A Little Bit Of Progress...

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Didn't get to the basement or our office this weekend... those areas are still total disasters... and working out... not back at it yet... but am feeling motivated...  just need a few more days of rest...

I did get this completed this evening... just a quick iPhone shot...

I felt the need to make something when I got home from work today... actually got home before it was dark outside!.. it's amazing what you can get done when you get home at a decent time in the day!.. anywhoot I finished painting the crown on the tea trolly tray!.. It just needs a light sanding and a waxing!.. maybe tomorrow evening?.. more than likely it'll get done this weekend... Then painting on the label on the top of the tea trolly... I was nervous about it before but now completing this one I'm feeling good about it!..

Stay tuned!..

xo

Lacey

Getting Back At It...

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One of my New Year's Reso's was to get fit... and I had been working out using NTC every second night since about a week or so before Christmas...  The past couple of weeks I've been a couch potato... really missing my little miss... moping a lot...

 I have to get back at it... and I've picked tomorrow to be the day I pickup my workouts...  when I was working out I slept better... felt better... had more energy...

A few projects that I had been working on had gone on hold the past couple of weeks as well... I have to get them back on track... the Vintage Chicks 2012 Sale is coming up fast... yeah it's in June... but February is already just a few days from being over!.. time is disappearing...

This beauty I found a few weeks back...

...around the same time I discovered Annie Sloan Chalk Paint here in town at Lauren Lane Decor... BEST... PAINT... EVER...

I even painted over the black kitchen stools... you can see them up above... I've not gotten around to the waxing yet...

...so that the tea trolly isn't just painted cream and distressed I'm painting the pull out tray...

...just a little something to make it stand out...

...then on the top of the trolly I'm thinking a french label that I found online and have blown up... we'll see how it transfers... 

Before getting back on track with the refinishing Furs and I are going to sort out the basement so that we have some workout space... and some refinishing space... painting in the kitchen/dining room makes the house too cluttered...

Tomorrow... clearing some space in the basement... perhaps this could be a jump on Spring cleaning!?.  What is your Sunday plan?..

xo

Lacey

Lately... it's been rough...

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I started to write a post January 31... got tired and stopped partway through... I had started a post about some current projects... I've got a few in the works... Then last weekend we tragically lost our little furbaby Cleo... It was a completely unexpected illness and she was in a lot of pain... my heart is broken and I don't feel it will ever fully heal... She was such a part of our lives...

She wouldn't go to bed at night without me... She'd sit up staring at us... then start swaying and falling asleep... but she always waited until we went upstairs before she would hop in bed... Most mornings when I would get out of bed she'd run into the bathroom with me in the dark and we would both stand there squinting when I flicked the light on...

You can't break out the camera without the cats hopping into the shot... I have a pile of photos of them both but it still doesn't feel like enough photos of her...

She was always into everything... You couldn't do anything without her head butts and requests for snuggles... such a mewer... so vocal...

Snuggles and naps... she couldn't get enough...

She was such a skinny minnie... after she got fixed she got a little wider but she was alway a tiny kitty...

We loved her to bits... still do... 

Holidays...

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I hope that your holidays have been the most excellent!.. They've come and gone so fast!.. like my paperwhites... and this weekend we'll be ringing in the New Year!.. Do you have any plans?.. We're doing our favourite... low key... chilled out... quiet night in... pulled pork sammiches and movies... LOVE...

How was your Christmas!?.  We got up at about 5am on Chirsmtas morning... well I woke up... and then I woke Chris up... I couldn't get back to sleep... there were presents waiting downstairs!  hehe... 

We've been eating lots... good and bad... Christmas eve we had a little of both... for breakfast... 

...but for supper... prime rib roast...

Christmas Day breakfast... after presents of course... toutons!.. 

...and toast... eggs... bacon... back bacon... and tea!..

...We cooked a 15lb turkey for Christmas... along with the traditional Newfoundland Jiggs dinner... not to toot my own horn or anything... but it was my best one yet... it was to die for... and we almost died because we ate so much!.. can you say turkey coma!?.

...and of course every turkey cooked must become Turkey Soup... 

I love the holidays!.. lots of friends around... lots of food to eat!..

We've been having some beautiful weather as well... when we got home from some boxing day shopping I noticed the sun beaming in the front room... onto the birds nests!..

...of course no camera can come out without a fur baby appearance!..

...I was back to work today... thinking I should have taken these three work days off... oooohhh to be off for just a couple of more days... my head is buzzing with ideas of things I want to make... and refinish... for the Vintage Chicks Sale this coming June!..

I've been thinking about New Years resolutions too... not usually my thing at all... but I've started a list this year!.. more to come!..

xo

Lacey

Christmas Bulbs...

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My Christmas bulbs are well on their way... the paperwhites are in full bloom... I love how they look... but they're stinky... not a great smelling flower...

...they're so pretty...

The three amaryllis bulbs... one is super tall... about to bloom... then there is one that is just starting to grow... then the third one is just getting underway...  I can't wait until these bloom... hopefully before this coming week is over at least one of them opens up!..

This weekend has just been go go go... Friday night we got home a little later than I was hoping from work... we had lots of little things to do because Friday night was our Christmas drinkie and nibblie night!.. everyone was arriving just as we were finishing setting up all of the nibblies so I didn't get a chance to take any photos...

