The Proverbial Putting-Up of Curtains Etc.

Eh, the trying-to-rent continues. =/ We thought we had a family ready to go, we'd done the background/credit checks, made up the rental agreement, and had an appointment to swap the security despoit and keys, but they backed out on us. We've got the ad up again, and have had a couple people come look. Some of the situations are definite no's (Six adults packing into the house, and you can't get us social security numbers for half of them? Ummmm... I don't think this is gonna work.), but we'll see.

In cheerier news, we got a long, low bookshelf thing to put behind the couch and by the doorway, so that we can have a better place to set stuff when we come in, and more storage shelf space is always a good/needed thing.

We also put up curtains in the bedroom! They're just some plain sheer Ikea ones, but we did have to cut and hem them to the right size. This may sound like no big thing to you, but I've always had this really... shall we say, strained relationship with textiles. My talents lie more in the realm of paper, pencils, and Wacom tablets, and fabric is just capricious and uncooperative in my eyes. But armed with scissors, a tape measure, and this totally sweet iron-on hem thing that the curtains came with, we now have functioning fabric window covers!

And also, and also, Nate found these really neato steel "things" to hold wine bottles, all metallic curvy, and he got them mounted to the kitchen wall tonight. Pictures of all this is possible later.


AKC