Christmas Stocking Chandelier and Progress on our Project

 Life has been busy lately with some school concerts, planning parties, and Christmas baking. You know the drill- it gets a bit crazy for all of us in the month of December. Throughout all this 'hustle and bustle' I made a whimsical look for our chandelier by hanging stockings (got last year, after Christmas shopping) and gluing mint ribbon onto them.
We're also Santa's helpers (sweatshop) working on our playroom for our girls under the basement stairs. Steve made a door and put up walls and mudded everything. It's looking good. We ordered a small amount of carpet tile for the space, since our basement is unfinished, the carpet will be nice for their toes instead of cold concrete. The walls are primed and ready to be painted.

Progress! Come back tomorrow for our Christmas house tour.

Around Here Lately...

                                                little black door
I keep thinking about this statement as I'm working on some projects over here.

Remember this pretty camel back that will go in our library? Oh yes- I started ripping this thing apart and it's not looking too pretty right now.

 Also, Steve helped me cut some shelves for the closet makeover and I've been working on priming and getting things ready.

 Lastly, we're going to work on our basement one section at a time. The first section that we want to finish is building a play house under the stairs so our girls can have a hide out. We plan on making this a Christmas gift for them. They know we're working on it, but the reveal will happen on Christmas day-  we're super excited about this one. More to come soon.