Y'all know by now that we've managed to hook ourselves a buyer, after only 10 days on the market! And 'they' say it's a tough market. All I have to say is THANK YOU CRAIGSLIST. The buyer saw my savvy posting. And thanks to our fantastic realtor, who penned the flowery advertisment.

Obviously we're pretty excited to get a new neighbor, thrilled to have our lives back- though a bit sad and wondering "What next?" and spending the last two Saturdays aimlessly wandering around our own house without focus. But honestly...we're waiting for the other shoe to drop. This marketing and selling process went wayyyy too smoothly, and if we've learned anything on this project we've learned that when things go too smoothly WATCH OUT! Something's gonna topple, or burst, or leak, or crumble, or snap, or trip the circut breaker, or poke you in the eye.

Tentative closing date is for the end of May, so we have a few more weeks of walking around with knots in our stomachs, wringing our hands, beyond belief.

The House keeps surprising us by giving up little gems, even now as we're finishing the project. When I first discovered these porcelain knobs with the vine motif stem and keyhole, I have to admit I was really, really, really tempted to take them for my own Eastlake Victorian. What if the new owner doesn't appreciate them and paints them over again? Or, worse yet, chucks them in favor of a contempory Home Despot model. When I should have been finishing up last minute paint jobs in preparation for an Open House, I took on a four hour side project to clean as many handles as I could get to.

Ultimately I decided that what came with the house stays with the house. That's that. My personal house philosophy, especially with old homes, is that the one never really 'owns' the house...one merely guides it into it's next life. It's next life should include the few ornaments that haven't been stolen over the years.