Outside Lights

Ok, so here's the worst photo ever taken, but these are our outside lights this year!

Our little pear tree has big bulb lights on it, but we don't have it plugged in because of extension cord issues. We also got icicle lights for the roof eaves, but it keeps raining/sleeting/snowing, and ladders and inclement weather don't really mix. So we'll probably just wait and put those up next year.

I love the holidays!

Yeah, yeah, I'm a bad blogger. I know. Forget about that and oogle the pretty:

I always love our Christmas setup :) I'll have to take pictures of our gorgeous fireplace setup and the outside as well. I'm really loving how our house looks this time of year. And I hope by next year to have furniture in the fireplace room so I can TRULY enjoy that part too.

And then, I shall call it the library. And it will make sense because of the obscene number of books we keep there.

Whew!

I wonder how many posts like this I'll have in the next 18 months?

The final is complete. I have no idea how we did, but I'm checking for my grade about every 12 minutes.  I'm really excited for this week off! I didn't do a darn thing tonight. We had cheese filled pretzels for dinner, but I seriously don't care. It has been absolute heaven to just be a bum for the evening!

(Sorry Brian, I'll be a better wife tomorrow)

Dining Room Lust

I am sooooo in love with this dining room from Better Homes and Gardens:

I have been obsessing over this room all day.

The orange chairs!
The leaded glass!
The built ins!
The french doors!
The floor!

I could go on.

Sigh~*

There's fun on the horizon!

To break the unintentional post hiatus, I just want to say I have a new project brewing! It involves the following things:

1. Going through people's garbage.
2. Hideously gaudy stuff.
3. Paint fumes.

Should be a good time! I'll post about that, and the seasonal decor and other fun stuff I've been up to as soon as I'm done with my beast-of-a-final for this class!