inspiring moving art:row one
Moxiedoll + Toxicguineapigs + OrangeFriendly
row two
minifrenchie + daymaker
row three
virginiakraljevic + matteart + simplyhue
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Moxiedoll + Toxicguineapigs + OrangeFriendly
row two
minifrenchie + daymaker
row three
virginiakraljevic + matteart + simplyhue
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big monday morning news here at the rikrak home, nicies.
... we're moving!
... this week!
we love our wonderful home and neighbourhood here in beautiful ottawa.
it's been a fabulous place for us to grow & explore & love.
and we love our wonderful NEW home and town, too.
at least for a little while. we're moving closer to toronto.
delightfully closer to our lovely families. we're so very very thrilled about that!
i survey the scene for you:
boxes packed floor to ceiling... everywhere.
corrugated cardboard my new best friend.
sifting and sorting and packing and unpacking.
nostalgic grins, smiles, laughs, teary goodbyes, hugs at every turn.
good-heavens - i'm a moving-mess! :)
it's the gamut of emotion here. i'll be honest... i've become a terrible mover.
i fluctuate between that great feeling of going thru our things, feeling refreshed by donating all of the STUFF we no longer need {isn't that a GREAT thing?!} and obsessively being sentimental over every little thing.
yes... i'm a nostalgic hoarder.
i am so nostalgic about every scrap of paper that has ever meant something (me: "ah, look honey... it's our receipt for dishsoap that we bought 5 years ago . . it has something spilled on it.. but we'd better save that nonetheless!"), and each & every piece of little rikrak's art (no matter how teeny tiny or 3-dimentionally massive) : each a masterpiece, of course!
indeed it's two steps forward, 9 steps back as we try to sort thru, package up, donate donate donate and more.
but over the past few weeks of packing i've become {slightly? a little bit?} better at prioritizing what STUFF is really important from what is just plain MORE STUFF.
so that's a very good thing, indeed.
packing is such a good metaphor for life isn't it? we'll get thru this time of weeding out, keeping what's important, re-discovering and re-prioritizing. and we very much look forward to the adventure ahead!
{on another packing note: i've discovered numerous unopened boxes in our storage room of late that are marked *TBS* ( that's my moving-shorthand for "to be sorted*- my brilliant cataloging term for last minute boxes!) ... "TBS 2003."
yes.. .i packed that box in 2003, never opened it since. good golly.
i hearby VOW not to have any TBS 2010 boxes this move, nicies! {stay tuned to see if i make it!}
"to be sorted" pretty much sums things up here! moving can be such a fine art, can't it?}
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... we're moving!
... this week!
we love our wonderful home and neighbourhood here in beautiful ottawa.
it's been a fabulous place for us to grow & explore & love.
and we love our wonderful NEW home and town, too.
at least for a little while. we're moving closer to toronto.
delightfully closer to our lovely families. we're so very very thrilled about that!
i survey the scene for you:
boxes packed floor to ceiling... everywhere.
corrugated cardboard my new best friend.
sifting and sorting and packing and unpacking.
nostalgic grins, smiles, laughs, teary goodbyes, hugs at every turn.
good-heavens - i'm a moving-mess! :)
it's the gamut of emotion here. i'll be honest... i've become a terrible mover.
i fluctuate between that great feeling of going thru our things, feeling refreshed by donating all of the STUFF we no longer need {isn't that a GREAT thing?!} and obsessively being sentimental over every little thing.
yes... i'm a nostalgic hoarder.
i am so nostalgic about every scrap of paper that has ever meant something (me: "ah, look honey... it's our receipt for dishsoap that we bought 5 years ago . . it has something spilled on it.. but we'd better save that nonetheless!"), and each & every piece of little rikrak's art (no matter how teeny tiny or 3-dimentionally massive) : each a masterpiece, of course!
indeed it's two steps forward, 9 steps back as we try to sort thru, package up, donate donate donate and more.
but over the past few weeks of packing i've become {slightly? a little bit?} better at prioritizing what STUFF is really important from what is just plain MORE STUFF.
so that's a very good thing, indeed.
packing is such a good metaphor for life isn't it? we'll get thru this time of weeding out, keeping what's important, re-discovering and re-prioritizing. and we very much look forward to the adventure ahead!
{on another packing note: i've discovered numerous unopened boxes in our storage room of late that are marked *TBS* ( that's my moving-shorthand for "to be sorted*- my brilliant cataloging term for last minute boxes!) ... "TBS 2003."
yes.. .i packed that box in 2003, never opened it since. good golly.
i hearby VOW not to have any TBS 2010 boxes this move, nicies! {stay tuned to see if i make it!}
"to be sorted" pretty much sums things up here! moving can be such a fine art, can't it?}
how do you tackle packing up and moving on?
wise tips you'd like to share?
surely you'd love to share YOUR ART OF MOVING!
hands-up if you're a sentimental hoarder?
wise tips you'd like to share?
surely you'd love to share YOUR ART OF MOVING!
hands-up if you're a sentimental hoarder?
hugs, lovelies.
here's to great new things ahead.
... off to sort.
here's to great new things ahead.
... off to sort.
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