Dilemma of the Day - be careful what you wish for

Good morning sunshine!  

I'm writing this post at 5:05am and that's waaaay to early for me to be awake, so I'm feeling a little loopy!  Mornings are not typically my time to shine, but Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday mornings this week, I woke up at 4:18am.  (Okay, well, 4:18am was when I first looked at my phone.)  How does that happen?

This isn't a good thing as I canNOT fall back to sleep once this brain gets to cranking.  I try.  Sometimes if I count backwards from 100, imagining I'm painting each number, I come close.  But usually, around number 79, I find myself spinning out and making to-do lists, priority lists and lists about lists.

So, Wednesday night I prayed to sleep "past 4:18".  

You guessed it, Thursday morning I woke up, looked at my phone and yes, it was 4:19am.  I couldn't make this stuff up.  BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR, right?

So, I was much more specific in my sleep request last night and was shooting for 6:00.  I settled for 4:29am.

And now I'm here, typing and listening to Brutus snore so loudly the windows are rattling.  Remember this guy?  He's pretty excited to find out he just won the Hurl-a-Squirrel prize from the Rockin' Pet Party over at The House at Bluebird Lane!!  It's National Pet Week!

(well, he WILL be excited, but I don't have the heart to wake him up and tell him.)

Moving on.... my dilemma is this.

(sorry, bad lighting at 6am)

THESE, to be more precise.

Ignore the ugly sink, faucet, counter-tops and popcorn ceiling.  It's the two oddly sized windows, in the corner, in my kitchen, that I'm referring to.  We've lived in this house for 7 years and nearly every day I wonder what to do with this decorating nightmare of a corner.

I guess if it were up to me and we didn't live in suburbia, I'd leave all of our windows open and uncovered, which is probably why they've been left for so long.  I don't think the neighbors mind the occasional view of me washing dishes or cutting vegetables, right?  Notice that there aren't even screens on the window?  (this is my doing)

Notice the funky houseplants?  I seriously think the one on the left was given to me after a car accident in high school and the other my Mom gave me when I went to college.  No kidding, you can't kill these things.

Notice the completely off-center light fixture? I don't know who to blame for that, but it doesn't line up with anything. at. all.

The cute pendant light used to be a can light but I converted it with one of those easy-peasy kits from Lowe's.  The glass was red before as well, but some Krylon took care of that.

Notice that I went through a 'cross phase'?  SOO over it.

So what to do with this awkward little space?

Dress the windows?  Add a cute little chandelier with lots of sparkle?  Help!

Tomorrow is Saturday; surely I'll sleep until 6am?!?  Happy weekend my friends!!!

 

Dilemma of the Day

These beauties landed in my lap last week.  3 of them.

I love them.

They were once part of a huge, glorious chandelier in a vast, magnificent castle.

I made that up - I really have NO idea what they were, what they're for, or what I can turn them into.

Any suggestions?