bedroom getting stuff done

In the spirit of "getting stuff done" I'm working on the space over my bed. Since we moved in I have had a pile of pictures and frames in our room and it it time to be DONE decorating walls. I found an inspiration picture I loved on the cousin Erika's Pinterest board and have been brooding about it ever since. Well folks, no more. Below is the prelinimary layout and after that the slightly altered layout on the wall.

Some of the frames lack art still, but choosing and placing frames is the hard part, art is easier (Dad is an artist after all and I have some fun pieces of his, plus some great photos etc). Hopefully I can get the actual frames up this weekend.

I also FINALLY changed the pulls on our dressers. I have NO IDEA where the whole spiky backed pulls came from but EVERY solid wood dresser in the second hand world have them. For Ryan's dresser I just removed the spiky back plate and left the pull (see the top right drawer). Mine wouldn't separate so I had to get some new pulls. They are just round ring pull plates, so very simple but not spily. I'm still debating painting or restaining the dressers, but not today.

Now if someone could please help me choose fabric to recover the loveseat at the end of my bed and find me a second piano for my room so I can have TWO kids practicing at once, not to mention I need to choose a paint color and paint...we will be donish. At least we are closer!

january stuff

I like January. It seems to be a good month for getting stuff done. I think putting away Christmas is energizing and then I'm ready to attack a project or two.

First up: paint the door handles from upstiars. The handles downstairs are a dark oil rubbed bronze and now, afrer 2 can of spray paint, the upstairs ones match. I feel better.

The kids are doing great. Lots of game playing and painting lately. I love seeing them enjoy being together.

 I had to include a picture of Gabby the Gecko, since half the pictures on my phone are of her! Nora is the student of the week and so Gabby is spending the week with us. Nora really gets into stuff like that. It's fun to see her so excited about stuff.

christmas 2014

First, let me say, we had a lovely Christmas. Epic is the word that comes to mind. Becuase of work schedules etc, this was THE year to make the drive to Sandpoint and we are so glad we did since the farm is now up for sale so Christmas turned into a last hurrah, of sorts. ALL the kids and grandkids were there and it was wonderful - we like all 33 of us.

Here are some snippets of life.

Christmas Eve was a fantastic nativity play written by Aunt Jessica featuring the shepherds trying to get others to come and see the baby in the manger. It was GREAT and the Spirit was there to testify of the Savior's birth.

We had one really great snowstorm and it was beautiful! Nelson and Willie especially loved plow duty on the tractor with Uncle David and Uncle Michale (kind patient men).

We played hard in the snow until late. It was magical.

Other snow fun: sledding, sliding on the ice and being pulled behind the truck in a wheel-less wheelbarrow.

A lovely little stomach bug wound it's way through the family over the two weeks, but despite some throw up etc, it was a fantastic Christmas.