New Year, New Bedding

I saw this purple ticking stripe duvet cover in the LLBean catalog and I thought it would go with the new gray walls perfectly since there's a purple tone in them. The duvet happens to be flannel so it's nice and soft and warm too.

Prepared for Christmas

I just did my last wrapping this morning after touching up the last of the paint in the bathroom. I sent a gift to my friend and I updated an address and sent out another Christmas card. I think I'm officially ready to celebrate. Now, I just have to wait for Christmas to get here.

Bathroom MakeOver

Since I was so far ahead on the HHP and I have spare time I decided we should do a little updating in the upstairs bathroom. We put in a new vinyl floor ourselves. It was a little difficult and we didn't do the trimming perfect, but that's what trim is for.

I painted the sink cabinet to match the new medicine cabinet. It's called Black Raisin and I think it matches pretty well for just grabbing a bunch of swatches and then holding it up to the display in the store.

This is the new medicine cabinet. It's a little classier than the builder's grade one we had. I think it all looks nice together. I put the snowman angel on the sink up there because I thought it needed something different with the new look. I had a basket with a couple of towels in it, but it wasn't quite right.

Rudolph Activity

I picked up all of the gift cards and stocking stuffers I need the other day. I wrapped some gifts that day too. I need to have one more wrapping session and I'll be done. I did all of the Christmas cards yesterday. They are stamped and ready to mail the first week of December. We're going grocery shopping tonight and I'll pick up a frozen turkey for Thistmaster next Spring and the ingredients for Thanksgiving dessert.

New Table

My Mom is having her kitchen redone and she doesn't need this table anymore. I put it in place of the blue kitchen cart we had here. I love the blue cart, but I thought the black table would look nicer in the dining room. It was a little smaller than the cart so I had to get rid of some stuff and move some other stuff around. I rubbed the scratches and dings with black stain and it looks great.

Stitching

I finished my latest cross stitch in time to put it up for a little while.

All Done

I finished cleaning the house this past weekend. The kitchen was the last room to do. I did all the windows as I did each room so they are done now too. I cleaned out the fridge yesterday and I took a chicken out of the freezer to roast next weekend. I just have a few odds and ends left in a couple of rooms and then to take pictures of the last 2 rooms. I've taken updated pictures of each room as I cleaned them so we can document our belongings and so we can see the improvements we've made. I think I'm just about done Christmas shopping too. I just have gift cards and stocking stuffers left to get. I've been in high gear this year and I'm way ahead. Time to start relaxing!