Tool Time

I've been nesting.

I know you understand what I mean by that.

Contrary to what my husband believes, I was NOT sitting on my "couch nest" all day nibbling on crunchy snacks.
I was rearranging, fluffing,filing (and making a dozen or more holes in the drywall that I'm trying to hide from my "hammer boss").

All this was Yard Sale/Goodwill finds

I knew I had to break away from the computer- and all those usual daily chores- to actually switch things up a bit- decoratively speaking.

And I might not have gotten up the energy at all, except for one fact:

My husband thinks we're midgets.

Let me explain...

We got a flat screen TV from my son a few months ago, and my husband finally decided agreed got tired of me nagging - so he prepared to mount it on the living room wall.
Luckily, he's got a wife that knows where to find the flashlight, drill, level, screws, sharpened pencil, bolts, nuts and all other manner of contraptions needed to start this project.

"Right there..." he says, drawing a faint line on the wall.

"That's the bottom?' I ask, peering over his shoulder.

"No- that is the middle." he answered smugly.

 I kinda went berserk.

"Oh my Gosh- what are we- midgets? There's no way that TV needs to be placed so low! It will look like there's a tiny television on a giant, bare wall! It looks... so...stoooopid!"

"You're stoooopid..." he mimicked, drilling the screws into the drywall with an added punch of "I'm always right."

He sits down on the couch and pretends like he's drinking a beer and clicking the remote - "See..." he says, "it's eye level- just perfect...right where it should be."

I let it go. It wasn't worth fighting about.
I just felt so blessed that the TV wasn't still leaning up against the bed in my daughter's old room.

But yesterday, I had to do something.
That wall looked so bare!

So, I found a couple of frames in my junk art spare room and printed off two pictures on my computer. I just scotch taped them to the back and hung them up.Viola! Instant satisfaction!

It grounded all that open space and made the TV look as though it was installed at the "almost-correct" height.
I've still got to be on the lookout for a console, table, or other flea market piece of furniture to place under it to hide the cords and hold the DVD player and such.
I'm sure I'll come across something at Goodwill.

Or at the midget furniture store...