Reagan lives in an old Victorian with the first floor turned
into a consignment shop. The dining room has a chandelier and the drapes from
when it was an actual dining room but now there are racks of dresses, jackets,
blouses and with the dining room table a display for hats, jewelry, purses.
Evie lives with her bike shop on Mackinac Island meaning the
shop is in the front, kitchen in back and bedrooms upstairs with a porch off
one side that overlooks the Lake Michigan.
I know where my characters, can see it in my brain so clear,
but what about where I live? Sometimes I just don’t notice.
January is a gloomy month. I’m trapped inside and I look
around
and think this place is a dump! 
The pots and pans thing got taken care of at Christmas with my
kids giving me new Alclad. Since I cook dinner with them every Sunday they
figure it was in their interest to get me nice cooking stuff.
Then there’s my towels. I have company coming and it would
be nice to give them matching sets that do not have bleach spots or dye spots
from when I do my hair and the dye gets all over everything.
So now I’m in fix-it-up hell. New rug, new paint, new couch.
What about you? Is January your month to get the place in shape?
I’ll give away a Lethal In Old Lace tote with pink feather boa from the answers just to liven things up.
I’ll give away a Lethal In Old Lace tote with pink feather boa from the answers just to liven things up.