MERRY CHRISTMAS

I am such a blog slacker lately but I have been very busy.

Here are a few pictures of my Christmas house. I really went simple this year.

My dear friend Mearritta gave me this  old window so I hung it up and decorated it.  If you look close you can see that I added some white vinyl birds on it.

Just a few berries and snowflakes on the beam.

My glass snowmen I got at a garage sale a few years ago for $1.00

My tree and mantle.

My new shelves and carolers.

Up close

My Christmas China with big red balls in the tea cups.

I put bows on my lampshades.

My Santas above the pantry.

 

I put all my nativities on the bookshelves.

My favorite Nativity.

Snowmen in the dining room.

HO HO HO

The dining room.

I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas.

PS. Our family ended up with 5 stitches in a chin  of one and one splinted splinted finger on another yesterday. Today one went to the doctor with a high fever and a goopy eye so yes, everything is normal here.

CHURCH CHAIRS

See this add…

Here in Northern Utah we have not only Craigslist but KSL Classifieds as well. So lucky!  I have been wanting a couple of smallish red chairs for my living room.  I sold a couple of old chairs on KSL that I had that just didn’t go anymore soooo, with money burning a hole in my pocket I got to work looking.

I found this chair and really liked it but I wanted two so I went hunting.  You are not going to believe this but I found another one with an ottoman that was posted 21 days earlier. Just $10.00 each as well.

Can you believe it! Crazy and…. they were just 10 miles apart.  So I borrowed my daughters big Yukon and went and got them. Wahooo!

Here they are…

Now why “Church chairs” you may ask?  My kids say they remind them of the chairs in the foyers of our Chapels we have here in Utah and they remember having to sit on them with their arms folded if they were naughty in Church.

HA!  I don’t have time out chairs, I have CHURCH CHAIRS and I’m going to use them. Not for the grand kids, Oh no, but for their parents!

OUR THANKSGIVING

We had our usual Wednesday night Thanksgiving dinner. That way I don’t have to worry about in-laws or other obligations my kids might have. I have been doing this for several years now and it works out very well.

Getting ready to feed 26!

 

I got a little artistic this year with the rolls.

And I decided to try giving my turkey a bacon jacket. YUMMY!

I made pumpkin and apple/pecan pies.

Alyssa made me a turkey. Soooo cute!

The twins made me another turkey, so, so, soooo cute!

I have such talented grand kids!

Everyone ate and played and just had a good time.

Playing on my new blackboard wall.

Just hangin’

 

I hope your Thanksgiving was as good as ours.

I LUV MY STUFF

I have so much  junk  stuff.   I have a very hard time getting rid of any of it and I am constantly adding to it. 

I have found a solution…. STACK IT!

See this  piece….

I picked it up a couple of years ago for like $10 at a yard sale. It used to be pretty ugly and bead up. I painted it black and added new knobs and used it in my dining room for my stuff.

See this….

It was my parent’s and it is probably 60 or 70 years old. It has seen alot of use and wear but I of course could never part with it.  I painted it black as well a few years ago.

So I got to looking at them yesterday, trying to figure out which one to use on my new orange wall and I said to myself,  “Self, wait a minute, why not use both!”

So this is what I did….

Good idea but I don’t like the look of that bottom space. Soooo, I got to thinking and thought maybe I could cut the bottom off but…. I didn’t want to ruin my parent’s piece.  I turned it over and yup! It was screwed on. They knew how to make furniture back then.

So I unscrewed it…

Now it looks better

With some touch up work and tweaking it will look great.

(It really looks better than than it does in the picture.)

TO ADOOR OR NOT

Here is a  sneak peak of one of the projects I have been working on. I have been wanting to add built in shelves for years on either side of  my living room window.

Well, I finally did it!

Now my big question is… Do I add doors to the bottom section and if so do I make them solid with beadboard inserts or with glass inserts?

What do you think?

“ORANGE” YOU GLAD……

Well I am! 

See the wall in my dining room with the  arrow pointing at it?

It’s gone!

See this other wall with the arrow?

It’s still there.

It used to look like this…

Well, I added something…  2 more feet…

and some texturing……

Then….

I painted it ORANGE!

Then added some gel stain …

And you have my new undecorated orange wall.

Now what should I do with the rest of the mess?