Rudolph Day- April

Happy Rudolph Day! The work for this month is organizing holiday crafts and organizing Christmas dinnerware. I don't think I'm making anything this year for gifts. I'm busy right now doing many cross-stitches for myself. I do wish we could find a project to do because this year should be a Christmas project. Me, my Mom and my Aunt usually do a craft project each year and we go between Fall and Christmas. Last year we made pumpkin centerpieces, but I haven't come across anything I want to make for Christmas yet. My holiday dishes are under the hutch already organized, but I'm not sure they will get used this year. Someone had a fun idea of using them on Rudolph Days and all during December on the MHH forum and maybe that will be a good idea so they get some more use. I will be putting Easter decorations away today and I added a new gift to my Amazon cart the other day. I don't think I will be making an order today, but we'll see. I guess I'm not going to get much of anything Christmasy done today, but I did start to clean up the basement so I'm making progress on something. I also started some Christmas lists the other day so a little progress has been made on Christmas this month.

Got Some More Cleaning Done

I finished washing the windows Monday and today I finished washing the rest of the curtains. I put out our new solar lights around the front stairs this morning and the little decorative chair on the front stairs. Tomorrow, we have a lot of stuff to get done so I've tried to get a head start. I also fed the bushes this morning. I got about 1/2 the raking done this past weekend so there's still that too. Fingers crossed we get the rest of the list done tomorrow.

Upstairs Hallway is Now Complete

My Mom gave me this little cabinet because it was the perfect size for my upstairs hallway and the perfect way to finish it. The only problem was that it was white and didn't go with the other new stuff, so we spray painted it black. I love it so much I wish I could put it somewhere where I could see it more/better. The cow in the middle of the top is Bartholomoo, he is borrowing a sweater from my Mom's bunny, Fred. I found a sweater with tulips on it this weekend on clearance because it was a little dirty. I threw it in the wash and he's now wearing it for the Summer. I also got the little jar in the top cubby at the crafty store this weekend.

Attic Floor

This is the little floor space we made in the attic. I cleaned out our closet this weekend and we put the stuff we wanted to keep, but didn't need in the closet, up there. The little area is pretty much full, but we don't have anything else to put up there so it worked out well.

Attic Door

Hubby picked up some cheap bargain wood at Home Depot on his lunch break the other day. He said if he was going to carry it in, he should just carry it up to the attic, so he did. He popped a screw in each board and now we have a little area in the attic to store stuff. I decided to paint the attic door ceiling paint white so that it would blend into the ceiling and brighten up the hallway a little. It used to be stained the same color as the other trim and doors you can see in the picture. Now we can cross two things off the To Do List (attic floor & painting white).