getting settled

Teddy and I had made a goal that we would have our house completely in place by the time I start work back up again Monday. We are SO close to being done!

Yesterday, we went shopping with some extra Christmas money. I really wanted a mantel over our fire place. We were going to buy a shelve from hobby lobby, but they didn't have any long enough for our fireplace. So, plan two was to go to home depot & expecting they would have something that would work. Well, we thought we had the perfect plan by buying a piece of plywood that is already painted/stained, buy brackets to hold it & done. Well, again...nothing really worked for the size we needed. So plan #3, we will make our own.

That's right people. We bought a piece of nice wood, had them cut it down to our size, bought wood brackets, stain, gloss, and screws. We have a little project on our hands & we are excited. Home Depot is so helpful too. The guy that helped us & gave us plan #3 talked us through tons of things & options. Today we will probably stain the wood & gloss it. We have to do it outside & today is the last day of pretty weather...then comes the cold

Also, in the midst of our move we somehow lost a glade ware bucket of nails/screws/curtain rod holder. Literally, can't find this thing. All boxes are empty. No where to be found. FRUSTRATING! We had to buy curtain rod holders at HD too. They were pretty inexpensive. So, we will have our bedroom curtains finally hung by the end of this weekend!

When we went to hobby lobby for the shelve/mantel thing, we discovered all their Christmas stuff was 90%. If you know me at all, i LOVE christmas decorations. I slowly but surely have been collecting over the years. We needed to buy more ornaments for the back of our tree. Originally, $7.99....90% off makes math DANG easy...we got them for .80 cents. BAM! love me some sales! We bought 3 things of ornaments, a solid mini tree (for my new mantel)(.80), gift tags (.30)....$40 worth of product for $4.33...YES! I LOVE IT!

we had a productive day yesterday. I expect the same today! :)
-Kells