TEN MINUTE DECORATING

There is nothing quite like the pressure of your out-of-town friends and relatives coming to visit to get things accomplished. The Nester has now replaced my someone-is-coming-to-visit motivation to get those projects done. Technically, participating in a Mr. Linky is like having out-of-town guests visit. Kind of. At least you don't have to cook for them. Unfortunately, my personal home improvement guy--who does the kind of stuff I want/need done for a living--isn't buying into this Mr. Linky pressure. I do fear that he lost his vision for this house about the same time as he bought that dilapidated houseboat, but that is another story.

All day I literally played out this project in my head while counting the minutes down to school's dismissal. Then there was dinner, trip to Hobby Lobby and TJ Maxx, church, quick visit to the sil's, library drop, and American Idol viewing. About 8 p.m. I had no choice but to down a large iced chai tea to suppress the yawns. I don't know what I was thinking consuming all that caffeine for a ten-minute project. Ahem.

Okay, maybe putting on those plate hangers took longer than ten minutes, but the actual hanging was done in the time allotted. My plate wall is my solution to the grandchildren's paw prints on the wall going up the stairs. They can still slide down the bannister, but no hands on my walls!

My other ten-minute project of adding a *happy* to Tessa's bed was actually done by daughter Kelly during a commercial on American Idol. (Since she is the wall words expert around here, no sense stressing myself with the process.)