I'm certainly not in the position to be able to commit to a blog series of any kind, being as inconsistent as I am, so look on this next post as sort of a strange coincidence, and don't count on it ever happening again.

With that said, I am declaring today, "Fix Something That Annoys You Day". If you are like me, there are probably many, many things that annoy you. Just pick one...maybe a really obvious, prominent one? Like this window, for example?


Some of the faults of this window are obvious:

It's curtain is falling down (what is it with curtains falling down in this house? And we like to walk around naked, too!! [I am JUST KIDDING!!! We are Baptists, folks!]).

It's curtain is dirty.


Other of the faults of the window are covered up by the falling-down curtain:

It is dirty.

It has part of a ripped paper star stuck to it.

It has no soul, nothing special.


I guess that is the short list of things that annoy me about this window, and I will attempt to fix these things as quickly as possible. Because I need to wash and dry this curtain I will have to post the after shots tomorrow.  This time I do intend to set a timer for the window-washing bit at least, because I detest washing windows and I need to know that there will be an end to it.

Oh yeah, I am stuck on the "soul" part. If anyone has a Bright Idea for something I can do to give this window a heart without costing me anything or having to change the curtain, please, please, please share with me.

Anyone else up for it? What annoys you in your home?

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I know you were all wanting to see what was lurking behind that curtain. I did not want to see it, but I had to take the curtain down to wash it, so here it is:


I hate washing windows. Have I said this before? I think I have. Did you know you can also wash the window screen? I didn't know this, my sister told me a long time ago.

I swept down the spiders and cobwebs (with my pink gloves on, of course!). I washed the window. I took down the screen and scrubbed it and sprayed it with the hose. I did this all in record time, because I hate washing windows.

 I did not enjoy any part of this process, except the part where my window was cleaner. No, not clean. Cleaner. It is not perfect, it is not great, but it is better.


Oh by the way, I discovered that my window does have a little soul. It looks like this:


I tried to remove this with Magic Eraser, but the red won't come off. This little artwork is here to stay.


Here is a little someone cleaning out the toys from behind the couch for mama. :-) All in a day's work, says she.

Now to work on the "soul" for my window...stay tuned!