Pre-Xmas 2018: On the Pressing Precipice of Presentalia Profundus!

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I swear I live near some sort of 

temporal lay line or something

I have no idea where the time goes

NEXT WEEK IS XMAS???

decking the halls

&

trying almond milk whipped cream...

the verdict is in...

its delicious!

hey look kids!

Cream Cheese made a cameo X-D

you give me a landing big enough for a tree

ima put a tree

plus we have a kitten 

this guy

Kit McKitterson

mini panther delux

Mr Mars approved

Smooth opperator

Charli Girl approved

he saw his first snow

<3<3<3

but...

...you know the drill

everything must be put out of reach...

which is not easy cuz this bugger can jump!

it all starts with just a twiggy thingy

which will be the remaining 

twinkle lights thing 

when its after new year like...

NO DARK CORNERS!!!

happy accidents

while decking out the offices new incarnation...

this was the office when we first moved in

and it never really got better than this

in fact i have no pics of when it had been

really really bad...

it was the ultimate dumping ground 

complete with moving boxes that hadn't been unpacked...

three years later and three bags off to the junk yard...

(to be clear... not our yard... have you seen my "World Worst Garden Vlog")

...even though it may have made us lol

or cry, depended on the day...

we settled the command center to the closet

close the curtains and what office...

and yes

you guessed it...

we do not have many overhead lights here

which means many lamps n lights

my fave

im settling in here later to sort some old coats

and apparently some old hangers too...

so now we have this sweet lil den

hide out

annex

sitting room

tv room

we already had all the stuff

i just twitched my nose back n forth

and *poof*

a room is made

and to accommodate all the holiday peeps

a bench was added

hey you can't even tell with this lighting 

i still haven't finished the grout paint...

soon... 

now that we are really really really

getting settled in

i will have time to do it

soon...

got that second bench...

i feel a nose twitch...

but...

I will post a bench-tastic pic 

later...

i made the mistake of thinking i could snap a pic this morning

and have it appear in the cloud for the sharing...

nope...

*sigh*

we've had tremendous luck getting the rest of the pics here...

just took two days of leaving the laptop on...

heh heh... whoo boy

*facepalm*

:-X

i found some extra pluggy inny 

candles so i had to...

this space has evolved a wee bit since this pic...

i will be doing a posty toasty vlog on the YouTube...

i will probably have to drive down to the village for that post...

LTE where are you???

painted up a bunch of stars to stick here n there

made from old cereal boxes...

who needs oat tag...

is that what they call that heavy duty 

beige craft paper that exists between 

cardboard and paper lol

too lazy to look it up?

mebbee... or maybe i had to

put all devices on airplane mode to upload a pic...

`\_<..>_/`

is that supposed to be a shrug?

omg

we had some fun with outdoor lights this year...

by fun I mean stuff kept breaking/burning out...

i think the outside is done...

dont quote me on that...

we will vlog that too...

YouTube all the time...lol

lil trees

big trees

outdoor trees...

more to come...

but until then...

you know where to stick your creativity...

in your projects...

duh.

lest yee furgitz...

MAKE SOMETHING!!!!

~XOXO~

.*.*. JM .*.*.

Fbook

twit 

Gram

YouTube

I see you:

USA

Australia

Brazil

UK

Hong Kong

Japan

Poland

Singapore

Ukraine

and the one wee kitten viewing from that great Unknown Region 

you all have a great week, its half over...

its the end of the year so happy festful times <3

will you be with friends/family/pets/yourself...

do you sit and obsessively read blogs...

omg me too!

don't forget to follow...

the widget hides on the right hand side 

of the full web version

go find it...

I've told santa claus that all i want for xmas 

is one new follower...

:-D

Spruce That Kitchen!!!

Apartment Living!

Tons of Pros and Cons when it comes down to Renovations or Sprucing Up.

Not having total control over all the details could feel a lil restrictive...

BUT...

You can Make some Satisfying Changes without Making your Landlord Nervous ;-D 

Here's how my Kitchen has evolved over the last couple of years: 

How it looks today...

How it looked then...

Where it begins... Prime Your Wall!!!

Fill the holes, ask landlord for touch up paint... 

(or go nuts and get some new paint... its hard to justify the purchase if you don't own the property, BUT... if you like your place and are going to be there for a while... I say DO IT!) 

Tiny cube shelves, now Neatly Organized... 

Cute lil trivet on a plate hanger springy thing! 

Plate Arrangements on the Wall! Love it!

