Blue Christmas !!! ( and a door reveal )

French Canadian Teenager - David Thibault - channels the King perfectly - and I DO mean perfectly -

Amazing!!!

Celine Dion - I do believe you have some competition here lol

Way to go David




On another less exciting note here's an update on the upstairs doors - with the veneer stripped

BEFORE ( not the same actual door but one of them and they all had the same veneer on them )
You can see the post on these doors ( and my discovery of what lay beneath them )HERE

Almost AFTER

I'm thinking of painting the upper panel the same color as the walls..............jury's still out on that one though

BUT - I found the door frames at Home Depot - 14.99 for the entire frame " kit " - which I think is a great price for lovely detailing on these old doors - for such a tiny landing ( and it IS extremely tiny - there's a lot of doors - 4 bedroom doors - a bathroom door - and 2 closet doors - and all but the 2 closet doors have this molding installed on them )

And remember this panelling ( which was basically throughout the entire house - doors and all

Well I'm ALMOST ( again with the " almost " - sorry about that ) finished painting out the stairwell - which is the only place this panelling will be staying by the way
Thin moldings had to be added to hide some " buckling " issues - I'm afraid this house is going to have a lot of moldings and caulking lol - A LOT !!!
But isn't the blue and white soooo much better then that dark panelling?

The floor specialist will be here bright and early to start on the stairs................so I have to make myself scarce for the day - you all have a great Friday -
It IS friday, right?

Much love,

Christmas in the great outdoors...............

Sigh..........................
Next year - without a doubt...............next year - outside my kitchen window

For those of you down South - you can keep your balmy temps for Christmas - I wouldn't trade
snow for anything in December ( but it can leave immediately after - I'm fed up of it by January )
Maybe you have to be from a cold climate to " get it " - but in my corner of the world nothing
screams Christmas like tons of snow :)

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It's wrapped up in every single memory I have of Christmas

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                         of crooked snowmen with carrot noses and raisin eyes and cast off scarves

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                                   and contests to see who could make the biggest snow angels

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                                             and red toboggans that we dragged up hills

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                                                 in ice castles and forts and snow ball fights

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                                           and tongues sticking out to catch snow flakes -

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                                             It reminds me of hot coco and snow days -

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                                     of mittens and hats lovingly knitted by grandparents

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                                             and woollen socks that felt itchy but warm..................

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of dark mornings and a bowl of porridge before heading off to school

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                  Of white lace up skates that always left our toes numb - but our cheeks perfectly rosy

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     and the magic of that first dusting that always looked like diamonds had been scattered across the land

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And as much as I complain about snow ( and I do - oh believe me I do ) the first snow fall always does a                 little something to my heart - it usually means Christmas is right around the corner and.......................
                                 and I just can't think of Santa Claus without thinking of snow

                                               It's the reason he wears boots after all :)

                                                Let it snow - let it snow - let it snow !!!
                                                                   ♪  ♪   ♪   ♪
                                                    ( as long as we've nowhere to go )