Maggie's Complete (ish)

I finally threw in the towel and admitted to myself that I was never going to get around to putting in Maggie's insulation and putting up the walls, so I hired Autobot and her S.O. to finish it up. They finished placing the insulation and covered it with OSB. Not the prettiest of wall choices, I'll admit, but cheap.

Since Maggie is supposed to also double as a guest room on occasion, it'll be much nicer now that she's insulated. There's just enough room for a twin-sized blow up, or a camping cot in there, so I'm looking forward to sleep overs with Mav when he's old enough to want to spend the night with Lola. When we start our seeds this spring, a little oil heater plugged in at night should keep the seedlings nice and warm.

Mom came down this past Sunday and helped me paint and organize. It definitely is more fun to "play house" with someone else. When she was sweeping out all of the dirt and sawdust, I told her that it felt like we were playing Boxcar Children.

There is an art to sweeping, and Mom
has mastered it.* The floor was clean enough
to eat from when she was done.

It took us a good couple of hours to finish painting and organizing, but it was fun. Now all that's left is the fun decorating-type stuff.

My Amanda gave me my little gnome, and my
young friend built him a house. When 
Autobot and Co. were putting up the walls, I
asked them to cut his house into the walls.

Yes, I know the tines should face inward for the
Gremlin's garden tools, but they don't fit the hooks
that way, plus access is currently blocked by the chalkboard.

The candelabra will go up on a shelf, once I get one built.
The antique recipe box on the right stores all of our seeds.
We built the potting shed around that amazing cabinet that
is now our potting bench.

Various planting/maintenance implements on the
little cart. Yes, that's a vase full of bones from the yard.

While I love the small bit of light let in by the 'skylights', I'll likely end up insulating the ceiling, in which case, they'll be covered up. Maybe. Autobot and Co. might be able to frame it somehow so that I still get a tiny bit of light.

Everything else that needs done really is the fun decorating stuff. I've asked Jay to paint a 'home' around the gnome's opening. My SIL, Mrs. Deejo, made me a really fun mirror that needs framed and hung, L.E. gifted me the perfect framed puzzle for Maggie, and there are just a ton of other small little things I want to do.

I'm so thrilled that I was able to get Maggie built, and she truly lives up to her Magical Potting Shed name.

*I have a very similar picture of Mom sweeping out the shop when Bill ran the electric to it.