Busy, busy

***UPDATE
for those of you who asked, my wall color in the bedroom is the same as in the tree picture below...a tan-ish khaki.

Wow...what a day. All I want to do is crawl in bed and sleep for DAYS!!! (yawn)

As soon as we were up and ready, we (CJ and I) went shopping with my Mom. We were out for about 4 hours and that included lunch. (Thanks Mom)   Once we got home, it was back out the door with PJ to run to Lowe's and then to my BFF's parent's house for him to finish sealing their floor. Next a quick run by my Mom's for ribbon and then home to fix dinner so hubby could go off to his meeting.

Whew...I am tired just thinking about it. 

We have managed to get our tree up. Take a peek.

I always thought my tree looked nice, until I saw my Mom's with all her bulbs (which we do not use) and bows (again we do not use). Now I think mine looks bare. Hmmm...

Also here is the tree (my pencil tree that is out year round) that sits in our kitchen. I took this picture yesterday after I put the ribbon on it, but just a little bit ago I hung cookie cutters on it with some "fancy" ribbon. I thought it would like nice since it IS in the kitchen. I will have to take another picture later (too lazy to go and get the camera right now) to share with you.

I also managed to get some pictures of CJ in front of the tree. I will share those tomorrow. I just realized that the ribbon looks a little funny on the pencil tree, but it does not look that way as I sit here and look at it in the kitchen.

Call me crazy...where our tree sits in our family room, there usually sits a love seat. In order to put the tree there we moved the love seat into our dining area/kitchen (the two rooms are open to one another) I LOVE it in there. Not sure why, it just seems so cozy and I sat there last night while hubby made dinner and talked to him. Much better (and more comfortable) then sitting on the hard bench at the table. ;)

So, I have a new motto that I am going to make our families way of life for 2009! It is on the top of my blog...Live Simply, Expect Little, Give Much. I wanted to buy a plaque with this on it, but could not find one I was willing to spend the money on. So this was my solution...

I bought these frames at Family Dollar($2.00/each), a year or so ago and was not using them. (Ok, I was not using two of them, I moved the picture that was in one of them to another frame) I also had the scrapbook paper (12x12 sheet, 50 cents, though probably 40% off of that)  ;) and white computer paper (sorry NO clue how much one sheet of that costs)  I printed out the phrase, cut it and there you have it. Basically free since I had EVERYTHING all ready.
What do you think?

I also did a larger version of my other favorite quote...

I also made this one for my husband's nightstand.

 

and ALL of this stemmed from this one that I bought @ Target for $9.99. It is for our bedroom too. Our Christmas gift from my Mom is new bedding and we are getting new carpet in our bedroom and giving our bed a makeover. (a small makeover using paint)
 

Speaking of bed makeover...I need your thoughts.
This is our new bedding. Should we paint our bed (which is now a creamy yellow color) chocolate brown or black??? Our bedroom furniture is not a set. We were given our bed (the headboard and footboard) my dressers are the same stain, but not a pair (one has a marble top, the other does not and they have different hardware) and I have a third dresser in there and it is painted khaki/tan. (in the spring it will be painted the same color as our bed so that it will coordinate) and my nightstand is the same stain as the two dressers, but again not a match set. I love to mix and match furniture. Plus EVERYTHING in our bedroom was given to us and you can not beat FREE! (not to mention the history, most the stuff is antique and been in the family for a long long time)
THANKS for your input. And for making it through this LONG post. Sorry!!!