my bucket light

Well just to add some fun and color I made this light for the Dining area.   Once again I means Hubby cause I dont do electrical.
So here is my bucket light - it might be tweaked and centered better some other day!  And yep that is a Burlap window treatment on the windows thanks to a friend at work who kept me the burlap bags.(Thanks Paige!!!)

Cheese Grater Lights

Yep thats right! I did it... and by I, I mean hubby did all the wiring and alot of the other stuff but it was my idea ;)
I started out with all these bits and pieces

Did a little of this and a little of that and I ended up with this

 Soon ....soon my kitchen will be all finished its going at a rate of about 2 projects per weekend right now which is getting the honey-do list down quite nicely.

Kitchen stuff

I am sure by the end there will be oodles of kitchen posts cause this is going to be a long process.
Here is another wall "almost" finished needs some trim but I figured I would get all that done in one day

New Kitchen

Where have I been for over a month?
Well between all the holiday celebrations - getting back into some kind of routine - I have been working hard on our kitchen
Last year at around this time I found a set of knotty pine cabinets for my house - since then we have been planning, tearing out walls and cabinets, putting in walls and cabinets,  taking a break and then going at the whole project again so............
A LOT of work later and hubby finally deciding that yes I get control over decorating/designing decisions
Here it is............
We still have a long ways to go such as flooring, some finishing work, light fixtures and all that good stuff  but I have been working very hard the last few weeks on getting some of this done so I decided I would share it with you

 

One of the things I LOVE LOVE LOVE about my kitchen is my backsplash and it was a fight to get it but..... soooo worth it!!!

Oh Christmas Trees

We gave buying those nice perfect Christmas trees from the farm or lot sooo our trees are what they are!!! and sometimes that is not to great but this year I must say we did not to bad. First you have to locate your trees and we did so

 

Decorating the trees was fun!!
 the kids did the downstairs tree and it only fell over once so now its tied to the wall hahaha! usually is every year cause we have an "incident"

 

We had the issue of where to put the upstairs tree usually its in the corner where I put my old washing machine but its to big and heavy to move here and there + add the factor of a puppy that is left unsupervised occasionally so the tree either had to be up out of the way or not be there at all.   I just figured it would be easier to use the washing machine as a Christmas Tree stand.  I did the upstairs tree and I must stop fiddling around with it.  A few more decorations here and there and I think my house will be Christmasy enough.

Let Christmas Begin

Normally I do not decorate early but I figured I would start doing little bits at a time here and there soooooo here is my front entry (that NO-ONE uses) and stair well area  Its a beginning and anyone who knows me knows this is Very highly unusual cause I am quite a Grinch.

My Rustic Christmas Ornaments

 So I this year for Christmas I get to have the upstairs to make a grown up matchy match Christmas and the kids get downstairs to put up and decorate with all the old stuff that I dont want .  So I have been making most of my own Christmas decorations
here is some of the ones I came up with today I have many more but just havent bothered to take pics of each and every one of them
these today are just made of bits of this and that  that I had around the house.

No step by step tutorial cause that's just not my thing - really its cause most times I dont remember to take pics and the how to notes until the very end and by then I am done doing. 
But at least it can help give some ideas.
OH and I redid the burlap wreath cause the bow was TO country for my taste soo here it is