Great Weekend/ Monday Glass Blast

Evening Sweet Friends,

Hope you are having a good week, 

 thus far!

Mine had been really good up until Monday evening,

more about that later.  Had a great weekend,  we got to

watch Brooklyn a lil on Sat.,  then Dee and Jerry came

over to help rearrange our bedroom, Megan came back

to get the baby, as Scott was on his way home from 

Miami after flying in from his trip to Spain, which is

another 4 hrs., so we all had dinner together,  then the

 furniture moving commenced.  I really thought the room

 would be a wreck once we got it all moved where we 

wanted it,  but  much to my surprise Dee and I got

busy decorating and pretty much had it all done by

11:00  that night.  Still working on a few things, but

it looks great already.  Will show yall some pics

probably next week.

Was amazed at how confident my daughter has

gotten with hanging stuff and painting  since she has

 been a home owner for over a year now. She did a lot

 of it for me, and I can remember when she used to 

be intimidated to even hang a picture. We also did

 a lil touch up painting on my walls, and she is good

with that too, since she just finished painting here

kitchen cabinets.  It was really fun working together

and it was great to get it together so quickly.

Sunday was our usual and very restful and 

relaxing,  we can never get accused of working

too hard on Sunday.  lol

Now about Monday Evening..........................

I was in the midst of doing this vignette

When this happened

I had the doors open and the drawer because

I had taken some stuff out of there,  but then

I was just standing there looking to see if there

was anything else I wanted to get,  not touching

anything mind you, and all of a sudden the

shelves just imploded.  

Absolutely, scared the life out of me.  All I remember is

standing there and my mind couldn't grasp what was

happening,  I don't even remember moving back but I

had to of because of where that glass shelf is.....cause

initially I was standing right in front of that open drawer.

I looked down cause my toe hurt, guess something

fell on it,  then realized I was bleeding on that leg,

so went to wipe that off and realized the other was

bleeding too,  but they were just tiny cuts from chards 

of glass.  See where that shelf is laying (in pic above) 

my feet were right behind that, cause I remember

seeing debri around my feet when I looked down.

The sound was incredibly scary, like a bomb went off.

Glass and china everywhere, in the dining and family 

room. Have to say I think I was in shock,  I just stood

 there looking at it ....Then I wanted to cry,  my wedding

 china and crystal were demolished and a few other

 prized pieces, that belonged to my late grandmother

and neighbor, but then the thought came to me,

 "it is just stuff,  you can't take it with you!", I believe

that was the Lord talking to me, as it just took the

sting out of it and then thank the Lord I only had tiny 

cuts........it is like my hubby said if I had been getting

 something out of there, I might have gotten a really

 bad cut on my hand or arm, and really when I look at

 all this mess in pics,  I think it is a miracle I didn't have 

any gashes on my feet or legs.  So God was very

good to me.........................

This was from the family room side,

do you see all the glass chards everywhere.

It is a miracle that anything survived............lost all my

crystal,  but still have 5 of my china plates, fortunately,

most of it was in the other hutch.  

It took over an hour for my heart to settle down,  it

shook me up so............and took a long while to clean

up,  called hubby and he left a lil early,  so didn't do

anything till he got here,  as I needed to think about

a plan of attack.  So we got out the good and trusty

shop vac, and brought in our large garbage can

and worked our way froms the outside area inward

 picking up large pcs. first and then vacumming

the lil pcs.  Took quite awhile, we were exhausted

afterwards. Am very thankful our refuse collector, 

 have an automatic lifter that empties those waste 

cans so thankfully, they want have to touch it.  

Our cabinet got a lil gouged on the top of the drawer

and the bar underneath that the drawer goes on

was broken,  but hubby was able to fix it.  We were

able to use a grease type pencil in oak color that

my cabinet man left us years ago,  and it really

covered the scratches and few gouges we did

have.  so all in all it looks pretty good,  now have

to get some new shelves made, but thankfully,

I have one left to take for them to use as a model

for the others.  We were really grateful too,  that

none of the other glass was broken or the mirror

that is in the back of the hutch.  Did have a lil

scratch in the glass on one side,  but it isn't bad.

So all in all,  we faired pretty well considering what 

that looks like...............don't you agree???  lol

Today was a better day...................I am happy

to say........So got a lot done around here..........

Well, hope you have a good rest of the week,

I will sure be working on that one too!

Hugs and Blessings,

Nellie