Moving Moving Moving Weekend
Posted in The Life of the Historian and tagged with Move, Roommate on June 3, 2010The move in bullets:
- I love that the word “moving” can mean many different things.
- Six vehicles and six adults make for quick work – everything was moved in an hour and a half (especially when you add in two capable boys). Love that my church family loves me (and I love them!).
- Most of that work was not done by me or my roommate (and yes, she’d readily admit that).
- I was so tired Sunday (after having a bad night of sleep before the move and then all of the moving/unpacking) that I tried putting on a shirt that was still on the hanger.
- The highlight of my weekend was learning that my reading chair in fact does fit comfortably in my bedroom (as illustrated below).
- I LOVE my pretty blue room!
The move in pictures (okay, just my new bedroom and bathroom):
The view as you enter my room:
Those our blackout curtains behind the fluffy pretty ones:
My reading chair!:
The rest of my flower pictures:
And my bathroom (which my roommate decorated, but I really like!). I love how it downplays that yellow…the same yellow that was in my bedroom before we agreed to paint it the pretty blue:
June 3rd, 2010 at 1:31 am
Wow, this looks so NICE and comfortable already. What a great set up and your reading chair is PERFECT!!
:-) Congrats on your successful move. A Church family is sure nice.
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June 3rd, 2010 at 1:36 am
OMG I so love all the blues (my favorite color). Glad you were able to get everything done so quickly and painlessly. Enjoy your new room!
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June 3rd, 2010 at 7:05 am
Love it!
June 3rd, 2010 at 7:19 am
So pretty and calming!! And yes, I totally laughed out loud when I read about the shirt and hanger incident. :)
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June 3rd, 2010 at 8:12 am
Love the blue! I’ve been fighting a losing battle trying to convince my bf to paint our apartment with me. For some reason, he is vehemently against all things paint!
Hope you’re settling in well!
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June 3rd, 2010 at 8:39 am
Aw! The new house looks very cozy :)
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June 3rd, 2010 at 9:19 am
Angela: Thanks! This isn’t my original reading chair, but I traded my roommate my ugly blue one for her pretty white one.
Veronica: I’m a big blue fan, too. I just look around my room and grin.
Cheryl: It was my AWANA shirt, too!
ClaireSuzanne: I’ve never painted. This was done by a friend. I don’t think my roommate would have let me paint myself, anyway (she knows my giftedness doesn’t extend into the physical realm).
Cammy: It is!
June 3rd, 2010 at 9:28 am
FGD…So good to see your new surroundings…how about a picture of the outside??? I am a GZoe blue person too…you are more pale…that is okay…so nice to have a reading chair. Surprised at your brown bathroom…like brown. I LOVED the SUNFLOWER picture on your wall…
Blessings..
May angels be with you.
June 3rd, 2010 at 9:34 am
G. Zoe: I’m not sure I’ll blog outside pictures and living room pictures, but I will email them if I don’t. Waiting until this weekend to take them.
I tried to get pictures that meant something to me, and of course, sunflowers remind me of Kansas and you! I still need to replace a couple more pictures, but I’ll probably share the significance of them soon!
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June 3rd, 2010 at 9:36 am
It looks so warm and inviting – the kind of place you’d never want to leave!
June 3rd, 2010 at 10:16 am
Great minds . . . ? Our downstairs bedroom is the same shade of blue and I also decorated with black and white. I think it looks classy, LOVELY and cozy. LOVE your room! (And your bedspread.)
Congrats on getting moved in! I bet that’s a relief to get that settled out. Blessings on your new home and your’s and your roommate’s relationship.
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June 3rd, 2010 at 11:43 am
I have a blue room, too, but yours is prettier. Very nice!
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June 3rd, 2010 at 1:13 pm
Your new spaces look great! I especially love your reading chair — looks super comfortable. I’m without a comfy place to read right now, except in bed, and that just makes me fall asleep… so I’m super jealous! :)
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June 3rd, 2010 at 1:51 pm
I LOVE your room AND your bathroom….I think I like your bathroom best though…lol. I’ve always wanted a warm, nicely decorated bathroom. We’ve never actually had one. I’m so glad move in day went well and you had pretty good weather and a lot of help :-)
June 3rd, 2010 at 2:12 pm
Looks fabulous! I love the blue. That reading chair could make a GREAT baby rocker some day… I’m just saying.
