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Thursday, April 25

Tuesday, March 26

Welcome to the Good Life

A quick video of our recent vacation put together by my son:

And we do have a very good life...

Tuesday, December 11

Most years I don't think twice about how to decorate our Christmas tree. But with Pinterest and a ginormous blogland to travel, sometimes I catch myself wondering if I should rethink the way I decorate it.

Should I make it a color coordinated gradient like John and Sherry's?

Or maybe it should have a theme like this poinsettia tree.

This book tree is quite clever,

as is this wine bottle tree via Pinterest.

via www.nps.gov

Maybe just going large like the White House would be fun? But at the end of all the "should I's" it always ends up like this.

If I made it match or gave it a theme, I would miss dragging out all the ornaments we've collected over our 20+ year marriage.

Like the following three all handmade by my sister.

This one is a memorial to my husband's grandma who was a dairy farmer.

And this one is a memorial to my grandpa, who among other things, was a Republican and of course collected elephants of all shapes and sizes.

This one my "rock star" nephew made for us.

And this one my oldest son made when he was in grade school. He is now 21.

And of course, Rock Chalk Jayhawk!

I've linked up with Honey We're Home to show off my tree this year.

Wednesday, November 28

Evolution of a Space

This is what the dining room looked like when we bought our house almost 3 years ago. (This is the previous owner's stuff) The trim is faux painted to look like wood and not only are the walls faux painted to look like maroon leather, they are also textured. The walls in the living room and kitchen were also textured and the kitchen walls had a nice grape and leaf motif stamped in them. Needless to say, before even moving in we had the popcorn ceilings scraped and replaced with knock-down texture and all the walls skimmed to get rid of the texture.

This is the third phase of the dining room as I am missing a picture of it painted yellow. This room is directly on the left as you walk in our front door and quite a little way from the eat-in kitchen, so we actually didn't use it as a dining room all that often.

I decided to move our large dining room table into the kitchen and use this room as a lounge area. I painted the ceiling in the bay window area the same color as the walls to try to make it disappear a bit and I also painted the ceiling a light grey and replaced the light fixture. I found the grey club chairs on Overstock.com and they are actually very comfortable!

In the process of making some repairs to other areas of the house, we had to tear up a bit of our wood floors at the back door. I begged a little and we decided to take up the carpet in the "dining room" and the half bath right off the kitchen and then have all the floors refinished. Yeah!

This is how it looks today. I have fabric purchased for curtains but that will probably have to wait until after the holidays. Plans are in the works for built-ins in the alcove on the back wall and the carpet on the stairs will be replaced soon. It has been a lengthy process but I think we will use the room much more this way.