Joining our Stuff.

We are finally at the stage of moving boxes and beginning to unpack. This is the first time that Chaim and I will have all of our belongings together under one room. When I say all of our belongings, this means my studio (with large power tools), old art in crates from the countless sculpture exhibits where nothing was sold, my library, both of our art works and report cards from elementary school, his 10,000+ menu collection, his collection of hockey sticks, plastic spoons, chewing gum, graffiti stickers, 30 lbs of keys, and the list goes on for may pages.

My mother came with a car load of belongings I didn't even want or have room for.


Two weekends ago, Chaim and I took a one way flight to Buffalo and drove a 12 foot truck filled with more stuff, like the aforementioned hockey stick collection back to New York. Thank goodness we got a few pieces of furniture to store some of this stuff in. Currently we are living in a cramped house, resembling more of an antique or thrift shop. We have very little furniture, so the boxes and crates act as night stands, and side tables.

Since Chaim and I have been living the luxurious lifestyle (NOT!) of having two apartments plus a 500 sqft studio, we have doubles, and sometimes triples of some items. In the Kitchen, these multiple items are most prevalent. We have just unpacked only one quarter of our boxes marked KITCHEN, and already we have a few boxes of repetitive gadgets and flatware, items that will soon be packed away to be given away the next kid we know that goes off to college, or sold for very cheaply in our first ever yard sale in the spring. We also finally got to unpack and open our wedding presents and are glad to say we still like what we picked from the Williams and Sonoma registry.

Though we are no longer collecting rainwater, our whole kitchen cabinetry is constructed out of used furniture. The first set I constructed out of our old crappy MDF entertainment center. There will be cabinet doors made from a collection of fruit crate wood, among other scrap wood I have from the studio.