Yesterday, I used to be engaged on tasks for the eating room and considering to myself the way it looks as if this room is taking a lot longer than it ought to. After which I needed to chuckle at myself after I realized that this occurs throughout each single room makeover or room transform that I do. Issues begin off nice and I really feel like I’m making good progress, however finally, I begin to really feel like I’m dwelling within the film Groundhog Day, and I really feel just like the room isn’t really going to get completed.
After I begin feeling that manner, it’s so useful for me to take a bit of journey again in time and remind myself that issues do really occur, and tasks do really come to an finish. It’s a kind of “steadily, then all of the sudden” sorts of issues. In fact, that quote is attributed to a personality in an Ernest Heminway novel when he was requested how he went bankrupt, so hopefully it’s not precisely like that. 😀 However I feel we will all determine with the overall sentiment. So typically, we really feel ike issues occur steadily, after which all of the sudden.
Maybe a greater quote, which I’ve all the time heard attributed to C.S. Lewis, however I discovered this morning really comes from the cartoon Calvin & Hobbes, is that this: “You recognize what’s bizarre? Daily, nothing appears to alter. However fairly quickly… all the things’s completely different.” (I’ve to chuckle at that misattribution. How on this planet did a quote from Calvin & Hobbes turn out to be attributed to C.S. Lewis? 😀 )
However that quote just about sums up the final 13 years that I’ve been transforming our home, adorning our home, and dealing on tasks for our home. Daily, it’s exhausting to see a distinction, and it seems like nothing is altering. And but, all the things’s completely different. The previous few years have been particularly busy, and after I look again on them, I’m amazed at simply how completely different all the things actually is.
In October of simply final yr (2025), I used to be nonetheless engaged on our bed room suite. October ended with me putting in the grasscloth wallpaper within the bed room.
We’ve been in our “new” bed room for lower than a yr. And but, in some way, it seems like a lot longer than that. Trying again, it’s exhausting to consider that I used to be nonetheless engaged on this bed room at first of this yr. When this yr began, I had gotten so much finished on the room, however I nonetheless hadn’t even began on constructing the mattress.
In October of 2024, simply two years in the past, my workshop was constructed. Check out what it appeared like on the day they completed constructing it.
Additionally throughout October of 2024, we had been in preparation mode for having our driveway poured. After I appeared again on these photos, I couldn’t consider this was simply two years in the past this month. This really seems like a lifetime in the past that the aspect of our home appeared like this. There have been timber grown up on the aspect of our property that made it really feel like we lived on the sting of a forest. I used to be driving and parking on grime that may flip to mud when it rained exhausting, and if I wasn’t cautious, my automotive would get caught within the mud.
I used to be nonetheless largely parking proper in entrance of my studio, which was initially the storage, on the final remaining remnants of a gravel driveway.
And the aspect door to my studio had cinder blocks as steps and a concrete pad that led to nowhere.
I can’t consider these photos had been taken simply two years in the past this month. A lot has modified since then! Whereas I can keep in mind these days of parking on grime and gravel, it looks as if a lot longer in the past than simply two years.
And as of simply this previous summer season, my aspect studio door has correct steps that really lead someplace.
Whereas my workshop remains to be only a massive storage room at this level, not less than the surface is cute!
So it has solely been within the final two years that I’ve began virtually each single day sitting at my desk in my studio. And but, it seems like a lot longer. It seems like this has been my routine for a decade. The passage of time is such an fascinating factor. Once we’re within the midst of one thing, it seems like it can by no means finish. Or after we’re eager for one thing to occur, it seems like it can by no means occur. However then when it does really occur, and also you look again on it, it feels prefer it’s all the time been that manner. “You recognize what’s bizarre? Daily, nothing appears to alter. However fairly quickly… all the things’s completely different.”
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and beautify the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You may study extra about me right here.
