Life is What Happens...

Well, since my last post month's ago, life happened. It's funny how just a few little words can have deep and lasting changes. In my case, the words were "they sold the golf course."

Now let me explain. We lived in a lovely condo complex with woods on one side and a golf course on the other. The traffic on the corner was moderately busy during the day, especially when school opened or let out. But the second we heard those words, and discovered they were going to put up moderately priced units where the golf course was, we knew what was coming. And so, we started a house hunt.

We quickly found our dream house and were successful in purchasing it. But in our innocence, we didn't realize how much work and time that would entail. Additionally, we were anxious to put our condo on the market and get the best price possible. In order to do that, we had to store 75% of our belongings to do some renovations and stage the house for sale. It took over two months, and during that period anything we wanted was always in storage. This included a good portion of my business.

As soon as all the work was finished, we put the condo on the market. A week later our new house closed. Of course, we wanted to make all the changes possible in the new place before we actually moved, such as painting, etc. In the meantime, the condo was professionally staged, so we couldn't actually live in it for fear we would mess it up. For close to a month, we lived in the basement of the new house during the day, and slept in the condo at night.

But in the end, it all paid off. The condo sold in two and a half weeks. There were multiple bids, and we were able to get our full asking price. At last we were able to move our furniture - and beds! - into the new house and retrieve our items from storage. We're finally unpacked, organized and living in just one place.

Going forward I plan to post to this blog on Tuesdays and Fridays. On Friday on next week, I'll share some interesting facts on the development of plastics in costume jewelry. Hope you'll stop by!