New Year, New adventures!

Happy New Year! I hope you all had a wonderful Holiday season! To begin with, in case anyone was wondering, Yes, I am still alive! Haha....My sudden (and rather lengthy,even for me) absence was due to a plethora of excitement and generally a higher than normal level of busyness. I had full plans to blog about my new DIY Christmas ornament ideas through the month of November.  Obviously that did not happen. I also had plans to blog about the new DIY wreath I was going to make out of mini ornaments. I bought the supplies but also, did not make it. Sigh, sigh, sigh! That being said, despite my total lack of blog and crafting productivity, I have at least been highly productive outside of that.

My lease expired at the end of November and so we began the process of moving my things to the new house! Yay! We were pretty happy that we had both spaces at once, since it allowed us to move things gradually rather than a rushed moving day.  So, obviously with the holidays, the process of unpacking has been slightly stalled. (Insert plenty of family get togethers, long work hours, eating way too much yummy food!) We are making progress though, slowly but surely. Here, as you will remember, is my freshly painted sewing room, pre-move in.

And here it is as it stands now....

OK, I PROMISE I am NOT a hoarder! Haha! Oh goodness I am so embarrassed! I am making more progress every day in here little by little. I'm REALLY REALLY hoping to finish it in the next week or so. I'm having some serious sewing withdrawals!

For the most part, the rest of the house is really coming along! Its super fun figuring out where things go and adding our own little touches to make the place our own.  Here was the freshly painted living room, void of furniture.

And here it is all decorated for Christmas! (Yes, we were glued to the Myth Busters mega-marathon)

It was so nice having all of the Christmas stuff out! The Fiance even hung lights!

Even though I had to work most of the holidays, we squeezed in a lot of fun with family and friends.  We even made time to celebrate our 3 year anniversary in early December!

We also celebrated The Fiance's birthday later in December! (you can see his birthday present in the living room picture...I got him a little fireplace potbelly stove! He fell in love with it at the Home Depot during our many visits during house reno)

Whew, we had a lot going on to wrap up the year! We are very much looking forward to our wedding later this year and are enjoying planning our special day. I hope you all had a fantastic holiday season and I look forward to sharing another year of creative adventures with you!