen + making a coffee station below
As well as home projects I’m millimetres from finishing, but keep putting off, like:
- The laundry wall in the dining nook
- The ornamentation on the bookcases in the living room
- The trim detailing on our linen cabinet
Then, by the time spring rolls around, I can work on things like the custom sliding door for our wardrobe, the board and batten backing to our bed wall, installing custom roman shades in our bedroom. Endless projects. Less urgent than my list for this fall, but also need nice weather to get work done on them.
This listing of projects might not make much sense to you right now, because nothing has yet come to fruition. All of these ideas have only existed in my head, and this is the first I’m mentioning it to you. But as I work through these projects this winter, I plan to write blog posts about them and to update this diary entry with links to each of them as they are completed. Everything will make more sense as time goes on.
I must stay disciplined in this, otherwise I’ll need to store that massive hutch and that huge dresser in our office for another winter, and I don’t think my sanity can take that.
Why am I writing a blog post about this? I’m asking myself the same question. Why not just write a to-do list like a normal person and post about it when it’s all done? Maybe something in me feels like posting this on the internet will serve as some sort of accountability (even if no one reads it). I’ve put it out into the world in a public way, and maybe that counts for something.
PEACE.
Sierra
