Monthly Archives: December 2009
Click here to here my favorite version of Auld Lang SyneHappy Twenty Ten
photo by *Cinnamon
I really love that the next decade will be twenty-something. I find it soothing somehow. I’ve never been one for big New Years bash or parting down town. Honestly, I’ve never been to a New Years party or thought of throwing one. I simply usually just enjoy a lovely late night evening with good wine and bubbly and a great homemade meal. Exactly what I plan on doing with the hubby tonight.
I am one to have new years resolutions and love a good “top 10 of 2009″ ( or what have you ). Last year my resolution was to starting running and run the Charleston Bridge Run 10K in 2010. I’m doing well so far and plan on registering for the run ASAP. This goal also led me to my favorite way to stay fit and still eat at least a bit of all the good stuff I cook in the kitchen.
2010 lends it’s self to bigger goals i believe, but I don’t have any big goal, just a few small ones that I would like to have realized in the coming year.
1 | Save a minimum amount of money each month with a goal of having $_ _ _ _ in my savings account at the end of the year. Details to be determined, but there is a reason this is #1 on my list.
2| Read a book a month. I am a very fast reader, but the books I WANT to read tend to be work related(horses) and have a tendency of being, well…. dry.. I’d like to at least read 12 of the ever accumulating pile of books that have gone unread for years.
That is it. Well, not really, there are A LOT of things that I want to get done, but most of that shall be listed in To-Do list form at a later date.
Happy New Year Everyone!
power tools make great presents
Jason had a blast telling everyone he was buying his wife a power saw for her birthday!
Random Geometry
I have been contemplating what I want to do with the wall behind my scrap table and Lack bookcase. If I were rich, I would put Anthropologie’s Vanuatu Twilight Wallpaper. If I were richer, I would put up Nama Rococo’s Random Geometry Wallpaper. But alas, I can have neither because of the price.
So this has led me to improvise and rely on my mad painting skills. I am a painter, an amateur, but I’m not half bad at what I choose to paint. I am thinking about actually hand painting (in pink or maybe black) some geometric patterns on the wall. I am really craving a black wall somewhere in the house, but not sure that the craft area is the place for it. I’m thinking white with pink geometric shapes and maybe some pretty birdies would be fun, colorful and intriguing.
I cannot seem to find any good examples of people hand painting some wallpaper. There are a lot of great graffiti photos out there though! Anyone out there every hand painted wallpaper? I don’t mean stenciling. I mean a repeating pattern that looks (from afar) as if it’s wallpaper that has been adhered to the wall? I’m thinking about tackling this project this week!
TIMBER!
Shortly after setting up and decorating our tree with our sparse ornaments, it fell. Water everywhere, tree on the ground and ornaments everywhere. Here’s what it looked like until Sunday when we finally got around to fixing it.
We don’t think Tottenham (our very large cat) knocked it down. He’s been pretty good about staying out of the tree. He does like to bat the low ornaments and hide underneath like a present. It’s pretty cute actually.
a room with a view
When we went to pick out a Christmas tree on Saturday, I knew I wanted to put it in the library, but there was one small problem. The ceiling in the library still needed painting AND it was filled with boxes. Here’s how it looked before I went to town unpacking crap::
A complete mess. For some reason, I decided that I wasn’t going to unpack any books until the room had been painted, the flooring replaced and we built (BUILT!) bookshelves. Well, that only lasted about…2 months? The urge to have a christmas tree ran over the urge to have boxes in the center of the room. So here’s what it looks like now.
Not perfect by any means, and the tree in the photo has yet to be decorated, but you get the idea. The books stacked along the wall are kinda charming. We are no longer living with those boxes. They are gone. Well I wish they were gone, they are currently sitting in the garage waiting to be taken to the recyclable place. Anyway, tree is up and the library is a place we can sit and enjoy the view of the cul-de-sac while sitting on our awesome green thrift store couch.
lights! camera! santa hat!
We (Jason) hung the icicle lights up on the house on Sunday. It looks nice, especially since I got to finally use those boxes of netting lights that have just been sitting in the shed for years. We wanted to put lights on the dormers as well, but that may have to be saved for next year, or when Target puts those icicle lights on clearance. As you can tell, we ran out of lights just at the very end down there on the left.
progress report :: craft area
I’ve been a bit lazy when it comes to decorating the house lately. Mostly because we are poor currently, but mostly because it’s the holiday season, my favorite time of the year!
I did get a few things done with the craft area. It’s still a big huge unorganized mess, but it has STRUCTURE now. You can VISUALIZE how the area is going to look now. It’s PROGRESS people!
Here is what it looks like currently. It hasn’t changed from this exact photo in about 2 weeks. First off, I LOVE THE LACK BOOKCASE. Seriously, it was the perfect match to the space and I even love the blue color in contrast with the black and purple table that I re-purposed and painted. And when I get all that junk organized it will look even more spiffy!
Here’s a closer shot of the paint colors and the shelving brackets. The top of the table is Black Satin by Benjamin Moore and the legs of the table is Globe Thistle by Valspar. The reason the shelf brackets are not up is because I have yet to make it to IKEA for the actual SHELVES and I’m still trying to figure out what to paint the wall behind the craft area. The wallpaper is out of the question, so I am contemplating PAINTING my own wallpaper. What do you think? Has anyone out there ever painted their own wallpaper? Seriously, I love good graffiti. Not sloppy nasty graffiti, but GOOD design graffiti. I’m not trying to go the graffiti route, I’m just sayin’.