Christmas Trees 2011

We finally got our Christmas trees up and decorated. Yeah...we have two. In our last house, it was a very small house, so the tree we had was teeny but looked huge in that house. So whenever we moved into a house that was bigger with higher ceilings we decided to get a bigger tree but to keep the older one. So we have the big tree in our living room and the smaller tree in our dining room.

Tree #1 (original tree):

Tree #2 (newer, larger one):

Ta-da! So purty.

Happy Belated Thanksgiving!

Our outdoor autumn porch scene.

Hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving. Its been kind of a crazy one for us/me.

About our porch scene: this is what it looked like in tact a week ago. Now the squirrels have started in on the corn. I find that appropriate though, and am thankful they waited until we were getting ready to put up our Christmas decorations. We got the whole kit and kaboodle for $2.90 at the pumpkin patch so not bad at all.

What's your favorite Thanksgiving dessert? Mine is pumpkin roll---yum. Its always my job to bring the pumpkin roll and chocolate mints--so easy to make, too. I will have to share the recipes I use sometime.

Project complete: Repainting bathroom cabinet doors

Happily, we have a ton of storage in our main bathroom (very good for people like me who have a beauty product addiction). I decided we needed to change things up in there though and make it look classier and I think I succeeded. What do you think?


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After:

Good day!

Good day, all! It's been a busy couple of weeks. I have been working on finishing up some projects around the house for the year so that I can enjoy the holidays and have more time to do what I enjoy most--holiday baking and crafting, oh my!

The time change this AM was perfect. Although I wish the cats knew what DST was because they tried to wake me up to feed them at their regular routine time. Oh, vell. Posting pictures later on of something I have been working on. Got some chores to work on and am working on clearing out my email inbox first.

Finally getting things done feels SO good.