Oooo...You can see all the way thru to the Entryway that I Blogged about Last Week! lol

I would LOVE to Cover the Whole Wall.... 

But the Dusting Issue is Murder! lol :-P

We stuck our Portable Dish Washer in the Corner... 

Which Adds Counter Space & Blocks the Lower Cabinet...

WHY WOULD YOU BLOCK A CABINET?!?!?!?!!!!

It was Impossible To Get Into!!!

Keeping the Most Under-Used Kitchen Stuff there now...

Is Freeing Up Even More Space in our Pantry. 

The Dish Washer Rolls out so Easily, that those Seasonal Odds n Ends can be Reached Quickly.

Winning!!! 

Most Used Items! 

Front Row Seat! 

Mason Jars in an Old Wooden Tool Box! 

Practical & Cute!

Vignette! 

To Soften the Corner...

The Fox and Chickens are Friends in my Kitchen :-)

Drink cart! 

So Awesome to have Everything in One Space! 

Saves us room in the Pantry! 

All of the Tea, Coffee, and Drink Mixes are no longer taking up an Entire Shelf! 

Flowers & Feathers! 

A Must for a Doorway!

Especially when it leads to a Magical Gypsy Porch! ;-)

And...

Studded Fridge look...

All of the Magnets Painted the Same Color Unifying the Design.... Yum!

Want to paint ALL the things...

Don't forget...

The Island!

I got the idea to Re-use this Wire Rack w/a Wooden Surface from having used it before as counter space in another apartment...

Filled it with baskets that now hold ALL of our pots and pans :-D

Next evolution may be waiting for us at IKEA...

Mmmmm.... IKEA trip....

Their Kitchen Island has enough room on one side for Stools! 

STOOLS!!!!

I love having an Eat-in Kitchen....

But tables aren't the right height for Food prep... Etc... 

And...

I don't like being restricted to eating in the same room all the time. 

My studio doubles as a dinning room when we have parties... 

Thanksgiving...

My Studio with Chalkboard Garden...

On The Front Porch...

Wherever you Cook...

However you like to Dine...

Doesn't matter if you live in a House or Apartment!

SPRUCE SOMETHING!!!!

lol

XOXO
~JM

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Tea For All!

A few weeks back I was getting extremely weather affected...

Winter 2015 in the Northeast has been long & hard.

I took to drinking coffee for my daily energy supply...

If only things could be so simple in their solutions...

Heartburn, jitters, anxiousness... ugh. 

Time to Switch to TEA!

*from my instagram* @jenursa

I was excited to see so many other ppl drinking their daily cuppas just like me.

It helps to find connections in things.

A connection a day keeps the depressions away! 

And So...

Last week while basking in my luv of Tea, I decided to re-arrange our Drink Cart that we had thrown together at Thanksgiving so that it could be ready for Spring, and the continuing Tea for All ;-)

I take reference pics as I go, so my eye can scan for the problem areas.

Wherever my eye stops, I have to consider the flow of whats going on.

Tea goes in the cubby! There are some fall-winter faves still in there...
Not ready to put them away yet! So Gingery & Cinnamony!!!

The Glasses & Mugs are under now...

When they were inside the cubby they rattled every time someone walked thru the kitchen...

And it looks nice... Two birds, one stone....

Mega amounts of extra coffee and cocoa are hidden in the cubbard!

From above there are the Openers....  All the Openers....

Hubby Rocked this BMIY yesterday, screwing in the Vintage Bottle Opener he got as a Wedding Gift last year & Lovely Cap Catcher Magnet I got him at Xmas to catch the caps ;-)

Extra Teas, and the ones that need their boxes bc they don't have the lux envelope & string/tag going for them.... We feel bad for these Teas. Sad Teas... lol.

#BREAKFASTCLUB30 it is March 10th after all... *todays Tea is Roastaroma by Celestial Seasonings....

The finished look, complete with Pizza box next to it...

Yes we are real ppl, who live in a real house....  lol obvis...X-D

Functional For Now or FFN, is one of my go to phrases.

If I waited around with an All or Nothing Attitude, NOTHING would EVER get STARTED!!!

So, Drop those Absolutes from your Vocab! You'll see that Disappointment also Drops & Falls Away when you do this. 

There's Always going to be something that gets in the way of smooth transitions in life, in design, etc... Relax, have fun. Go with it!

Make Some Tea,

Make a Functional Arrangement,

MAKE SOMETHING!!!

XOXO

~JM

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