🛏️ Entry Thirteen: A Room of One’s Own
📍Chestnut Ridge – Home Lot 🌄 #DreamspaceBuild #CottageCoreUnlocked #WeHaveWallsNow
We did it.
Scrimped. Painted. Gardened. Sold everything that wasn’t rooted to the ground—and finally, there’s a bedroom. A real one. With four walls, a roof, and enough windows to let the dawn in gently instead of waking up to bugs on the inflatable mattress.
The walls are still bare. The decor, humble. But it’s home. The kind you feel in your bones when you close the door behind you and know: "I made this. From scratch. From nothing but hope, hustle, and a little help from Monet and Eliza."
Recent Wins: 💰 Sold more paintings. 🌱 Garden’s turning a profit—parsley’s a surprisingly hot item. 🖌️ Still working the painter career—promotion coming soon! 🧹 Sweepy continues to defend the house from the dust bunny uprising.
Next Goal: Phase out the half-gabled cottage and start laying the bones of a full house. A proper kitchen. A cozy reading nook. Maybe even an art studio with skylights.
But tonight, I sleep in a real bed. Under a patchwork quilt. In a room I built.
And that? That is everything.
—A. 🌙