Whatcha doing today?

[JBtheExplorer]

Here's the officially completed deer decoration I made.

As I said, I'm giving it to my mom for Christmas. I have an interesting sense of humor, so I made a custom tag for the present that looks just like it. I plan on asking her if she likes the tag I made and see what she says. It'll be pretty funny regardless of her answer.

Other than that, I finished wrapping most of the Christmas presents today. I decided to make one more homemade one that I'm still in the process of finishing.

 

[j.w]

Listening to the pine cones on the kitchen table crackle and pop open and toss their seeds out. We thought it was rats trying to chew their way in through the floor vents till it happened right when my hubby was eating dinner at the table! Silly pine cones!

 

[MitchM]

Granite installed. Homeward bound

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Addy, do you and your husband haul all those cabinets and boxes of tile, sheets of drywall by yourself?
I'm assuming the appliances are delivered.

 

[Gemma]

Today it wasn't cold so I was able to spend some time outside by the ponds. I checked the water levels, made sure the skimmers were clean, and then I just stood there admiring my fish which seemed to be doing just fine, swimming around slowly at the bottom
I'm so grateful and happy to have had the chance to interact with the ponds in the middle of the cold whether

@addy1 The renovation looks very nice, great job!

 

[JBtheExplorer]

These are the last projects I'm planning on doing for awhile.


The first is a homemade picture frame, which is a lot more challenging than I expected. The frame was easy, but creating a way to hold the photo as well as be able to change photos was difficult.

and this is a wooden sled I've been working on. I plan to paint something on it, I just haven't figured out what yet. Originally I was going to do the Green Bay Packers logo, but I'm thinking about figuring out a way to paint a winter scene on it. I'm undecided for now.

 

[addy1]

Addy, do you and your husband haul all those cabinets and boxes of tile, sheets of drywall by yourself?
I'm assuming the appliances are delivered.

Here is how the cabinets came, we went down and picked them up. Then I put them together, follow instructions better than dear hubby does. Not to difficult. To hang I removed all the doors. Makes the lighter to handle.

We haul the tile, dry wall, wood etc by ourselves. Depends on what car we have how easy it is to haul things back to the house. One year we had one of his corvettes, convertible, down there, we had it loaded with flooring, even had pictures taken when we stopped for gas.
My prius can haul one heck of a lot of stuff.

Appliances are delivered, catch the right sale and they deliver free, we pay to have granite installed, all except the small Baltimore basement kitchen. That was one heavy piece to haul down the stairs and it was only 6ish feet. Ended up sliding it down the stairs.

Bath cabinets we haul home. To install I take the doors off, drawers out, top off if removable, to make it lighter to mess with.

 

[Tara]

That's some amount of work @addy1, you definitely deserve Christmas day off with a hot cooked dinner. Last week I was at my youngest school and the teacher asked if I would mind doing a nature project for the class that the kids could benefit from. The classroom has no windows and in my opinion looks pretty dismal, but the best part is a water feature is allowed, it just can't be massive. So I do have a grow light that I used for seedlings that I can use, but if anyone has any ideas they would like to share I'm all ears. The age group of the children is eight, and the idea is to make the classroom more attractive using nature and not mass produced products, and also educate and hopefully inspire a love of nature that the kids will keep in the future. I really do hope some of you who read this will have ideas and share, as I feel this is an important opportunity to teach a tiny portion of our future generation the value of nature. Thanks

 

[addy1]

We are couch sitting! Watching movies then foot ball NOTHING on our schedule!

 

[addy1]

watching the fish eating hornwort

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Finished up my sled. I had a hard time deciding what to paint on it. I settled for the shape of Wisconsin and the name itself.

 

[j.w]

Wow everyone must be off doing their Christmas shopping or dog tired from finally getting it done cuz not a creature is stirring here today, not even a mouse.

 

[mrsclem]

I was thinking the same thing! Started day early baking cookies. They won't get decorated till weekend as I need to get 4 cakes baked tomorrow, wrap gifts and package up some cookies for monthly get-together with coworkers.

 

[Tula]

Beautiful sunny day here today ! We took our golden retriever to a do it yourself pet spa and she looks beautiful! I then put on her Christmas collar and we bought her a new leash......then we took a long walk

 

[addy1]

do it yourself pet spa

They have all the equipment and you do the work?

Where is a picture of your pretty one with her Christmas collar and leash?

 

[Tula]

They have all the equipment and you do the work?

Where is a picture of your pretty one with her Christmas collar and leash?

Yes they have a complete spa, with everything you need I will take a picture !