changes

i am broken and looking at major back surgery next week.  i have always had a house or yard project going for as long as i can remember.  due to the back i haven't had one in a very long time.  since i am a creative person this has been most difficult for me and i find miss not having a big project.  i love instant gratification.  so i whined and complained until the new husband helped me move the living room furniture around.  i had to have something new and beautiful in my life and you can do it with what you have.  my living room is large, longer than wider.  being that i am going to be spending the rest of the winter trapped inside recovering, and buying new furniture is not an option, moving it around and making it more cozy was the ticket.  we started by moving the tv to a different location, tucked in a corner that is hard to do anything with.  i liked it, let's move some furniture.  i always forget that moving the furniture around requires vacuuming under everything, and finding many partially chewed dog rawhide bones under the sofa, much to the delight of the dogs.  we moved the sofa the opposite wall and move the chairs out away from teh walls giving a good pathway behind them.  i was good with this.  but as with all changes, i need to tweak it.  my mother comes to look at the changes and i enlist her to help move the furniture around again.  no, i'm not suppose to be moving furniture at all.  i'm just helping and push nothing , sorta.  we move the sofa so that it's free standing and not against a wall and moved the chairs to the wall position.  i like that much better.  it creates a wonderful cozy room.  now the next layer.  when doing a room you have to remember to do it in layers.  as one layer finalizes, the next layer should evolve.  then i moved the tables around and collected all my cute stuff to put on them.  i get to see all the cute stuff i've got stashed and changing it around.  i must say, i have wonderful taste.  the room feels better by the minute.  now the next layer, the walls.  there is a big wall space now and i've always wanted to do a 'conglomerate' of pictures on a wall.  here's my chance.  we start out with the big antique mirror and on the table below it is my carved wooden chinese war horse, thor.  he's beautiful and is surrounded with chinese detailed candles.  i pull out all the artwork i've been saving for a place to hang it and they go up with exisiting pictures.  now i'm really happy.  the open window space has all the outside plants on tables in front of them, looks like a forest.  it's great and the plants are really happy.  there's more i want to add but that will evolve soon, especially since i'll be trapped in the house.  but i'm ready to jump into recovery in a nice cozy living room, and taht's what i wanted.