New Year's Eve morning. The end of 2012.. and in an effort to make my home more like the cottage I envision, I did accomplish a few projects this year.
First, let me begin by saying that Pinterest is a great friend of mine. How I managed to do any project or find any recipe or decorate my house before stumbling upon Pinterest, I do not know. I do not want to even try to figure out how many hours of time I have wasted researched on Pinterest.
First project I loved this year was my old dresser turned into tv console. I got this beauty from an estate sale store for $40! After some cleaning and painting, it looks like this:
Chuck and I also ripped apart our foyer and finished it with board and battan. I love it. Previously we had a tiny doorway into the livingroom making it very dark and small. We moved the entry door and widened it and it brings so much more light into the living room.
This is when it was half finished; Since they we have changed things around, added flooring and removed the bins.
The next year, we need to finish our cat room, which will be a room for our foster cats. It will allow us to take in more then the three we have right now. I'm excited about that. We only found homes for about 10 cats this year.. last year it was 25... so I feel like we are slacking in the cat rescue department.
Other projects will be hardwood floors in the living room and opening up the doorway to our den and adding french doors. I'll keep you posted.
Happy New Year!
Gina
Okay my first blogging post. I have toyed with the idea of having a blog for a long time, mostly as a way to get back to what I love and have always loved to do, and that is to write. I really don't have grand illusions of fame with a blog and probably don't want to be that well known since I basically like my privacy. But blogging also really fascinates me, so here I sit on a snowy afternoon when I should be doing other things.. blogging. (Should I be doing other things? Why do I always think what I am doing is not what I SHOULD be doing? )
And the title "Wannabe Cottage"? pretty much sums up a lot of things for me. As I mention in my profile.. there are many things I'd love to get better at. I"d love become a better photographer, writer, teacher, mom. There are many things personally I'd like to be..more of a risk taker, less guilty about doing things when I think I should be doing something else, more able to enjoy things without worrying about other things.
Then there is my house.. which really wants to be a cottage.. well I want it to be a cottage. So I'm hoping that with this blog I can share that journey too. Transforming our bland 1900 house (it really doesn't have a style- I believe some Italian farmers built it in our small town and it has been changed throughout the years.. but it definitely has nothing fancy or fine about it) into a cottage is a slow process but hopefully blogging about the progress will make me appreciate this little house even more.
So I'll share my year and we'll see how it goes.
