I really have trouble blogging here at the apartment...it seems so blah compared to life at the cabin...so I've decided I'd better try to get back in the groove.
I had hung a mirror last week in the apartment in a space that seemed to accommodate it nicely, but it reflected nothing. I decided that was probably bad feng shui...
...for which I had paid $2.99 at Goodwill at some point...
...and for which I'd been unable to find a place at the cabin...over the larger rectangular mirror.
For that, I needed ribbon. And I could see the ribbon in a storage box that was about five layers down in this storage closet...
...so I had been procrastinating, but this morning I moved everything out, got down to the ribbon and got to work.
First I had to loosen the mirror back by removing two screws so I could thread the ribbon under the back and through the hanging hole...
After replacing the screws, I decided I'd hang the mirror from this vintage hook, one of two I'd scored at a thrift store some time over the past two years...
After gathering all my standby tools...tape measure, level, drill, hammer, screws and plastic anchors...
...and avoiding at all costs this recliner...
...that another resident asked me to take temporarily because she has no room for it, but about which I'm in a constant state of angst for fear it will get damaged or soiled...
...I decided how long the ribbon needed to be and where the hook needed to go so the small mirror would hang in the right spot over the large mirror, marked and drilled the holes, tapped in the anchors and screwed in the screws.
The screws that went with the anchors were so silver...
...so I daubed some black paint on them...
...yes, that's a votive candle holder. I find they are just right for holding small amounts of paint and if you wash them out promptly, the paint doesn't adhere and the holder can still be used for candles.
So then I had two mirrors reflecting nothing! I don't know if feng shui experts would consider this doubly bad, but I decided to insert some faux pheasant feathers under the small mirror and call it good. I like it (they could just be empty frames, which is another thing that's "in" these days), so I'll just have to wait and see if I feel a lack of energy in this corner!
Actually, I just feel a lack of energy. So I don't think everything is going to get put back in that storage closet this afternoon. And anyway, I'm finding all sorts of fall decor in the various boxes that I am really ready to play with...
Just spruced up this basket...by using the hot glue gun to reattach some of the leaves and berries that had fallen off of it since I bought it at the Lafayette Goodwill many months ago...loaded it with some fake pumpkins, gourds and squashes and set it outside my door in the hallway...
This may be one of the pluses to living here. No high winds in these hallways! I had been unable to decorate outside at the cabin because everything blew away in the notorious Eldora gales.
I had to mix up a bit of reddish orange paint to daub on any white spots where the finish on the berries had broken away (I just hate that. It really catches one's eye) and my paint was in that fourth box down on the right...
...so more boxes had to be removed from the storage area! My living room is a disaster.
But, in the process, I found this faux pumpkin vine, that I bought at the Jefferson County Beautiful Junk Sale in Golden, Colorado, last year...
...and draped it over the hanger that I made for these bruised but beautiful metal wine plaques I think I found at the Boulder Goodwill.
I just got my invitation to this fall's Beautiful Junk Sale...
...and I've marked my calendar and will be heading to Golden with my two cans of food the morning of October 19 in search of treasure.
More later...Teddee
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