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Janet, your house is beautful, you really need to stop being so hard on yourself all the time. I have been to your home and everytime it has been perfect.
I need to hire you as my home decorator I just dont have the nack for doing that kind of stuff, plus it dosent help that I have a slob for a husband.
I guess I need to drag out my tree and get it put up also (:( ) I just hate doing it by myself every year.
Nice job Janet.
Lynne

What a lovely home, Janet!

With Brendon and Angela's help we got the tree up today. The dog's helped out too!
This is my dog Chipper--The picture is Brendon's workl.

We'll take pics of the tree soon and we're also going to get better picks of the furbabies (and skin kids). Here are the pics we have so far. There are also a few of Crissy that I still need to resize... Anyway, here are the puppies!

Janet, your home looks just lovely!!! I love your fireplace!!!! We had one in the plans for our house but took it out because of the room it was going to take up. I would love to have one though. Your decoriations look very nice and it definitely looks like Christmas at your house!!!!

I saw your faux painting but couldn't tell too much from the angle you had. It looks pretty nice though. I think that you're just ready for a change! Oh, and I did see the old phone!!! Great minds think alike!!!

Janet - Your home is soooo cozy and darling. My favorite is your fireplace/mantle. It's BEAUTIFUL!!! Well....It's a toss up though with your kitchen cuz I love that too.

I think the Christmas decorations are cute - Nothing is better than seeing stockings hung up. It's such a warm heartfelt feeling of Santa coming for all those kids. (maybe grown ups too if their good :D )

I like how you decorate with all the warm colors. It's all just darling.

Gosh....only a few more weeks. I really need to be thinking about putting my Christmas decor up. :rolleyes:

Janet.. Wow you are talented.. You did a beautiful job on the decorations. I bet it is a lot of work. Your home is lovely and tastefully done. It looks nice and cozy.

Sheryl I am with you, I better get my Christmas stuff out, you girls are way ahead of me. lol

Angie, your pictures are adorable! I love the Santa suit.

Debbie, Chipper is a cute Santa. Maybe if I'm a good girl he'll put some presents under my tree.

Angie, they all look so sweet. I really need to get my babies some holiday clothes. They have drawers of clothes, but not any for the holidays. How did I screw that up?..lol:)

Thank you for the compliment. I think it looks okay (the paint job), but it doesn't look as nice and uniform as yours does. Yours looks professionally done, very nice. You're right though, I am so ready for a change.

Thanks everyone for the lovely compliments. I think my place is okay, I just like everyone elses better. I wish my rooms were so much bigger. Back when we build the house (1976) that was the style of ranch homes for this area, family room and living room. Now I wish I could just have one huge family room. The way the rooms are arranged though, it would cost a fortune to remodel it and well, hubby couldn't care less.

Sheryl, the mantle is from a barn a couple miles from us. It is an original hand hewn barn beam. We just sanded it a little to get the dirt off and then polyurathaned it.

Janet,

I bet Chipper would lave to come see you but he would just want all that love you give your puppies. The only presents he gives is lots of wet kisses.

Your house looks beautiful--we just always think someone else does a better job.:)

Janet, you've done a wonderful job!
I LOVE your snowmen especially!
I collect snowmen, so those are always my favorites.

I think that any one who likes to decorate is always wishing that "something" was different. I know that I wish that a few of my rooms were bigger too. Several of our friends have built homes after we built ours and there's always something that makes me wish I could change what I have. But then I remember that there's a verse about being content in Philippians 4:10-14. It's about being content with what ever I have. And I'm blessed with so much more than some others are.

Also, that is so cool that your mantle about your mantle. It makes it unique!