House painting

We are finally painting the outside of our house again.The weather has been a bit cool here but we need to get this done!!!!! The front of the house is complete with a few touch ups to go and the same with one side of the house. I will paint the trim later today.It looks soooooo much better.I love it!!!!! I am hoping next week we can buy shutters for the front of the house and put them up.That will take our house to a different level as far as curb appeal goes.We are already getting compliments on the outside.Finally our house matches inside and out!!!!

Xmas prep

Today I decorated my mantel in our bedroom.I added two of our stockings for Santa to fill!!!! The pink one is from the "Shabby Chic" line(at Target). I really haven't bought anything new this year except my mini tree.I am going to wait until after Xmas and buy it all on sale!!!!!! The kids made a gingerbread house w/ a kit I picked up.It turned out really cute and luckily I took photos because it fell apart 15 minutes after we were done!!! LOL!!!! I think they put too much candy on it!!!