A thought to carry into the New Year

Peace on Earth will come to stay-when we live Christmas everyday.

Some of my favorite things

The Christmas mouse



A Christmas tree for upstairs

A touch of green for the bathroom

Where did December go?

Gosh!  I can not believe how long it has been since I last sat down to post here.  Christmas has come and gone and the new year is almost upon us.  I do hope each and everyone of you had a Christmas full of Love and Laughter with family and friends.  Some of you were able to come to our open house, and I did so enjoy this time spent with all of you.  For those of you who could not make it I would love to share some pictures with you as I dooooooo love decorating for Christmas.

          

These are a few of the the pictures I have taken and I will post more tomorrow.  I will also be posting some pictures of the inside of our home without all the Christmas decorations maybe in the beginning of January.

Until tomorrow Hugs Carol 

A house without built in closets and cabinets!

I have to go way back to the time of our new home plans being drawn up.  We had agreed that there would be no built in closets, no built in kitchen cabinets and no built in linen closets or vanities in bathrooms, so a soon as the house plans were approved we started to build our own free standing versions of all of these things.  These are a few of the things we made:
Our wardrobe which serves as our closet:

Our dressers have doors and shelves instead of drawers.

My kitchen cupboard houses my microwave, coffee pot, spices, in the top portion and kettles, toaster and misc. in the bottom. The drawers are used for cooking/ baking utensils and dish cloths and towels.

We have a open shelving unit to hold canisters, bread loaf pans, pie pans and some of my bowls.

Eating utensils are kept in this little bin unit next to the fridge. Some of you may recognize this as one of the pieces that I used to sell in the store. 

We designed and built our kitchen island, incorporating the look of a farmhouse table with a bottom shelf to hold our redware bowls and also to house our kitchen sink.  Here is where we have our meals, play board games, roll out dough and all manner of things. I couldn't be more pleased with how this design turned out.   Lyle and I truly enjoy creating things that look like they belong in a different era, are functional and our own designs.  For both Lyle and I there is so much pleasure in creating something unique using the talents that God has given each of us.