A New Career

We’re one month into home ownership. We’ve celebrated Halloween and Thanksgiving and I am currently writing from the couch while look at the Christmas tree we just put up this weekend. Just one holiday to the next with life mixed in between. We’ve been working from home, unpacking, filling out dog adoption paperwork, celebrating my sister’s wedding, hanging artwork, moving furniture and then moving furniture again to find the right feng shui. The end of 2020 feels like it is flying by, which is a change of pace, considering the rest of this year has felt like 14 years in the span of 10 months.

I’ve just finished updating a ‘to do list’ for the house and while it excites me to truly make this place ours, I am also overwhelmed thinking that everything needs to be accomplished and it should be finished…yesterday. I go through waves of wanting everything to be perfect (whatever that really means) here and loving the charm of this mild fixer-upper. In reality, we have a beautiful home that is serving us and will continue to serve us well. I just let that truth slip from my mind sometimes.

I also get overwhelmed believing that I need help or a professional to do much of the work on the list. One of my favorite accounts on Instagram to follow is Mallory Nikolaus Home. She is uber talented and does DIY-ing for a living. She’s been encouraging her followers recently to just try things, make mistakes and know you are capable of doing home projects. She provides great tutorials and I always see her posts or watch her stories and think ‘I could never do that…but I wish I could.’ Well, this week, I took her advice to heart and started in a very simple way. I wasn’t using power tools or trimming paint, but I did hang three pieces of artwork in our bedroom using a hammer and nails…all by myself. And I couldn’t be more proud!

Here’s to the end of an unprecedented year and the start of my DIY-ing career…one frame at a time.

à la prochaine fois,
anna