The shelves are finally up in the guest room with stuffed animals and Babylon 5 action figures liberally distributed upon them. The dresser has been moved to its proper place in the guest room with a mirror mounted above and our old radio alarm clock brightening its top. I also put up three corner shelves to hold some of the stuffed menagerie as well.

James also installed two narrow blue shelves over the closet in my craft room and I have my St. Jude statue and some other knicknacks up there, and a railing from which I have hung two storage baskets (a system from Ikea) where I have my pens and pliers and other tools. I mounted the two small decorative shelves myself (they just rest on nails) and one holds the clock I made and the other has my Maxwell Smart action figure.

James also mounted a short board outside and I used Scotch exterior mounting tape to fasten a shallow ceramic bowl with a bird on one rim (from JoAnn's "Garden Gate" collection). This has water in it for the birds at the feeder.

James did go downstairs today and assemble the small metal computer desk we found at Ikea and set up his old computer on it. He's erased all the files no longer needed and is just going to have games on there. We figure if we have a party and the younger set gets bored, they can go downstairs and knock out a few videogames.

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. . . . . Linda at 11:14:00 PM

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Yeah, I know how you feel. I finally went to Ikea and bought two Billy shelves and two more shorter, heavier ones (Levek...something) and put them all together today. I'm tired, my fingers have blisters from tightening screws on the short ones, and everything still isn't put back (I'm not rearranging all the darn Star Wars action figures tonight), but the shelves are together and they are where they belong. The narrow Billy shelf is doubling for a DVD rack in the TV half of the living room; the wider one is a bookcase in my bedroom. The short shelves hold comic books, children's books, and computer stuff. The crates that were being used for shelves were moved into the "music" half of the living room for record storage. A few remained in the bedroom to double as bedside tables.

# posted by  Emma : Tue Apr 25, 10:45:00 PM 2006

 

Leksvik. That's what our bed and china cabinet are. I love the antique stain finish. Ain't Ikea wonderful?

# posted by  Linda : Wed Apr 26, 07:59:00 AM 2006

 

Yeah, once you can figure out their system. It took Rose (my sister) and I longer to get through it than we planned because I'd written down five possibilities...and I couldn't remember which was the last one I wanted! (For the record, it was the second large Billy shelf.)

I had work, so we didn't get to eat there. Maybe the next time I can drag Rose out for some sisterly bonding. She can be a hermit when she's in a bad mood.

# posted by  Emma : Thu Apr 27, 09:44:00 PM 2006

 

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