finished table

It's done!

holiday things

Have you ever searched store after store for something, not seeing anything you like, and finally decide you'll just make it yourself? I seem to do that a lot. I found a great site for beginner builders with hundreds of plans for furniture. My plan was to build a coffee table, although my dad beat me to it, and now all that's left is to finish it. I stained it, and now there's only a few coats of polyurethane until I can bring it inside.

 (No photos yet; I only took this one so I would know what to buy.) 

  Thanksgiving was last week. I was happy to have the day off and head home for a nice meal with my parents. I didn't get a photo of us, but here are the kitties having their special Thanksgiving meals.

butter!!!

sunny morning milk

that cheered her up out in the cold

 I decided to grow some plants, since everything else has slowed down considerably for the winter. This is less than a week from when I put my leek and bok choy ends to soak in water and sunlight. They are rather pretty decorations!

 I have my very own Christmas tree this year. I'm so excited! I also couldn't find a tree topper I liked, and they all seemed overpriced anyway, so I again decided to make my own. It's blue. I was not in the mood to head back to Hobby Lobby for glittery gold paper, and blue was what I had, so there it is!

an uprooted tree

Last night the gallery wasn't so busy except for a few tours that came through. I listened in on them because it's always interesting to learn something new about the art you're staring at day after day. There's one piece that is a vignette of several rows of photos taken from the same vantage point, but taken in different seasons and at different times of day. The subject is an outbuilding with a tree in front of it at the family farm. That tree is in every photo except the last one because apparently the photographer's husband decided the tree was looking sickly, and took a chainsaw to it. It's gone completely, but in its place there is suddenly an evergreen. No one is for sure, but two visitors and I determined that it must be a Christmas tree!