Did I ever show you my when my furniture came in and then my new rug? How about my garage sale curtain brackets, finials from the scrapped Queen Anne Setee upholstery projecy, and bargain plain curtain rods from Lowes?  I finally put them all together and hung my Target curtains and love it!

Of course, I still haven’t painted, or done moldings, or found any art for the walls. But with a tree like that to look at, I can wait :).

Last week we went to Christmas in the sky. It’s a fireworks display choreographed to Christmas carols on a local radio station. We parked nearby and turned up the car speakers. Lots of cousins were there and everyone danced and laughed. But not many children actually looked in the sky.

Darren laughed that we could have just put a boom box in the yard and had some cousins over and had the same good time without the long drive. And he was right, but somehow stuff like that never seems to happen without scheduling it in like the city did.

And I would have missed Dub pretending to create the colorful explosions with his arms and fists. That still makes me giggle. But very quietly in case my boy with the fragile ego might hear.

OOh, did I tell you about my new love of the Dollar Tree? Oh please don’t tell me it’s all from China. La, la, la. I can’t hear you. Everything in this display was off the dollar tree shelves and I love it. Unfortunately Grant does too. He can’t keep his pudgy hands off it.

I also finished my dining room floor. The shiny poly totally makes the streaky finish okay with me. I will move in my
dining room table tonight. But will wait a bit before the big reveal.  I have a bunch of DIY to do still and it’s going to take some time.

So I’ll leave you now with one final shot of my tree. Ah. Isn’t she lovely?