Starting Over

So I struggled a little bit with what to write today. It's not that I haven't been in the mood to craft or haven't had the time, it's more that I don't have access to any of my crafting things or a space in which to do them. On Tuesday night, my husband and I came home from a date to find that our entire basement was under two inches of water from the extreme amount of rain that we had had. It really wasn't the perfect ending to the date. Instead of us putting the girls into bed and settling down to read the books we had bought, we ended up calling my parents frantically trying to get some help so that we could empty our basement as fast as possible including what is our family room, our storage room and my craft room/office. On Wednesday, we went back downstairs to assess the damage and figured that we would have to put everything through our insurance. For both of Thursday and Friday, contractors and clean-up crews were here tearing everything they could out of the basement and putting some industrial fans down there.

So that brings me to my post. I would love to be downstairs making beautiful things and decorating my house for Christmas but I simply can't. It's actually quite funny. I can see everything in my craft room but they have it all pretty much wrapped in plastic and I can't get to any of it. The rest of my house is a disaster as well and I'm missing things because they're under of piles of things that should be in our storage room.

On the bright side, no one was hurt with the flood. None of our actually important documents or things were ruined including our electronics. And, as a bonus, I get to redecorate our basement which was on our list of things to do for the winter. The flood just hurried us up a little bit. So for the next few days, I might be posting about things that we're picking for our basement. We're already planning on putting wainscotting on the lower half of the walls since they had to tear out that half of the drywall anyways. We're also considering putting ceramic tile instead of carpet down since we were informed by our contractor that this is not the first time that our basement has flooded. I do not want mildew. We'll compensate for the coldness with large area rugs.

This is the one that my husband likes:

http://www.homedepot.ca/product/6-x-6-arno-riverbed-ceramic/953052

Correction: Apparently THIS is the one that he actually liked:

And this is the one that I like but obviously just the style. It would have to be a porcelain look-a-like since I am neither crazy nor rich:

http://www.homedepot.ca/product/12-in-x-12-in-bianco-polished-marble/906371#BVRRWidgetID

Tell me what you think!