Things Against the New Paint

This is the part of the hallway near the kitchen. This is the part of the big wall that's in the computer room.

Happy July Rudolph Day

Money has been tight this month so I have just put together a good list of gifts to finish off my Hubby's shopping. I think with what I have it will be plenty, I just have to order it when we get some more money.

I organized recipes this month. I have binders with ripped out magazine recipes and printed recipes so I finished filling up two of them and I made an index for each one so that I can find what I'm looking for easily. I have chosen chocolate peppermint fudge for my Christmas dessert and I can find it in one of the binders I finished when it's time.

I ordered a gift for my friend so I'm just about done with her for the holidays.

Today, I have painted the downstairs hallway the same color as our living room. It's hard to paint the downstairs because all the rooms run together and I love the light blue that I painted the computer room, but I have never loved it in the hallway. I never thought anything looked nice against it. Now it's a creamy off white and the stuff is going to look great on it. I kept holding it up to the living room wall to see how it would look and it's way better. Now I just have to wait until it's dry so I can put all the stuff back on the walls. I hope none of the walls that are in this color need a lot of touch up because I'm almost out of the paint now.

I'm going to be doing the Holiday Houseworks Plan from organizedchristmas.com again this year. I usually get the Fall cleaning bug a little early so I'm ahead of the game when it starts.

Happy Christmas in July!

A Little Redecorating

The other day I decided to redecorate the mantle and area above it. I also went to a craft fair this weekend and I got a cute polka dotted cow picture and a sheep plate that I added to the area. I always wanted to put the paper mache cow on the mantle, but I could never find something to balance the other side until I remembered I had bought a Christmas plate on clearance and I decided to see if that would work. It did, so I had to get an every day plate and that was my mission at the craft fair. Unfortunately, I didn't find any every day plates so I had to stop at a little shop on the way home because I knew they had some plates and ta da...the sheep plate.

Christmas in July and Other Things

So I found out that I don't have enough stuff for my Hubby set aside for Christmas yet. I have a couple of things left to wrap, but I still need a Birthday gift for him as well, since he's a December baby. I will set out to round up some more ideas and start picking them up this month. I do have a few things left on the list I wrote out for him so I should look into getting them. I think they are mostly things that I have to go to the dreaded store to get. I have also started my Mom off right in picking up some things on awesome sales for him. I will update my progress on Rudolph Day.

The other things are that the deer have been visiting every night for the past couple of weeks and they have succeeded in eating every last Hosta plant in the backyard. I should have put the repellent out there, but it stinks so bad it repells us as well. We can't even open the windows when it's out there. Not that there has been much opening of windows lately. It's so hot and humid we live inside with the air conditioning every day. I can't take much more of it. It makes me look forward to Fall and Winter even more. I wish it would hurry up and get here. Until Rudolph Day...