We closed on our creekside mountain cabin in December 2016 and haven't stopped since!  It has been such an undertaking choosing this fixer-upper, living 3 hours away and it being basically a total gut job from plumbing to electrical and most everything else from floor to ceiling.  The most recent interior phase of the project was to convert an attached garage into a laundry area, master bedroom and master bath.  

Happy New Year 2020!

Happy New Year!

Looking ahead to the year 2020, lets remember:

It is a new year!

Every day is a new day!

In the Meantime

After Christmas, once all the decorations are put away, doesn't it look a little bare!

Is it just me or do you feel the same way?

And now that Christmas is packed away, there is much more to do!

Mantels

and

tabletops

and

kitchen counters,

so many places needing to be decorated!

And how do I want to decorate these spaces for winter?

Is it just me or are you asking yourself the same question?

Well, that's just too much to decide right now, so I'm sitting back and going to ponder that a bit.

And in the meantime...

Just Like that Christmas is Over

I still feel as though I've missed something, or as if something is still to come?

It seems many of you feel the same with Thanksgiving being so late this year,

which trickled into Christmas decorating being late,

and Christmas coming early,

and just like that...it's already over...and there is much I didn't share!

I was late in finishing my decorating, but I'm still in the Christmas spirit and not taking my decorations down just yet, so here is more Christmas at our house.

Christmas Kitchen

Christmas is only 5 days away and I'm still behind.  I'll say it's because Thanksgiving was late this year, because if I had another week all would be good, and less hectic, and I wouldn't be so crazy...so that sounds like a good excuse to me!

Growing up we had a tinsel tree.  It came in a tall box, with a ton of honeycomb sections, and each section had the end of a tinsel branch right there at the top for us to pull up and then stick in the wooden pole.  It was so much fun to putting the tinsel tree together and I loved all the sparkle!  I don't know what became of that tree, but I enjoy this tiny one that finds its place in the kitchen every year.