Christmas kinda snuck up on me this year..

Here's our tree, finally! You may not be able to tell in the picture, but the bottom set of lights are white, while the rest of the tree has colored lights. This is the new trend this year - all the fashionable trees in Paris, Milan, Beverly Hills, etc. are decorated with mismatched lights. It's sort of like, shabby chic for trees.

No, it is *not* because I accidentally bought the wrong lights, and when I tried to go get another string, every single one of the 5 stores I went to was sold out of lights. No really, I meant to do this.

But next year I'm going to put the tree up a little earlier than 6 days before Christmas...

the other weekend goal

Dave and I accomplished the second of our two weekend goals - getting rid of the dubious distinction of being the only house on the street without Christmas lights.

true love

True love is building a desk for someone, simply because she likes her laptop computer at exactly 29", and the standard desk height is 30".

Isn't he sweet?

This is one of our two goals for the weekend.

Tracey, is this what you meant by beige?

OK so I didn't *exactly* followed the advice of my sisters-in-law... in an Trading-spaces-moment I decided to paint one wall red. The other 3 walls are "buckskin pony" which is a golden tan.

Dave is building me the desk as we speak, and when everything is in the room (curtains up, rug down, art on the walls) I think it will be very cool.

I hope so anyway.

Boy that sure is red... LOL!