June 3rd, 2010 at 2:16 pm
Iva: I know!
Carrie: I had actually just planned on using white with the blue, but I already had those expensive black frames, so I went with it. It looks better than I’d have expected.
Meg: When I first got a reading chair, I was super excited!
Liz: It’s nothing that I ever would have picked out, but starting with yellow, it’s definitely the best that I could imagine. I *love* brown so I enjoy it a lot.
Erin: HAHA I’ll keep that in mind. Hopefully sooner rather than later, right? (uhh, but not *too* soon)
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June 3rd, 2010 at 2:46 pm
oooh love the color combos. so pleasant and serene.
June 3rd, 2010 at 3:02 pm
What a serene bedroom! Looks great. And, black out curtains? Totally necessary. Thanks for stopping by my site!
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June 3rd, 2010 at 3:43 pm
The blue is beautiful! So calming…
Every room inour house (other than the main room like living room, kitchen…) are all different colors – I love it!
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June 3rd, 2010 at 3:46 pm
I love it… first of all, your room matches your blog with all the blue!!! :) But it looks so cozy…. I’d be in the glider all the time with a book myself!
June 3rd, 2010 at 3:53 pm
What a great place! Congratulations. I love all of your colors. Enjoy it!
xoxo,
Kim
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June 3rd, 2010 at 3:58 pm
Couple things: Ha.Yeah I’ve been that tired (still chuckling about the hanger in the shirt; Dont you just love church family? We moved in like 2hrs because we had so many people helping out and lastly, I like that bathroom and I aint usually a fan of yellow. Thanks for stopping by!
June 3rd, 2010 at 4:02 pm
oh, i love your bathroom :)
from SITS :)
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June 3rd, 2010 at 6:53 pm
You have a beautiful place to call home – so peaceful and relaxing. Hope wonderful things happen for you there and many hours of wonderful reading!
June 3rd, 2010 at 6:57 pm
Wow… that seems like one NICE HOUSE to live in… you must be thrilled ;)
June 3rd, 2010 at 7:07 pm
You got everything set up so quickly! Looks great, and I love the blue – so calming. Hope you enjoy it. :)
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June 3rd, 2010 at 8:38 pm
I’m so happy for you! :) We both moved boxes together, by the way! :D Congratulations on your move, best of luck and God bless.
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June 3rd, 2010 at 9:05 pm
LOVE the blue!!!
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June 3rd, 2010 at 9:56 pm
your new room is SO peaceful looking!! congrats on the move, I hope it’s exactly what you’re hoping it will be for you :)
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June 3rd, 2010 at 11:26 pm
Kristy: I really considered not getting them, but you’re right, they’re necessary. Blocks out the light, street sounds, and heat? Awesome!
Natalie: I love colors, but tend to repeat them a lot. It’ll be interesting to see how I decorate my first house.
Rebecca Jo: So true! And my old blog design matched my old room design.
Jen: Oh my…is that my ROOMMATE commenting?!?!
Jessica: Well, I did kinda cheat by moving things over slowly over the last week or so. Plus, helped that I had use of the spare bedrooom to keep the boxes until I was ready to unpack them (there are still a couple of things left).
Angelica: Popular weekend to move!
Kristin: Thanks, me too!
June 4th, 2010 at 11:02 am
I love that color! You are a great decorator. :-)
I have a shower curtain very similar to yours. It might be the same one. I need to go home and look at it, but it’s very close to that color and striped like that …
It’s in the downstairs bathroom we don’t use much, so it’s hard to remember it!
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June 5th, 2010 at 6:46 am
Congratulations on the move! Your new room is beautiful and looks very peaceful. Much happiness to you in your new place!
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June 5th, 2010 at 10:02 am
Wow! I love your room and the bathroom too. Just beautiful!
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June 6th, 2010 at 12:21 am
I absolutely love the blue room!
Blue is my fave color and I really want to paint our bedroom a light shade of it…eventually.
Nice an cozy, especially your little reading nook!
June 12th, 2010 at 10:39 am
I love the colors! So peaceful, so cozy. I can envision plenty of delightful moments reading in there. Enjoy your new digs!
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June 15th, 2010 at 6:03 pm
Just catching up – I LOVE your new room! :)
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