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where you can read other bloggers’ posts!left our jobs and our old house in the city and moved out to the country.

I love that it makes the whole house seem bigger because at family get togethers, the parents sit around the table (it can be made big enough to seat 12!)and the kids can have free reign of the living room and dining room..

I love that I have somewhere else to make pretty..I love that my salt and pepper shakers have a home.. Yup.Subscribe by email to receive free posts straight to your inbox, or follow along using any (or all!)

of the methods below!I finally have a solution to my no mantel/no stocking holders issue!Yeah, I could just buy some stocking holders and stick them on the fantel, but I never seem to find any I like and it doesn’t seem like very much fun to be out $100 for something that I’m not that excited about..

The best solution is so simple!

Isn’t that always the way?.So this is what it looks like now.. Well, no.

This is what it looks like now:.It looks pretty decent until you sit on it.

And we’re sofa-sitters around here, so I’ll have to develop a new compulsion to tuck in the sofa every time I walk by.I already compulsively chop the pillows, so I’m there anyway..