Yesterday Furs and I braved the Chinook Mall... it was beyond intense there... next year I'm finishing my Christmas shopping during the summer!.. today... laundry and finishing the VERY last bit of shopping that I had to do!..

It's time to chill out and watch some Christmas movies with my Furbear... when he gets home from his last bit of Christmas shopping!..

Are you finished with your shopping now!?.  I hope so!..  It's time to rest... chill out from a busy 2011!..

xo

Lacey

Week Off...

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Some exciting things coming in the future... some Vintage Chicks news... while that is in the works I've got the week off to spend with my parents while they visit us!.. 

We've gotten the tree up and Christmas decorating done...

Last year I had all different coloured balls on the mantle... this year I stuck with red and white and silver... a jar of bows and two jars of candy canes thrown into the mix...  

All but one paper white bulb are doing great!.. and they're not getting direct sunlight this year so they're not getting out of hand tall... the Amaryllis... two of the three are doing okay... the biggest doesn't seem to be doing anything... pictures of those to come as they get bigger...

I've got a few containers of balls around the house... front room... kitchen... upstairs bed... and bathrooms...

AND found this awesome tree skirt idea on Pinterest... it was all hot glued together there... I hand sewed this one all down over the past two days... have run out of fabric for the ruffles though... have to dig around upstairs to see if I can find a few mores strips... more information on the tree skirt to come... ruffles... so easy... so many ideas floating around my noggin right now for ruffled items...

How goes your holiday decorating?

xo

Lacey

Getting Ready For Christmas...

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Last night Furs and I made a quick trip to the Spruce Meadows Christmas Market... we started out with a feed of perogies... and sausages... with sour cream and fried onions and bacon... The main reason for the trip to Spruce was for the greenery for my outdoor arrangements... I got enough for two planters!.. and we also picked up a garland... 

I was pooped when we got home so left the greens on the step for the night... 

I was up at 7am this morning... had a nice cuppa tea... paid the bills... then headed outside when the sun came up... it was freezing out... I worked away for a couple of hours and above is the result!.. I even washed down the railings... swept the steps... washed the stoop ceiling because it was really dusty... and gross looking... and pulled grass up from between the walkway blocks... it warmed up later in the morning when the sun made its way around to the front of the house...

The rest of the day was spent working on giving the house a great big cleanup... getting ready for Christmas... and for the parents visit!..  worked away until about 7pm... made it through the entrance area... front room and a good half of the kitchen... tomorrow the rest of the kitchen and living room... then onto upstairs... that should go quick... and if the weather is nice we can get the last of the bushes wrapped up outside... and fingers crossed I can get an indoor holly arrangement put together... I have a bag full of holly in the fridge from Spruce Meadows!.. 

Have you started getting your house ready for Christmas?..

xo

Lacey

See!.. I'm Still Here!.. And I've Been Productive!..

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Hey!.. What have you been up to!?.  This past weekend... ugh... it's Sunday night... why can't today be Saturday still!?. anyway this past weekend Fur's and I finished up... almost... our Christmas shopping for our families!.. Well the stuff we have to send in the mail anyway!.. YESS!.. no need for super expedited get it there tomorrow panic rush shipments this year!.. 

Today... Furs and I and a few coworkers went to the Pacific Place mall up in the NE for Dim Sum... it was YUM!..

Om nom nom...

On our way home we picked up a string of warm white lights for the front eve of the house... the lower eve... 

Chris put up the lights and I wrapped the bushes in burlap... should have done that back in October... ran out of burlap though... will have to finish up two bushes out front... and the gardens in the backyard next weekend...

It's the first year we've had lights on the house!.. we've put them inside in the windows the past couple of years... but thats just not the same as lights outside...  Next weekend I'll get greenery at the Spruce Meadows Christmas Market to do the two planters out front...

Check out the perfect string of lights!.. Oooo... Ahhhh!..

I mentioned it in a few previous posts... my September and October were out of hand busy... I worked and slept... wasn't capable of much else... well most of the houseplants have perished... apparently I didn't water the house plants for two months... the big fern was just a raggy mess... so I tossed it... and the planter was in quite the state...

Galvanized my ass!.. I sanded the rust off... and there were small holes in it!.. I primed it... painted it cream... and was hoping to be done there... BUT it looked terrible still... it had gone to far... THEN I had a thought!.. 

Cover it with sheet music!.. now it's new and refreshed... and the inside lined with plastic to prevent further corrosion!.. I've planted 6 paperwhite bulbs in it!... I didn't have any sand so had to use these rocks... actually... come to think of it... I think I have a ziplock of decorative sand in the entertainment unit... I'll have to run and check after... The rocks just aren't dainty enough for the sweet paperwhites...

...six planted in the trough... then four in these four little buckets that I've dropped into an old looking tool box...

...again the not so nice rocks...

We also picked up three amaryllis... a big read one... a white one... and one that is red and white... planted in various containers whose plants had perished...

I can't wait for them all to bloom...

This last one... I'm wondering if this little container is too small... someone with amaryllis experience let me know!..

Are you getting excited for Christmas!?.  I've begun to listen to Christmas music...  :)

xo

Lacey

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