Holi-daze

It seems that time escaped me again. Not to say that I haven't been puttering around the house, but work has been very busy, and then we threw in Thanksgiving. I know I've gotten a lot done, some without pictures (like spackle, because who wants to take pictures of spackle.) I'll try to recall through pictures, because that's more fun.

Since the intention is to tile the mudroom in preperation for a fridge and the space is so small
it made sense to tile the porch at the same time. Therefore it made sense to do all the paint work to that space too.
Here I'm stripping the multiple layers from the porch window.

The tile isn't laid yet, but here it is butted up tot the wall color (Revere Pewter) and the Super White trim.
I'm debating replacing the door with a half glass since it's so small and dark in the mudroom.

The shed roof was leaking badly, so the Saturday after Thanksgiving Ian helped me to tarp it.
The festive blue matches the door nicely. It's drying out slowly.

The big pile is near the shed is gone! Using a tiny bit of burning in my tiny little firepit,
a whole lot of chipping with my new-to-me chipper (Thanks Clockwork!) and a little bit of hauling the big stuff
to a different pile,  the shed pile is gone.

I got my Christmas lights up before one of the decent snows we got!

I decided that the mudroom should get trim around the bottom to hide whatever sins might occur with the tiling.
The rest of the house is mostly 1-by, so I got some 1x4 and gave it a good coat of Super White.
What? You don't do carpentry in the kitchen?

Trim!

While I had tools out I cut another one of the fakey interior storm windows for the living room.
This time I decided to cut a joint for the center supports. I've left it unasembled, because I can use this one as a pattern for the other 4. I've borrowed Ian's chop saw to make faster work of it.

Drying Trim.

While I had paint stuff out, I painted up the shelves for a china cabinet.
I had to replace the original shelves which were terribly warped and had some left over sample paint. Ta da.

We have had some awfully pretty snow.

A bit of grapevine that was headed to the chipper, last year's wreath ribbon,
and a bit of greenery from a local shop filled out my wreath. I looked around and realized
I have no evergreens on the lot.

Right now I'm working on fixing the walls in the "Harry Potter" room, which is small and difficult to photograph, and spackleing is not exciting. On the docket is the tiling, and also some coat rack/shelves for the porch. Ian picked up some lovely cherry wood for me. Now I just need to sand the dickens out of it and figure out how I'm going to assemble it. That might be my Holiday break project. (Around the spackle. All the spackle. Eventually paint.)