New Fence

I received my Xmas present early!! If you have been reading my blog for awhile you know I always ask for "weird" house projects or furniture as presents,lol:) This christmas was no exception.I wanted to fence in our new yard .Hubby would say the property was my present as well but I consider that a family gift we will all enjoy. Anyway,getting a permit for this property was a pain ,since this is technically a front yard on another street ,we couldn't add a 6 ft privacy fence.We could only add a 4 foot picket fence that was 50 percent open and at the corner of the neighboring driveway it had to be 3 feet in height for 15 feet(distance) for a vision clearance. At first I was really freaking out because we have the dogs and I would always have to be outside if I let them play in the yard(they could possibly jump over the 3 foot part)but then I realized I always wanted a victorian picket fence and it was the opportunity to have it.I love the movie Practical Magic (dream house) and saw a photo of their yard and it had a white picket fence!! We purchased a cedar french gothic picket fence.I will probably leave it the cedar color only because I can't imagine having to paint the fence every summer.I have enough of my front porch to touch up painting every other year,lol! Here are some photos of the new fence! I can't wait until spring so I can actually enjoy my present!!!! For now I am happy to rake the leaves and just stare at my new yard from my kitchen window!!!

Merry Xmas!!!!!

Hope everyone had a Merry Xmas!!!!! We stayed home this year.Usually we travel to Chicago and Indiana to visit family on Christmas Eve. Christmas day we open presents and have a family dinner at our house. We ended up having our family dinner on xmas eve.It was very casual but it was fun.I feel so tired!!!!!! Today I been trying to slowly clean the house!!!! You know how that is!!!! My xmas present from hubby  was installing the blue french doors!!!!! It really made me happy to see them up!!!! I also received a very cool pink toaster  to add to my pink kitchen accessories!!!! The kids gave me Santas to add to my santa collection!!!! I am happy that all my children were here for another holiday!!!! Happy Holidays!!!!

Big Pink Tree

I finally am taking a photo of our "big tree". I am not sure what size it is but it is a full size pink tree!!!!! I bought it two years ago and I LOVE it!! I threw our 'green tree' out at the end of last xmas season but I think we will get another one next year when the construction is done and I can move my dining table out of the living room.You can tell in the photo my house is still under construction by the layer of dust that just won't go away on the table,LOL!!!!

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!!!

Mini Tree

I have had a xmas tree in our kitchen the last two years.This year I wanted to put a tree but now the space has changed.We have the huge armoire where I had put the tree before.I found a cute mini tree that I can place on the counter.It is a lavender/pinkish colored tree.The kids decorated it . So the tradition of having more than one tree continues!!!!!! The other one is in the living room.Here is a photo of the kitchen mini tree.

Bath tub update

On our days off this week we worked on re-enforcing some support beams we discovered were cut through by previous owners.It was an ordeal to re-support.Our house is in a sad state right now with the saw dust and mess!!!! My husband woke up with a sore neck after doing all the re-supporting and had to go see our doctor .He couldn't move his head and was in a lot of pain After wearing an anti-imflamatory patch and alot of pain killers he went to work .I am working on cleaning the house and making it presentable since we have clients that come to our house.I am hoping we can start tiling this weekend.We did get the sub foor down.I am also trying to decorate the house for xmas!!!! I wasn't going to put up much of anything this year but because we have two younger kids I decided to start decorating. Hopefully they will stay dust free!!!!!